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Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) vs. Sinch Mailgun

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AMailchimp Transactional Email (formerly Mandrill) is designed to allow users to deliver fast, personalized transactional emails using API or SMTP.

    $0

    per month

    Sinch Mailgun

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMailgun is a transactional email API service which was owned and supported by Rackspace (acquired in 2012) and then spun off in 2017 as an independent and standalone entity. It is now supported by Sinch since that company's acquisition of Mailgun and Mailjet, through acquiring Pathwire.

    $35

    per month

    Pricing
    Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)Sinch Mailgun
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    per month
    Essentials
    $13
    per month
    Standard
    $20
    per month
    Premium
    $350
    per month
    Foundation
    $35
    per month
    Growth
    $80
    per month
    Scale
    $90
    per month
    Flex
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)Sinch Mailgun
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)Sinch Mailgun
    Considered Both Products
    Intuit
    Chose Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
    What I like better about Mandrill than Mailgun is that Mandrill has integrated Template management. You can issue an email to be sent with a template and submit merge variables along with the email data. Doing this with Mailgun means you have to roll your own template …
    Incentivized
    Chose Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
    Sendgrid offers a lot of the same features as Mandrill, but goes a lot further in helping you achieve maximum deliverability for your e-mails. They have a respectable free tier for sending as well as receiving emails, and their paid tiers are very reasonably priced.

    I don't have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
    We were already using Mailchimp email marketing product and then while exploring different solutions, we went ahead with Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) only considering our requirements which has mix of reliability and pricing. Few things that stand out with Mailchimp …
    Incentivized
    Chose Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
    They're both fairly comparable, though MailChimp made you jump through a few more hoops to use the service, though these were put in place to maintain server integrity in order to reduce bounce rates. I haven't seen a difference, so this was really more of a pain point than …
    Incentivized
    Sinch (formerly CLX Communications)
    Chose Sinch Mailgun
    Mailgun has better reporting and the pricing is clearer.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sinch Mailgun
    They have a great free tier for up to some amount of emails a month. Looks attractive when you are a new startup, but once you have customers and they go down, not so much.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sinch Mailgun
    Amongst the various transactional email vendors (Mandrill by MailChimp, SendGrid's transactional email product, Mailjet, etc.) they are all relatively similar. Mailgun stands out in that it has one of the more generous free tiers and therefore is a strong choice for small …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sinch Mailgun
    I've tried SES. It had spotty deliverability and AWS has fiddly docs and apis. I tried a few others and while some worked well, they had neither the exposure or maturity to make me confident in using them in a production app. Out of all the products that I have tried that offer …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sinch Mailgun
    We went with Mailgun because they had fantastic APIs and libraries (Ruby in our case) and because their pricing was among the best of all services that we evaluated.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)Sinch Mailgun
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    8.4
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.7
    (2 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)