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
75.969 76.517	58.252 59.197	15.942 15.635	1.775 1.685

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

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

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

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