Mailgun
Email service for developers
★ 4.2
Transactional email API service for developers. Used by Microsoft, Slack, Reddit, Stripe, and 150,000+ customers.
Features
✓ Transactional email API
✓ Email validation
✓ Inbound email routing
✓ Email analytics
✓ Send time optimization (higher tiers)
✓ Dedicated IPs (Scale+ plans)
✓ Webhook real-time tracking
Pros
- + Developer-friendly API
- + Trusted by major companies (Slack, Stripe)
- + Email validation included in higher tiers
- + Dedicated IPs for reputation isolation
Cons
- − 40% more expensive than average ($35 vs $25)
- − No phone support on basic plans
- − Free tier is very limited
- − SendGrid cheaper at $19.95 for 50K