When comparing Mailgun vs SendPulse, the Slant community recommends Mailgun for most people. In the question“What are the best transactional email services?” Mailgun is ranked 1st while SendPulse is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Mailgun is:
Mailgun is included and configured by default in Meteor.js. So for projects which are built using Meteor, it's very easy to integrate Mailgun.
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Pros
Pro Integrates by default with Meteor.js
Mailgun is included and configured by default in Meteor.js. So for projects which are built using Meteor, it's very easy to integrate Mailgun.
Pro Developer-focused
Mailgun has a RESTful API with libraries and code examples in curl, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go.
Pro Reporting
Detailed reporting on all opens and clicks
Pro A large free plan for startups
Sendpulse offers a free plan of up to 25000 subscribers and unlimited emails or a dedicated IP address which sends up to 100000 emails a month for startups as long as they accept to insert the SendPulse logo in each of their emails.
Cons
Con Sub-par support
It has been reported several times that Mailgun's support is not excellent. Most of the time, they require a lot of time to respond to questions or support queries.