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
76.077 76.316	58.049 58.485	16.197 16.034	1.831 1.797

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 (%)
76.30 % 76.64 %	21.29 % 21.01 %	2.41 % 2.35 %

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	5855 5892	4381 4476	1335 1286	139 130	74.82 % 75.97 %	22.80 % 21.83 %	2.37 % 2.21 %
Elektronics	5720 5947	4393 4575	1197 1226	130 146	76.80 % 76.93 %	20.93 % 20.62 %	2.27 % 2.46 %
Entertainment	5826 5912	4378 4538	1308 1236	140 138	75.15 % 76.76 %	22.45 % 20.91 %	2.40 % 2.33 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5567 5795	4251 4451	1178 1200	138 144	76.36 % 76.81 %	21.16 % 20.71 %	2.48 % 2.48 %
Food & Drink	5934 5939	4495 4534	1297 1274	142 131	75.75 % 76.34 %	21.86 % 21.45 %	2.39 % 2.21 %
Home & Garden	6032 5853	4622 4457	1271 1261	139 135	76.62 % 76.15 %	21.07 % 21.54 %	2.30 % 2.31 %
Finance	5773 5858	4627 4672	1004 1038	142 148	80.15 % 79.75 %	17.39 % 17.72 %	2.46 % 2.53 %
Health	5946 5846	4761 4670	1046 1034	139 142	80.07 % 79.88 %	17.59 % 17.69 %	2.34 % 2.43 %
Pets	6019 5998	4567 4582	1316 1278	136 138	75.88 % 76.39 %	21.86 % 21.31 %	2.26 % 2.30 %
Sport & Fitness	5650 5585	4296 4255	1212 1190	142 140	76.04 % 76.19 %	21.45 % 21.31 %	2.51 % 2.51 %
Job & Career	5992 5959	4477 4437	1374 1396	141 126	74.72 % 74.46 %	22.93 % 23.43 %	2.35 % 2.11 %
Dating	5742 5917	4123 4265	1477 1509	142 143	71.80 % 72.08 %	25.72 % 25.50 %	2.47 % 2.42 %
Other	6021 5815	4678 4573	1182 1106	161 136	77.69 % 78.64 %	19.63 % 19.02 %	2.67 % 2.34 %

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	5339 5538	3890 4036	1319 1364	130 138	72.86 % 72.88 %	24.71 % 24.63 %	2.43 % 2.49 %
Outlook Mail	5428 5599	4057 4175	1231 1285	140 139	74.74 % 74.57 %	22.68 % 22.95 %	2.58 % 2.48 %
Yahoo Mail	5411 5398	4099 4102	1193 1175	119 121	75.75 % 75.99 %	22.05 % 21.77 %	2.20 % 2.24 %
AOL Mail	5425 5562	4095 4247	1195 1185	135 130	75.48 % 76.36 %	22.03 % 21.31 %	2.49 % 2.34 %
Mail.com	5451 5464	4218 4228	1104 1112	129 124	77.38 % 77.38 %	20.25 % 20.35 %	2.37 % 2.27 %
Yandex Mail	5527 5402	4169 4086	1225 1184	133 132	75.43 % 75.64 %	22.16 % 21.92 %	2.41 % 2.44 %
GMX Mail	5613 5378	4213 4007	1270 1245	130 126	75.06 % 74.51 %	22.63 % 23.15 %	2.32 % 2.34 %
Zoho Mail	5391 5409	4175 4176	1085 1113	131 120	77.44 % 77.20 %	20.13 % 20.58 %	2.43 % 2.22 %
ProtonMail	5330 5489	4184 4328	1019 1034	127 127	78.50 % 78.85 %	19.12 % 18.84 %	2.38 % 2.31 %
Custom Mail	5403 5339	4262 4282	1005 929	136 128	78.88 % 80.20 %	18.60 % 17.40 %	2.52 % 2.40 %
iCloud Mail	5561 5550	4002 4075	1431 1351	128 124	71.97 % 73.42 %	25.73 % 24.34 %	2.30 % 2.23 %
Tuta	5603 5500	4371 4351	1107 1017	125 132	78.01 % 79.11 %	19.76 % 18.49 %	2.23 % 2.40 %
Juno.com	5389 5235	4224 4105	1029 1004	136 126	78.38 % 78.41 %	19.09 % 19.18 %	2.52 % 2.41 %
Mailfence	5206 5453	4090 4287	984 1036	132 130	78.56 % 78.62 %	18.90 % 19.00 %	2.54 % 2.38 %

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