Mailazy vs Mailgun (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Mailgun grades higher than Mailazy: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Mailazy grades higher on the free plan. Mailgun grades higher on value for money and features. They get the same grade on ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Mailazy
Behavioral emails for product teams, sent through your own SMTP
Mailgun
Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation
Which one is for you
Pick Mailazy if
- Fits if you run a product with a few thousand users and want emails triggered by behaviour
- Works for teams that already pay for SES, SendGrid or Mailgun
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want one bill, as the SMTP sending is paid to a separate provider
- Pricey if you need behavioral rules, which start at $49 a month and allow just 1 on Pro
- Tight if you stay free, with 1 automation and 1,000 contacts
- Watch out: SSO and white label need Business at $199 a month
- Watch out: the page does not say whether the free plan includes behavioral rules
Pick Mailgun if
- Fits if your app needs to receive email and pass it on to a webhook
- Works for teams whose email data has to stay in the EU
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you're on Free or Basic, with 1 sending domain and 1 day of logs
- Not for you if you want an editor to write and send campaigns, since it's all code
- Pricey if you need a dedicated IP, which starts with Scale at $90 a month, with extra IPs at $59 each
- Watch out: inbox placement tests and reputation monitoring are a separate product, Mailgun Optimize
- Watch out: Free stops at 100 emails a day, and Basic charges $1.80 per 1,000 past 10,000
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAMailazyFair | 2.4GPAMailgunFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DPro is $49 a month billed monthly for 2 seats, against $15 in the middle of email tools, and the behavioral email rules are limited to 1 on that plan. Business is $199. | CGraded on 50,000 emails a month: Foundation is $35 at that volume, toward the dear end of this category, with the first month free. Basic is $15 but stops at 10,000 emails, 1 domain and 1 day of logs. A dedicated IP means Scale at $90. |
| Free plan and trial | BFree covers 1 seat, 1,000 contacts, 5,000 emails a month, newsletters and 1 automation, enough for a small list. The page does not say if free includes the behavioral rules. | CFree for good: 100 emails a day through the API or SMTP, with 1 domain, 1 inbound route and 1 day of logs. Enough to build against, not to run a live app on. There's also a 30-day trial of Foundation and Scale. |
| Features | CBehavioral emails, automations, newsletters and AI drafts. It sends nothing itself, so you pay an SMTP provider on top, and SSO and white label need Business. | BAPI and SMTP with SDKs in six languages and an MCP server, inbound routing, webhooks, templates, address validation, US or EU regions and dedicated IPs. It covers the job; inbox placement tests are a separate product, Mailgun Optimize. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You connect your own SMTP provider and set up events and rules before it does anything. | CJudged on how fast a developer sends a first email: grab an API key, use an SDK or SMTP, and verify a sending domain. No rating on record. There's no send button at all, so everything goes through code. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb service that works with Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Claude and ChatGPT. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb, with an API, SMTP, SDKs and an MCP server, plus Zapier, Make, n8n, Shopify, HubSpot, Salesforce, WordPress and Datadog. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | behavioral emails sent through your own SMTP | sending and receiving email from an app |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Mailazy and Mailgun. How we grade
Price against what you get
Mailazy starts at $49 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Mailgun starts at $15 a month and scores 2.7.
Mailgun scores higher and starts $34 a month lower. Of the other email sending services on the chart, 15 score higher than Mailazy for less, and none scores higher than Mailgun for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Mailazy also covers marketing automation, workflow automation and email campaigns.
- Mailgun also covers email verification and transactional email.
At a glance
| Mailazy | Mailgun | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $49 per month, billed monthly | $15 per month for 10,000 emails |
| Free plan | 1 team member, 1,000 contacts, 5,000 emails a month, newsletters and 1 automation. | 100 emails a day, 1 custom sending domain, 1 user, 1 inbound route, 1 day of logs and ticket support, through the API or SMTP. |
| Free trial | None listed | 30-day free trial of the Foundation and Scale plans |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Mailazy | Mailgun |
| Price read from | mailazy.com | mailgun.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Mailazy
- Mailazy does not send mail itself; you pay your SMTP provider separately for the emails.
- The free plan allows 1 automation and the Pro plan 1 behavioral email rule, with 10 on Business.
- SSO and white label need the Business plan at $199 per month.
- The page does not say whether the Free plan includes the behavioral email rules.
Mailgun
- Free and Basic allow 1 sending domain and keep 1 day of logs; unlimited users and 1,000 domains start with Foundation at $35 a month.
- There is no send button: Mailgun sends through code, not a campaign editor.
- A dedicated IP comes with Scale at $90 a month; extra IPs are $59 each a month.
- Inbox placement tests and reputation monitoring are a separate product, Mailgun Optimize.
Key features
Mailazy
- Behavioral emails
- Rules sent when users do, or stop doing, something in the product, written in plain English.
- Automations
- A visual canvas for drip sequences with waits between emails.
- Newsletters
- Send and schedule newsletters, with open and click reports and UTM tags on links.
- Email designer and AI drafts
- Block-based designer with templates; AI drafts start on the Pro plan.
- Chat control
- An MCP integration lets Claude or ChatGPT operate the account.
- Bring your own SMTP
- Sending goes through your own provider, such as Amazon SES, billed by that provider.
Mailgun
- Email API and SMTP relay
- Send from an app through a RESTful HTTP API or SMTP, with SDKs for Go, Node.js, PHP, Java, Ruby and Python, plus an MCP server.
- Inbound routing
- Receive email and forward it to your app or a webhook by rules called routes: 1 on Free, 5 on Basic and unlimited from Foundation.
- Email validation
- Check addresses by API or upload a whole list; Scale includes 5,000 validations and other plans pay from $1.20 per 100.
- US or EU data regions
- One account can send through either the US or the EU region, so message data can stay in the region you choose.
- Logs, analytics and webhooks
- Tracking, bounce classification and event webhooks on every plan, with log retention growing from 1 day on Free and Basic to 30 days on Scale.
- Dedicated IPs
- Scale includes a dedicated IP, IP pools and automated warm-up; more IPs cost $59 each a month.
Plans
Mailazy
Free$0
1 team member, 1,000 contacts, 5,000 emails a month, newsletters and 1 automation, with docs and community help.
Pro$49
per month for 2 team members, billed monthly ($490 billed yearly)
25,000 contacts, 100,000 emails a month, automations, AI drafts, 1 behavioral email rule and email support.
Business$199
per month for 5 team members, billed monthly ($1,990 billed yearly)
Unlimited contacts and emails, 10 behavioral email rules, SSO, white label and priority support.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited team members and rules, 99.9% uptime SLA, SOC 2 report and DPA, private cloud and data residency add-ons.
Mailgun
Free$0
100 emails a day, 1 sending domain, 2 API keys, 1 inbound route, 1 day of log retention and ticket support.
Basic$15
per month for 10,000 emails
No daily limit, 1 sending domain, 5 inbound routes, 1 day of logs. Extra emails $1.80 per 1,000.
Foundation$35
per month for 50,000 emails
1,000 sending domains, unlimited users, template builder, 5 days of logs, full inbound routing. Extra emails from $1.30 per 1,000; first month free.
Scale$90
per month for 100,000 emails
Dedicated IP and IP pools, SAML SSO, 5,000 validations, send-time optimization, chat and phone support, 30 days of logs. Extra emails from $1.10 per 1,000.
EnterpriseCustom
Everything in Scale plus custom features, deliverability services and a burst sending SLA.
Ways to pay less
Mailazy
- Annual discount
2 months free with yearly billing
Pro is $490 a year and Business $1,990 a year, against $49 and $199 a month.
Mailgun
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Mailazy or Mailgun?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Mailgun is cheaper to start with: $15 a month, against $49 a month for Mailazy. Mailazy starts at $49 per month, billed monthly, and Mailgun starts at $15 per month for 10,000 emails.
Which has a free plan, Mailazy or Mailgun?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Mailazy and Mailgun have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.