Mailtrap Pricing Plans and Tiers
Email delivery and testing platform for developers with sending API, SMTP, and email sandbox
Pricing last verified: September 7, 2026
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Pricing Analysis
Mailtrap sells three separate products off one pricing page: Email API/SMTP, Email Sandbox, and Email Marketing. The Email API/SMTP line is the one developers evaluate against Postmark and Resend, and its tiers are volume banded rather than flat: Basic runs $15/month at 10K emails and climbs to about $30 at 100K, Business runs $85 at 100K and climbs toward $450 at 750K. Comparing a Mailtrap headline price against a competitor headline price without fixing the volume is the most common mistake buyers make here.
The Sandbox product is what Mailtrap is historically known for, and it is priced independently ($17 Basic, $42 Team, $123 Business, $498 Enterprise monthly). Teams that already pay for sending elsewhere often buy Sandbox alone as a staging safety net, which makes Mailtrap unusual in this category: it can be a complement to SendGrid or Postmark rather than a replacement for them.
Free tier limits are testing limits, not trial limits: 1 user, 1 domain, 150 emails per day, 3 days of email log retention. The three-day log window is the real upgrade trigger. Debugging a delivery complaint reported a week late is impossible on Free, which pushes any team with production traffic to Basic within the first billing cycle.
Strengths
- Sending, testing, and log inspection sit behind one account, so a team can promote the same integration from a sandbox inbox to production without swapping providers or rewriting SMTP config.
- Dedicated IP is included at Business ($85 at the 100K band) rather than sold as a line item, which undercuts the usual pattern of charging separately for deliverability infrastructure.
- Domain limits are generous relative to price (5 domains on Basic, 100 on Business), which suits agencies and multi-product companies that would otherwise need several Postmark accounts.
Considerations
- Volume banded pricing makes forecasting harder than Postmark's flat published tiers. The same tier name can mean $15 or $30 depending on where your send volume lands, so budget from your actual monthly volume, not the advertised entry price.
- Email log retention is short on the lower tiers (3 days on Free, 5 on Basic). Compliance-driven teams that need to prove delivery months later have to reach Business (15 days) or Enterprise (30 days), or export logs themselves.
- Three product lines billed separately means a team wanting API sending plus Sandbox plus Marketing pays three subscriptions. Read the tab you are actually pricing before comparing totals against a single-product competitor.
Development teams that want transactional sending and a safe staging inbox from one vendor, particularly agencies or multi-product companies that need many sending domains without opening an account per client.
Mailtrap's Email API/SMTP tiers are volume banded, so the honest comparison against Postmark or Resend is at a fixed monthly send volume rather than at the $15 headline.
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Pricing Plans (4)
Enterprise
- ✓30 days of email logs
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Custom contracts
- ✓Enterprise billing
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