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title: "Telnyx vs. Mailgun: Best Email API Alternative"
canonical: https://telnyx.com/the-best-mailgun-alternative
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# Telnyx vs. Mailgun: Best Email API Alternative

# The Best Mailgun Alternative for Email API

One email API. Used for every channel. Easy integration to AI agents.

Mailgun is a mature email platform inside Sinch, but it runs on a separate API surface. Telnyx puts Email, SMS, Voice, WhatsApp and AI inference on one platform. Teams can use Telnyx agent skills to build in minutes and connect one communications API to AI inference so agents can send, respond, and escalate across channels.

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## Mailgun vs Telnyx

### Pricing model

## Telnyx

Pay-as-you-go, no subscription. 10K=$3, 50K=$13.50, 100K=$25, 500K=$100, 1M=$170, 2.5M=$375\. 2.5M+ at $0.15/1K.

## Mailgun

Monthly tiers plus overage. Free: 100/day. Basic $15/10K. Foundation $35/50K. Scale $90/100K. Enterprise custom.

### Platform breadth

### AI integration

### Compliance and security

### Infrastructure ownership

### SDKs, templates and dev tools

## 100K emails costs $25 on Telnyx vs $90 on Mailgun.

Mailgun uses Basic, Foundation, Scale and Enterprise tiers with overage pricing. Telnyx stays pay-as-you-go at every volume with no subscription. 100K emails is $25 on Telnyx vs $90/mo on Mailgun Scale. Free email validation included on every account.

[SEE PRICING](https://telnyx.com/pricing/email-api)

$0.00015per email for 1M+ emails per month

DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

## Migrate from Mailgun in minutes

Same REST pattern. Suppression list auto-import from Mailgun format. Template migration to Liquid syntax. Shared domain for instant testing before you switch DNS.

[READ THE DOCS](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/messaging/email/migrate-to-telnyx/index#migrate-to-telnyx-email)

cURL

```
curl -X POST https://api.telnyx.com/v2/email_messages \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "from": {"email": "[email protected]", "name": "Acme"},
    "to": [{"email": "[email protected]", "name": "Ada"}],
    "subject": "Welcome to Acme",
    "html_body": "<h1>Welcome, Ada!</h1>"
  }'
```

Node.js

```
import Telnyx from 'telnyx';

const client = new Telnyx({ apiKey: process.env.TELNYX_API_KEY });

await client.emailMessages.create({
  from: '[email protected]',
  to: ['[email protected]'],
  subject: 'Welcome',
  html_body: '<h1>Welcome!</h1>'
});
```

Python

```
import os
from telnyx import Telnyx

client = Telnyx(api_key=os.environ["TELNYX_API_KEY"])

client.email_messages.create(
    from_="[email protected]",
    to=["[email protected]"],
    subject="Welcome",
    html_body="<h1>Welcome!</h1>"
)
```

cURLNode.jsPython

## Ready to switch from Mailgun?

Start sending email on the same platform as SMS, voice, WhatsApp, and AI. No subscription, no minimum.

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