Is it just me or is it odd that after the free tier sending an e-mail is almost as much as letter postage?
Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
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Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#22Is it just me or is it odd that after the free tier sending an e-mail is almost as much as letter postage?
huh?
$.50 per 1000 is... nowhere near letter postage.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#23Is it just me or is it odd that after the free tier sending an e-mail is almost as much as letter postage?
Sending /1000/ emails is almost as much as letter postage.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#24Great 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…
To be fair, they only spin down people on the free tier, where you can't save over $0.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#25This is awesome! I've been meaning to use mailgun for some small personal projects, but didn't want to pay to use my own domain. That's the biggest advantage of the change for me.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#26Our 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.
Love it! I ran into the (free) limits recently during a one-off email blast as part of a new feature rollout. The limit caused a lot of emails to fail.... but MailGun's customer service rectified it in like 5 minutes (at like 2am on a Saturday). Very impressive!
Any idea when the Heroku plans will reflect the pricing changes...?
EDIT: From the article, old plans may be granfathered (if desired)...? If so, how do we switch to new pro-rated on Heroku? Just downgrade the addon?
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#27I don't under the pricing table. It shows: Emails Price / 1,000 Total Price 0 - 10,000 Free Next 500,000 $0.50 Next 1,000,000 $0.35 Next 5,000,000 $0.15 Any Additional $0.10 Does that mean emails 10,001-510,000 cost $0.50 per thousand and then emails 510,000-1,510,000 cost $0.35 per thousand?
Yes, that seems to be what it means. In general, heavy users get better marginal prices, but there's a "free sample" amount for very light users.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#28These price changes make Mailgun much more expensive than Mandrill (especially for dedicated IPs).
Mandrill also has inbound now, so I don't see the point of choosing Mailgun over Mandrill.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#29This 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 tha…
The same thing happened to me with SendGrid. I gave them the essay they asked for, just to see whether they'd ask for anything even more ridiculous. Thankfully they didn't, and they unlocked my account so quickly I suspect they didn't even read my intentionally extremely verbose reply. My best guess is that the essay request serves as a CAPTCHA.
Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
#30While reading the new pricing structure, I realized that the Mailboxes feature [1] (allowing programmatic creation of mailboxes via the API) is deprecated. That's too bad; it was the reason I started using Mailgun in the first place. Is anyone aware of an alternate service that offers this feature, short of managing my own mail server?
1: http://documentation.mailgun.com/quickstart.html#using-mailb...