When should you choose Sequenzy?

1. You Need Marketing + Transactional

MailPace only does transactional email. Period. If you need to send marketing campaigns, onboarding sequences, or promotional emails alongside your transactional messages, Sequenzy handles both. One platform, one bill, one dashboard.

2. You're a SaaS Founder

Sequenzy is built for SaaS. Stripe integration, trial expiry sequences, churn prevention, subscriber lifecycle management. MailPace sends transactional emails but knows nothing about your customers or their subscription status.

3. You Want a Visual Editor

Our email editor lets you design emails with drag-and-drop blocks and AI assistance. MailPace requires you to build HTML emails in code and send them via API. If your team includes non-developers who create emails, Sequenzy is the better choice.

4. You Need Automation

AI-powered sequences let you build automated workflows triggered by user behavior, subscription events, or time delays. MailPace has no automation. Every email you send through MailPace must be triggered by your own application code.

When should you stick with MailPace?

1. EU Data Hosting Is Required

If your business requires data to be stored exclusively in the EU, MailPace is one of the few email services that guarantees EU-only hosting (Germany and France). This matters for businesses with strict GDPR requirements or EU data residency mandates.

2. You Only Need Transactional Email

If your product only sends password resets, order confirmations, and notifications, and you have no plans for marketing emails, MailPace is simpler and cheaper. No point paying for marketing features you won't use.

3. Privacy Is a Core Value

MailPace is built privacy-first. No tracking by default, strict anti-spam policies, carbon neutral infrastructure. If your brand values align with privacy and environmental responsibility, MailPace reflects that.

4. You Want Idempotent Sending

MailPace's idempotent sending prevents duplicate emails when API calls are retried. If your system architecture benefits from idempotent operations (microservices, distributed systems), this is genuinely useful.

5. You Need Inbound Email Processing

MailPace converts incoming emails to JSON webhooks. If your product needs to process email replies (support tickets, reply-to-email features), MailPace handles that. Sequenzy doesn't process inbound email.

Honest Limitations of Sequenzy

• No EU-specific hosting: Data isn't guaranteed to stay in the EU
• More expensive for transactional: $49/mo vs MailPace's $10/mo for transactional only
• No inbound email: Can't process incoming emails
• No idempotent sending: No built-in duplicate prevention
• Newer platform: Less operational history

Honest Limitations of MailPace

• No marketing emails: Explicitly prohibited. You can't send campaigns or promotional content.
• No visual editor: Developers only. No drag-and-drop design tools.
• No automation: Every email must be triggered by your code.
• No subscriber management: Doesn't store or manage contact lists.
• Small company: Less infrastructure than larger providers like SendGrid or Postmark.
• Limited ecosystem: Fewer integrations and libraries than established services.