Benchmark Email and Mailgun Email Deliverability Comparison

Benchmark Email

Mailgun

In this comparison, the deliverability of Benchmark Email and Mailgun is compared in detail. All available data, taking the filters into account, is used for the comparison.

Email deliverability

This comparison compares the numbers for sent emails, you can also see in which folder the emails at the email service provider ended up and how many emails were lost on the way. The numbers look better for Benchmark Email than for Mailgun.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
76.501 76.173	58.876 58.444	15.914 15.941	1.711 1.788

Email deliverability rates

The following table shows the most important deliverability rates (in percent) for the compared providers. The higher the inbox rate and the lower the spam rate, the better. Benchmark Email beats Mailgun in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.96 % 76.73 %	20.80 % 20.93 %	2.24 % 2.35 %

Email deliverability by category

This comparison compares the deliverability taking into account the category or the industry. The deliverability can vary greatly depending on the industry. In this comparison, Benchmark Email is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5936 5934	4533 4477	1270 1320	133 137	76.36 % 75.45 %	21.39 % 22.24 %	2.24 % 2.31 %
Elektronics	5824 5704	4515 4394	1184 1180	125 130	77.52 % 77.03 %	20.33 % 20.69 %	2.15 % 2.28 %
Entertainment	5703 5823	4391 4409	1175 1277	137 137	76.99 % 75.72 %	20.60 % 21.93 %	2.40 % 2.35 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5999 5475	4595 4210	1267 1137	137 128	76.60 % 76.89 %	21.12 % 20.77 %	2.28 % 2.34 %
Food & Drink	5800 5949	4428 4521	1235 1286	137 142	76.34 % 76.00 %	21.29 % 21.62 %	2.36 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	5774 6054	4419 4663	1224 1256	131 135	76.53 % 77.02 %	21.20 % 20.75 %	2.27 % 2.23 %
Finance	5942 5723	4821 4617	996 969	125 137	81.13 % 80.67 %	16.76 % 16.93 %	2.10 % 2.39 %
Health	5777 5918	4673 4755	978 1029	126 134	80.89 % 80.35 %	16.93 % 17.39 %	2.18 % 2.26 %
Pets	6037 6007	4610 4583	1289 1288	138 136	76.36 % 76.29 %	21.35 % 21.44 %	2.29 % 2.26 %
Sport & Fitness	5935 5728	4522 4360	1286 1230	127 138	76.19 % 76.12 %	21.67 % 21.47 %	2.14 % 2.41 %
Job & Career	5829 5933	4335 4451	1370 1343	124 139	74.37 % 75.02 %	23.50 % 22.64 %	2.13 % 2.34 %
Dating	6050 5846	4384 4246	1530 1459	136 141	72.46 % 72.63 %	25.29 % 24.96 %	2.25 % 2.41 %
Other	5895 6079	4650 4758	1110 1167	135 154	78.88 % 78.27 %	18.83 % 19.20 %	2.29 % 2.53 %

Email deliverability by email service provider

Finally, the following table compares the deliverability taking into account the email service provider. Similar to the industry, also the email service provider can affect the email deliverability in both directions — positive or negative. In this comparison, Benchmark Email is better than Mailgun.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5720 5222	4226 3816	1368 1279	126 127	73.88 % 73.08 %	23.92 % 24.49 %	2.20 % 2.43 %
Outlook Mail	5654 5375	4259 4031	1267 1216	128 128	75.33 % 75.00 %	22.41 % 22.62 %	2.26 % 2.38 %
Yahoo Mail	5470 5536	4157 4220	1188 1193	125 123	76.00 % 76.23 %	21.72 % 21.55 %	2.29 % 2.22 %
AOL Mail	5323 5422	4038 4125	1158 1163	127 134	75.86 % 76.08 %	21.75 % 21.45 %	2.39 % 2.47 %
Mail.com	5370 5494	4163 4277	1096 1093	111 124	77.52 % 77.85 %	20.41 % 19.89 %	2.07 % 2.26 %
Yandex Mail	5681 5575	4319 4223	1235 1221	127 131	76.03 % 75.75 %	21.74 % 21.90 %	2.24 % 2.35 %
GMX Mail	5409 5500	4091 4147	1194 1230	124 123	75.63 % 75.40 %	22.07 % 22.36 %	2.29 % 2.24 %
Zoho Mail	5415 5513	4264 4299	1028 1082	123 132	78.74 % 77.98 %	18.98 % 19.63 %	2.27 % 2.39 %
ProtonMail	5429 5242	4290 4133	1026 985	113 124	79.02 % 78.84 %	18.90 % 18.79 %	2.08 % 2.37 %
Custom Mail	5615 5395	4489 4283	1004 979	122 133	79.95 % 79.39 %	17.88 % 18.15 %	2.17 % 2.47 %
iCloud Mail	5279 5576	3870 4038	1289 1413	120 125	73.31 % 72.42 %	24.42 % 25.34 %	2.27 % 2.24 %
Tuta	5387 5566	4249 4357	1013 1086	125 123	78.88 % 78.28 %	18.80 % 19.51 %	2.32 % 2.21 %
Juno.com	5411 5540	4275 4367	1014 1036	122 137	79.01 % 78.83 %	18.74 % 18.70 %	2.25 % 2.47 %
Mailfence	5338 5217	4186 4128	1034 965	118 124	78.42 % 79.13 %	19.37 % 18.50 %	2.21 % 2.38 %

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