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CloudMailin

Long-running inbound email to HTTP service.

overview

CloudMailin has been doing inbound email to HTTP since 2010. Reliable, no-frills, JSON or raw MIME delivery.

for early-stage startups

At an early stage the deciding factors are what the free tier actually covers, what the first paid invoice looks like, and how much of a founding engineer's week the setup costs. Feature depth that only matters at a million sends a month is noise until it is not.

Against a waitlist, a launch announcement, onboarding email, and the first transactional sends, CloudMailin covers developer experience and webhook coverage, and does not cover scheduling and SDK breadth. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

  • Free tier: No
  • Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
  • Starts at: $9/mo for 200 emails
  • DX score: 6/10
  • Deliverability: Not applicable.
  • Operating since: Not published
  • Scheduling: No
  • SDKs: None
  • Webhooks: Yes
deliverability

Not applicable.

best for

Established workloads that depend on a long-running provider.

pros
  • Mature product
  • Multiple payload formats
cons
  • No free tier
  • Older UI

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP No
SDKs None
Webhooks Yes
Templates none
React Email No
Batch send No
Scheduled send No
Suppressions No
Multi-tenant Yes
Inbound parsing Yes
Event stream Yes
Idempotency keys No
Dedicated IP No

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