Mailgun
Email API priced by monthly volume, with short log retention on entry plans and inbound routing.
- Yes
- $15/month for Basic, described as a starting price.
- Not documented
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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
What the documentation says.
Each value below links to the page it was read from, with the sentence it came from. Criteria Mailgun does not publish are not listed.
Pricing
Free tier
Yes
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Mailgun ↗
“Free Test us out for $0/mo 100 emails/day included [...] 1 day log retention [...] 1 inbound route”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Entry paid plan
$15/month for Basic, described as a starting price.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Mailgun ↗
“Basic Starting at $15/mo 10,000 emails/mo included”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Pricing model
Monthly plan by volume with per-1,000 overage, and email validations billed separately at around $1.20 per 100.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Mailgun ↗
“Extra emails & validations from $1.80 / 1,000 emails from $1.20 / 100 validations”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Mailgun ↗
“Basic Starting at $15/mo 10,000 emails/mo included [...] $35/mo 50,000 emails/mo included [...] Free [...] 100 emails/day included”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Mailgun ↗
“Extra emails & validations from $1.80 / 1,000 emails [...] from $1.30 / 1,000 emails”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Log retention
1 day on Free and Basic; 5 days of logs and 1 day of message retention on Foundation.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Mailgun ↗
“1 day log retention [...] 5 days log retention 1 day message retention”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Inbound email
Supported
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Mailgun ↗
“1 inbound route [...] 5 inbound routes”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing