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Mailgun
Email API for developers with deep deliverability tooling
Transactional + marketing email, inbound routing, email validation, deliverability suite. Owned by Sinch. Used for high-volume senders with granular control.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 100 emails/day. 1 custom domain, 1-day log retention, 1 inbound route. No credit card. |
| Basic | $15/mo | $15/month. 10,000 emails/month, no daily limit, 5 inbound routes. |
| Foundation | $35/mo | $35/month (1st month free). 50,000 emails/month, 1,000 custom domains, 5-day retention. |
| Scale | $90/mo | $90/month. 100,000 emails/month, SAML SSO, 5,000 email validations, dedicated IP pools, 30-day retention. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. Deliverability services, managed onboarding. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | dedicated ip price | Included on Scale+ | Dedicated IP |
| — | deliverability services | Optimize tier with consultant support | Deliverability |
| — | email validations | $0.80 - $1.20 per 100 | Validation pricing |
| — | eu region | EU servers available for GDPR data residency | EU hosting |
| — | extra emails per 1k | $1.10 - $1.80 per 1,000 additional emails | Overage pricing |
| — | ownership | Sinch (acquired 2021) | Owner |
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). · docs
- EU Region — Data stored in EU for GDPR-sensitive customers.
- Inbound Routing — Route incoming emails to URLs/SMTP. Attachment forwarding. · docs
- 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_fail.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| inbound | Inbound Routing | other | — |
| sdk-node | mailgun.js (Node) | sdk | 11.x |
| sdk-php | mailgun-php | sdk | 4.x |
| sdk-python | mailgun-python | sdk | 1.x |
| rest-api | Mailgun REST API | rest | v3 |
| sdk-ruby | mailgun-ruby | sdk | 1.x |
| smtp | SMTP Relay | other | — |
| webhooks | Webhooks | other | — |
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