Available worldwide · Popular in: US, GB
What is Mailgun?
A transactional email delivery platform providing API and SMTP services for sending, receiving, and tracking emails, with integrated deliverability optimization, email validation, and testing tools.
Mailgun pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $15/mo. Free tier with 100 emails/day.
Free
Free- events
- 100 emails/day
- 100 emails per day
- Ticket support
- RESTful email APIs and SMTP relay
- 1 custom sending domain
- Tracking, analytics, and webhooks
- 2 API keys
- Email analytics and reporting
- 1 day log retention
- 1 inbound route
Basic
- events
- 10,000 emails/mo
- No daily email limit
- Monthly email overage options
- RESTful email APIs and SMTP relay
- 1 custom sending domain
- Tracking, analytics, and webhooks
- 2 API keys
- Email analytics and reporting
- 1 day log retention
- 5 inbound routes
- Extra emails from $1.80/1,000 emails
Foundation
- events
- 50,000 emails/mo
- Free for 1 month trial
- Everything on Basic plus
- Full access to RESTful email APIs and SMTP relays
- 1,000 custom sending domains
- Email template builder and API
- Tracking, analytics, and webhooks
- 5 days log retention
- 1 day message retention
- Full access to inbound routing
- Extra emails from $1.30/1,000 emails
- Extra validations from $1.20/100 validations
Scale
- events
- 100,000 emails/mo
- email_validations
- 5,000
- Free for 1 month trial
- Everything on Foundation plus
- SAML SSO
- 5,000 email validations included
- Dedicated IP pools
- Send time optimization
- Live phone & chat support
- 30 days log retention
- Up to 7 days message retention
- Schedule and send analytics reports
- Extra emails from $1.10/1,000 emails
- Extra validations from $0.80/100 validations
Enterprise
Contact salesCustom high-volume email delivery solution
- Everything in Scale plan
- Custom features
- Deliverability Services
- Rapid Fire Burst Sending SLA
What Mailgun does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- -
- Voice
- -
- -
- RCS
- -
- Transactional email
- ✓
- Video / real-time
- -
- In-app chat
- -
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- -
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- ✓
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Mailgun alternatives
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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Mailgun, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 75 | 0.13 | 9.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.17 | 8.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.07 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.07 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"email":true,"two_way":true,"global_coverage":"global","deliverability_tools":true,"usage_pricing_transparent":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |