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 Mailgun than for SendGrid.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
64.943 65.240	50.213 50.398	13.299 13.343	1.431 1.499

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 SendGrid in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
77.32 % 77.25 %	20.48 % 20.45 %	2.20 % 2.30 %

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 5144	3830 3942	1056 1089	102 113	76.78 % 76.63 %	21.17 % 21.17 %	2.04 % 2.20 %
Elektronics	4810 5097	3757 3976	951 1002	102 119	78.11 % 78.01 %	19.77 % 19.66 %	2.12 % 2.33 %
Entertainment	4867 4972	3720 3825	1043 1026	104 121	76.43 % 76.93 %	21.43 % 20.64 %	2.14 % 2.43 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4702 5020	3634 3906	960 996	108 118	77.29 % 77.81 %	20.42 % 19.84 %	2.30 % 2.35 %
Food & Drink	4946 5074	3838 3899	999 1053	109 122	77.60 % 76.84 %	20.20 % 20.75 %	2.20 % 2.40 %
Home & Garden	5165 4840	4008 3707	1049 1032	108 101	77.60 % 76.59 %	20.31 % 21.32 %	2.09 % 2.09 %
Finance	4945 5019	4009 4029	821 866	115 124	81.07 % 80.27 %	16.60 % 17.25 %	2.33 % 2.47 %
Health	5011 4997	4045 4040	860 845	106 112	80.72 % 80.85 %	17.16 % 16.91 %	2.12 % 2.24 %
Pets	5249 5068	4011 3904	1122 1049	116 115	76.41 % 77.03 %	21.38 % 20.70 %	2.21 % 2.27 %
Sport & Fitness	4961 5024	3798 3885	1044 1018	119 121	76.56 % 77.33 %	21.04 % 20.26 %	2.40 % 2.41 %
Job & Career	5017 4771	3788 3565	1114 1105	115 101	75.50 % 74.72 %	22.20 % 23.16 %	2.29 % 2.12 %
Dating	5171 5104	3792 3694	1263 1299	116 111	73.33 % 72.37 %	24.42 % 25.45 %	2.24 % 2.17 %
Other	5111 5110	3983 4026	1017 963	111 121	77.93 % 78.79 %	19.90 % 18.85 %	2.17 % 2.37 %

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 SendGrid.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	4486 4516	3320 3314	1070 1112	96 90	74.01 % 73.38 %	23.85 % 24.62 %	2.14 % 1.99 %
Outlook Mail	4590 4739	3482 3592	1006 1043	102 104	75.86 % 75.80 %	21.92 % 22.01 %	2.22 % 2.19 %
Yahoo Mail	4804 4427	3675 3389	1029 940	100 98	76.50 % 76.55 %	21.42 % 21.23 %	2.08 % 2.21 %
AOL Mail	4521 4710	3468 3568	949 1026	104 116	76.71 % 75.75 %	20.99 % 21.78 %	2.30 % 2.46 %
Mail.com	4696 4794	3687 3752	906 936	103 106	78.51 % 78.26 %	19.29 % 19.52 %	2.19 % 2.21 %
Yandex Mail	4875 4688	3719 3594	1047 992	109 102	76.29 % 76.66 %	21.48 % 21.16 %	2.24 % 2.18 %
GMX Mail	4452 4597	3376 3470	977 1022	99 105	75.83 % 75.48 %	21.95 % 22.23 %	2.22 % 2.28 %
Zoho Mail	4689 4658	3696 3631	887 921	106 106	78.82 % 77.95 %	18.92 % 19.77 %	2.26 % 2.28 %
ProtonMail	4614 4591	3664 3647	850 838	100 106	79.41 % 79.44 %	18.42 % 18.25 %	2.17 % 2.31 %
Custom Mail	4463 4670	3580 3774	790 786	93 110	80.22 % 80.81 %	17.70 % 16.83 %	2.08 % 2.36 %
iCloud Mail	4618 4601	3339 3413	1177 1077	102 111	72.30 % 74.18 %	25.49 % 23.41 %	2.21 % 2.41 %
Tuta	4732 4704	3725 3733	903 858	104 113	78.72 % 79.36 %	19.08 % 18.24 %	2.20 % 2.40 %
Juno.com	4718 4751	3738 3746	866 888	114 117	79.23 % 78.85 %	18.36 % 18.69 %	2.42 % 2.46 %
Mailfence	4685 4794	3744 3775	842 904	99 115	79.91 % 78.74 %	17.97 % 18.86 %	2.11 % 2.40 %

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