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
63.999 64.130	49.508 50.230	13.525 12.956	1.496 1.469

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 % 78.33 %	21.13 % 20.20 %	2.34 % 2.29 %

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	5051 4814	3954 3744	1018 1001	113 105	78.28 % 77.77 %	20.15 % 20.79 %	2.24 % 2.18 %
Elektronics	5044 4954	3932 3895	1037 968	130 116	77.95 % 78.62 %	20.56 % 19.54 %	2.58 % 2.34 %
Entertainment	4979 4872	3850 3770	1060 1025	114 109	77.32 % 77.38 %	21.29 % 21.04 %	2.29 % 2.24 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4990 4881	3870 3859	1021 956	115 104	77.56 % 79.06 %	20.46 % 19.59 %	2.30 % 2.13 %
Food & Drink	4820 4995	3750 3887	1007 1025	115 120	77.80 % 77.82 %	20.89 % 20.52 %	2.39 % 2.40 %
Home & Garden	4971 4860	3832 3826	1069 986	112 111	77.09 % 78.72 %	21.50 % 20.29 %	2.25 % 2.28 %
Finance	4885 4835	3928 3889	915 854	114 116	80.41 % 80.43 %	18.73 % 17.66 %	2.33 % 2.40 %
Health	4897 4912	3866 3965	948 887	109 107	78.95 % 80.72 %	19.36 % 18.06 %	2.23 % 2.18 %
Pets	4883 5155	3717 4057	1085 1006	116 123	76.12 % 78.70 %	22.22 % 19.52 %	2.38 % 2.39 %
Sport & Fitness	4858 4882	3731 3804	1040 1006	120 120	76.80 % 77.92 %	21.41 % 20.61 %	2.47 % 2.46 %
Job & Career	4694 4973	3523 3807	1090 1108	106 109	75.05 % 76.55 %	23.22 % 22.28 %	2.26 % 2.19 %
Dating	4718 5014	3480 3764	1156 1184	112 110	73.76 % 75.07 %	24.50 % 23.61 %	2.37 % 2.19 %
Other	5209 4983	4075 3963	1079 950	120 119	78.23 % 79.53 %	20.71 % 19.06 %	2.30 % 2.39 %

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	4749 4697	3539 3532	1123 1085	114 115	74.52 % 75.20 %	23.65 % 23.10 %	2.40 % 2.45 %
Outlook Mail	4801 4718	3655 3633	1057 1018	116 104	76.13 % 77.00 %	22.02 % 21.58 %	2.42 % 2.20 %
Yahoo Mail	4664 4713	3558 3671	1011 976	106 107	76.29 % 77.89 %	21.68 % 20.71 %	2.27 % 2.27 %
AOL Mail	4512 4709	3477 3677	958 960	105 110	77.06 % 78.08 %	21.23 % 20.39 %	2.33 % 2.34 %
Mail.com	4477 4720	3516 3737	887 906	107 107	78.53 % 79.17 %	19.81 % 19.19 %	2.39 % 2.27 %
Yandex Mail	4816 4810	3693 3752	1054 983	107 103	76.68 % 78.00 %	21.89 % 20.44 %	2.22 % 2.14 %
GMX Mail	4582 4668	3495 3604	1042 999	109 108	76.28 % 77.21 %	22.74 % 21.40 %	2.38 % 2.31 %
Zoho Mail	4636 4656	3606 3695	969 914	115 99	77.78 % 79.36 %	20.90 % 19.63 %	2.48 % 2.13 %
ProtonMail	4685 4703	3681 3763	940 897	106 109	78.57 % 80.01 %	20.06 % 19.07 %	2.26 % 2.32 %
Custom Mail	4758 4629	3782 3717	895 829	100 111	79.49 % 80.30 %	18.81 % 17.91 %	2.10 % 2.40 %
iCloud Mail	4667 4594	3484 3520	1136 1025	111 108	74.65 % 76.62 %	24.34 % 22.31 %	2.38 % 2.35 %
Tuta	4667 4650	3699 3676	929 888	112 116	79.26 % 79.05 %	19.91 % 19.10 %	2.40 % 2.49 %
Juno.com	4673 4784	3679 3811	927 903	117 108	78.73 % 79.66 %	19.84 % 18.88 %	2.50 % 2.26 %
Mailfence	3312 3079	2644 2442	597 573	71 64	79.83 % 79.31 %	18.03 % 18.61 %	2.14 % 2.08 %

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