Mailgun vs Mailjet

Mailgun compared with Mailjet

The sibling product inside Sinch, and the two are sold as a deliberate split: Mailgun for developers, Mailjet for marketers. Mailjet has a campaign builder, contact lists, segmentation, and automation that Mailgun does not attempt, plus its own transactional API, and it is EU-headquartered with EU hosting. Mailgun has far better inbound routing, address validation, and raw API primitives. There is no shared contact base between them, so running both means two accounts. Most buyers should pick one job and buy the product built for it.

Mailjet compared with Mailgun

The sibling product inside Sinch, split deliberately: Mailgun for developers, Mailjet for marketers. Mailgun has far better inbound routing with pattern-matched rules, better address validation, longer log retention on Scale, and dedicated IPs from 50,000 emails rather than 100,000. Mailjet has a campaign builder, contact lists, segmentation, automation, and the collaborative editor, none of which Mailgun attempts. There is no shared contact base between them. If your primary need is transactional infrastructure, buy Mailgun; if it is marketing with transactional attached, buy Mailjet.

Mailgun

Volume-metered on emails sent, with four tiers that differ mainly in included volume, log retention, inbound route allowance, and dedicated IP availability. Email validation is metered separately.

• Free$0
• BasicFrom $15
• Foundation$35
• Scale$90
• CustomQuoted

Modelled at this directory's three reference points, Mailgun is mid-market on price and top of the category on inbound capability. A product with 1,000 users receiving three emails each sends 3,000 a month and fits inside Basic at $15, or the free tier if the daily cap allows. Ten thousand users at three emails each is 30,000 sends, still inside Basic at $15 but far better served by Foundation at $35 for the log retention and the inbound routes. Fifty thousand users at three emails each is 150,000 sends, which is Scale at $90 plus roughly $55 of overage, about $145 a month. That sits between Resend at around $80 and Postmark at around $199 for the same volume, and it is roughly ten times Amazon SES. What separates Mailgun from the cheaper options is inbound routing with rules rather than a single webhook, and validation from the same vendor. What separates it from the more expensive ones is that Postmark keeps a year of full message content where Mailgun keeps 30 days of events. Buy Mailgun for inbound; buy something else if outbound is all you do.

Mailjet

Metered on monthly emails sent rather than on contacts stored, with unlimited contacts on the Essential tier and above. Four published tiers plus a quoted Custom tier, scaling with send volume.

• Free$0
• Starter$9
• Essential$17
• Premium$27
• CustomQuoted

Because Mailjet meters sends rather than contacts, the standard comparison points need translating. A 1,000-contact list mailed once a month is 1,000 emails, comfortably inside the free plan, though the 200-a-day cap means the send takes five days; $9 on Starter fixes that. A 10,000-contact list mailed once a month is 10,000 emails, inside the $17 Essential tier with room to spare, against $120 to $275 on Constant Contact and $100 to $135 on AWeber for the same list. A 50,000-contact list mailed once a month is 50,000 emails, which needs a higher volume step but still lands far below the $430 to $575 Constant Contact charges. Mail that same 50,000-contact list weekly and the picture changes: 200,000 emails a month moves Mailjet up several volume steps while the contact-priced platforms charge exactly the same as before. Mailjet is outstanding value for a large list mailed occasionally and merely competitive for a small list mailed often. Add the transactional API on the same account, which replaces a separate Postmark or Resend subscription for low-volume application mail, and the total-cost case for a small business gets stronger still.