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 Mailgun than for mailtrap.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
64.943 64.136	50.213 49.496	13.299 13.214	1.431 1.426

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 (%)
77.32 % 77.17 %	20.48 % 20.60 %	2.20 % 2.22 %

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	4988 4940	3830 3791	1056 1042	102 107	76.78 % 76.74 %	21.17 % 21.09 %	2.04 % 2.17 %
Elektronics	4810 5186	3757 3998	951 1069	102 119	78.11 % 77.09 %	19.77 % 20.61 %	2.12 % 2.29 %
Entertainment	4867 5106	3720 3964	1043 1030	104 112	76.43 % 77.63 %	21.43 % 20.17 %	2.14 % 2.19 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4702 4814	3634 3704	960 994	108 116	77.29 % 76.94 %	20.42 % 20.65 %	2.30 % 2.41 %
Food & Drink	4946 4943	3838 3809	999 1022	109 112	77.60 % 77.06 %	20.20 % 20.68 %	2.20 % 2.27 %
Home & Garden	5165 4852	4008 3732	1049 1013	108 107	77.60 % 76.92 %	20.31 % 20.88 %	2.09 % 2.21 %
Finance	4945 4958	4009 3966	821 893	115 99	81.07 % 79.99 %	16.60 % 18.01 %	2.33 % 2.00 %
Health	5011 4960	4045 4002	860 855	106 103	80.72 % 80.69 %	17.16 % 17.24 %	2.12 % 2.08 %
Pets	5249 5020	4011 3857	1122 1053	116 110	76.41 % 76.83 %	21.38 % 20.98 %	2.21 % 2.19 %
Sport & Fitness	4961 4910	3798 3742	1044 1050	119 118	76.56 % 76.21 %	21.04 % 21.38 %	2.40 % 2.40 %
Job & Career	5017 4867	3788 3650	1114 1114	115 103	75.50 % 74.99 %	22.20 % 22.89 %	2.29 % 2.12 %
Dating	5171 4833	3792 3542	1263 1178	116 113	73.33 % 73.29 %	24.42 % 24.37 %	2.24 % 2.34 %
Other	5111 4747	3983 3739	1017 901	111 107	77.93 % 78.77 %	19.90 % 18.98 %	2.17 % 2.25 %

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	4486 4712	3320 3466	1070 1129	96 117	74.01 % 73.56 %	23.85 % 23.96 %	2.14 % 2.48 %
Outlook Mail	4590 4643	3482 3482	1006 1050	102 111	75.86 % 74.99 %	21.92 % 22.61 %	2.22 % 2.39 %
Yahoo Mail	4804 4550	3675 3485	1029 965	100 100	76.50 % 76.59 %	21.42 % 21.21 %	2.08 % 2.20 %
AOL Mail	4521 4714	3468 3619	949 986	104 109	76.71 % 76.77 %	20.99 % 20.92 %	2.30 % 2.31 %
Mail.com	4696 4518	3687 3528	906 900	103 90	78.51 % 78.09 %	19.29 % 19.92 %	2.19 % 1.99 %
Yandex Mail	4875 4813	3719 3646	1047 1057	109 110	76.29 % 75.75 %	21.48 % 21.96 %	2.24 % 2.29 %
GMX Mail	4452 4500	3376 3404	977 1000	99 96	75.83 % 75.64 %	21.95 % 22.22 %	2.22 % 2.13 %
Zoho Mail	4689 4566	3696 3545	887 916	106 105	78.82 % 77.64 %	18.92 % 20.06 %	2.26 % 2.30 %
ProtonMail	4614 4557	3664 3626	850 832	100 99	79.41 % 79.57 %	18.42 % 18.26 %	2.17 % 2.17 %
Custom Mail	4463 4515	3580 3635	790 778	93 102	80.22 % 80.51 %	17.70 % 17.23 %	2.08 % 2.26 %
iCloud Mail	4618 4603	3339 3405	1177 1103	102 95	72.30 % 73.97 %	25.49 % 23.96 %	2.21 % 2.06 %
Tuta	4732 4562	3725 3625	903 838	104 99	78.72 % 79.46 %	19.08 % 18.37 %	2.20 % 2.17 %
Juno.com	4718 4367	3738 3461	866 807	114 99	79.23 % 79.25 %	18.36 % 18.48 %	2.42 % 2.27 %
Mailfence	4685 4516	3744 3569	842 853	99 94	79.91 % 79.03 %	17.97 % 18.89 %	2.11 % 2.08 %

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