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title: "PAYG Alternative to Mailgun"
description: "Discover AhaSend's Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG, Usage-based) alternative to MailGun Flex Plan for fast, reliable email delivery: at 0.5$ / 1,000 emails with better deliverabiltiy, and advanced features like real-time tracking, email routing, and domain protection. Perfect for e-commerce, SaaS, and more."
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published: 2025-12-07
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# PAYG Alternative to Mailgun

**Your Mailgun Flex Alternative**

Discover the ideal Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) alternative to the Mailgun Flex Plan with AhaSend. Start sending up to 1000 emails free each month, and scale effortlessly with our flexible pricing at just $0.50 (€0.45 / £0.40) per 1000 emails. Enjoy fast, reliable delivery and advanced features tailored for transactional email success.

- [Start For Free](https://dash.ahasend.com/user/register)
- [Pricing](https://ahasend.com/pricing)

## Fair and simple usage-based pricing

Usage-based, Pay As You Go (PAYG) Pricing plan, so that you only pay for what you use.

- Free for the first 1000 emails / month
- $10 (€9 / £8) / month for 25,000 emails included
- Pay-as-you-go pricing (volume discounts apply)

[Start For Free](https://dash.ahasend.com/user/register)

### Features

Thoughtfully crafted for sending transactional emails at any scale

- Unlimited domains
- Unlimited team members
- Unlimited webhooks
- Unlimited message routes
- RESTful APIs & SMTP relay
- Open and click tracking
- Customizable retention policies (up to 30 days)
- Automated bounce and blocklist management
- Automated SPAM monitoring
- Priority support

## Compare our prices

_Prices are shown in USD, EUR and GBP. Your account is billed in the currency matching your location._

Estimated monthly cost at several sending volumes:

### USD

| Emails per month | AhaSend | Mailgun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 10,000 | $10.00 | $15.00 |
| 50,000 | $22.50 | $35.00 |
| 100,000 | $47.50 | $75.00 |
| 500,000 | $247.50 | $400.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $497.50 | $700.00 |

### EUR

| Emails per month | AhaSend | Mailgun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 10,000 | €9.00 | €14.00 |
| 50,000 | €20.25 | €32.00 |
| 100,000 | €42.75 | €69.00 |
| 500,000 | €222.75 | €363.00 |
| 1,000,000 | €447.75 | €636.00 |

### GBP

| Emails per month | AhaSend | Mailgun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 10,000 | £8.00 | £12.00 |
| 50,000 | £18.00 | £28.00 |
| 100,000 | £38.00 | £60.00 |
| 500,000 | £198.00 | £320.00 |
| 1,000,000 | £398.00 | £560.00 |

_\* Based on publicly available pricing information for plans with features similar to AhaSend._

## How AhaSend Features Compare to Mailgun

AhaSend offers a specialized focus on fast, reliable transactional email delivery. With advanced features like pay-as-you-go pricing, customizable data retention, and robust webhooks, AhaSend provides everything you need to streamline email management and boost deliverability, making it a powerful alternative to Mailgun.

### Pricing

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free Plan | 1000 emails / month | 100 emails / day |
| PAYG Pricing | Yes | No |
| Pricing for 25,000 emails | $10 (€9 / £8) | $35 (€32 / £28) |

### Email Capabilities

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Supports marketing emails | No | Yes |
| Optimized for fast transactional email delivery | Yes | No |
| Email API | Yes | Yes |
| SMTP relay | Yes | Yes |
| Suppression management | Yes | Yes |

### Integrations and APIs

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Webhooks | Unlimited webhooks | Yes |
| Inbound Routing | Unlimited routes | Yes |
| CLI app | Yes | No |
| Management API | Yes | Yes |
| Scoped API Keys (Control API access with domain restrictions and granular permissions for enhanced security) | yes | Available from $35 (€32 / £28)/mo plan (Foundation) |

### Data Retention

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Log retention (Configure delivery log retention period from 1 day to 30 days.) | 1 to 30 days ((customizable)) | 5 days |
| Message retention (Choose how long message data should be retained on AhaSend (if at all) to a maximum of 30 days.) | 0 to 30 days ((customizable)) | 1 day |
| Message and log retention on your S3 buckets (Is 30 days retention not enough? Easily retain your delivery logs and messages to any S3-compatible object storage of your choice.) | Yes | No |

### Analytics

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Link and Open Tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Deliverability Analytics (Aggregate delivery reports, Average delivery times, Bounce Categorization chart, Email Status chart, and more!) | Yes | Yes |
| DSN Reports (Generate RFC 3464 formatted bounce reports for enterprise compliance and monitoring) | Available on Max plan | no |

### Domain Management

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Domain Authentication (Safeguard your emails and domain reputation using SPF, DMARC, DKIM, Return-Path and MX DNS records.) | Yes | Yes |
| Automated DNS setup (AhaSend will automatically and accurately set up your Domain Authentication DNS records in seconds, no need for dealing with DNS records manually!) | Yes | No |
| DNS Whitelabel (Replace AhaSend’s domain with your own branded domain across all DNS records, providing a completely white-labeled email infrastructure for your customers.) | Yes | Yes |
| Custom subdomains (Personalize your return-path, tracking, subscription (unsubscribe pages), and media subdomains.) | Yes | No |
| Sending Domains (The amount of Sending Domains you can add to your account) | 3 (Free) · Unlimited (Paid) | 1 (Free) · 1 - Unlimited (Paid) |

### Scaling

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Multi-user access | Yes | Yes |
| Sub accounts (per-tenant isolation) | Yes | Yes |
| Dedicated IPs | Free ((for senders with 300k+ emails per month)) | $59/IP/month |
| Dedicated IP pools (Dedicated IP pools allow large senders to utilize multiple dedicated IPs with different sending ratios, for different kinds of emails.) | Included with Max Plan | No |
| Bring Your Own IP (We handle the platform, queuing, and management - you provide and control the actual sending server with your own IP addresses. This gives you full IP reputation control while leveraging our infrastructure.) | Yes | No |
| Deliverability Consultation | Included with Max Plan | No |

### Security

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TempMail protection (Protect your systems from registrations with temporary email addresses.) | Yes ((optional)) | No |
| Typo protection (Prevent TypoSquatting attacks by rejecting emails sent to recipients with typos in their email address domain (e.g. @gmil.com instead of @gmail.com)) | Yes ((optional)) | No |
| Toxic recipient protection (Prevent bad actors from signing up on your platform using email addresses from toxic domains) | Yes ((optional)) | No |
| Reputation Shield (Protect your sender reputation by automatically filtering toxic domains, temporary emails, and typo-squatted addresses.) | Yes | No |
| Two-Factor Authentication (Account security with time-based one-time passwords) | Yes | Yes |
| Single Sign-On (Enable team login through your organization’s identity provider with OpenID Connect SSO.) | Available from $80 (€72 / £65)/mo plan (Max) | Available from $90 (€82 / £72)/mo plan (Scale) |
| Automatic DKIM Key Rotation (We automatically rotate DKIM keys, enhancing security.) | Yes | Yes |
| IP Allow List (Restrict API keys to specific source IPs (IPv4/IPv6 or CIDR), so a leaked key is useless from an address you haven't authorized.) | Yes ((included in all plans)) | Yes |

### Compliance

| Feature | AhaSend | MailGun |
| --- | --- | --- |
| European hosting & ownership | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR DPA | Yes (signable) | yes |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |

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### Achieve Better Deliverability with AhaSend

AhaSend is optimized for transactional emails, offering faster and more reliable delivery than Mailgun. With millions of emails sent monthly, we ensure industry-leading delivery speeds and enhanced inbox placement.

- Proven experience delivering millions of emails monthly
- Enhanced delivery speeds tailored for transactional emails
- Dedicated to fast and reliable transactional email delivery

### Gain Insight with Advanced Reporting

AhaSend provides in-depth email reporting to help you optimize your campaigns. Unlike Mailgun, our reports include detailed tracking for delivery times, bounce reasons, and overall performance, so you have the data you need to maximize email effectiveness

- Analyze delivery times and status updates
- Detailed bounce reasons for improved performance
- Actionable insights to enhance your email strategy

### Monitor Email Events in Real-Time with Webhooks

AhaSend offers comprehensive webhook support for real-time email event notifications, keeping you informed on every step of your email’s journey. Our webhooks ensure you can easily track and respond to key events like delivery, bounces, and opens.

- Instant notifications for email delivery events
- Track events such as queued, delivered, bounced, and more
- Easily integrate webhooks into your applications

### Integrate Incoming Emails Seamlessly

AhaSend’s Email Routing feature simplifies the process of directing incoming emails to your applications. By parsing and forwarding messages based on custom rules, AhaSend enables smoother app integration, making it a streamlined alternative to Mailgun for handling inbound email traffic.

- Automatically parse and direct incoming emails
- Integrate emails directly into your application workflows
- Separate the latest reply from the rest of the email content for precise handling

### Protect Your Domain’s Reputation

AhaSend helps you maintain a strong sending reputation through automated DNS configuration and continuous monitoring. Our tools are specifically designed to prevent common errors that could harm deliverability, ensuring your domain is optimized for successful email campaigns.

- Automated DNS configuration for quick, accurate setup
- Enforce best practices for DNS setup to boost deliverability
- Continuous monitoring of domain and DNS health status

### Protect Your Email and Application with Advanced Security

AhaSend prioritizes data security with customizable retention policies and proactive measures to block risky domains. Compared to Mailgun, our approach offers greater flexibility in managing sensitive data and robust safeguards against threats like typo-squatting and temporary email services.

- Set data retention periods to match your compliance needs
- Block emails to temporary and suspicious domains automatically
- Prevent typo-squatting attacks by filtering domains with typos

## Boost Your Transactional Email Delivery Performance

- [Get Started Free](https://dash.ahasend.com/user/register)
- [Pricing](https://ahasend.com/pricing)