Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
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Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
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Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#2Our most popular feedback to date is to eliminate minimums and get rid of feature gating in plans. So, here you go.
As always, open to feedback.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#3Aside from the cringeworthy meme thing, the pricing seems really, really nice :D.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#4This is awesome. Aside from the fact that my bill will be cut in half, I hate plans. Plans are just one more thing to monitor (make sure you don't go over your totally arbitrary limit!), and they generally lead to weird inequity.
For example, I've been adding ~75 people per day to my MailChimp list and the price stayed the same. Then one day it went from $75 to $150. Adding thousands of subscribers was completely free, and then adding one subscriber cost $75/month. That just doesn't make any sense to me.
Related anecdote: My company doesn't have plans (most in the industry do) and customers tell me all the time how much they prefer our approach. There may be selection bias going on, but I have tons of feedback supporting my decision to avoid plans.
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#5The old pricing was fine with me. Now I worry you will go out of business or get swamped with support requests from people who haven't paid anything. But whatever works for you, I guess.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#6Great job on this. What I really like about this type of pricing is that it puts the complex cost calculation onto your side instead of the customer. I use a ton of products, Heroku services being an example where I have to try to guess at usage. Literally every day I have an internal conversation with myself that says, "Do you need to go into Heroku and turn down the Database tier you're on because the service isn't using the capacity that you're paying for? Wait, but you might get a traffic surge and the site will go down if you decrease the capacity."
This seems like for me, the ideal case. Automatically scaling down all the way to $0 so I never have to think about unsubscribing if I stop using it.
I was actually discussing with a friend that it seems like there could be a big opportunity in the cloud server space to have a zero scale server where you only pay for time that it is being used. I believe Heroku already does spin down instances that aren't needed behind the scenes, they just don't give you the cost savings. They keep it.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#7This seems to be closer to how Mandrill works, and it's exactly what got me to sign up for them only a few days ago. I knew about Mailgun and Sendgrid before, and started looking into them first but their pricing tiers turned me off and got me to keep searching until I found Mandrill.
My app is very small, just bootstrapping without any funding so I'm trying to be very careful how I spend my money. At first I see that Mailgun's minimum was $19/month while Sendgrid's silver plan is $10/month. Easy, Sendgrid wins.
Oops, I want to support inbound email though. Sendgrid will give you that on the trial plan, but not on the $10 silver plan. Suddenly I'm up to $80/month to use Sendgrid. Mailgun wins here.
But before I even noticed that I had already signed up for Sendgrid (believing I'd be paying $10/month), but had to wait like 5 hours and then I received some email from them basically demanding that I tell them what my app is, why I need email, what is the purpose of me sending email. Maybe it's for market research, but it didn't come across that way. It came across as "we assume you're a dirty spammer". Of course if I was a spammer I'd just give them so BS answer, I wouldn't admit it. I can't say call a winner, only a lower: Sendgrid. Mandrill and SES both treat you like you expect; you sign up, they cap you at ~250 emails/day for a bit and then you're fine. Sendgrid fail.
Anyway, then my friend points me over to Mandrill and I sign up. The pricing model fit us well.. up to 12k emails free, then $0.20/thousand after that. In the state my app is right now I probably won't go over 12k for another few months, and once I do go over that limit I'm not going to find myself jumping suddenly to something like $80/month.
If I had been setting this all up just a week later (that is, now) I'd probably be on Mailgun due to this new pricing model.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#8Our most popular feedback to date is to eliminate minimums and get rid of feature gating in plans. So, here you go. As always, open to feedback.
Before if you had a 59 US $ plan (dedicated IP), the cost was 0.59/thousand, so you could send 118k emails.
With the new plan, for 59 US$ you get the dedicated IP and 10k emails. Sending 118k emails with a dedicated IP would cost 113 US$
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#9I started looking at http://yclist.com/ and realized that many companies I often see listed on the front page here are actually YC companies, but not marked as such.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#10I started looking at http://yclist.com/ and realized that many companies I often see listed on the front page here are actually YC companies, but not marked as such.
Mailgun is now owned by Rackspace, so I don't think it's still considered an active member of the YC family.