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APIVerified~160ms avg

Mailgun API

Email delivery, validation, and routing for developers.

Install
npm install mailgun.js

About

Mailgun provides email delivery, validation, and routing APIs. Send transactional and bulk emails, validate email addresses, manage mailing lists, and configure inbound routing rules. 80K weekly downloads. Good balance of features and pricing for mid-scale email operations with strong deliverability tracking.

Tags

mailgunemailvalidationrouting

Score Breakdown

CLI Score Breakdown8/11
✓Official SDK on npm/pip+2
✓Env var authentication (no browser OAuth)+2
✓Works in headless/CI environments+2
✗CLI tool available0
✓JSON response for piping/parsing+1
✓Docs have curl/CLI examples+1
✗Reasonable rate limits for scripted use0
✗Machine-readable pricing (md/JSON/static)0
Quality Score Breakdown
npm weekly downloads80k
GitHub stars400
Days since last release20d
Issue close ratio71%
TypeScript typesYes
Docs qualitygood
Breaking changesrare

Performance

Latencyus-east-1 - 2026-03-26
p50
130ms
avg
160ms
p95
390ms

Scores

CLI
8
Quality
7
AuthorSinch
Weekly installs80,000
Last updated3/12/2026
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