Mailtrap does everything.
Sendpit does one thing.
Mailtrap is a fine all-in-one platform. Sendpit captures and inspects test email, and skips everything else. The honest comparison, round by round.
Key Facts
- SendPit Basic: $5/mo for 3 mailboxes and up to 1,000 stored emails across all mailboxes
- Mailtrap SaaS email platform
- Pricing and features last verified: 2026-03-18
Where Sendpit wins
vs mailtrap email sandbox · monthly billing · verified 2026-03-18Room for 200 stored test emails free vs Mailtrap's 100 a month, with 3 seats and 7-day retention. Real limits, not a teaser.
The whole product: capture, inspection, team access. Not a trial, never expires, no card required.
Basic gets you 3 mailboxes and room for 1,000 stored emails across them. Every plan includes every feature; you pay for capacity.
OTPs, magic links and reset URLs parsed from every email, assertable in CI via the REST API and webhooks.
Over 347 billion emails are sent and received worldwide every day.Statista, 2025 Forecast A safe place to test yours costs nothing to start.
Feature by feature
17 features · 3 groups| Feature | Mailtrap | Sendpit |
|---|---|---|
| Inspection: full parity | ||
| SMTP capture | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTML & text preview | ✓ | ✓ |
| Raw source & headers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spam score analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| Link checker | ✓ | ✓ |
| Responsive device previews | ✓ | ✓ |
| Where they differ | ||
| Free email allowance | 100 per month | 200 stored at once |
| Entry paid plan | $14.99/mo | $5/mo · 3 mailboxes · 1,000 stored emails |
| OTP & link extraction | — | ✓ pre-extracted |
| Guaranteed no delivery | ~ sandbox mode | ✓ by design |
| Setup steps to first capture | 6 | 3 |
| Production email sending | ✓ separate product | — not our job |
| Bulk campaign testing | ✓ | — by design |
| HTML compatibility check | ✓ | — |
| Platform & compliance | ||
| Product focus | testing + sending + analytics | test capture, only |
| Compliance questionnaire | multi-product surface | "nothing is ever delivered" |
| Data handling | spans testing + sending | TLS · encrypted at rest · auto-purge |
When a compliance officer asks "what does this tool do with our data?", the answer fits in two sentences. There's no sending infrastructure to audit, no analytics pipeline processing email content, and no production email mixing with test data. The attack surface is smaller because the product surface is smaller.
Mailtrap makes sense if...
- · You want one platform for email testing and production sending.
- · You need deliverability scoring or HTML validation built into your workflow.
- · Your team is large enough that comprehensive organizational features add value.
Sendpit makes sense if...
- ✓ You just need safe SMTP capture.
- ✓ You want a clean, fast interface without features you won't use.
- ✓ Your testing workflow is straightforward: send, capture, inspect.
- ✓ You need a tool that's easy to get through a security review because of its narrow scope.
Some teams use both: Mailtrap for production sending and deliverability monitoring, and Sendpit for development-time email capture where simplicity and speed matter more than analytics. Choosing one doesn't mean rejecting the other-they solve different problems at different stages of the email lifecycle.
Frequently asked questions
Is Mailtrap free?
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Mailtrap offers a free plan with limited features-100 test emails per month with one inbox. Sendpit also has a permanent free tier with one mailbox and team access. Both let you start without a credit card. Paid plans add more mailboxes, API access (Basic+), and webhooks (Pro+).
Can I migrate from Mailtrap to Sendpit?
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Yes, and it takes about thirty seconds. Sendpit uses standard SMTP, so you just update the SMTP host, port, username, and password in your application's environment configuration. No SDK changes or code modifications required. Your application sends email the same way-only the destination changes.
Does Sendpit have email sending like Mailtrap?
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No. Mailtrap offers both email testing and production email sending (Email API/SMTP). Sendpit is focused exclusively on email testing-capturing and inspecting emails in a sandbox. If you need production sending, you will still need a service like Mailtrap, Postmark, or Amazon SES alongside Sendpit.
How does Sendpit compare to Mailtrap for team use?
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Both support team access. Mailtrap includes team inboxes on paid plans. Sendpit includes organization-based team access on all plans including free, with role-based permissions and per-mailbox access control. If team collaboration on email testing is a priority, Sendpit's team features are available without upgrading.
Does Sendpit support email templates and HTML checking?
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Mailtrap offers HTML email checking with template analysis and spam score checking. Sendpit provides HTML preview rendering so you can see how your email looks, plus raw source and header inspection and spam score analysis. Sendpit does not offer cross-client rendering-it focuses on the development workflow rather than email deliverability analysis.
Is Sendpit cheaper than Mailtrap?
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Sendpit's paid plans start lower than Mailtrap's. However, they are different products-Mailtrap includes production email sending and deliverability features that Sendpit does not offer. If you only need the SMTP sandbox testing part of Mailtrap, Sendpit covers that use case at a lower price. If you use Mailtrap's full platform, the comparison is less direct.
Free forever, not a trial
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