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2016 Email Deliverability Guide
Our most read guide that includes best practices that every developer and marketer should know.
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:
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.
SMTP API (and Subuser API)
Integrate with our customizable platform in minutes. Our APIs enable broad control over email processing and reporting.
Email Marketing Service
SendGrid’s powerful Marketing Campaigns allows you to build segmented, engaging email campaigns through an intuitive interface. Build your own workflow and benefit from smart analytics, our drag-n-drop editor, and easy subscriber list management.
SendGrid App for iOS and Android
Access your SendGrid account while on-the-go. Monitor email activity, manage suppression lists, and troubleshoot mission-critical email delivery to track your email campaign performance, wherever and whenever.
Simple, Flexible Pricing
Send up to 40,000 emails for free with our 30-day trial—no credit card required. Try for Free ›
Select Your Plan
- 40,000 emails for your first 30 days, then send 100/day, forever
- $0/mo
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Core Email API Features
- APIs, SMTP relay, and webhooks
- API keys and permissions
- Comprehensive client libraries
- DKIM customization
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Core Marketing Campaigns Features
- Flexible template editors
- Segmentation
- A/B Testing
- Real-time analytics and tracking
- Ideal for teams sending up to 100,000 emails/mo
- Starting at $14.95/mo
- plus $10/mo per 10,000 contacts
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Core Email API Features
- APIs, SMTP relay, and webhooks
- API keys and permissions
- Comprehensive client libraries
- DKIM customization
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Core Marketing Campaigns Features
- Flexible template editors
- Segmentation
- A/B Testing
- Real-time analytics and tracking
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Recommended
- Ideal for businesses sending from 100,000 to 1.5 million emails/mo
- Starting at $79.95/mo
- plus $10/mo per 10,000 contacts
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Core Email API Features
- APIs, SMTP relay, and webhooks
- API keys and permissions
- Comprehensive client libraries
- DKIM customization
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Core Marketing Campaigns Features
- Flexible template editors
- Segmentation
- A/B Testing
- Real-time analytics and tracking
- Ideal for businesses sending 1.5 million+ emails/mo
- Custom Pricing
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Core Email API Features
- APIs, SMTP relay, and webhooks
- API keys and permissions
- Comprehensive client libraries
- DKIM customization
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Core Marketing Campaigns Features
- Flexible template editors
- Segmentation
- A/B Testing
- Real-time analytics and tracking
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How large is your contact list?
2,000 contacts are included for free + $10/mo per 10,000 additional contacts.
Have a larger list? Contact us to talk with our sales team about setting up custom pricing to fit your needs. .
Super quick setup, no credit card required
It’s free to sign up, no credit card required. Integrate in minutes with our email API and comprehensive libraries. You'll be ready to send email marketing campaigns in no time. You’ll have your email program up and running in no time.
Access all core features
Our full-featured trial gives you access to all Essentials features, including APIs and webhooks, DKIM customization, real-time analytics, 24/7 customer support and much more. visual drag & drop and HTML editing options, advanced segmentation, A/B testing, and much more. APIs and webhooks, drag & drop visual editor, real-time analytics, 24/7 customer support and much more.
Upgrade after 30 days or use SendGrid free forever
Send 40,000 emails for your first 30 days. Then, send 100 emails/day, free forever. Contact lists of up to 2,000 are also free.
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| Free $0/mo |
Essentials from $14.95/mo |
Pro from $79.95/mo |
Premier Custom Pricing |
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| Message Management and Deployment | ||||
| Suppression management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delayed sending capability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Domain authentication & Link Branding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple sender addresses | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reverse DNS | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subuser management | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email template editor API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics and Reporting | ||||
| Real-time analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delivered, click, open, unsubscribe tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bounce rate, spam, blocked reporting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data rich email activity feed with advanced search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 30 days of email activity history (additional purchase required) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced Statistics | ||||
| Device | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browser | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Geolocation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email category comparison | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subuser | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subuser comparison | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integration and Customization | ||||
| SMTP relay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMTP API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inbound Parse Webhook | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Event Webhook | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reseller API | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subuser API | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marketing Campaigns APIs (Contact Management API, Campaigns API) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Universal Links | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security | ||||
| Opportunistic TLS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enforced TLS (optional) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two-factor authentication | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom DKIM key | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom SPF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| API Keys and API Key Permissions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Precise teammate permissions | 1 Teammate | 1 Teammate | 1,000 Teammates | 1,000 Teammates |
| IP Access Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC 2 Type II certification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reputation Management | ||||
| Reputation monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISP feedback loop data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SendGrid Marketing Campaigns | Additional $10/mo per 10,000 contacts | |||
| Flexible, wizardless workflow | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| List and engagement segmentation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drag & drop campaign editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| A/B testing (subject line and content) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flexible template editors (HTML and WYSIWYG) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Send scheduling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unsubscribe groups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Campaign statistics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Responsive templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Infrastructure | ||||
| Globally distributed, cloud-based architecture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Redundant, self-managed datacenter architecture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Purpose built, cloud-based Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated IP included in plan | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated, dedicated IP warm up | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated IP pooling | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service/Support | ||||
| Global 24x7 customer support team (chat, email, phone) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compliance team with dedicated deliverability engineers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer Success Manager (CSM) | — | — | — | 5 million+ |
| Other | ||||
| Smartphone and tablet applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Itemization of your monthly estimate
The exact amount you pay will vary month-to-month based on your sending volume. Here’s an estimate of your monthly cost:
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extra emails (Estimated)
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3 Days of Email Activity History
$0.00
additional dedicated IPs
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Estimated monthly cost
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What you'll pay today
Your plan and add-on cost is prorated from today to the first of the next month. Here's what you'll pay today:
Prorated plan and add-ons
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Due today
$*
*Taxes may apply
The SendGrid Difference
Proven Deliverability
We offer domain authentication, compliance and deliverability coaching, and proactive ISP outreach to ensure you achieve optimal inbox delivery.
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 50 billion emails per month.
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.