Mailgun and SendGrid Email Deliverability Comparison

Mailgun

SendGrid

In this comparison, the deliverability of Mailgun and SendGrid 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 SendGrid than for Mailgun.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
75.674 75.883	58.172 58.419	15.752 15.646	1.750 1.818

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. SendGrid beats Mailgun in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.87 % 76.99 %	20.82 % 20.62 %	2.31 % 2.40 %

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, SendGrid is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5807 5963	4432 4546	1249 1277	126 140	76.32 % 76.24 %	21.51 % 21.42 %	2.17 % 2.35 %
Elektronics	5609 6002	4350 4662	1135 1193	124 147	77.55 % 77.67 %	20.24 % 19.88 %	2.21 % 2.45 %
Entertainment	5693 5767	4321 4427	1238 1196	134 144	75.90 % 76.76 %	21.75 % 20.74 %	2.35 % 2.50 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5442 5849	4193 4533	1123 1172	126 144	77.05 % 77.50 %	20.64 % 20.04 %	2.32 % 2.46 %
Food & Drink	5827 5864	4468 4503	1220 1220	139 141	76.68 % 76.79 %	20.94 % 20.80 %	2.39 % 2.40 %
Home & Garden	6002 5642	4637 4306	1232 1204	133 132	77.26 % 76.32 %	20.53 % 21.34 %	2.22 % 2.34 %
Finance	5689 5836	4586 4668	968 1022	135 146	80.61 % 79.99 %	17.02 % 17.51 %	2.37 % 2.50 %
Health	5901 5787	4740 4662	1029 989	132 136	80.33 % 80.56 %	17.44 % 17.09 %	2.24 % 2.35 %
Pets	6106 5847	4646 4494	1322 1217	138 136	76.09 % 76.86 %	21.65 % 20.81 %	2.26 % 2.33 %
Sport & Fitness	5766 5781	4387 4456	1235 1182	144 143	76.08 % 77.08 %	21.42 % 20.45 %	2.50 % 2.47 %
Job & Career	5894 5626	4429 4169	1326 1327	139 130	75.14 % 74.10 %	22.50 % 23.59 %	2.36 % 2.31 %
Dating	5917 5974	4302 4319	1476 1523	139 132	72.71 % 72.30 %	24.95 % 25.49 %	2.35 % 2.21 %
Other	6021 5945	4681 4674	1199 1124	141 147	77.74 % 78.62 %	19.91 % 18.91 %	2.34 % 2.47 %

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, SendGrid is better than Mailgun.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5225 5221	3843 3834	1261 1276	121 111	73.55 % 73.43 %	24.13 % 24.44 %	2.32 % 2.13 %
Outlook Mail	5372 5479	4050 4125	1197 1225	125 129	75.39 % 75.29 %	22.28 % 22.36 %	2.33 % 2.35 %
Yahoo Mail	5614 5230	4270 3999	1223 1107	121 124	76.06 % 76.46 %	21.78 % 21.17 %	2.16 % 2.37 %
AOL Mail	5264 5433	4012 4108	1129 1189	123 136	76.22 % 75.61 %	21.45 % 21.88 %	2.34 % 2.50 %
Mail.com	5427 5580	4242 4346	1064 1107	121 127	78.16 % 77.89 %	19.61 % 19.84 %	2.23 % 2.28 %
Yandex Mail	5673 5471	4290 4172	1249 1176	134 123	75.62 % 76.26 %	22.02 % 21.50 %	2.36 % 2.25 %
GMX Mail	5269 5383	3982 4056	1162 1196	125 131	75.57 % 75.35 %	22.05 % 22.22 %	2.37 % 2.43 %
Zoho Mail	5447 5433	4246 4211	1069 1092	132 130	77.95 % 77.51 %	19.63 % 20.10 %	2.42 % 2.39 %
ProtonMail	5379 5334	4253 4222	1002 984	124 128	79.07 % 79.15 %	18.63 % 18.45 %	2.31 % 2.40 %
Custom Mail	5254 5464	4185 4394	952 933	117 137	79.65 % 80.42 %	18.12 % 17.08 %	2.23 % 2.51 %
iCloud Mail	5489 5390	3954 3977	1408 1283	127 130	72.03 % 73.78 %	25.65 % 23.80 %	2.31 % 2.41 %
Tuta	5433 5469	4263 4328	1045 1006	125 135	78.46 % 79.14 %	19.23 % 18.39 %	2.30 % 2.47 %
Juno.com	5454 5495	4307 4329	1009 1025	138 141	78.97 % 78.78 %	18.50 % 18.65 %	2.53 % 2.57 %
Mailfence	5374 5501	4275 4318	982 1047	117 136	79.55 % 78.49 %	18.27 % 19.03 %	2.18 % 2.47 %

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