--- title: Mailinator Reviews meta\_title: 'Mailinator Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Mailinator works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 12 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Marketing url: https://www.g2.com/categories/marketing --- # Mailinator Reviews & Product Details Email and SMS Workflow Testing Mailinator allows Developers and QA Testing teams to automatically test their SMS and Email workflows like 2FA verifications, sign-ups, and password resets with trillions of inboxes at your fingertips. Whether you do Manual Testing, use an API, or a framework like Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Puppeteer - Mailinator will close the loop on email/SMS testing. * * * Seller [Mailinator](https://www.g2.com/sellers/mailinator) Discussions [Mailinator Community](https://www.g2.com/products/mailinator/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Brooks Nelson Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Brevo Marketing Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brevo Marketing Platform") Brevo Marketing Platform 4.5/5(2,621) ](https://www.g2.com/products/brevo-marketing-platform/reviews) [ ![Intuit Mailchimp Email Marketing](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Intuit Mailchimp Email Marketing") Intuit Mailchimp Email Marketing 4.3/5(12,984) ](https://www.g2.com/products/intuit-mailchimp-email-marketing/reviews) [ ![MailerLite](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MailerLite") MailerLite 4.6/5(1,113) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mailerlite/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/mailinator/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 12 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Atul K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Atul K.") AK Atul K. Vice President of Product and Engineering Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/6/2026 "Reliable workhorse for QA email testing — backed by a support team that actually cares" 5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? We've used Mailinator at Vartopia for years for QA email testing across signups, password resets, OTPs, and verification flows. The private domain feature is exactly what we needed — branded, isolated test addresses with reliable inbox catching that just works. The web UI is clean, fast, and easy for non-technical QA folks to navigate. Setup is essentially zero. But what really sets Mailinator apart is the support team — shoutout to Martha and Jack, who have been responsive, friendly, and genuinely helpful every time we've reached out. That kind of customer service is rare, and it's the reason I keep recommending them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? Honestly very little. The daily test-email caps require some planning at scale, but Mailinator offers multiple tiers and the team is flexible about right-sizing accounts to actual usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? Mailinator gives our QA team a fast, reliable way to test every email-driven flow in our product without polluting real inboxes — signups, verifications, password resets, magic links. It's saved us countless hours of manual setup and makes automated email testing trivial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Sai C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sai C.") SC Sai C. Associate Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/13/2023 "A one-stop simple software solution to test SMS and Email workflows for Devs and QA." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? 1. Mailinator makes testing more comfortable for Devs and QA. It helps in different testing like Load testing and email Testing. 2. It offers two types of Inboxes Public Inbox and Private Inbox. We can update our privacy accordingly. 3. There is a time-saving feature in Mailinator, which is the Direct mail search option. We can search and filter out our mail and check messages. 4. We receive Emails right after triggering without any delay. 5. The Interaction with Email is extremely good. Users can view Email in different interpretations like HTML, JSON, RAW, and LINKS. 6. We can trial the free version of Mailinator and It offers different premium subscription plans to choose from later on. 7. We can multiple testing domains in our account to test. 8. We QA user Mailinator daily in our work for both Manual and Automation. 9. Mailinator provides various blogs/documentions to get familiar with. 10. The integration of Mailinator into any software is easy. 11. The security provided by Mailinator is suitable for keeping our software safe. 12. Mailinator implementation of UI/UX-designed site is Interactive making login and navigating among websites easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? The only dislikes about Mailinator are the customer support provided by the team. Sometimes it was late in resolving queries and In the Private Inbox, occasionally the mail receiving will be a few seconds delayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? The Dev team and QA team test lots of messages like 2FA, delivery verification, One-time password recovery, etc., through Emails in their software lifecycle. This process is stressful, and time-consuming, to overcome this problem Mailinator hosts features to handle this kind of problem by providing Email software where we get emails into this system and the team can Automate every test case and feature with ease and less time-consuming. The Email workflow now become more effortless. This is benefiting me in my daily work, Where I need to test different Email delivery like OTPs, Account creation, updates, deletion, and Loyalty programs where I need to verify every mail Manually and check the details, After using Mailinator I can automate every check by Integration Mailinato with my testing software. It saved me time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JB Jennifer B. HRIS Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/26/2023 "Perfect for Test/Temp Address needs!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? If you need a throwaway or temporary email address, this is the service for you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? There is nothing to dislike about Mailinator! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? Occasionally, a test employee needs to be created for an outside company to create a bridge to one of our systems and instead of creating a whole company email account for them, we can use Mailinator as their account for setup access. It's also been great for testing workflows with another system we use for our pay plans to verify they are bouncing around properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite UB Usha B. Manager Leisure, Travel & Tourism Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/13/2023 "Public email for testing email" 5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? Mailinator provides Email inboxes for testing and monitoring email deliveries, Email content can be viewed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? Some of the information is missing such as To, From email label's are displayed without answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? It help us to create multiple email inboxes which can be check and monitor by QA teams for monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Yunus S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yunus S.") YS Yunus S. SDET Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/22/2022 "Easily automate E2E tests with Mailinator" 5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? Their API is lovely to automate the E2E tests of email verification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? I like Mailinator a lot but UI can be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? Our applications send so many emails to users. By Mailinator, we have automated our E2E tests so we can detect any issues before releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/22/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bruno G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bruno G.") BG Bruno G. Product Designer Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/13/2021 "A useful service to try new services and newsletters before polluting your own mailbox" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? It's really easy to use and I've been using it for years now, it's a very reliable service that has proved its value over the years. Even though you're creating a "public" temporary mailbox, using the free account, you're still able to create a really long a distinct alias so that the account is way harder for others to find and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? It would be great to have the opportunity of having a small number of "private" temporary mailboxes on the free tier. Some websites have Mailinator as "blacklisted", as an invalid email which isn't great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Mailinator: It's true that you can do a bit of research and try other similar services, but the truth is that Mailinator can be used for free by most users so you probably don't need to spend time looking for other alternatives. Try Mailinator and only do the research later if Mailanot email is not accepted on the particular service/website you're trying to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Mailinator to try new services and subscribe to some newsletters and access their real value before polluting my own mailbox with SPAM emails. As a designer, I also use Mailinator to create fake/temporary-accounts on the apps/websites I'm working in order to perform tests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rahul K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul K.") RK Rahul K. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/13/2022 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "One of the best mail inbox application" 5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? We can you mailinator for bulk or single mail. I usually use mailinator for testing some of the functionality of my microservices. We don't require creating new temporary accounts again and again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? The inbox gets an empty bit quicker. Mailinator can increase the timing of the emails available to the inbox of mailinator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Mailinator: N/A Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? I am solving a problem related to mail feature testing of my microservices. We don't require creating new emails again and again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kevin M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kevin M.") KM Kevin M. Director of Digital Marketing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/29/2021 "Good for email validation \*update\*" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? Keeps our email lists clean, which allows us to get better results from our bulk email platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? Cost is a little bit higher than I would like, but not egregious. All within acceptable parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Mailinator: Try testing out a cleaned email list versus your stock list, and I think you'll see the benefit of a product like Mailinator! It's very easy to test at a small scale before rolling out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? We typically run into periodic problems with email validation through email blast clients like Mailchimp if we do not scrub our lists in advance. Mailinator is a good way to scrup the lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/24/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") UB Verified User in Banking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/10/2019 "Like the Governator but the Mailinator!" 5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? I loved how simple the service was to use. No problem setting up once and then continued success every time I use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? Be sure to set it up right the first time and you’ll have no problem. I used a couple tests at first to make sure I was using the service right before bulk use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? It’s eliminated about 1-2 hours of time every week for me which is fantastic! I value my time and this service continues to pay for itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/10/2019 "Mailinator " 4.5/5 What do you like best about Mailinator? The best thing is no signup and you can start your work, dealing with unnecessary spam mails you can use it without thinking. The mails do not stay in you inbox for a long period of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Mailinator? Nothing this product has been working like a charm although i get mails feom spammers but those have reduced significantly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you? Getting away with spammers has been its greatest use for us in the brand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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