# Mailgun

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/email/mailgun/

Email API priced by monthly volume, with short log retention on entry plans and inbound routing.

## Who it suits

Senders who want inbound routing included from the free plan up, and who treat the message log as a debugging tool rather than a record.

Consider something else if One day of log retention on the entry plan is the shortest here by a wide margin, and the overage rate is quoted as "from", so the number you plan against is a floor.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.mailgun.com/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Entry paid plan: $15/month for Basic, described as a starting price. ([source](https://www.mailgun.com/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Pricing model: Monthly plan by volume with per-1,000 overage, and email validations billed separately at around $1.20 per 100. ([source](https://www.mailgun.com/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

### Email

- Emails included: 10,000 a month on Basic; 50,000 on Foundation at $35. The free plan is capped at 100 a day rather than a monthly figure. ([source](https://www.mailgun.com/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Price per 1,000 over: From $1.80 per 1,000 on Basic and from $1.30 on Foundation. Mailgun writes "from", so these are floors rather than fixed rates. ([source](https://www.mailgun.com/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Log retention: 1 day on Free and Basic; 5 days of logs and 1 day of message retention on Foundation. ([source](https://www.mailgun.com/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Inbound email: Supported ([source](https://www.mailgun.com/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

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