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
76.517 75.969	59.197 58.252	15.635 15.942	1.685 1.775

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 (%)
77.36 % 76.68 %	20.43 % 20.98 %	2.20 % 2.34 %

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	5998 5772	4604 4368	1270 1279	124 125	76.76 % 75.68 %	21.17 % 22.16 %	2.07 % 2.17 %
Elektronics	5858 5578	4602 4314	1134 1144	122 120	78.56 % 77.34 %	19.36 % 20.51 %	2.08 % 2.15 %
Entertainment	5850 5696	4477 4302	1242 1257	131 137	76.53 % 75.53 %	21.23 % 22.07 %	2.24 % 2.41 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5878 5480	4580 4213	1171 1140	127 127	77.92 % 76.88 %	19.92 % 20.80 %	2.16 % 2.32 %
Food & Drink	5736 5929	4409 4520	1201 1270	126 139	76.87 % 76.24 %	20.94 % 21.42 %	2.20 % 2.34 %
Home & Garden	5948 6035	4614 4645	1195 1255	139 135	77.57 % 76.97 %	20.09 % 20.80 %	2.34 % 2.24 %
Finance	5938 5761	4772 4634	1023 987	143 140	80.36 % 80.44 %	17.23 % 17.13 %	2.41 % 2.43 %
Health	5940 5904	4809 4730	1011 1038	120 136	80.96 % 80.12 %	17.02 % 17.58 %	2.02 % 2.30 %
Pets	5892 6059	4534 4606	1227 1312	131 141	76.95 % 76.02 %	20.82 % 21.65 %	2.22 % 2.33 %
Sport & Fitness	5648 5799	4298 4399	1214 1259	136 141	76.10 % 75.86 %	21.49 % 21.71 %	2.41 % 2.43 %
Job & Career	5908 6027	4407 4520	1363 1367	138 140	74.59 % 75.00 %	23.07 % 22.68 %	2.34 % 2.32 %
Dating	5958 5859	4373 4269	1458 1448	127 142	73.40 % 72.86 %	24.47 % 24.71 %	2.13 % 2.42 %
Other	5965 6070	4718 4732	1126 1186	121 152	79.09 % 77.96 %	18.88 % 19.54 %	2.03 % 2.50 %

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	5338 5195	3908 3821	1315 1250	115 124	73.21 % 73.55 %	24.63 % 24.06 %	2.15 % 2.39 %
Outlook Mail	5325 5364	4024 4008	1183 1229	118 127	75.57 % 74.72 %	22.22 % 22.91 %	2.22 % 2.37 %
Yahoo Mail	5490 5576	4183 4236	1187 1215	120 125	76.19 % 75.97 %	21.62 % 21.79 %	2.19 % 2.24 %
AOL Mail	5525 5319	4255 4046	1139 1147	131 126	77.01 % 76.07 %	20.62 % 21.56 %	2.37 % 2.37 %
Mail.com	5680 5606	4438 4357	1116 1120	126 129	78.13 % 77.72 %	19.65 % 19.98 %	2.22 % 2.30 %
Yandex Mail	5358 5600	4107 4240	1130 1227	121 133	76.65 % 75.71 %	21.09 % 21.91 %	2.26 % 2.38 %
GMX Mail	5737 5388	4344 4060	1265 1204	128 124	75.72 % 75.35 %	22.05 % 22.35 %	2.23 % 2.30 %
Zoho Mail	5448 5479	4266 4270	1062 1075	120 134	78.30 % 77.93 %	19.49 % 19.62 %	2.20 % 2.45 %
ProtonMail	5261 5318	4176 4192	962 1000	123 126	79.38 % 78.83 %	18.29 % 18.80 %	2.34 % 2.37 %
Custom Mail	5556 5364	4498 4263	941 978	117 123	80.96 % 79.47 %	16.94 % 18.23 %	2.11 % 2.29 %
iCloud Mail	5502 5554	4068 3997	1316 1428	118 129	73.94 % 71.97 %	23.92 % 25.71 %	2.14 % 2.32 %
Tuta	5284 5522	4194 4326	969 1074	121 122	79.37 % 78.34 %	18.34 % 19.45 %	2.29 % 2.21 %
Juno.com	5559 5453	4397 4294	1052 1024	110 135	79.10 % 78.75 %	18.92 % 18.78 %	1.98 % 2.48 %
Mailfence	5454 5231	4339 4142	998 971	117 118	79.56 % 79.18 %	18.30 % 18.56 %	2.15 % 2.26 %

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