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
65.051 64.339	49.710 49.599	13.808 13.283	1.533 1.457

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 (%)
76.42 % 77.09 %	21.23 % 20.65 %	2.36 % 2.26 %

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	4950 4906	3776 3763	1063 1039	111 104	76.28 % 76.70 %	21.47 % 21.18 %	2.24 % 2.12 %
Elektronics	4824 5247	3726 4073	990 1055	108 119	77.24 % 77.63 %	20.52 % 20.11 %	2.24 % 2.27 %
Entertainment	4763 5049	3599 3918	1056 1019	108 112	75.56 % 77.60 %	22.17 % 20.18 %	2.27 % 2.22 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4814 4855	3667 3723	1032 1013	115 119	76.17 % 76.68 %	21.44 % 20.87 %	2.39 % 2.45 %
Food & Drink	5041 4989	3858 3819	1063 1051	120 119	76.53 % 76.55 %	21.09 % 21.07 %	2.38 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	5187 4872	3979 3742	1094 1022	114 108	76.71 % 76.81 %	21.09 % 20.98 %	2.20 % 2.22 %
Finance	4952 4798	3994 3841	838 859	120 98	80.65 % 80.05 %	16.92 % 17.90 %	2.42 % 2.04 %
Health	4979 4968	3962 4019	905 839	112 110	79.57 % 80.90 %	18.18 % 16.89 %	2.25 % 2.21 %
Pets	5199 5064	3914 3872	1160 1078	125 114	75.28 % 76.46 %	22.31 % 21.29 %	2.40 % 2.25 %
Sport & Fitness	5194 4916	3934 3751	1125 1050	135 115	75.74 % 76.30 %	21.66 % 21.36 %	2.60 % 2.34 %
Job & Career	4953 4828	3664 3629	1169 1090	120 109	73.98 % 75.17 %	23.60 % 22.58 %	2.42 % 2.26 %
Dating	5055 4994	3666 3652	1266 1221	123 121	72.52 % 73.13 %	25.04 % 24.45 %	2.43 % 2.42 %
Other	5140 4853	3971 3797	1047 947	122 109	77.26 % 78.24 %	20.37 % 19.51 %	2.37 % 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, mailtrap is better than Mailgun.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	4581 4718	3340 3470	1135 1133	106 115	72.91 % 73.55 %	24.78 % 24.01 %	2.31 % 2.44 %
Outlook Mail	4667 4652	3480 3502	1076 1038	111 112	74.57 % 75.28 %	23.06 % 22.31 %	2.38 % 2.41 %
Yahoo Mail	4748 4641	3582 3548	1059 985	107 108	75.44 % 76.45 %	22.30 % 21.22 %	2.25 % 2.33 %
AOL Mail	4543 4789	3434 3647	1001 1028	108 114	75.59 % 76.15 %	22.03 % 21.47 %	2.38 % 2.38 %
Mail.com	4701 4609	3659 3613	930 901	112 95	77.83 % 78.39 %	19.78 % 19.55 %	2.38 % 2.06 %
Yandex Mail	4869 4777	3670 3631	1084 1033	115 113	75.37 % 76.01 %	22.26 % 21.62 %	2.36 % 2.37 %
GMX Mail	4425 4588	3314 3487	1004 999	107 102	74.89 % 76.00 %	22.69 % 21.77 %	2.42 % 2.22 %
Zoho Mail	4663 4524	3641 3504	908 920	114 100	78.08 % 77.45 %	19.47 % 20.34 %	2.44 % 2.21 %
ProtonMail	4623 4578	3633 3638	884 839	106 101	78.59 % 79.47 %	19.12 % 18.33 %	2.29 % 2.21 %
Custom Mail	4532 4531	3602 3641	829 787	101 103	79.48 % 80.36 %	18.29 % 17.37 %	2.23 % 2.27 %
iCloud Mail	4593 4482	3292 3315	1193 1068	108 99	71.67 % 73.96 %	25.97 % 23.83 %	2.35 % 2.21 %
Tuta	4719 4533	3680 3592	926 840	113 101	77.98 % 79.24 %	19.62 % 18.53 %	2.39 % 2.23 %
Juno.com	4737 4441	3718 3492	898 848	121 101	78.49 % 78.63 %	18.96 % 19.09 %	2.55 % 2.27 %
Mailfence	4650 4476	3665 3519	881 864	104 93	78.82 % 78.62 %	18.95 % 19.30 %	2.24 % 2.08 %

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