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
65.051 65.677	49.710 50.404	13.808 13.751	1.533 1.522

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 (%)
76.42 % 76.75 %	21.23 % 20.94 %	2.36 % 2.32 %

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	4950 4993	3776 3798	1063 1088	111 107	76.28 % 76.07 %	21.47 % 21.79 %	2.24 % 2.14 %
Elektronics	4824 5036	3726 3928	990 1000	108 108	77.24 % 78.00 %	20.52 % 19.86 %	2.24 % 2.14 %
Entertainment	4763 5124	3599 3872	1056 1131	108 121	75.56 % 75.57 %	22.17 % 22.07 %	2.27 % 2.36 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4814 5019	3667 3876	1032 1033	115 110	76.17 % 77.23 %	21.44 % 20.58 %	2.39 % 2.19 %
Food & Drink	5041 5028	3858 3833	1063 1074	120 121	76.53 % 76.23 %	21.09 % 21.36 %	2.38 % 2.41 %
Home & Garden	5187 5018	3979 3856	1094 1042	114 120	76.71 % 76.84 %	21.09 % 20.77 %	2.20 % 2.39 %
Finance	4952 4991	3994 3979	838 887	120 125	80.65 % 79.72 %	16.92 % 17.77 %	2.42 % 2.50 %
Health	4979 5024	3962 4052	905 859	112 113	79.57 % 80.65 %	18.18 % 17.10 %	2.25 % 2.25 %
Pets	5199 5107	3914 3914	1160 1070	125 123	75.28 % 76.64 %	22.31 % 20.95 %	2.40 % 2.41 %
Sport & Fitness	5194 4917	3934 3739	1125 1053	135 125	75.74 % 76.04 %	21.66 % 21.42 %	2.60 % 2.54 %
Job & Career	4953 5101	3664 3769	1169 1209	120 123	73.98 % 73.89 %	23.60 % 23.70 %	2.42 % 2.41 %
Dating	5055 5244	3666 3814	1266 1312	123 118	72.52 % 72.73 %	25.04 % 25.02 %	2.43 % 2.25 %
Other	5140 5075	3971 3974	1047 993	122 108	77.26 % 78.31 %	20.37 % 19.57 %	2.37 % 2.13 %

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	4581 4556	3340 3293	1135 1153	106 110	72.91 % 72.28 %	24.78 % 25.31 %	2.31 % 2.41 %
Outlook Mail	4667 4723	3480 3531	1076 1086	111 106	74.57 % 74.76 %	23.06 % 22.99 %	2.38 % 2.24 %
Yahoo Mail	4748 4736	3582 3559	1059 1070	107 107	75.44 % 75.15 %	22.30 % 22.59 %	2.25 % 2.26 %
AOL Mail	4543 4752	3434 3621	1001 1009	108 122	75.59 % 76.20 %	22.03 % 21.23 %	2.38 % 2.57 %
Mail.com	4701 4911	3659 3808	930 985	112 118	77.83 % 77.54 %	19.78 % 20.06 %	2.38 % 2.40 %
Yandex Mail	4869 4819	3670 3674	1084 1045	115 100	75.37 % 76.24 %	22.26 % 21.68 %	2.36 % 2.08 %
GMX Mail	4425 4882	3314 3677	1004 1087	107 118	74.89 % 75.32 %	22.69 % 22.27 %	2.42 % 2.42 %
Zoho Mail	4663 4470	3641 3481	908 895	114 94	78.08 % 77.87 %	19.47 % 20.02 %	2.44 % 2.10 %
ProtonMail	4623 4561	3633 3594	884 855	106 112	78.59 % 78.80 %	19.12 % 18.75 %	2.29 % 2.46 %
Custom Mail	4532 4633	3602 3716	829 806	101 111	79.48 % 80.21 %	18.29 % 17.40 %	2.23 % 2.40 %
iCloud Mail	4593 4739	3292 3509	1193 1128	108 102	71.67 % 74.05 %	25.97 % 23.80 %	2.35 % 2.15 %
Tuta	4719 4595	3680 3592	926 890	113 113	77.98 % 78.17 %	19.62 % 19.37 %	2.39 % 2.46 %
Juno.com	4737 4678	3718 3689	898 886	121 103	78.49 % 78.86 %	18.96 % 18.94 %	2.55 % 2.20 %
Mailfence	4650 4622	3665 3660	881 856	104 106	78.82 % 79.19 %	18.95 % 18.52 %	2.24 % 2.29 %

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