Mailgun and mailtrap Email Deliverability Comparison

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In this comparison, the deliverability of Mailgun and mailtrap 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 mailtrap than for Mailgun.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
64.823 64.658	49.612 49.747	13.681 13.457	1.530 1.454

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. mailtrap beats Mailgun in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.53 % 76.94 %	21.11 % 20.81 %	2.36 % 2.25 %

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, mailtrap is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	4967 4843	3819 3711	1044 1030	104 102	76.89 % 76.63 %	21.02 % 21.27 %	2.09 % 2.11 %
Elektronics	4857 5066	3760 3936	980 1021	117 109	77.41 % 77.69 %	20.18 % 20.15 %	2.41 % 2.15 %
Entertainment	4771 5063	3618 3908	1040 1047	113 108	75.83 % 77.19 %	21.80 % 20.68 %	2.37 % 2.13 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4820 4940	3701 3799	1006 1017	113 124	76.78 % 76.90 %	20.87 % 20.59 %	2.34 % 2.51 %
Food & Drink	4984 4982	3807 3793	1055 1075	122 114	76.38 % 76.13 %	21.17 % 21.58 %	2.45 % 2.29 %
Home & Garden	5148 4922	3953 3762	1083 1049	112 111	76.79 % 76.43 %	21.04 % 21.31 %	2.18 % 2.26 %
Finance	4877 4833	3936 3878	824 854	117 101	80.71 % 80.24 %	16.90 % 17.67 %	2.40 % 2.09 %
Health	4966 5019	3934 4046	915 861	117 112	79.22 % 80.61 %	18.43 % 17.15 %	2.36 % 2.23 %
Pets	5194 5067	3913 3871	1153 1079	128 117	75.34 % 76.40 %	22.20 % 21.29 %	2.46 % 2.31 %
Sport & Fitness	5132 5030	3914 3814	1088 1101	130 115	76.27 % 75.83 %	21.20 % 21.89 %	2.53 % 2.29 %
Job & Career	4862 4855	3595 3643	1152 1105	115 107	73.94 % 75.04 %	23.69 % 22.76 %	2.37 % 2.20 %
Dating	5050 5093	3652 3713	1280 1258	118 122	72.32 % 72.90 %	25.35 % 24.70 %	2.34 % 2.40 %
Other	5195 4945	4010 3873	1061 960	124 112	77.19 % 78.32 %	20.42 % 19.41 %	2.39 % 2.26 %

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, mailtrap is better than Mailgun.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	4496 4773	3284 3494	1109 1158	103 121	73.04 % 73.20 %	24.67 % 24.26 %	2.29 % 2.54 %
Outlook Mail	4640 4689	3442 3523	1082 1062	116 104	74.18 % 75.13 %	23.32 % 22.65 %	2.50 % 2.22 %
Yahoo Mail	4702 4650	3545 3535	1045 1009	112 106	75.39 % 76.02 %	22.22 % 21.70 %	2.38 % 2.28 %
AOL Mail	4529 4656	3443 3530	987 1016	99 110	76.02 % 75.82 %	21.79 % 21.82 %	2.19 % 2.36 %
Mail.com	4597 4552	3574 3558	916 899	107 95	77.75 % 78.16 %	19.93 % 19.75 %	2.33 % 2.09 %
Yandex Mail	4806 4788	3627 3636	1063 1046	116 106	75.47 % 75.94 %	22.12 % 21.85 %	2.41 % 2.21 %
GMX Mail	4404 4719	3284 3584	1016 1028	104 107	74.57 % 75.95 %	23.07 % 21.78 %	2.36 % 2.27 %
Zoho Mail	4758 4561	3712 3515	927 936	119 110	78.02 % 77.07 %	19.48 % 20.52 %	2.50 % 2.41 %
ProtonMail	4614 4551	3641 3606	870 847	103 98	78.91 % 79.24 %	18.86 % 18.61 %	2.23 % 2.15 %
Custom Mail	4551 4618	3632 3705	820 816	99 97	79.81 % 80.23 %	18.02 % 17.67 %	2.18 % 2.10 %
iCloud Mail	4634 4500	3330 3318	1190 1079	114 103	71.86 % 73.73 %	25.68 % 23.98 %	2.46 % 2.29 %
Tuta	4650 4585	3645 3628	897 856	108 101	78.39 % 79.13 %	19.29 % 18.67 %	2.32 % 2.20 %
Juno.com	4689 4449	3684 3511	883 837	122 101	78.57 % 78.92 %	18.83 % 18.81 %	2.60 % 2.27 %
Mailfence	4753 4567	3769 3604	876 868	108 95	79.30 % 78.91 %	18.43 % 19.01 %	2.27 % 2.08 %

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