Mailgun AlternativeThe Mailgun alternative developers actually enjoy using
Switch from Mailgun without the setup headache. Maileroo gives you SMTP relay and a REST email API, webhooks, real-time delivery logs, dedicated IPs and a CSA certified sending network. Start with 3,000 free emails every month.
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Why Make the SwitchHere's Why People Are Switching to Maileroo
Maileroo is built for the serious senders, who want control over every aspect of their email delivery. Maileroo is the Mailgun alternative developers can trust.
Organisational Differences
Starting at the pricing level, for those trialing each system, Mailgun provides you with a 100 email per day cap, 1 custom domain, limited API keys, 1 day log retention and 1 inbound route.
Maileroo offers you 3,000 emails per month with an hourly limit that you can request to change and no daily cap. You can add up to 2 custom domains under a free plan alongside no limitation on API keys, inbound routes with 1,000 inbound emails and a 14 day log retention from the get-go.
Mailgun has been a big contributor to the email delivery industry for a long time and has been a significant part of many applications and system’s email delivery. Systems are progressing, with quicker developments with AI, the need for more control over just being able to send-an-email has changed in the industry and the shift for control, multi-tenant setups, setting email streams with IP whitelisting, domain restriction and more has become paramount.
Maileroo offers this different approach to your sending environments that Mailgun does not, allowing you to set this all up via your dashboard, giving you more control over your sending via our applications feature. Helping developers deploy email delivery systems quicker without compromise.
Support & Gatekeeping
Maileroo being founded by developers, they were originally big users of the Mailgun platform when they used to implement email delivery systems for past clients and with Mailgun being a big inspiration for what Maileroo has become today it aims to deliver a full eco-system for emailing, enabling all the controls, sending, security, testing and more without gatekeeping the developer from the get go.
This goes for both general and technical support. Mailgun enables you to scale your plan effortlessly but with each plan gatekeeping your resources and activity to certain caps. For example, Mailgun does not offer live-chat till ‘Scale’ plan at $90 per month, any new features developed you can’t access, you can’t invite team-members and assign user-roles, no link-tracking, and no guaranteed uptime SLA on certain plans.
We don’t believe in such a way and as developers you need a system that grows with you, supports you and understands the growing needs of businesses as they scale. This is why Maileroo provides you guaranteed uptime SLA of 99.9%, ticket and live chat support, access to all features in every new deployment, deep analytics and link tracking, team collaboration and granular user controls regardless of the plan you are on.
Infrastructure,
Data, and Scale
As for infrastructure, Mailgun boasts an amazing database capability within the US & EU, giving you choice as to where your data is stored whilst Maileroo only provides you currently with the option of storing your data in the EU.
For larger enterprise opportunities, Maileroo offers custom deployments in your region, with dedicated support to offer you data-residency and high-availability with guaranteed uptime of 99.9%.
Scaling your email delivery is what both Mailgun and Maileroo help you with and on the plans you operate with both offer overage options but in different capacities. With Mailgun, they charge you per 1,000 emails you send on any plan you are on as an overage fee whilst Instead of charging immediate extra fees, Maileroo includes a complimentary 12% allowance beyond your base allocation across all paid tiers. As an example, a package featuring 100,000 monthly messages permits transmission up to 112,000 emails, helping absorb unexpected traffic surges without triggering extra charges.
Feature ComparisonMailgun vs Maileroo
A quick look at how Maileroo and Mailgun compare across pricing, sending tools, tracking, deliverability features, and support.
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FAQMailgun vs Maileroo
Questions
Answers on ownership, data residency, support, SLA, logs, domains, and team access.
Maileroo is bootstrapped, independently owned and founded by Areeb Majeed & Patrick Yammouni, operating out of Australia under Maileroo Group Pty Ltd. Mailgun is currently owned by Sinch in a recent acquisition that took place in 2021.
Maileroo currently stores the data in EU datacentres, with it spread across different regions within the EU for redundancy. Mailgun offers data-residency in two regions across the US and EU, with the choice being yours to pick from.
Maileroo offers ticket and live chat support across all free and paid plans. Additional support channels are provided in enterprise engagement with a dedicated support manager available for general and technical assistance. Mailgun offers ticket support across all plans, alongside phone and live chat only for people paying at ‘Scale’ and above.
Yes. Maileroo offers a 99.9% uptime SLA for all free and paid plans, allowing you to ensure your business can scale confidently from early stages to a high-volume sender. Mailgun offers uptime SLA but only for people on plans of ‘Foundation’ and above.
Yes. Both Maileroo and Mailgun have extensive support resources for developers to help implement their respective email delivery systems. Maileroo offers an extensive API documentation with both official and community made SDKs, alongside our Joey AI who has extensive knowledge of our documentation and can help program alongside you.
Maileroo provides you a flat 14 day email log retention across both free and paid plans along with extensive filtering options on a per domain, application and email basis for you to find all the information you need quickly. Mailgun provides you 1 day log retention on the free and basic plan, with it increasing to 5 days on ‘Foundation’ and then to 30 days on ‘Scale’ and above.
On free plans, Maileroo allows you to connect up to 2 custom domains whilst Mailgun only allows for 1 custom domain on the free and basic plan. On paid plans, Maileroo allows you to connect as many domains as you need whilst Mailgun offers up to 1,000 custom domain connections from ‘Foundation’ plan onwards.
Yes. You can invite team-members to your Maileroo account and implement granular controls on their account to ensure they can only view or edit certain aspects of your sending environments as needed. This is available across all plans. Mailgun only allows you to do this for purchased plans of ‘Foundation’ and above.
Why Switch to Maileroo?Why Switch to Maileroo?
Mailgun is built for transactional email. Maileroo gives you the same sending power in a platform that feels easier to set up, easier to manage, and easier to scale.
Mailgun charges $59 per month per dedicated IP, only available on Scale plans at $90/mo. Maileroo includes dedicated IPs on higher-volume plans at no extra cost.
Mailgun removed its permanent free tier. You get 5,000 emails in your first month, then nothing. Maileroo gives you 3,000 free emails every month, no card required.
Mailgun gates SAML SSO behind Scale plans at $90/mo. Maileroo includes SAML SSO, scoped API keys, and SMTP credential IP restrictions on all plans.
Maileroo's sending IPs sit on the Certified Senders Alliance whitelist for better inbox placement at 35+ European mailbox providers. Mailgun is not CSA certified.
Maileroo runs infrastructure across Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, and France with full GDPR compliance. Choose where your data lives without enterprise contracts.
Mailgun does not break down delivery by recipient country. Maileroo shows you exactly where your emails land, country by country, so you can spot regional deliverability issues.
Flexible PricingA Free Tier That Lasts
Get 3,000 emails a month on us, every month. Paid plans start at $10. Upgrade only when your sending needs the room.
Pick a plan based on how many emails you send each month. You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime. No lock-in, no hidden fees.
Includes 2 domains
Includes Email Testing
FeaturesCrafted for a Delightful Email Experience
Everything behind reliable delivery at any volume: sending, verification, routing, and the analytics to see what happened, from first API call to millions a month.
SMTP Relay
Send transactional and bulk emails through reliable SMTP infrastructure built for speed, security, and deliverability.
Email API
Integrate email delivery into your applications using powerful APIs built for flexibility, scalability, and performance.
Streams
Separate transactional and marketing traffic into isolated sending streams to protect reputation and keep critical emails fast.
Inbound Routing
Receive and route incoming emails directly into your applications using flexible automation and processing workflows.
Email Marketing
Create and deliver marketing campaigns designed to increase engagement, reach, and customer retention.
Webhooks
Receive real-time event notifications for deliveries, opens, and clicks for storage and automation workflows.
Analytics
Monitor email performance with detailed insights, reporting tools, and actionable delivery metrics in real time.
Email Testing
Capture, inspect, and validate every message in a safe sandbox, with authentication checks and spam analysis before going into production.
Developer SDKs
Build integrations faster using SDKs, code examples, and resources for modern application development.
ReviewsCustomer-Centric
by Design
We're a small team, which means when you write in, you're talking to someone who works on the product. Startups, agencies, and growing businesses stay with Maileroo because the support is real, the pricing is honest, and the infrastructure holds up.
"I love it as an SMTP service for transactional emails. The app is fast, easy to understand and fully featured, but not overwhelming, and email delivery is super fast and reliable. Just perfect! Every time I needed to request a feature or inquire about something with the team, they responded quickly and satisfactorily, both in their Discord channel and via email."
"I have been a Maileroo customer for almost 2 years now and I am very satisfied: Sending emails is super fast and reliable. The support is great and fast (usually within 1 hour). The interface is functional yet easy to use. You pay much less at Maileroo than at other providers without compromising on quality. In short, a great company to work with as an agency!"
"Using Maileroo for half a year now. Api and its documentation is simple, straightforward and just works. What truly makes the difference is the fast, personal support. Support is always quick to respond and to find a solution. Requests or suggestions are taken seriously and often translated into practical improvements. That level of personal involvement and service is rare and makes Maileroo a solution I can confidently recommend. Experience with mailgun, mailjet, sendgrid, resend and Maileroo takes the cake."
Changelog
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Areeb MajeedFaster email delivery with improved spam filtering
Email delivery is now 20 to 40% faster thanks to improvements to our spam-filtering algorithm. Reduced filtering time helps messages reach inboxes sooner.
Patrick YammouniReleased Maileroo Verify for Multi-Channel Code Delivery
Maileroo Verify is live with five delivery channels: SMS, voice, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email. Allows you to implement a simple and clean API to send codes via the available channels and then verify…
Patrick YammouniEmail Marketing Now Accessible Via Maileroo Sidebar
We added another access point to our CampaignLark marketing platform via your Maileroo dashboard. Click the link in your sidebar, and sign-up or quickly login via our direct SSO integration. Quick…
Success StoriesCase Studies
The deliverability problems that pushed these teams off their old provider, the work it took to migrate, and the numbers they're seeing on the other side.
Enabling a modern mortgage broker to deliver secure transactional emails with dependable infrastructure and consistent performance nationwide every day.
Supporting a creative web studio with dependable email delivery and flexible infrastructure for cultural organizations across Canada.
Helping a Melbourne digital agency improve email deliverability with reliable infrastructure and seamless WordPress integration for client projects of every size.
