- Free $0
5 spam tests, 3 inbox placements, 3 device previews, 5 screenshots, 5 heatmaps per month. AI assistant included.
- Custom $5/mo
Pay per test: spam tests $0.18, inbox placements $0.50, device previews $0.75, screenshots $0.20, heatmaps $0.30. Volume discounts to 30%, 15% off annual, $5 monthly minimum. API, MCP and three years of history included. DMARC monitoring is $6 per domain per month, first domain free.
Mailgun pricing, plan by plan
What Mailgun charges, taken from its own pricing page rather than from a review site, with the free tier and the first paid step called out.
Compared from public pricing and product pages, September 2026.
Free plan or trial
Send: free (100 emails/day). Optimize: 1-month trial
First paid plan
Send from $15/mo; Optimize from $49/mo
Every Mailgun plan
Mailgun has two separate products: Send (the email API/platform) and Optimize (the deliverability add-on). Prices come from Mailgun's pricing pages. Send overages run roughly $1.10 to $1.80 per 1,000 extra emails by tier (Scale lowest, Basic highest); a dedicated IP is not included until Scale, and additional dedicated IPs are about $59/IP/mo. Optimize is billed on top of a Send subscription.
Plan
Price
What it includes
Send: Basic
from $15/mo
10,000 emails/mo, no daily limit, REST API, SMTP relay, 1 sending domain, 5 inbound routes
Send: Foundation
$35/mo
50,000 emails/mo, 1,000 sending domains, template builder, full inbound routing, 5-day log retention
After 1-month free trial. Dedicated IP access starts at 50,000 emails and one is included at 100,000+; no dedicated IP pools at this tier.
Send: Scale
$90/mo
100,000 emails/mo, dedicated IP pools, SAML SSO, 5,000 email validations, phone/chat support, 30-day log retention
After 1-month free trial.
Optimize: Pilot
$49/mo
25 inbox placement tests, 2,500 email validations, unlimited users
Deliverability add-on, separate from Send. First month free.
Optimize: Starter
$99/mo
50 inbox placement tests, 5,000 validations, 1,000 previews, blocklist and spam-trap monitoring, Google Postmaster integration
First month free. Inbox-test overage about $0.75/test.
Enterprise / Contract
Custom
Higher volumes, dedicated technical account manager, custom Send and Optimize terms
Inspect: Basic
$99/mo
1,000 email previews/mo, 100+ preview clients and devices, API access, unlimited users
Pre-send QA add-on, separate from Send and Optimize. First month free. Preview overage $0.15/preview.
Inspect: Premium
$199/mo
2,000 previews/mo, accessibility tests, HTML code analysis, link and image validation, spam content checks
First month free. Preview overage $0.15/preview.
What the same job costs at Unspam
Unspam charges for tests rather than for seats or mailboxes, so the comparison with Mailgun depends on how much you send and how often you check.
Full Unspam vs Mailgun comparison
Compared from public pricing and product pages, September 2026. Mailgun is a trademark of its respective owner. Unspam is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mailgun.