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
65.108 65.185	50.027 50.153	13.594 13.533	1.487 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. SendGrid beats Mailgun in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.84 % 76.94 %	20.88 % 20.76 %	2.28 % 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, SendGrid is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5003 5061	3890 3889	1011 1054	102 118	77.75 % 76.84 %	20.21 % 20.83 %	2.04 % 2.33 %
Elektronics	4994 5043	3875 3919	998 1007	121 117	77.59 % 77.71 %	19.98 % 19.97 %	2.42 % 2.32 %
Entertainment	4888 5009	3723 3816	1050 1073	115 120	76.17 % 76.18 %	21.48 % 21.42 %	2.35 % 2.40 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4954 5165	3827 3989	1017 1056	110 120	77.25 % 77.23 %	20.53 % 20.45 %	2.22 % 2.32 %
Food & Drink	4881 5126	3760 3916	1006 1094	115 116	77.03 % 76.39 %	20.61 % 21.34 %	2.36 % 2.26 %
Home & Garden	5164 4941	3981 3776	1073 1057	110 108	77.09 % 76.42 %	20.78 % 21.39 %	2.13 % 2.19 %
Finance	5006 4994	4057 4012	832 860	117 122	81.04 % 80.34 %	16.62 % 17.22 %	2.34 % 2.44 %
Health	4959 5103	3945 4121	900 869	114 113	79.55 % 80.76 %	18.15 % 17.03 %	2.30 % 2.21 %
Pets	5179 5124	3911 3911	1143 1090	125 123	75.52 % 76.33 %	22.07 % 21.27 %	2.41 % 2.40 %
Sport & Fitness	5062 4949	3851 3797	1090 1030	121 122	76.08 % 76.72 %	21.53 % 20.81 %	2.39 % 2.47 %
Job & Career	4784 4643	3538 3435	1140 1105	106 103	73.95 % 73.98 %	23.83 % 23.80 %	2.22 % 2.22 %
Dating	5029 5001	3637 3629	1277 1261	115 111	72.32 % 72.57 %	25.39 % 25.21 %	2.29 % 2.22 %
Other	5205 5026	4032 3943	1057 977	116 106	77.46 % 78.45 %	20.31 % 19.44 %	2.23 % 2.11 %

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	4665 4467	3427 3273	1133 1084	105 110	73.46 % 73.27 %	24.29 % 24.27 %	2.25 % 2.46 %
Outlook Mail	4729 4749	3527 3602	1091 1046	111 101	74.58 % 75.85 %	23.07 % 22.03 %	2.35 % 2.13 %
Yahoo Mail	4699 4588	3550 3513	1040 970	109 105	75.55 % 76.57 %	22.13 % 21.14 %	2.32 % 2.29 %
AOL Mail	4477 4540	3422 3433	957 999	98 108	76.44 % 75.62 %	21.38 % 22.00 %	2.19 % 2.38 %
Mail.com	4529 4832	3538 3771	885 952	106 109	78.12 % 78.04 %	19.54 % 19.70 %	2.34 % 2.26 %
Yandex Mail	4855 4701	3696 3574	1053 1021	106 106	76.13 % 76.03 %	21.69 % 21.72 %	2.18 % 2.25 %
GMX Mail	4457 4503	3340 3390	1013 1019	104 94	74.94 % 75.28 %	22.73 % 22.63 %	2.33 % 2.09 %
Zoho Mail	4671 4711	3647 3628	908 977	116 106	78.08 % 77.01 %	19.44 % 20.74 %	2.48 % 2.25 %
ProtonMail	4629 4501	3643 3552	884 840	102 109	78.70 % 78.92 %	19.10 % 18.66 %	2.20 % 2.42 %
Custom Mail	4605 4741	3699 3784	812 846	94 111	80.33 % 79.81 %	17.63 % 17.84 %	2.04 % 2.34 %
iCloud Mail	4625 4564	3333 3364	1183 1091	109 109	72.06 % 73.71 %	25.58 % 23.90 %	2.36 % 2.39 %
Tuta	4627 4795	3649 3785	872 899	106 111	78.86 % 78.94 %	18.85 % 18.75 %	2.29 % 2.31 %
Juno.com	4702 4717	3704 3724	880 885	118 108	78.77 % 78.95 %	18.72 % 18.76 %	2.51 % 2.29 %
Mailfence	4838 4776	3852 3760	883 904	103 112	79.62 % 78.73 %	18.25 % 18.93 %	2.13 % 2.35 %

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