# Mailgun vs Resend for Next.js

Both are email batteries. A repo takes one of them, not both.

| | Mailgun | Resend |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | Transactional email through Mailgun, behind one provider-agnostic send function. React Email templates are rendered to HTML before sending. Suppression lists are read straight from Mailgun's own API. Mail routes to the EU or US region, and the event webhook is signature-verified. | Transactional email through Resend, behind one provider-agnostic send function. React Email templates cover sign-in links, password resets, email checks, welcome and receipts. Every transactional send carries an idempotency key. A bounce webhook stops you mailing an address that no longer exists. |
| Pricing | Free plan: 100 emails a day and 1 custom domain. Basic starts at $15/month for 10,000 emails. Foundation is $35/month for 50,000 and Scale $90/month for 100,000. Logs are kept 1 day on Free and Basic, 5 days on Foundation and 30 days on Scale. | Free: 3,000 emails a month (100 a day) on up to 3 domains. Pro is $20/month for 50,000 emails and 10 domains. Every self-serve plan keeps 30 days of data. Dedicated IPs are a $30/month add-on on Scale. |
| Best for | Teams that need EU data residency, or want suppression and analytics held by the provider instead of their own database. Also teams sending enough volume to care about dedicated IPs and warm-up support. And the pragmatic choice when an existing system already speaks Mailgun. | Product teams sending transactional mail: magic links, receipts, notifications. Templates are React components, reviewed in a pull request, not pasted into a vendor's WYSIWYG editor. |

- [Build with Mailgun](https://agenticboilerplate.com/build?b=mailgun)
- [Build with Resend](https://agenticboilerplate.com/build?b=resend)

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