Staxly

Mailgun vs Stytch

Email API for developers with deep deliverability tooling
vs. Authentication platform for B2C and B2B

Mailgun website ↗Stytch website ↗

Pricing tiers

Mailgun

Free
100 emails/day. 1 custom domain, 1-day log retention, 1 inbound route. No credit card.
Free
Basic
$15/month. 10,000 emails/month, no daily limit, 5 inbound routes.
$15/mo
Foundation
$35/month (1st month free). 50,000 emails/month, 1,000 custom domains, 5-day retention.
$35/mo
Scale
$90/month. 100,000 emails/month, SAML SSO, 5,000 email validations, dedicated IP pools, 30-day retention.
$90/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Deliverability services, managed onboarding.
Custom
Mailgun website ↗

Stytch

Free
10,000 MAU. Unlimited orgs. 5 SSO/SCIM connections. 1,000 M2M tokens. 10,000 fraud fingerprints. Full auth suite.
Free
Pay as you go
Usage-based after free allowances. Volume discounts for high MAU.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. 99.99% SLA, private Slack, migration assistance, HIPAA/BAA.
Custom
Stytch website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Mailgun vs free on Stytch.

MetricMailgunStytch
fraud fingerprints included—10000 fingerprints/month
m2m tokens included—1000 tokens
mau included—10000 users/month
organizations—unlimited orgs
sso connections included—5 conns

Features

Mailgun · 14 features

  • Batch Sending — Send up to 1,000 recipients per API call via recipient variables.
  • Dedicated IPs — IP pools with auto warmup. Scale+ tier.
  • Deliverability Suite — Inbox placement testing, DMARC reporting, seed lists.
  • Email Logs — Searchable log of all send attempts + events.
  • Email Templates — Template builder + variables + versioning.
  • Email Validation — Real-time email verification (syntax, MX, role accounts, disposable).
  • EU Region — Data stored in EU for GDPR-sensitive customers.
  • Inbound Routing — Route incoming emails to URLs/SMTP. Attachment forwarding.
  • Mailing Lists — Unlimited mailing lists with bulk subscribe/unsubscribe.
  • Open/Click Tracking — HTML + text tracking with configurable tracking domain.
  • SAML SSO — Scale+ tier.
  • Send API — REST/SMTP send with MIME + tracking.
  • Tags — Tag messages to slice stats.
  • Webhook Events — delivered, opened, clicked, unsubscribed, complained, permanent_fail, temporary_…

Stytch · 15 features

  • B2B Auth — Multi-tenant auth: organizations, roles, JIT provisioning, enterprise SSO, SCIM.
  • B2C Auth — Consumer auth: passwordless (magic links, OTP), passwords, OAuth, passkeys, WebA…
  • Device Fingerprinting — Fingerprint devices at signup/login. Block bots, credential stuffing, and ATO at…
  • Device-Fingerprint Risk API — Real-time risk scoring API usable even without full auth.
  • Enterprise SSO (OIDC) — OIDC SSO per organization.
  • Enterprise SSO (SAML) — SAML 2.0 SSO per organization. Self-serve admin portal.
  • JIT Provisioning — Auto-create users in an org on first SSO sign-in.
  • Machine-to-Machine — Client-credentials OAuth for service-to-service.
  • OAuth / Social — Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, Slack, Discord, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Bi…
  • Organizations — Multi-tenant primitive with policies per org.
  • Passkeys (WebAuthn) — FIDO2 passkey enrollment and authentication.
  • Passwordless — Magic links (email) + OTP (email/SMS/WhatsApp) + embeddable magic links.
  • RBAC — Roles and permissions per organization (B2B).
  • SCIM Provisioning — Directory user/group provisioning from Okta, Azure, Google Workspace.
  • Sessions — JWT or opaque session tokens. Configurable lifetime.

Developer interfaces

KindMailgunStytch
SDKmailgun.js (Node), mailgun-php, mailgun-python, mailgun-rubyAndroid SDK, Go backend SDK, iOS SDK, Java backend SDK, JavaScript SDK, Next.js SDK, Node backend SDK, Python backend SDK, React SDK, Ruby backend SDK
RESTMailgun REST APIB2B API, B2C API
OTHERInbound Routing, SMTP Relay, Webhooks—
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