Mailgun

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Transactional email API service for developers

About Mailgun

Mailgun is an email automation service built for developers. It offers a complete cloud-based email service for sending, receiving and tracking emails sent through your websites and applications. Mailgun's intelligent inbound routing and storage enables you to know exactly where your emails are ending up.

Built for developers, Mailgun is a set of APIs to integrate email. It supports all of the most popular languages including PHP, Python, Ruby, C# and Java. Tracking & analytics features, including A/B testing enable you to track all emails and maximize their chances of avoiding spam filters and reaching inboxes.


Key benefits of Mailgun

  • Mailgun's software automatically manages the delivery process to give your emails the strongest chance of landing in the inbox. With the API control panel, you'll always know what's happened to every email sent.

  • Each Mailgun domain is an isolated sub-account with its own sending queue and reputation. This way, your transactional emails won't get stuck behind your newsletters.

  • Easily personalize all emails for each user with Mailgun's recipient variables feature. Image URLs can be included too, to personalize the entire look of the email.

  • Route and forward email directly into you inbox or app with Mailgun's intelligent inbound routing and storage. Email parsing turns your emails into easy-to-digest structured data whilst spam filters keep out unwanted emails.

  • Carry out A/B tests and report on your data with Mailgun's tracking and analytics features. Always know what is happening to your emails with searchable logs.

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    4.3 /5
    (156)
    Value for Money
    4.0/5
    Features
    4.2/5
    Ease of Use
    4.3/5
    Customer Support
    3.9/5

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    Efezino
    Efezino
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    • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Easy Integration and Value for your money

    Reviewed on 2022/12/09

    Mailgun is a powerful and effective email service that can help businesses and organizations...

    Mailgun is a powerful and effective email service that can help businesses and organizations streamline their email communications. Some of the benefits of using Mailgun include:Ease of use: Mailgun is relatively easy to set up and use, even for individuals or organizations that are not familiar with email services. The intuitive user interface and comprehensive documentation make it simple to get started with Mailgun.Scalability: Mailgun is designed to handle high volumes of email traffic, making it a good choice for organizations that need to send a large number of emails on a regular basis. The service can easily be scaled up or down to meet changing needs.Features: Mailgun offers a range of advanced features, including tracking and analytics, email validation, and integration with other tools and services. These features can help organizations optimize their email communications and improve their overall effectiveness.

    Pros

    Mailgun allows users to send and receive email from a variety of different platforms and applications, making it a versatile and flexible solution. This can be particularly useful for organizations that use a mix of different systems and tools

    Cons

    While Mailgun is a solid email service, there are some potential drawbacks to consider. For example, the cost of the service can be a barrier for some organizations, and the advanced features may not be necessary for all users.

    Alternatives Considered

    SendGrid and Mailchimp
    Andreas
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Great and reliable

    Reviewed on 2023/09/25

    We use Mailgun for a while now and we really like it.Currently we're using it as a standard for all...

    We use Mailgun for a while now and we really like it.Currently we're using it as a standard for all our transactional mailings on new projects.Also, when we experienced difficulties and reached out to the support, we've been amazed about their qualified response that helped us not only solving the problem (mail deliverability) but also to improve the quality of our emails.

    Pros

    + API mailing+ driver for laravel+ triggers / webhooks+ price/value+ easy setup and integration+ easy deployment on new domains+ fixed IP address if needed+ good support and best practise+ reliable

    Cons

    - logs can not be exported- bad UI for mobile admin access- sometime uses burnt-out IP addresses

    Alternatives Considered

    Amazon SES and Netcore Email API

    Reasons for Switching to Mailgun

    Because the integration in our development-stack was best-in-class.
    Vendel
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

    Good, but crap customer service

    Reviewed on 2020/07/28

    They suddenly and mistakely suspended one of my domain and took ages to get it back. They told me...

    They suddenly and mistakely suspended one of my domain and took ages to get it back. They told me that their back-end service sometomes does it by mistake... not sure why it took them days and days to reply, and still not resolved after almost a week... (I was using a mid-range package, so not the the free tier.)

    Pros

    Easy to setup and use in WHM
    Clean and userful dashboard

    Cons

    Customer service is slow and useless
    More expensive compare to others

    Alternatives Considered

    SendGrid and Mailjet

    Reasons for Switching to Mailgun

    Ease of setup
    Roger
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    • Industry: Information Services
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Solid + Dependable; I recommend; long time user

    Reviewed on 2023/12/14

    Great team, knows their stuff, reliable service.

    Great team, knows their stuff, reliable service.

    Pros

    Very reliable service for a good price.

    We use for transactional emails for sales lead captures, dispatched via API. Solid and reliable.

    Cons

    No concerns, long time user. We probably have some ancient price, so I cannot comment on that.

    James
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    • Industry: Information Services
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Simple pay as you go transactional email

    Reviewed on 2022/11/25

    Pros

    - Being able to pay based on my usage not a fixed price- Easy to use and well documented API- Webhooks to handle events such as bounces and unsubscribes

    Cons

    - Initially I had some deliverability issues but support were very helpful in resolving them- Slightly more expensive than some competitors but you get more features for that

    Alternatives Considered

    Amazon SES, SendGrid, Postmark and Mailchimp

    Reasons for Switching to Mailgun

    Cheaper than most and easier to set up than SES.
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    Mailgun offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$15.00/month
    • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    Flexible plans built for email delivery. See below for details.

    Mailgun has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Mailgun supports the following languages:

    English

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    Mailgun offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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