Temporal vs Mailgun

Temporal

Mailgun

Temporal · 16 features

• Activities — Retryable units of work.
• Activity Retries — Declarative retry policies.
• Child Workflows — Nested workflow composition.
• Continue-As-New — Close + restart workflow to prune history.
• Nexus (cross-namespace) — Call workflows across namespaces/teams.
• Queries — Synchronous read of workflow state.
• Saga / Compensations — Rollback pattern via compensating activities.
• Schedules — Cron-like recurring workflows.
• Self-Host — Deploy cluster on your infra.
• Signals — Async messages into a running workflow.
• Timers — Durable sleeps — hours, days, months.
• Update — Synchronous RPC into workflow with validation.
• Visibility + Search Attrs — Query workflow state via Elasticsearch/native store.
• Web UI — Inspect workflow history, events, stack.
• Workflows — Durable, replayable, long-running functions.
• Workflow Versioning — Patch workflow code without breaking in-flight runs.

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_…