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
75.969 75.551	58.252 58.133	15.942 15.767	1.775 1.651

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 (%)
76.68 % 76.95 %	20.98 % 20.87 %	2.34 % 2.19 %

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	5772 5811	4368 4441	1279 1249	125 121	75.68 % 76.42 %	22.16 % 21.49 %	2.17 % 2.08 %
Elektronics	5578 6039	4314 4639	1144 1255	120 145	77.34 % 76.82 %	20.51 % 20.78 %	2.15 % 2.40 %
Entertainment	5696 5903	4302 4574	1257 1203	137 126	75.53 % 77.49 %	22.07 % 20.38 %	2.41 % 2.13 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5480 5801	4213 4452	1140 1216	127 133	76.88 % 76.75 %	20.80 % 20.96 %	2.32 % 2.29 %
Food & Drink	5929 5889	4520 4505	1270 1258	139 126	76.24 % 76.50 %	21.42 % 21.36 %	2.34 % 2.14 %
Home & Garden	6035 5754	4645 4435	1255 1199	135 120	76.97 % 77.08 %	20.80 % 20.84 %	2.24 % 2.09 %
Finance	5761 5792	4634 4635	987 1035	140 122	80.44 % 80.02 %	17.13 % 17.87 %	2.43 % 2.11 %
Health	5904 5759	4730 4621	1038 1015	136 123	80.12 % 80.24 %	17.58 % 17.62 %	2.30 % 2.14 %
Pets	6059 5948	4606 4551	1312 1266	141 131	76.02 % 76.51 %	21.65 % 21.28 %	2.33 % 2.20 %
Sport & Fitness	5799 5636	4399 4297	1259 1209	141 130	75.86 % 76.24 %	21.71 % 21.45 %	2.43 % 2.31 %
Job & Career	6027 5765	4520 4326	1367 1323	140 116	75.00 % 75.04 %	22.68 % 22.95 %	2.32 % 2.01 %
Dating	5859 5826	4269 4229	1448 1464	142 133	72.86 % 72.59 %	24.71 % 25.13 %	2.42 % 2.28 %
Other	6070 5628	4732 4428	1186 1075	152 125	77.96 % 78.68 %	19.54 % 19.10 %	2.50 % 2.22 %

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	5195 5598	3821 4089	1250 1378	124 131	73.55 % 73.04 %	24.06 % 24.62 %	2.39 % 2.34 %
Outlook Mail	5364 5540	4008 4155	1229 1260	127 125	74.72 % 75.00 %	22.91 % 22.74 %	2.37 % 2.26 %
Yahoo Mail	5576 5379	4236 4103	1215 1165	125 111	75.97 % 76.28 %	21.79 % 21.66 %	2.24 % 2.06 %
AOL Mail	5319 5582	4046 4278	1147 1178	126 126	76.07 % 76.64 %	21.56 % 21.10 %	2.37 % 2.26 %
Mail.com	5606 5366	4357 4162	1120 1093	129 111	77.72 % 77.56 %	19.98 % 20.37 %	2.30 % 2.07 %
Yandex Mail	5600 5451	4240 4130	1227 1196	133 125	75.71 % 75.77 %	21.91 % 21.94 %	2.38 % 2.29 %
GMX Mail	5388 5369	4060 4035	1204 1222	124 112	75.35 % 75.15 %	22.35 % 22.76 %	2.30 % 2.09 %
Zoho Mail	5479 5412	4270 4185	1075 1103	134 124	77.93 % 77.33 %	19.62 % 20.38 %	2.45 % 2.29 %
ProtonMail	5318 5363	4192 4265	1000 990	126 108	78.83 % 79.53 %	18.80 % 18.46 %	2.37 % 2.01 %
Custom Mail	5364 5238	4263 4218	978 905	123 115	79.47 % 80.53 %	18.23 % 17.28 %	2.29 % 2.20 %
iCloud Mail	5554 5364	3997 3961	1428 1294	129 109	71.97 % 73.84 %	25.71 % 24.12 %	2.32 % 2.03 %
Tuta	5522 5381	4326 4269	1074 994	122 118	78.34 % 79.33 %	19.45 % 18.47 %	2.21 % 2.19 %
Juno.com	5453 5132	4294 4047	1024 963	135 122	78.75 % 78.86 %	18.78 % 18.76 %	2.48 % 2.38 %
Mailfence	5231 5376	4142 4236	971 1026	118 114	79.18 % 78.79 %	18.56 % 19.08 %	2.26 % 2.12 %

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