[
  {
    "service": "Cloudflare Email Service (Workers Free)",
    "base_plan": "Free",
    "price_base_monthly_usd": 0,
    "inbound_routing": "Unlimited",
    "outbound_included": "Not available",
    "unit_price_1k_usd": null,
    "note": "Email Routing only, no outbound sending"
  },
  {
    "service": "Cloudflare Email Service (Workers Paid)",
    "base_plan": "Workers Paid",
    "price_base_monthly_usd": 5,
    "inbound_routing": "Unlimited",
    "outbound_included": "3,000 emails/month included",
    "unit_price_1k_usd": 0.35,
    "note": "SPF/DKIM/DMARC DNS auto-configured if Cloudflare DNS"
  },
  {
    "service": "AWS SES",
    "base_plan": "Pay-as-you-go",
    "price_base_monthly_usd": 0,
    "inbound_routing": "Yes ($0.10 USD/1k)",
    "outbound_included": "62,000/month free (EC2)",
    "unit_price_1k_usd": 0.10,
    "note": "3.5x cheaper than Cloudflare per unit, complex configuration"
  },
  {
    "service": "Resend",
    "base_plan": "Free / Pro",
    "price_base_monthly_usd": 0,
    "inbound_routing": "No",
    "outbound_included": "3,000/month free",
    "unit_price_1k_usd": 0.80,
    "note": "Advanced analytics dashboard, templates, modern APIs"
  },
  {
    "service": "Postmark",
    "base_plan": "Pay-as-you-go",
    "price_base_monthly_usd": 0,
    "inbound_routing": "Yes (inbound processing)",
    "outbound_included": "100 emails/month free",
    "unit_price_1k_usd": 1.25,
    "note": "Transactional deliverability focus, high IP reputation"
  },
  {
    "service": "Brevo (ex-Sendinblue)",
    "base_plan": "Free / Starter",
    "price_base_monthly_usd": 0,
    "inbound_routing": "No",
    "outbound_included": "300 emails/day free (9,000/month)",
    "unit_price_1k_usd": null,
    "note": "Generous free plan, marketing + transactional platform"
  }
]