Mailgun and MailerLite Email Deliverability Comparison

Mailgun

MailerLite

In this comparison, the deliverability of Mailgun and MailerLite 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
65.108 65.706	50.027 50.988	13.594 13.286	1.487 1.432

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

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

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

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