Maileroo vs MailKite Server
Maileroo
maileroo.com
MailKite Server
mailkite.devSide by side
| Figure | Maileroo | MailKite Server |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $10/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 1 |
| Spec score · Email APIs | 8.3 (#9) | 8.4 (#8) |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia | Sheridan, Wyoming, USA |
| Integrations | The integrations page lists SDKs for PHP, Laravel, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go, and Java, plus WordPress, WooCommerce, Zapier, Make, and Pabbly integrations. | MailKite lists official SDKs for Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, C#, and Rust, plus a CLI, an MCP server, and SMTP relay integrations. |
| Support | Maileroo offers live chat and email support from a team based in Australia, available from 9 AM to 9 PM Melbourne time. | The self-hosted server page directs users to GitHub discussions and setup documentation; it describes human support as a MailKite Cloud offering. |
Plans
Maileroo
- Free PlanFree
- FreeFree
- Basic$10 a month
- Starter$15 a month
- Premium$30 a month
- Pro$72 a month
- Ultimate$140 a month
- Enterprise$250 a month
In their own words
Maileroo
Maileroo provides SMTP relay and Email API services for transactional and marketing email, along with inbound routing and testing tools. Sending features include streams, bounce and complaint handling, suppression handling, and resending messages from logs. Inbound routing can apply custom expression rules, catch-all or wildcard matching, forwarding, parsed JSON webhooks and automatic retries, with SPF and DKIM enforcement and spam checking.
Testing tools include SMTP and MX sinks, light and dark client previews, spam scoring, authentication and alignment checks, link and RBL checks, and API and CI/CD access. Maileroo also provides click and open tracking, delivery event reporting, searchable activity, data exports and real-time analytics. Listed integrations include SDKs for several programming languages and connections to WordPress, WooCommerce, Zapier, Make and Pabbly. Security options include encrypted storage, two-factor authentication, passkeys, SAML SSO, scoped API keys, role-based permissions and IP restrictions. The free plan includes monthly quotas; paid plans start at $10 a month. Monthly and hourly sending limits apply, and mail over the monthly quota is not sent until reset or plan upgrade.
MailKite Server
MailKite Server has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.