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
76.173 75.657	58.444 58.161	15.941 15.843	1.788 1.653

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 (%)
76.73 % 76.87 %	20.93 % 20.94 %	2.35 % 2.18 %

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	5934 5903	4477 4509	1320 1275	137 119	75.45 % 76.38 %	22.24 % 21.60 %	2.31 % 2.02 %
Elektronics	5704 5971	4394 4588	1180 1243	130 140	77.03 % 76.84 %	20.69 % 20.82 %	2.28 % 2.34 %
Entertainment	5823 5858	4409 4522	1277 1206	137 130	75.72 % 77.19 %	21.93 % 20.59 %	2.35 % 2.22 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5475 5731	4210 4404	1137 1194	128 133	76.89 % 76.85 %	20.77 % 20.83 %	2.34 % 2.32 %
Food & Drink	5949 5950	4521 4562	1286 1268	142 120	76.00 % 76.67 %	21.62 % 21.31 %	2.39 % 2.02 %
Home & Garden	6054 5800	4663 4435	1256 1249	135 116	77.02 % 76.47 %	20.75 % 21.53 %	2.23 % 2.00 %
Finance	5723 5718	4617 4583	969 1005	137 130	80.67 % 80.15 %	16.93 % 17.58 %	2.39 % 2.27 %
Health	5918 5773	4755 4626	1029 1020	134 127	80.35 % 80.13 %	17.39 % 17.67 %	2.26 % 2.20 %
Pets	6007 5906	4583 4501	1288 1276	136 129	76.29 % 76.21 %	21.44 % 21.61 %	2.26 % 2.18 %
Sport & Fitness	5728 5507	4360 4210	1230 1164	138 133	76.12 % 76.45 %	21.47 % 21.14 %	2.41 % 2.42 %
Job & Career	5933 5898	4451 4429	1343 1353	139 116	75.02 % 75.09 %	22.64 % 22.94 %	2.34 % 1.97 %
Dating	5846 5947	4246 4304	1459 1506	141 137	72.63 % 72.37 %	24.96 % 25.32 %	2.41 % 2.30 %
Other	6079 5695	4758 4488	1167 1084	154 123	78.27 % 78.81 %	19.20 % 19.03 %	2.53 % 2.16 %

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	5222 5532	3816 4030	1279 1375	127 127	73.08 % 72.85 %	24.49 % 24.86 %	2.43 % 2.30 %
Outlook Mail	5375 5474	4031 4097	1216 1251	128 126	75.00 % 74.84 %	22.62 % 22.85 %	2.38 % 2.30 %
Yahoo Mail	5536 5396	4220 4115	1193 1168	123 113	76.23 % 76.26 %	21.55 % 21.65 %	2.22 % 2.09 %
AOL Mail	5422 5501	4125 4199	1163 1176	134 126	76.08 % 76.33 %	21.45 % 21.38 %	2.47 % 2.29 %
Mail.com	5494 5440	4277 4213	1093 1111	124 116	77.85 % 77.44 %	19.89 % 20.42 %	2.26 % 2.13 %
Yandex Mail	5575 5434	4223 4130	1221 1180	131 124	75.75 % 76.00 %	21.90 % 21.72 %	2.35 % 2.28 %
GMX Mail	5500 5390	4147 4043	1230 1234	123 113	75.40 % 75.01 %	22.36 % 22.89 %	2.24 % 2.10 %
Zoho Mail	5513 5419	4299 4195	1082 1107	132 117	77.98 % 77.41 %	19.63 % 20.43 %	2.39 % 2.16 %
ProtonMail	5242 5447	4133 4327	985 1010	124 110	78.84 % 79.44 %	18.79 % 18.54 %	2.37 % 2.02 %
Custom Mail	5395 5294	4283 4252	979 921	133 121	79.39 % 80.32 %	18.15 % 17.40 %	2.47 % 2.29 %
iCloud Mail	5576 5411	4038 4002	1413 1299	125 110	72.42 % 73.96 %	25.34 % 24.01 %	2.24 % 2.03 %
Tuta	5566 5421	4357 4282	1086 1018	123 121	78.28 % 78.99 %	19.51 % 18.78 %	2.21 % 2.23 %
Juno.com	5540 5167	4367 4064	1036 983	137 120	78.83 % 78.65 %	18.70 % 19.02 %	2.47 % 2.32 %
Mailfence	5217 5331	4128 4212	965 1010	124 109	79.13 % 79.01 %	18.50 % 18.95 %	2.38 % 2.04 %

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