Bird vs Mailgun
Bird vs Mailgun para correo transaccional
Deliver transactional emails and marketing broadcasts on sending infrastructure Bird owns and operates, with 30-day message retention, hosted MCP agent tooling, and email, SMS, WhatsApp, and voice in one API.
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Aproximadamente el 40 % del correo comercialCuerpos de mensajes almacenados
Hasta 30 días, con almacenamiento habilitado¿Quién controla la pila de envío?
Mailgun: IPs, enrutamiento y validación
Mailgun provides dedicated IP pools, automated IP warm-up, and Automatic Sender Security to rotate DKIM keys via delegated CNAME records.
Mailgun’s bulk list validation cleans uploaded address lists, while Inbound Routes match incoming mail against filter expressions and forward or store messages. Mailgun fits workflows built around list uploads or regex-based inbound forwarding.
Mailgun Optimize adds inbox-placement testing and blocklist monitoring, with managed Deliverability Services available for enterprise senders.
Bird: infraestructura y reputación
Bird runs its own global sending infrastructure and develops the underlying MTA software, including PowerMTA for on-premises sending. Bird’s SparkPost network delivers roughly 40% of the world’s commercial email.
Manage shared IPs, dedicated IPs, and IP pools with automated warm-up and shared-pool overflow. Bird’s Momentum MTA adapts delivery rates per mailbox provider in real time and automatically suppresses hard bounces and spam complaints to protect your sender reputation.
Check folder placement with Inbox Insights seed tests, inspect delivery metrics in Email analytics, and benchmark rival senders in Competitive Insights, backed by Bird’s deliverability specialists.
¿Cómo se comparan Bird y Mailgun?
Mailgun’s bulk list validation and inbound routing rules suit list-cleaning and forwarding workflows. Bird pairs its global SparkPost sending network with 30-day message retention, programmable agent mailboxes, hosted MCP tooling, and multi-channel messaging in one API.
| Capacidad | Bird | Mailgun | ¿Quién gana? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Envío transaccional API | Bird’s TypeScript SDK accepts JSON payloads, throws typed errors by default, and offers a result-tuple mode for explicit error branching. | Mailgun’s JavaScript SDK and Messages API submit multipart form-data payloads scoped to a sending domain. | |
| Relay SMTP | Bird SMTP supports implicit TLS on port 465 and STARTTLS on ports 587 and 2525, authenticated with your standard workspace API key. | Mailgun SMTP supports implicit TLS on port 465 and STARTTLS on ports 25, 587, and 2525 using per-domain SMTP credentials. | |
| Validación de direcciones de correo | Bird email lookup verifies single addresses in real time, returning a deliverability verdict, confidence score, address risk flags, and typo suggestions. | Mailgun Validate supports both real-time single-address checks and bulk validation of uploaded address lists. | |
| Idempotencia en el envío | Bird retains completed send responses for 3 hours so retried requests with the same key never duplicate an email. | Mailgun’s inbox-placement test key deduplicates seed-list placement tests rather than deduplicating customer email sends. | |
| Retención de mensajes almacenados | Bird stores rendered message bodies for up to 30 days when content storage is enabled. | Mailgun’s published plans include 1 day of message body storage on Foundation and up to 7 days on Scale, tracked separately from event log retention. | |
| Precios publicados | Los planes y tarifas de correo electrónico de Bird se muestran en tiempo real en la tabla de abajo. | Compara el plan seleccionado con las tarifas publicadas de Mailgun, incluyendo su período de facturación y características. | |
| IPs dedicadas y pools | Bird dedicated IPs and pools automate IP warm-up and route excess volume through the shared pool. | Mailgun IP pools group dedicated IPs by stream, while automated warm-up caps stage volume and overflows to shared or sibling IPs. | |
| Herencia en entregabilidad | Bird acquired SparkPost in 2021, and its sending network delivers roughly 40% of the world’s commercial email. | Mailgun’s sending infrastructure runs across US and EU regions selectable from a single account. | |
| SPF, DKIM, DMARC y BIMI | Bird verifies DKIM, custom return-path, and DMARC, with BIMI configured through DNS and your brand logo. | Mailgun Automatic Sender Security rotates DKIM keys automatically, and its sending plans support SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI. | |
| Webhooks de eventos y firma | Bird signs webhook deliveries using Standard Webhooks so your handler can verify authenticity with any compliant library. | Mailgun webhook verification signs a timestamp and token using HMAC-SHA256 with your Webhook Signing Key. | |
| Canales más allá del email | Bird’s API covers email, SMS, WhatsApp, voice, Verify, and Realtime in one workspace. | Mailgun provides an email API, while parent company Sinch offers separate SMS and voice APIs. | |
| Proveedor y contratación | Revisa los términos legales y políticas publicados de Bird en relación con tu acuerdo existente y requisitos de contratación. | Revisa los términos publicados de Mailgun en relación con tu acuerdo existente y requisitos de contratación. | |
| Buzones | Bird’s agent mailboxes provide programmable inboxes, conversation threads, quote-stripped replies, and sender rules. | Mailgun Routes match incoming mail with recipient and header regex filters and trigger forward, store, or stop actions. | |
| Herramientas para agentes | Bird’s hosted MCP server exposes 354 tools, and the Bird CLI manages domains, templates, webhooks, and sends with structured JSON output and semantic exit codes. | Mailgun’s open-source MCP server runs locally to send mail, inspect stored messages, and manage domains, routes, templates, and deliverability without a hosted endpoint. |
¿Cómo envías un email HTML?
Both SDKs send a transactional HTML email in a single call. Mailgun’s client passes the sending domain alongside a multipart message payload, while Bird’s SDK sends JSON and supports both thrown typed errors and result-object branching.
Mailgun
import Mailgun from "mailgun.js";
import formData from "form-data";
const mg = new Mailgun(formData).client({
username: "api",
key: process.env.MAILGUN_API_KEY!,
});
await mg.messages.create("yourdomain.com", {
from: "onboarding@yourdomain.com",
to: ["customer@example.com"],
subject: "Your March invoice",
html: "<p>Attached.</p>",
});
Bird
import { BirdClient } from "@messagebird/sdk";
const bird = new BirdClient({ apiKey: process.env.BIRD_API_KEY! });
const { data, error } = await bird.email
.send({
from: { email: "onboarding@yourdomain.com", name: "Acme" },
to: ["customer@example.com"],
subject: "Your March invoice",
html: "<p>Attached.</p>",
})
.safe();
if (error) console.error(error.message);
else console.log(data.id);
¿Qué cambia alrededor de la llamada de envío?
¿Cómo se mapean las rutas de Mailgun a los buzones de Bird?
¿Cómo evito envíos duplicados durante la migración?
Planes de email publicados
Los planes de pago de Bird añaden un depósito mensual a un saldo compartido. Los envíos transaccionales usan la tarifa del plan. La comparación siguiente supone que el saldo se usa solo para email; el resto del uso y los complementos tienen un coste adicional.
Veredicto de precios: Bird. Para cada volumen incluido de la competencia, el gasto mensual estimado de Bird es el mayor entre el depósito del plan de pago y el uso transaccional a su tarifa publicada. El plan Free usa su volumen incluido cuando está disponible. Los depósitos son saldo que puedes gastar, no una tarifa adicional. Solo los volúmenes y monedas equivalentes con tarifas completas influyen en el veredicto.
| Emails por mes | Plan de Bird y gasto mensual necesario | Mailgun |
|---|---|---|
| 50,000 | Email Startup: $20 (USD) | |
| 100,000 | Email Startup: $40 (USD) | |
| 250,000 | Email Startup: $100 (USD) | |
| 500,000 | Email Startup: $200 (USD) | |
| 1,000,000 | Email Startup: $400 (USD) | |
| 2,500,000 | Email Startup: $1,000 (USD) |
Mailgun: Planes publicados
¿Cómo comparar los costos de email?
¿Qué incluyen las filas de precio de Bird y Mailgun?
Costo de cambio
¿Qué implica una migración desde Mailgun?
Start by mapping Mailgun’s multipart form parameters and recipient variables to Bird’s JSON send payload and batch entries. Verify your sending domains in Bird and export each Mailgun domain’s bounces, spam complaints, and unsubscribes into Bird’s workspace suppression list using our Mailgun migration guide.
Next, update Mailgun’s HMAC webhook verification to use Standard Webhooks, and map Mailgun’s temporary vs. permanent failure events to Bird’s deferred and bounced webhook events. Test your handlers in Bird’s mail sandbox before switching live traffic, and allow time for automated warm-up on new dedicated IPs.
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