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Mailgun vs Strongestlayer
Mailgun focuses on sending/receiving email, not AI threat reasoning for inbound phishing.
MailgunEmail API for sending, receiving and tracking email
StrongestlayerStop Phishing. Protect Employees.Which to pick
Pick Mailgun if you want…
- Transactional email delivery and validation
- Email sending API
- Integrations with HTTP API, SMTP or Webhooks (on Mailgun's list, not Strongestlayer's)
Pick Strongestlayer if you want…
- AI-powered email threat reasoning
- Integrations with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Microsoft Sentinel (on Strongestlayer's list, not Mailgun's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Mailgun:Mailgun provides APIs for sending, receiving, validating and tracking transactional emails.
- Strongestlayer:StrongestLayer adds AI-driven threat reasoning to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace email, blocking sophisticated phishing and BEC attacks.
- Best for
- Mailgun:Transactional email delivery and validation
- Strongestlayer:AI-powered email threat reasoning
- Who it’s for
- Mailgun:Developers building email-enabled applications and services.
- Strongestlayer:Enterprise security teams protecting employee email
- Pricing
- Mailgun:Freemium
- Strongestlayer:Contact sales
- Plans
- Mailgun:Free $0/mo · Basic $15/mo per month · Foundation $35/mo per month · Scale $90/mo per month
- Strongestlayer:—
- Works with
- Mailgun:HTTP API, SMTP, Webhooks, Email template builder
- Strongestlayer:Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Radiant Security
Mailgun features
- RESTful Email API & SMTP relay. Send emails via HTTP API or SMTP with high reliability.
- Email validation service. Real-time API and bulk upload to remove invalid addresses.
- Analytics, tracking & webhooks. Detailed delivery, open, click data and event webhooks.
- Inbox preview & accessibility checks. Preview emails before sending to ensure compliance and deliverability.
- Dedicated IPs & IP pools. Control reputation with dedicated IPs, included in higher plans.
- SAML SSO & multi-user access. Enterprise-grade security and role-based access control.
- Log and message retention. Retention up to 30 days for logs and up to 7 days for messages.
- Email template builder. Create and manage reusable email templates via API.
Strongestlayer features
- Agentic reasoning engine. Analyzes each email’s intent and context with multi-LLM agents to block attacks that bypass rules and ML.
- Inbox Advisor. Shows plain-English verdicts for every email directly in Outlook and Gmail.
- Threat Triage agents. Pre-investigated alerts let SOC analysts resolve cases in seconds.
- Threat Hunt agents. Searches across all mailboxes by sender, subject, URL or domain in under two minutes.
- Fast API deployment. Integrates via Microsoft Graph or Google Workspace API in 15 minutes, no MX changes.
- Integrations with SIEMs. Exports data to Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk and Radiant Security.
Mailgun vs Strongestlayer FAQ
Is Mailgun or Strongestlayer free?+
Mailgun has a free plan; paid plans start at $15/month (Basic).
Do Mailgun and Strongestlayer integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Mailgun lists HTTP API, SMTP, Webhooks and Email template builder; Strongestlayer lists Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk and 1 more.
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