SendGrid vs. MailGun

SendGrid is the world’s largest email Infrastructure as a service provider. Our cloud-based email solution replaces your email infrastructure so you don’t have to build, scale, and maintain these systems in-house. In addition to providing reliable deliverability and proven scalability for over 58,000 paying customers, we enlist a team of deliverability experts focused on your sending. Some of our advantages over MailGun include:

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    Deeply trusted and highly reliable
    SendGrid provides documentation and maintains official libraries in all the languages developers love – including C# and Python – and we link to multiple open source contributions.
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    Easy to use & quick to deploy
    Competitive pricing allows your email to scale starting with 100 emails a day for free with no time limit, whereas Mailgun has a 30-day free trial. With SendGrid you can send up to 1,300,000 emails per month for $449 ($.00034 per email), where Mailgun increases to $550 per month for over 500,000 emails ($.0011 per email).
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    Advanced deliverability features
    Our platform offers ISP deliverability outreach, a bulk sender notification, and dedicated IP warm up to help keep your delivery and reputation strong.
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    SMTP API (and Subuser API)
    Integrate with our customizable platform in minutes. Our APIs enable broad control over email processing and reporting.

We make it quick and easy to transition from Mailgun: Read Migration Guide

Email API Plans

Pricing is determined by monthly email volume and features. Select your email volume below to see which plans are right for you.

How many emails would you like to send per month?

<3,000 50,000 100,000 300,000 700,000 1,500,000 2,500,000 5,000,000+
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No credit card, no commitment.

What’s included:

  • Analytics & deliverability optimization
  • No access to dedicated IPs
  • No subuser management
  • No single sign-on (SSO)

  • Additional teammates:

    1

  • Event webhook:

    1

  • Email validation:

    0

  • Dynamic templates:

    Editor
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You can upgrade any time after your free account is set up.

Taxes and overages may apply.

What’s included:

  • Analytics & deliverability optimization
  • No access to dedicated IPs
  • No subuser management
  • No single sign-on (SSO)

  • Additional teammates:

    1

  • Event webhook:

    2

  • Email validation:

    0

  • Dynamic templates:

    Editor

Recommended

You can upgrade any time after your free account is set up.

Taxes and overages may apply.

What’s included:

  • Analytics & deliverability optimization
  • Dedicated IPs included
  • Subuser management
  • Single sign-on (SSO)

  • Additional teammates:

    1,000

  • Event webhook:

    5

  • Email validation:

    2,500

  • Dynamic templates:

    Editor and testing
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Need to send more? Talk to us for custom, high volume pricing.

What’s included:

  • Analytics & deliverability optimization
  • Dedicated IPs included
  • Subuser management
  • Single sign-on (SSO)

  • Additional teammates:

    1,000

  • Event webhook:

    5

  • Email validation:

    5,000

  • Dynamic templates:

    Editor and testing
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The SendGrid Difference

Spot Deliverability

Proven Deliverability

We offer domain authentication, compliance and deliverability coaching, and proactive ISP outreach to ensure you achieve optimal inbox delivery.

Spot Scale

Scale With Confidence

Whether you’re a startup or a large enterprise, we can handle your important emails. Our world-class platform delivers more than 100 billion emails per month.

Spot Support

Email Expertise

With SendGrid, you have an expert in your corner. Our Customer Success and Support Teams give you the information and guidance you need, when you need it.

Customers trust Twilio SendGrid to send more than 100 billion emails every month.