Mailgun and mailtrap Email Deliverability Comparison

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 Mailgun than for mailtrap.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
44.017 44.825	36.811 36.495	5.653 6.591	1.553 1.739

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. Mailgun beats mailtrap in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
83.63 % 81.42 %	12.84 % 14.70 %	3.53 % 3.88 %

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, Mailgun is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	3375 3418	2897 2857	370 444	108 117	85.84 % 83.59 %	10.96 % 12.99 %	3.20 % 3.42 %
Elektronics	3485 3478	2961 2890	420 477	104 111	84.96 % 83.09 %	12.05 % 13.71 %	2.98 % 3.19 %
Entertainment	3422 3429	2847 2793	448 507	127 129	83.20 % 81.45 %	13.09 % 14.79 %	3.71 % 3.76 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	3408 3395	2839 2747	438 502	131 146	83.30 % 80.91 %	12.85 % 14.79 %	3.84 % 4.30 %
Food & Drink	3326 3450	2871 2894	358 435	97 121	86.32 % 83.88 %	10.76 % 12.61 %	2.92 % 3.51 %
Home & Garden	3289 3451	2817 2896	361 447	111 108	85.65 % 83.92 %	10.98 % 12.95 %	3.37 % 3.13 %
Finance	3340 3549	2716 2798	492 593	132 158	81.32 % 78.84 %	14.73 % 16.71 %	3.95 % 4.45 %
Health	3298 3497	2723 2786	460 554	115 157	82.57 % 79.67 %	13.95 % 15.84 %	3.49 % 4.49 %
Pets	3447 3396	2919 2815	412 468	116 113	84.68 % 82.89 %	11.95 % 13.78 %	3.37 % 3.33 %
Sport & Fitness	3432 3395	2840 2727	478 530	114 138	82.75 % 80.32 %	13.93 % 15.61 %	3.32 % 4.06 %
Job & Career	3383 3468	2723 2741	505 579	155 148	80.49 % 79.04 %	14.93 % 16.70 %	4.58 % 4.27 %
Dating	3357 3395	2722 2665	500 573	135 157	81.08 % 78.50 %	14.89 % 16.88 %	4.02 % 4.62 %
Other	3455 3504	2936 2886	411 482	108 136	84.98 % 82.36 %	11.90 % 13.76 %	3.13 % 3.88 %

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, Mailgun is better than mailtrap.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	3389 3398	2640 2565	592 660	157 173	77.90 % 75.49 %	17.47 % 19.42 %	4.63 % 5.09 %
Outlook Mail	3331 3567	2726 2834	471 582	134 151	81.84 % 79.45 %	14.14 % 16.32 %	4.02 % 4.23 %
Yahoo Mail	3275 3372	2722 2738	433 509	120 125	83.11 % 81.20 %	13.22 % 15.09 %	3.66 % 3.71 %
AOL Mail	3411 3447	2835 2780	455 522	121 145	83.11 % 80.65 %	13.34 % 15.14 %	3.55 % 4.21 %
Mail.com	3478 3544	2931 2907	431 503	116 134	84.27 % 82.03 %	12.39 % 14.19 %	3.34 % 3.78 %
Yandex Mail	3358 3374	2749 2686	482 550	127 138	81.86 % 79.61 %	14.35 % 16.30 %	3.78 % 4.09 %
GMX Mail	3384 3456	2890 2871	385 459	109 126	85.40 % 83.07 %	11.38 % 13.28 %	3.22 % 3.65 %
Zoho Mail	3471 3403	2971 2830	404 441	96 132	85.59 % 83.16 %	11.64 % 12.96 %	2.77 % 3.88 %
ProtonMail	3488 3442	2996 2904	370 419	122 119	85.89 % 84.37 %	10.61 % 12.17 %	3.50 % 3.46 %
Custom Mail	3336 3528	2876 2974	349 442	111 112	86.21 % 84.30 %	10.46 % 12.53 %	3.33 % 3.17 %
iCloud Mail	3353 3495	2661 2690	548 642	144 163	79.36 % 76.97 %	16.34 % 18.37 %	4.29 % 4.66 %
Tuta	3362 3355	2886 2805	379 440	97 110	85.84 % 83.61 %	11.27 % 13.11 %	2.89 % 3.28 %
Juno.com	3381 3444	2928 2911	354 422	99 111	86.60 % 84.52 %	10.47 % 12.25 %	2.93 % 3.22 %

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