ImprovMX vs. Mailgun

Mailgun offers a suite of email products with a focus on email sending and tracking, with email forwarding as a side feature. ImprovMX focuses on a first-class email forwarding experience with better pricing, friendlier support, and a simpler product surface area.

You'd generally pick Mailgun if you prefer a more enterprise offering or need advanced email sending. And you'd prefer ImprovMX if you want a smaller more customer-focused company with a simpler experience focused around forwarding.

Feature
ImprovMX
Mailgun
Pricing
Affordable transparent pricing
More expensive, no transparent forwarding pricing
Customer Support
Human & AI Chatbot, but reputation for poor service
Forwarding Logic
Routes, wildcards, webhooks
Deliverability
Deliverability is our business model
Issues with deliverability[2]
Email Send API
Has SMTP sending, but a send API is in progress
Mailgun offers a full REST sending API
Email Tracking
No open or click tracking
Full email engagement tracking
Simplicity
Simple laser-focused UI for email forwarding
Large product surface area can be confusing
Scalability/Limits
Transparent limits. Talk to us for uncapped limits
Scales initially, but has hard upper limits[3]
Ownership
A sustainable profitable bootstrapped company
Acquired by Sinch, service has gone downhill since[1]
Compliance
SOC I & II, HIPAA, ISO27001, and GDPR compliant

[1] Customers often come to us complaining that Mailgun suddenly disabled their service, or had hard limits on numbers of domains/aliases.

[2] Mailgun has a reputation for sending spam, with customers often complaining about deliverability on Reddit.

[3] Mailgun has a reputation for hard limits on numbers of forwarding domains, and they're unwilling to lift them for you.

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