# Alternatives to Mailgun **URL:** \ **Category:** Integrations & API\ **Created:** [February 7, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129 "2023-02-07T00:33:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jadds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jadds](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jadds)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/1 "2023-02-07T00:33:10Z")
Looking to see if there are any alternative to using mailgin for newsletter mailing. I have built a ghost site on free infrastructure as much as possible and I am a bit shocked at the pricing for mailgun ($35 a month!) unless I am not reading it correctly. I wont be sending anything like the 5000 emails per month. At least not until I have a good subscription base. Simply, is mailgun the only solution for sending newsletter emails from ghost? ---
**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/2 "2023-02-07T01:31:03Z")
Mailgun has an unadvertised flex plan. Search the forums. You can still get it. ---
**Author:** ![jadds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jadds](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jadds)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/3 "2023-02-07T03:00:00Z")
Thanks Cathy! Appreciate the guidance. Do you mean search the mailgin forums or the Ghost forums? ---
**Author:** ![mjw](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mjw/32/30781_2.png) [@mjw](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mjw)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/4 "2023-02-07T09:21:22Z")
Search this forum for the same question, and the solution. ---
**Author:** ![jadds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jadds](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jadds)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/5 "2023-02-07T21:11:40Z")
Thank you. Found the solution. Bit of a palaver to get onto the flex plan 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![peterwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@peterwo](https://forum.ghost.org/u/peterwo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/6 "2023-02-13T10:40:55Z")
I use Sendgrid - I found it is much better than Mailgun if you only send a few emails a day. ---
**Author:** ![mjw](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mjw/32/30781_2.png) [@mjw](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mjw)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/7 "2023-02-13T13:25:19Z")
How do you use Sendgrid with Ghost? Moreover, what limitations are there? You mention a “few emails a day”, but this isn’t an issue with the Mailgun Flex account since this includes a free quota each month. ---
**Author:** ![peterwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@peterwo](https://forum.ghost.org/u/peterwo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/8 "2023-02-13T13:35:21Z")
Sendgrid also has a SMTP relay - you can simply enter the SMTP information in the Ghost config file. Sendgrid free plan is 100 email a day (transactional email), and 2000 marketing email per month. ---
**Author:** ![mjw](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mjw/32/30781_2.png) [@mjw](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mjw)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/9 "2023-02-13T13:40:44Z")
> [@peterwo](#): > > Sendgrid also has a SMTP relay SMTP shouldn’t be used for bulk mail. Moreover, Mailgun also provides an SMTP relay for transactional mail. But you haven’t answered my question: how do you use Sendgrid with Ghost to send newsletters given there is no native integration? ---
**Author:** ![jadds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jadds](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jadds)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/10 "2023-02-13T20:50:34Z")
Mailgun works fine. Its just a weird process to get onto the flex plan. ---
**Author:** ![itznotabug](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/itznotabug/32/27788_2.png) [@itznotabug](https://forum.ghost.org/u/itznotabug)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/alternatives-to-mailgun/36129/11 "2023-12-09T16:34:52Z")
No intent of spamming or cross-posting but here’s something if someone stumbles up here again in the future - [Ghosler - Newsletters without Mailgun!](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghosler-newsletters-without-mailgun/43262)