MailerLite and Mailgun Email Deliverability Comparison

MailerLite

Mailgun

In this comparison, the deliverability of MailerLite 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 MailerLite than for Mailgun.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
76.692 76.173	59.573 58.444	15.500 15.941	1.619 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. MailerLite beats Mailgun in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
77.68 % 76.73 %	20.21 % 20.93 %	2.11 % 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, MailerLite is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5987 5934	4637 4477	1225 1320	125 137	77.45 % 75.45 %	20.46 % 22.24 %	2.09 % 2.31 %
Elektronics	5846 5704	4605 4394	1122 1180	119 130	78.77 % 77.03 %	19.19 % 20.69 %	2.04 % 2.28 %
Entertainment	5868 5823	4533 4409	1216 1277	119 137	77.25 % 75.72 %	20.72 % 21.93 %	2.03 % 2.35 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5895 5475	4608 4210	1161 1137	126 128	78.17 % 76.89 %	19.69 % 20.77 %	2.14 % 2.34 %
Food & Drink	5809 5949	4491 4521	1195 1286	123 142	77.31 % 76.00 %	20.57 % 21.62 %	2.12 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	5907 6054	4581 4663	1194 1256	132 135	77.55 % 77.02 %	20.21 % 20.75 %	2.23 % 2.23 %
Finance	5977 5723	4825 4617	1020 969	132 137	80.73 % 80.67 %	17.07 % 16.93 %	2.21 % 2.39 %
Health	5891 5918	4772 4755	1002 1029	117 134	81.00 % 80.35 %	17.01 % 17.39 %	1.99 % 2.26 %
Pets	5809 6007	4488 4583	1200 1288	121 136	77.26 % 76.29 %	20.66 % 21.44 %	2.08 % 2.26 %
Sport & Fitness	5749 5728	4404 4360	1214 1230	131 138	76.60 % 76.12 %	21.12 % 21.47 %	2.28 % 2.41 %
Job & Career	6002 5933	4490 4451	1379 1343	133 139	74.81 % 75.02 %	22.98 % 22.64 %	2.22 % 2.34 %
Dating	5969 5846	4393 4246	1454 1459	122 141	73.60 % 72.63 %	24.36 % 24.96 %	2.04 % 2.41 %
Other	5983 6079	4746 4758	1118 1167	119 154	79.32 % 78.27 %	18.69 % 19.20 %	1.99 % 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, MailerLite is better than Mailgun.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5419 5222	3986 3816	1318 1279	115 127	73.56 % 73.08 %	24.32 % 24.49 %	2.12 % 2.43 %
Outlook Mail	5295 5375	4018 4031	1162 1216	115 128	75.88 % 75.00 %	21.95 % 22.62 %	2.17 % 2.38 %
Yahoo Mail	5420 5536	4137 4220	1169 1193	114 123	76.33 % 76.23 %	21.57 % 21.55 %	2.10 % 2.22 %
AOL Mail	5539 5422	4278 4125	1137 1163	124 134	77.23 % 76.08 %	20.53 % 21.45 %	2.24 % 2.47 %
Mail.com	5555 5494	4390 4277	1047 1093	118 124	79.03 % 77.85 %	18.85 % 19.89 %	2.12 % 2.26 %
Yandex Mail	5331 5575	4100 4223	1115 1221	116 131	76.91 % 75.75 %	20.92 % 21.90 %	2.18 % 2.35 %
GMX Mail	5759 5500	4374 4147	1262 1230	123 123	75.95 % 75.40 %	21.91 % 22.36 %	2.14 % 2.24 %
Zoho Mail	5455 5513	4298 4299	1040 1082	117 132	78.79 % 77.98 %	19.07 % 19.63 %	2.14 % 2.39 %
ProtonMail	5395 5242	4308 4133	971 985	116 124	79.85 % 78.84 %	18.00 % 18.79 %	2.15 % 2.37 %
Custom Mail	5470 5395	4428 4283	932 979	110 133	80.95 % 79.39 %	17.04 % 18.15 %	2.01 % 2.47 %
iCloud Mail	5683 5576	4222 4038	1347 1413	114 125	74.29 % 72.42 %	23.70 % 25.34 %	2.01 % 2.24 %
Tuta	5417 5566	4318 4357	980 1086	119 123	79.71 % 78.28 %	18.09 % 19.51 %	2.20 % 2.21 %
Juno.com	5492 5540	4360 4367	1027 1036	105 137	79.39 % 78.83 %	18.70 % 18.70 %	1.91 % 2.47 %
Mailfence	5462 5217	4356 4128	993 965	113 124	79.75 % 79.13 %	18.18 % 18.50 %	2.07 % 2.38 %

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