A Mailtrap alternative
Forward a test email. Get a client-ready QA report in 90 seconds covering broken links, bad UTMs, copy issues, dark-mode breaks, authentication, and compliance. The seven-category check that runs before a marketing email goes out. No API integration required.
7-day trial, plan selection required. From $19/mo after.
Pre-send QA report
Mailtrap solves a real problem: capturing transactional email from a staging environment so engineering teams can verify SMTP setup, template rendering, and pipeline behavior without sending to real users.
CheckYourCampaign solves a different problem: catching the broken CTA, the missing utm_campaign, the unsubscribe href that came through blank, and the dark-mode contrast disaster on a marketing campaign that is about to go out to forty thousand subscribers.
Comparison
Both products test email. They test different parts of the email workflow, for different buyers.
| Capability | CheckYourCampaign | Mailtrap |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Pre-send campaign QA report | Developer email sandbox |
| Buyer | Agency email leads, in-house marketers | QA engineers, dev teams |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $14.99/mo |
| Workflow | Forward a test from any ESP | API integration with sending pipeline |
| Broken-link checking | Every link, redirects followed | - |
| UTM validation with workspace rules | Per-link, with required-fields enforcement | - |
| Subject-line scoring | AI scoring on five criteria | - |
| Sandbox SMTP capture | - | Yes |
| API for transactional email testing | - | Yes |
| CI/CD integration | - | Yes |
Mailtrap pricing is the lowest published tier observed in 2026. The two products serve different audiences.
Mailtrap is a developer's tool, and a good one.
CheckYourCampaign is for the marketing send.
Mailtrap and CheckYourCampaign are similarly priced at the entry tier, but the value math is different because the products are different.
Mailtrap's entry plan buys sandbox inboxes for transactional email testing in development. CheckYourCampaign's $19 buys 75 marketing email QA reports a month.
| Plan | Price | Checks/mo | Team | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $19/mo | 75 | 1 | All seven QA categories |
| Growth | $49/mo | 300 | 5 | Workspace UTM rules, brand-voice learning |
| Scale | $129/mo | 1,000 | Unlimited | High-volume retention controls |
Stating the boundary protects everyone.
"We caught a 404 on the primary CTA forty seconds before send. That is the cheapest $19 I spend each month, and it is not close."
Maya R., email lead, mid-size DTC brand, 38 campaigns/month
Probably not. Mailtrap is the right tool for sandbox SMTP capture, transactional email testing, and CI/CD email pipelines.
Yes. Forwarding works with every ESP that exists. Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Brevo, Constant Contact, Mailjet, ActiveCampaign, Campaign Monitor, MailerLite - all of them.
Each workspace gets a private review address. Forward your normal test send from Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Brevo, or any platform. We start running the seven QA checks when the email arrives. Report ready in about 90 seconds.
Yes. Manage your plan from account settings. Reports remain available through your plan's retention window.
7-day trial. Choose a plan, send a few checks, and turn campaign QA into a repeatable launch step.