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Mailgun
Transactional email API and deliverability platform.
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Best for
Engineering teams with existing Mailgun integrations or a need for the InboxReady deliverability toolkit.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemiumfrom $15/mo
- Setup time
- 20 minutes
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/22/2026
What we love
- ✓Mature platform
- ✓InboxReady tooling is real
- ✓Detailed analytics
Where it falls short
- −UI feels dated
- −Pricing tiers complex
- −Support tiers limit free users
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20264 tiers
Foundation
$15
per month
- ✓10K emails
Growth
$35
per month
- ✓50K emails
- ✓Inbox placement
Scale
$90
per month
- ✓100K
- ✓Dedicated IP
Enterprise
Custom
contract
- ✓Volume
- ✓Custom IPs
Why we picked it
Mailgun has been around forever. Solid bones, dated experience. Picks itself when you already have legacy integration.
Overview
Transactional email API and deliverability platform. Engineering teams with existing Mailgun integrations or a need for the InboxReady deliverability toolkit.
Key features
- ●SMTP + REST API
- ●InboxReady deliverability suite
- ●Inbound parsing
- ●Email validation
- ●Templates
- ●Detailed logs
- ●Multi-region
Best use cases
Transactional email at volume
Reliable sending across the bill scale.
Deliverability diagnostics
Use InboxReady to fix bounce issues.
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