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quick facts
Mailgun is the all-in-one, intelligent email delivery platform trusted by businesses and loved by developers. Our powerful APIs enable you to send, receive, and track email effortlessly.
Mailgun helps hundreds of thousands of companies like Lyft, Microsoft, and Etsy send hundreds of billions of emails every year.
Name: Sinch Mailgun
Type: Email sending API and SMTP services with a full deliverability suite
Founded: 2010 (as Mailgun Technologies); acquired by Sinch in 2021
Parent company: Sinch
Customers: 150,000+ businesses globally
Core Audience: Developers, marketers, and product leaders seeking a powerful, API-driven platform to reliably send high volumes of transactional and marketing emails at scale
Product Categories: Transactional Email / Email Deliverability / Email Verification / Email Testing
Headquarters (Mailgun):
Mailgun Technologies, Inc.
112 E Pecan St #1135
San Antonio, TX 78205
United States
Parent company headquarters (Sinch):
Sinch Sweden AB
Lindhagensgatan 112
112 51 Stockholm
Sweden
Website: https://www.mailgun.com
What we do
Sinch Mailgun is the only enterprise-grade email sending solution with a full deliverability suite built on a single platform. It helps businesses not only send email but also validate recipients, QA campaigns before launch, and optimize inbox placement.
Providing developer-first (APIs, SDKs, integrations) and enterprise-ready (SLAs, compliance, consulting) solutions, Mailgun combines technical infrastructure with advanced deliverability services.
Reliable infrastructure: SLAs for delivery, validation and throughput; 99.99% uptime
Deliverability expertise: Built-in deliverability suite with 320+ years combined TAM experience
Security and compliance: CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001/27701, SOC certifications
End-to-end lifecycle: Test, send, validate and analyze in one platform
Sinch Mailgun provides four primary services that cover the entire email lifecycle:
Key Features
Email API: RESTful API to send and receive email programmatically at scale, giving developers and integrators full flexibility.
Dedicated IPs and IP pools: Gain control over IP reputation and separate sending traffic by use case (transactional, marketing, client).
Reporting, metrics, and logs: Dashboards that combine account-level analytics with drill-down views and event logs to quickly identify and troubleshoot delivery issues.
Email templates: Drag-and-drop editor or custom HTML options so teams can create professional emails without relying on developers.
Suppression management: Automatic removal of bounced, unsubscribed and complained addresses to protect domain and IP reputation.
Subaccounts: Organize and separate sending activity across use cases (e.g., transactional, marketing, staging/production, clients). Available in contract plans.
Send time optimization: AI-driven feature that determines the best time to deliver email based on recipient engagement behavior.
Key Features
Inbox placement tests: Predict and measure which tab or folder emails will land in across major mailbox providers, ensuring campaigns are tested before launch.
Spam trap monitoring: Detect and avoid sending to known spam traps, protecting sender reputation and preventing blocklist incidents.
Blocklist monitoring: Track IPs and domains across curated blocklist providers in real time to quickly identify and resolve issues.
Google Postmaster Tools integration: Consolidate Google reputation and deliverability data into one view for actionable insights.
Microsoft SNDS integration: Access Microsoft Smart Network Data Services to monitor IP reputation and deliverability performance in a unified dashboard.
Bounce classification: Categorize and analyze bounce types to pinpoint root causes and implement targeted fixes.
Email health score: View an overall reputation score based on sending logs, bounces, complaints and spam trap hits, enabling teams to track performance trends over time.
Key features
Single validations: Real-time email validation at the point of sign-up via API, preventing bad or mistyped addresses from entering the system.
Bulk validations (API and UI): Clean entire email lists on a quarterly or campaign basis to remove stale or invalid addresses, reducing bounces and improving deliverability.
List health previewValidation engagement results: Provides engagement scoring for each recipient (from highly engaged to disengaged). Contract customers receive full results, while self-serve customers receive simplified bot/engagement checks.: Free snapshot of list health using a sample of at least 100 emails, returning a percentage breakdown of low- to high-risk addresses.
Validation engagement results: Provides engagement scoring for each recipient (from highly engaged to disengaged). Contract customers receive full results, while self-serve customers receive simplified bot/engagement checks.
Key Features
Email previews: Test how emails render across multiple clients and devices before sending, ensuring consistent appearance and accessibility compliance.
Link validation: Automatically verify that all links resolve correctly, detect errors and confirm accuracy without manual effort.
Image validation: Ensure images are properly hosted, compressed, and displayed correctly to maintain fast load times and consistent rendering.
Accessibility testing: Check email campaigns against WCAG standards and quickly resolve compliance issues, helping organizations create inclusive experiences and avoid non-compliance risks.
Send and Optimize: Available in self-serve and contract plans
Validate and Inspect: Available in contract plans
This customer lists highlights how Mailgun powers mission-critical email for some of the world’s largest consumer brands, while also serving as the backbone infrastructure for leading MarTech and SaaS providers.
Lyft
Microsoft
Dribbble
Wikipedia
NHL
American Express
Substack
Transactional emails: Deliver password resets, OTPs, and receipts
Lifecycle emails: Send user onboarding, alerts, and activity digests
Marketing campaigns: Deliver newsletters, promotions, and other marketing emails under branded domains
Platform integration: Embed Mailgun into MarTech platforms and applications
Deliverability: Ensure inbox placement with spam trap monitoring, blocklist tracking, and other deliverability features
Bulk sending: Reliably send millions of time-sensitive emails quickly from breaking news alerts to promotions
Inbound email processing: Convert incoming emails into application data for automated workflows
Validation: Improve deliverability with real-time sign-up checks and bulk list hygiene
QA & testing: Preview, test, and validate emails before sending
Performance analytics: Track and analyze opens, clicks, and other engagement data to improve ROI
Experts on email
Mailgun is known for thought leadership in email deliverability, email trends, compliance, and security.
Mailgun has data centers in both the United States (US) and the European Union (EU).
Yes. Mailgun offers SLAs covering throughput, delivery, support response times, and verification results.
Yes. Mailgun is SOC I and SOC II compliant and is also HIPAA compliant.
Yes. Mailgun has request limits per API call:
1,500 API requests per second per client IP
1,500 SMTP requests per second per client IP
There are no concurrent connection or simultaneous request limits.
The default limit is 1,000 domains per Mailgun account.
No. Mailgun does not manage or host inboxes.
Yes. A visual template editor is available in Mailgun Send.
The maximum size is 25 MB per message on Mailgun.
Log data: 1 to 30 days, depending on service level
Message data: 1 to 7 days (custom retention periods available for contract customers)
Yes. Mailgun accounts can have multiple users. Contract customers can also set up subaccounts, each with multiple users, under a primary account.
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Last updated: October 2025.
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