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
61.832 62.804	51.727 50.873	7.939 9.435	2.166 2.496

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 (%)
83.66 % 81.00 %	12.84 % 15.02 %	3.50 % 3.97 %

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	4767 4783	4106 3983	518 634	143 166	86.13 % 83.27 %	10.87 % 13.26 %	3.00 % 3.47 %
Elektronics	4874 4864	4152 4018	580 684	142 162	85.19 % 82.61 %	11.90 % 14.06 %	2.91 % 3.33 %
Entertainment	4794 4822	3993 3907	632 725	169 190	83.29 % 81.02 %	13.18 % 15.04 %	3.53 % 3.94 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4784 4810	3991 3866	613 728	180 216	83.42 % 80.37 %	12.81 % 15.14 %	3.76 % 4.49 %
Food & Drink	4759 4848	4089 4045	519 630	151 173	85.92 % 83.44 %	10.91 % 13.00 %	3.17 % 3.57 %
Home & Garden	4617 4844	3955 4041	508 639	154 164	85.66 % 83.42 %	11.00 % 13.19 %	3.34 % 3.39 %
Finance	4732 4868	3841 3817	700 829	191 222	81.17 % 78.41 %	14.79 % 17.03 %	4.04 % 4.56 %
Health	4670 4846	3855 3857	651 779	164 210	82.55 % 79.59 %	13.94 % 16.08 %	3.51 % 4.33 %
Pets	4823 4815	4101 3967	571 685	151 163	85.03 % 82.39 %	11.84 % 14.23 %	3.13 % 3.39 %
Sport & Fitness	4744 4820	3918 3845	665 770	161 205	82.59 % 79.77 %	14.02 % 15.98 %	3.39 % 4.25 %
Job & Career	4768 4785	3842 3758	710 814	216 213	80.58 % 78.54 %	14.89 % 17.01 %	4.53 % 4.45 %
Dating	4695 4765	3808 3712	701 823	186 230	81.11 % 77.90 %	14.93 % 17.27 %	3.96 % 4.83 %
Other	4805 4934	4076 4057	571 695	158 182	84.83 % 82.23 %	11.88 % 14.09 %	3.29 % 3.69 %

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	4684 4834	3649 3631	821 952	214 251	77.90 % 75.11 %	17.53 % 19.69 %	4.57 % 5.19 %
Outlook Mail	4710 4990	3851 3959	670 828	189 203	81.76 % 79.34 %	14.23 % 16.59 %	4.01 % 4.07 %
Yahoo Mail	4666 4777	3887 3866	618 741	161 170	83.30 % 80.93 %	13.24 % 15.51 %	3.45 % 3.56 %
AOL Mail	4831 4886	4015 3928	642 750	174 208	83.11 % 80.39 %	13.29 % 15.35 %	3.60 % 4.26 %
Mail.com	4833 4941	4080 4019	597 721	156 201	84.42 % 81.34 %	12.35 % 14.59 %	3.23 % 4.07 %
Yandex Mail	4769 4829	3895 3811	684 799	190 219	81.67 % 78.92 %	14.34 % 16.55 %	3.98 % 4.54 %
GMX Mail	4732 4774	4054 3957	535 647	143 170	85.67 % 82.89 %	11.31 % 13.55 %	3.02 % 3.56 %
Zoho Mail	4861 4781	4152 3971	562 637	147 173	85.41 % 83.06 %	11.56 % 13.32 %	3.02 % 3.62 %
ProtonMail	4769 4804	4106 4031	507 599	156 174	86.10 % 83.91 %	10.63 % 12.47 %	3.27 % 3.62 %
Custom Mail	4632 4890	4010 4092	483 629	139 169	86.57 % 83.68 %	10.43 % 12.86 %	3.00 % 3.46 %
iCloud Mail	4709 4824	3736 3692	768 899	205 233	79.34 % 76.53 %	16.31 % 18.64 %	4.35 % 4.83 %
Tuta	4827 4686	4128 3893	547 630	152 163	85.52 % 83.08 %	11.33 % 13.44 %	3.15 % 3.48 %
Juno.com	4809 4788	4164 4023	505 603	140 162	86.59 % 84.02 %	10.50 % 12.59 %	2.91 % 3.38 %

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