Mailgun vs Wraps

Mailgunis a developer-focused email API that's been around since 2010. API-first, battle-tested, with SDKs in six languages and a mature inbound parsing pipeline. Everything runs on their infrastructure.

Wraps deploys email infrastructure directly to your AWS account. Same API-first approach, but you own the infrastructure and pay AWS directly.

Both platforms deliver email reliably. The difference is who owns the infrastructure -- and who can take it away.

TL;DR

Sound familiar?

Real quotes from Mailgun users on Trustpilot, G2, and developer forums.

With Wraps, your infrastructure runs in your AWS account. No third party can suspend your sending, HIPAA compliance is available on any plan via your own AWS BAA, and your logs live in your DynamoDB with configurable retention.

The architectural difference

Mailgun is a hosted email relay -- your messages route through their infrastructure. Wraps deploys email infrastructure into your own AWS account.

Pricing at real volumes

Mailgun's Flex plan charges $0.80/1K after 100 emails/day (~3K/mo). Foundation is $35/mo for 50K emails then $1/1K overage. Wraps charges a platform fee separately -- you pay AWS directly at $0.10/1K emails.

Feature comparison

When to choose Mailgun

Mailgun is a battle-tested platform. Here's when it makes more sense.

When to choose Wraps

Wraps is built for teams that want modern DX with infrastructure ownership.

Switching from Mailgun

Mailgun uses its own SDK with a domain-centric API. Wraps uses a similar send signature with native React Email support. The migration is an SDK swap, DNS update, and one CLI command to deploy infrastructure.

import FormData from "form-data";import Mailgun from "mailgun.js";const mailgun = new Mailgun(FormData);const mg = mailgun.client({  username: "api",  key: process.env.MAILGUN_API_KEY,});await mg.messages.create("mg.example.com", {  from: "hello@example.com",  to: ["user@example.com"],  subject: "Welcome",  html: "<h1>Welcome to the app</h1>",});

import { Wraps } from "@wraps.dev/email";const wraps = new Wraps();await wraps.emails.send({  from: "hello@example.com",  to: "user@example.com",  subject: "Welcome",  react: <WelcomeEmail />,});

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