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
65.706 65.108	50.988 50.027	13.286 13.594	1.432 1.487

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 (%)
77.60 % 76.84 %	20.22 % 20.88 %	2.18 % 2.28 %

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	4892 5003	3742 3890	1050 1011	100 102	76.49 % 77.75 %	21.46 % 20.21 %	2.04 % 2.04 %
Elektronics	5052 4994	3963 3875	981 998	108 121	78.44 % 77.59 %	19.42 % 19.98 %	2.14 % 2.42 %
Entertainment	5002 4888	3815 3723	1077 1050	110 115	76.27 % 76.17 %	21.53 % 21.48 %	2.20 % 2.35 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5098 4954	4011 3827	987 1017	100 110	78.68 % 77.25 %	19.36 % 20.53 %	1.96 % 2.22 %
Food & Drink	5025 4881	3849 3760	1059 1006	117 115	76.60 % 77.03 %	21.07 % 20.61 %	2.33 % 2.36 %
Home & Garden	5029 5164	3916 3981	1004 1073	109 110	77.87 % 77.09 %	19.96 % 20.78 %	2.17 % 2.13 %
Finance	4986 5006	4036 4057	830 832	120 117	80.95 % 81.04 %	16.65 % 16.62 %	2.41 % 2.34 %
Health	4950 4959	4019 3945	827 900	104 114	81.19 % 79.55 %	16.71 % 18.15 %	2.10 % 2.30 %
Pets	5261 5179	4080 3911	1054 1143	127 125	77.55 % 75.52 %	20.03 % 22.07 %	2.41 % 2.41 %
Sport & Fitness	4975 5062	3829 3851	1030 1090	116 121	76.96 % 76.08 %	20.70 % 21.53 %	2.33 % 2.39 %
Job & Career	5118 4784	3852 3538	1159 1140	107 106	75.26 % 73.95 %	22.65 % 23.83 %	2.09 % 2.22 %
Dating	5189 5029	3817 3637	1271 1277	101 115	73.56 % 72.32 %	24.49 % 25.39 %	1.95 % 2.29 %
Other	5129 5205	4059 4032	957 1057	113 116	79.14 % 77.46 %	18.66 % 20.31 %	2.20 % 2.23 %

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	4744 4665	3491 3427	1146 1133	107 105	73.59 % 73.46 %	24.16 % 24.29 %	2.26 % 2.25 %
Outlook Mail	4726 4729	3588 3527	1039 1091	99 111	75.92 % 74.58 %	21.98 % 23.07 %	2.09 % 2.35 %
Yahoo Mail	4711 4699	3600 3550	1009 1040	102 109	76.42 % 75.55 %	21.42 % 22.13 %	2.17 % 2.32 %
AOL Mail	4639 4477	3576 3422	957 957	106 98	77.09 % 76.44 %	20.63 % 21.38 %	2.28 % 2.19 %
Mail.com	4931 4529	3874 3538	950 885	107 106	78.56 % 78.12 %	19.27 % 19.54 %	2.17 % 2.34 %
Yandex Mail	4763 4855	3670 3696	998 1053	95 106	77.05 % 76.13 %	20.95 % 21.69 %	1.99 % 2.18 %
GMX Mail	4692 4457	3575 3340	1012 1013	105 104	76.19 % 74.94 %	21.57 % 22.73 %	2.24 % 2.33 %
Zoho Mail	4535 4671	3566 3647	879 908	90 116	78.63 % 78.08 %	19.38 % 19.44 %	1.98 % 2.48 %
ProtonMail	4573 4629	3635 3643	836 884	102 102	79.49 % 78.70 %	18.28 % 19.10 %	2.23 % 2.20 %
Custom Mail	4678 4605	3782 3699	791 812	105 94	80.85 % 80.33 %	16.91 % 17.63 %	2.24 % 2.04 %
iCloud Mail	4660 4625	3479 3333	1074 1183	107 109	74.66 % 72.06 %	23.05 % 25.58 %	2.30 % 2.36 %
Tuta	4651 4627	3669 3649	869 872	113 106	78.89 % 78.86 %	18.68 % 18.85 %	2.43 % 2.29 %
Juno.com	4798 4702	3815 3704	884 880	99 118	79.51 % 78.77 %	18.42 % 18.72 %	2.06 % 2.51 %
Mailfence	4605 4838	3668 3852	842 883	95 103	79.65 % 79.62 %	18.28 % 18.25 %	2.06 % 2.13 %

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