I just got an email from Mailgun stating they will be raising their prices on the Flex plan starting Dec. 1st, 2025.
Short version, the price is going from $1.00 USD per 1,000 messages to $2.00 USD per 1,000 messages.
Details below:
Just a heads up as this affects everybody who hasn’t hacked together an alternative way to send out their newsletters via some other provider.
Thanks. Upping my budget from $1.50/month to $3/month. No, I don’t have many subscribers 
Are there alternatives out there for newsletters? I was always told for internal mail we can use other mail servers but for newsletters specifically it has to be mailgun. Either way I’d be happy to, even if it’s a paid alternative as long as we can keep costs down in the long run.
You can have a webhook send newsletter content to n8n and then disburse it that way via SMTP selfhosted on Mailcow or something.
Or get hosting where they split the cost of Mailgun with others if costs worry you. Could be cheaper in the long run. Ghost Pro does well with this and Mailgun.
I don’t think there is a US based approach similar to Magic Pages. I already host Flarum sites for people, maybe I can do the same approach as Magic Pages for US based customers.
Providing bulk mailing service is challenging. Most people thinks that “it’s just sending emails”. But that’s not true. Considerable amount of people uses bulk mailing services for spamming. It’s very common. And cost of sending spam for a provider is losing an IP address forever, losing deliverability reputation or even shutting down the service…
You need either huge infrastructure to spread the mail traffic and reduce the risk of blocking your IPs, or you will just use another -cheaper- service and resell it. But all of the good quality services are very strict about spam protections. If the customers you give service do spam, AWS or Mailgun, or SendGrid, whatever, doesn’t care about your tears, just block your whole account. On AWS, even there is a quota to send in the beginning that you increase in time by good deliverability score.
So, I don’t support Mailgun’s pricing, but I just wanted to mention this -important- detail.
