Compare SparkPost and Mailgun - Jul 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Jul 29, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - SparkPost or Mailgun?

SparkPost is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Mailgun, and Mailgun is rated higher (84/100) than SparkPost (81/100).

Looking for the right Email Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Message System Vs. Mailgun Technologies, Inc.

Message System: Message Systems is the world’s #1 email infrastructure provider. Collectively, Message Systems' customers, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon, Salesforce, Marketo, Oracle, Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T and American Express, move over 3 trillion messages a year — more than 25 percent of the world's legitimate email. These prestigious compan...

Mailgun Technologies, Inc.: Powerful APIs that enable you to send, receive and track email effortlessly.Easy SMTP integration and a simple, RESTful API abstracts away the messy details of sending transactional or bulk email. Scale quickly, whether you need to send 10 or 10 million emails.

Who is more expensive? SparkPost or Mailgun?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Email Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for SparkPost and Mailgun.

SparkPost price starts at $30 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 SparkPost is rated 6, which is similar to the average cost of Email Management software. Mailgun price starts at $35 per month , When comparing Mailgun to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Email Management software cost.

Bottom line: SparkPost is more expensive than Mailgun.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared SparkPost Vs. Mailgun based on some of the most important and required Email Management features.

SparkPost: We are still working to collect the list of features for SparkPost.

Mailgun: We are still working to collect the list of features for Mailgun.

Target customer size

SparkPost's typical customers include: Small, medium and large size businesses, The typical users of Mailgun belongs to the small (with about 10 to 100 employees) and/or medium-sized (with about 100 to 1,000 employees) businesses and large enterprises that fully utilizes the benefits offered from the IT, web and data hosting and other related information services sector, main with the business communication and Voice over IP/VoIP.



SparkPost

ITQlick rating
(4.5/5)

starts at $30 per month

SparkPost is a fast growing cloud-based Marketing software, it is designed to support small, medium and large size business. SparkPost received a rating of 4.5 from ITQlick team. The software cost is considered...

Categories: Data Analysis Tools, Dashboards & KPIs, Systems Integration , Marketing.

Mailgun

ITQlick rating
(3.9/5)

starts at $35 per month

The Mailgun is an email automation software offering users with cloud-based email servicing.

Categories: Communications, VoIP, Email Marketing, Email.

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SparkPost: 0 Features

We are working to collect the list of features

Mailgun: 0 Features

We are working to collect the information
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
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SparkPost
ITQlick rating
4.5/5
Score
81/100
Pricing
6.6/10
License pricing
$30 per month
Functionality
5
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Mailgun
ITQlick rating
3.9/5
Score
84/100
Pricing
4.4/10
License pricing
$35 per month
Functionality
4
eM Clien...
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
90/100
Pricing
2.6/10
License pricing
$24.95 per license
Functionality
6
Mailbird
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
89/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$2.27 per month
Functionality
3
Zoho Mai...
ITQlick rating
3.6/5
Score
87/100
Pricing
3.2/10
License pricing
$1 per user/month
Functionality
3

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.