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- Mailgun is a developer-focused email delivery platform that sends transactional and marketing email at scale through a RESTful email API and SMTP relay.
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- It also covers inbound email parsing via routes, email list validation, and deliverability and email testing tools.
- It is built for engineering teams integrating email directly into their applications rather than for non-technical users seeking a full marketing or CRM suite.
- Best for
- Application developers and engineering teams who need to programmatically send transactional email such as order confirmations, password resets and notifications, and high-volume senders who need API or SMTP scale.
More detail
- It also suits teams that need inbound email parsing, list validation, or deliverability and inbox-placement tooling alongside sending.
- Pricing
- Usage-based SaaS billed as a monthly subscription plus metered overages on extra emails and extra validations.
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- List prices in USD: Free is $0/mo with 100 emails per day, 1 custom domain, 1 API key, 1-day log retention and 1 inbound route.
- Basic starts at $15/mo with 10,000 emails/mo, 5 inbound route
- Main limitation
- Very light or non-technical users who want a full marketing suite with CRM or marketing automation, since Mailgun is API and SMTP first and explicitly built by developers for developers.
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- Also a poor fit for anyone needing more than 100 emails per day on a free plan, or long log retention on lower tiers.
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About
- Mailgun is a developer-focused email delivery platform that sends transactional and marketing email at scale through a RESTful email API and SMTP relay.
- It also covers inbound email parsing via routes, email list validation, and deliverability and email testing tools.
- It is built for engineering teams integrating email directly into their applications rather than for non-technical users seeking a full marketing or CRM suite.
What it helps with
- Integrating reliable transactional email into an application without hosting mail infrastructure.
- Parsing inbound email into applications via inbound routes with UTF-8 conversion.
- Cleaning email lists by removing invalid and high-risk addresses before sending.
- Diagnosing delivery failures through detailed logs and analytics.
- Preventing spoofing with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
- Improving inbox placement and avoiding the spam folder.
- Sending reliably at high volume through API or SMTP without running mail servers.
Capabilities
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| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Email API and SMTP relay sending | Yes | RESTful API and SMTP relay for sending, receiving and tracking at scale, including bulk sending, templated emails and scheduling. |
| Inbound email routing | Yes | Inbound parsing, route management for forwarding or storing, and UTF-8 conversion, with route counts varying by tier. |
| Tracking and webhooks | Yes | Open, click and bounce tracking plus webhooks and email events such as queue, acceptance and delivery. |
| Analytics and log retention | Limited | Delivery, open and click reporting is included, but log retention is tier-dependent: 1 day on Free and Basic, 5 days on Foundation, 30 days on Scale. |
| Email validation | Yes | Real-time Email Validation API and bulk list upload, priced separately in tiers per 100 validations. |
| Email preview and QA (Inspect) | Yes | Previews, accessibility checks, link validation and image analysis from the Email on Acid tooling. |
| Email authentication and SSO | Yes | DKIM, SPF and DMARC authentication; SAML SSO and dedicated IP pools are listed on the Scale tier. |
| Deliverability SLAs | Yes | 99% attempted delivery of up to 15 million messages within the first five minutes, up to 72 million requests per hour, and validation API response within 200ms for 95% of monthly volume. |
| Compliance certifications | Yes | SOC I and II, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI-compliant SAQ-A merchant, with a dedicated security portal. |
| Free-tier volume | Limited | The Free plan is capped at 100 emails per day with 1 custom domain, 1 API key and 1-day log retention. |
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