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Mailgun vs SendGrid comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Mailgun
Ranking in Cloud Email
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SendGrid
Ranking in Cloud Email
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Email category, the mindshare of Mailgun is 5.0%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SendGrid is 8.2%, down from 19.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Email Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SendGrid8.2%
Mailgun5.0%
Other86.8%
Cloud Email
 

Featured Reviews

Christopher Justice - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of Operations at BL.INK
Reliable, easy to set up, and offers good email-sending capabilities
We use the solution for high-volume email sending for event management. Simple and perfect for what we need.  It has helped us with email deliverability. The email-sending capabilities are great. It's a very easy product to set up.  The solution is stable. It is scalable.  The solution needs…
Amrit Dash - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Dynamic templates have streamlined student and parent email campaigns and build consistent engagement
The activity log is a little slower at times, but that is probably just nitpicking an issue. Overall, in general, there are not really very difficult pain points. There are certain issues sometimes when we are trying to handle a very big campaign; we might end up having a little bit less reputation in terms of bounces or spam reports that get detected when we send out the emails. Apart from that, there is not anything that would become a significant pain point. If you don't really have an advanced subscription for SendGrid, it might take a while for you to reach the customer support.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Mailgun is cheap, secure, fast, and simple."
"It's a very easy product to set up."
"I haven't been required to pay yet because they give me 10k free emails per month, so for medium emails, it's the best choice."
"It is easy to set up."
"The API configuration is much cleaner in SendGrid."
"The best features SendGrid offers is the template customization, which really helps in creating templates according to client demand and their UI/UX experience."
"SendGrid is a most powerful third-party tool to use for email sending, and it improves the delivery rates compared to other services."
"Since switching to SendGrid, I have seen that time is saved, and the trust of the portals like Gmail and Outlook ensures the emails are received quickly with minimum failure, which increases the business."
"The valuable features include email capabilities, among other offerings."
"My integration team likes that it's very easy to integrate and very easy to automate based on activities that happen on our core banking application."
"It does everything we need. It's got templating. It's got email validation. It's great."
 

Cons

"Preview of email as sent - currently, the preview is an image."
"Mailgun doesn't have this."
"The solution needs better templating and email validation."
"SendGrid is a great solution. I don't have any areas of improvement."
"Maybe they could have a mobile application to give to admins, so they could see some insights related to the data."
"SendGrid can be improved by making it more versatile and facilitating easier connections with third parties."
"The biggest problem that we have faced is with the authentication during login. For certain people, SendGrid requires MFA, which is good as a security feature, but it doesn't always work in all geographies. We've got people and users who are based in Nigeria, and some of those people had real trouble logging into SendGrid because the MFA wouldn't send codes to people on their numbers. The security mechanism that they use for login doesn't work in all geographies."
"They are backlogged on feature requests, which is a bit of a shame really."
"The contact limit alerts need to be improved."
"For my use case, SendGrid is very good. The cost could potentially be improved, though I am not very familiar with pricing details."
"I would prefer an easy plugin for Linux mail installation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay $80 a month to use the solution."
"Its cost can vary. It can go as low as $10 or $15 to $1,000 depending on how much you use it."
"The solution is relatively inexpensive."
"My company pays for SendGrid monthly, and though I cannot share the amount, my feedback is that the vendor should accept other modes of payment apart from a credit card."
"The basic plan starts at €90 per month."
"I use the essential plan which is $20 a month. After that, we use the pro which is $90 a month, and had all our costs bundled in."
"We are using the Advanced plan,10K. That is about $100 per month but sometimes we do go over the limit of the plan."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
19%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SendGrid?
My advice is not to buy SendGrid; instead, use alternatives.
What needs improvement with SendGrid?
They should take care of their customers more carefully.
What is your primary use case for SendGrid?
I use the solution to send transactional and promotional emails.
 

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