Mailgun is changing their pricing structure: no more 10K free emails
A lot of here use Mailgun to send up to 10K emails a month for free. That limit is now changing to 625 free emails per month.
Additionally, if you are someone that has been using their inbound routes feature to route your business email from a custom domain over to your personal domain, that is also becoming part of their Foundation plan at $35/month.
These changes take effect March 1, 2020.
I personally have not received this email yet, but it was posted to HN earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22192543
Hey Indie Hackers
Try this as your alternative, it’s from a fellow Indie Hacker (me)
I have made a handy comparison page, that can help you with your decision:
Mailgun alternative (compare)
Mailgun routes alternative (how-to)
Give Kingmailer a try.
If it helps for any of those that are getting pushed to paid pricing, EmailOut.com still offers 12,500 free sends every month.
What?! Hope this doesn't affect the old accounts
Hmmm, you have any suggestions for an alternative?
Twilio / Sengrid for Startups plan is 300K monthly emails free for 12 months....
www.sengrid.com/accelerate
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcc7bGIqosjJ-vWdSi4iFW2oQ_lcCQh9JXNpREXPCkFBssRw/formResponse
Oh nice! Thank you
If all you use Mailgun for is sending email, their flex pay-as-you-go plan might still work well for you. 10K emails will be $8. At that same price point Postmark is $10.
If you're on EC2, SES is $0 for 62K emails. Otherwise $10 for 10K emails. Their deliverability is not great.
I really really wish Mailgun had a $10 plan for small founders. The 50K email tier is too big for me, and wasteful.
Unsure what to do about the incoming email routing.
FYI SES pricing is mentioned wrong it is $1 for 10K.
Thanks
Could you elaborate on SES deliverability? Does it apply if you have all the bells and whistles configured (think DKIM, etc)?
I find that thanks to the noisy neighbor problem a lot of my emails used to end up in spam even with spf/dkim/dmarc configured. I don’t know if they’ve fixed that recently, but it left a really bad taste in my mouth.
Cant talk about SES specifically since don't use it..... but an entire Amazon network IP range recently hit UCEPROTECTL3 spam blacklist due to too many spammers on amazon IPs.
I would "guess" that Amazon are smart enough to have SES on a separated network range to EC2 but not quite sure.
My mail server was on EC2 with SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc setup but got blacklisted and all emails to hotmail/outlook failed until I took steps to resolve. All through 3rd party actions and no fault of our own.
That said I learnt years ago to separate main domain, web server domains and mail server domains to reduce this risk.
Not had any good experiences with mailgun in a long time though, moved away after the worst deliverability issues have experienced.