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Transactional Email API Service For Developers

Starting price
$15/mo
Pricing
Free plan

About Mailgun

Mailgun is a transactional email API service designed for developers to send, receive, and track emails at scale. It serves businesses of all sizes with an API-first suite that supports reliable delivery and compliant campaigns.

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Key Features

When you’re embedding email into your stack, you need predictable delivery, real-time validation, and QA checks that scale with you:

Send emails

Integrate email with industry-leading reliability, compliance, and speed.

Optimize emails

Boost engagement, avoid the spam folder, and increase email ROI with performance-driven tools.

Validate emails

Real-time validation to remove invalid and high-risk addresses before sending.

Inspect emails

Preview and QA to fix issues before sending, supporting accessibility and compliance.

Summary

Best for developers, product teams, and growth and marketing operations delivering transactional emails at scale.

Plans and prices as listed on mailgun.com as of Sep 24, 2026.

Free

$0/mo / monthly

  • 100 emails per day
  • Ticket support
  • RESTful email APIs and SMTP relay
  • 1 custom sending domain
  • Tracking, analytics, and webhooks
  • 2 API keys
  • Email analytics and reporting
  • 1 day log retention
  • 1 inbound route

Basic

$15/mo / monthly

  • No daily email limit
  • Monthly email overage options
  • RESTful email APIs and SMTP relay
  • 1 custom sending domain
  • Tracking, analytics, and webhooks
  • 2 API keys
  • Email analytics and reporting
  • 1 day log retention
  • 5 inbound routes

Foundation

$35/mo / monthly

  • Everything on Basic plus...
  • Full access to RESTful email APIs and SMTP relays
  • 1,000 custom sending domains
  • Email template builder and API
  • Tracking, analytics, and webhooks
  • 5 days log retention
  • 1 day message retention
  • Full access to inbound routing

Scale

$90/mo / monthly

  • Everything on Foundation plus...
  • SAML SSO
  • 5,000 email validations
  • Dedicated IP pools
  • Send time optimization
  • Live phone & chat support
  • 30 days log retention
  • Up to 7 days message retention
  • Schedule and send analytics reports

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