Mailgun vs Postfix vs SendGrid

Overview

Twilio SendGrid

Stacks10.8K

Followers5.7K

Votes720

Mailgun

Stacks7.9K

Followers4.2K

Votes656

Postfix

Stacks135

Followers127

Votes0

Detailed Comparison

Twilio SendGrid	Mailgun	Postfix
Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.	Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.	It is a free and open-source mail transfer agent that routes and delivers electronic mail. It is Wietse Venema's mail server that started life at IBM research as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Now at Google, Wietse continues to support it.
Open Tracking;Click Tracking;Unsubscribe Tracking;SMTP Relay;SMTP API;Web API;DKIM;SPF;Reputation Monitoring;ISP Monitoring;Domain Level Load Balancing;ISP Deliverability Outreach;Return Path Certified Partner;Support via Phone, Chat, Email, Online Support Portal	Optimized Queue;Scheduled Delivery;MIME Assembly;Test Mode;ESP Feedback Handling;Unsubscribe Handling;Spam Complaint Handling;Bounce Handling;HTTP POST to your App;Routing w RegEx Filters;Parsing to UTF-8;Signature Separation;Quoted Reply Separation;Wildcard Domains;Spam Filtering;Live Logs;Message Tagging;Event Webhooks;Open/Click Tracking;Unsubscribe Tracking;Complaint Tracking;Bounce Tracking;Mailing Lists;Template Variables;A/B Testing;Link Performance;Geo Performance;Recipient Level Data;SMTP or HTTP API;Clean IP Addresses;SPF Authentication;DKIM Authentication;SSL/TLS;Scales on Demand	-
Statistics
Stacks 10.8K	Stacks 7.9K	Stacks 135
Followers 5.7K	Followers 4.2K	Followers 127
Votes 720	Votes 656	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 190 Easy setup 137 Cheap and simple 107 Easy email integration! 86 Reliable 58 Well-documented Cons 3 Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific 1 Shared IP blacklist removal takes months 0 Shares IP blacklist removal	Pros 178 Quick email integration 148 Free plan 91 Easy setup 67 Ridiculously reliable 53 Extensive apis Cons 2 Cost 2 No HTTPS tracking links supported 1 Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun 1 Cannot create multiple api keys	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Microsoft Azure Twilio Rackspace Cloud Servers Heroku Parse Google Compute Engine Google App Engine CloudBees Red Hat OpenShift Keen	AppFog Magento Ghost Heroku Rackspace Cloud Servers Sendicate WordPress cloudControl Parse sendwithus	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Twilio SendGrid, Mailgun, Postfix?

Mandrill

Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.

Amazon SES

Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

sendwithus

Send email from your app with a simple API call, Sendwithus manages the rest. Templates, testing, data management, segments, and analytics are all accessible through a friendly dashboard.

Postmark

Postmark removes the headaches of delivering and parsing email for webapps with minimal setup time and zero maintenance.

Mailjet

Mailjet is a real-time Cloud Emailing platform: scalable, agile and flexible. Our unique algorithm boosts your deliverability and our platform provides in-depth insight so you can optimize more than ever.

SparkPost

SparkPost is the world’s #1 email delivery provider. We empower companies with actionable, real-time data to send relevant email to their customers which increases engagement and both top and bottom line revenue.

Mailtrap

We offer one platform that covers all email-related needs in one place: testing, sending, and in-depth tracking to control how email infrastructure works and performs.

Apostle.io

Transactional emails are the forgotten step child of internet marketers. Apostle.io empowers marketers to manage transactional emails themselves, as they would their list based campaigns. Preview, Update, Analyse and Test your transactional email all in one place.

Nodemailer

It is a single module with zero dependencies – code is easily auditable. The email delivery is Secure using TLS/STARTTLS. You can use HTML content, as well as plain text alternative.