mailtrap and Mailgun Email Deliverability Comparison

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In this comparison, the deliverability of mailtrap and Mailgun 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
75.185 75.674	57.581 58.172	15.855 15.752	1.749 1.750

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 (%)
76.59 % 76.87 %	21.09 % 20.82 %	2.33 % 2.31 %

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	5837 5807	4437 4432	1273 1249	127 126	76.02 % 76.32 %	21.81 % 21.51 %	2.18 % 2.17 %
Elektronics	6010 5609	4600 4350	1268 1135	142 124	76.54 % 77.55 %	21.10 % 20.24 %	2.36 % 2.21 %
Entertainment	5923 5693	4570 4321	1217 1238	136 134	77.16 % 75.90 %	20.55 % 21.75 %	2.30 % 2.35 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5687 5442	4350 4193	1193 1123	144 126	76.49 % 77.05 %	20.98 % 20.64 %	2.53 % 2.32 %
Food & Drink	5844 5827	4458 4468	1250 1220	136 139	76.28 % 76.68 %	21.39 % 20.94 %	2.33 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	5734 6002	4384 4637	1217 1232	133 133	76.46 % 77.26 %	21.22 % 20.53 %	2.32 % 2.22 %
Finance	5731 5689	4565 4586	1041 968	125 135	79.65 % 80.61 %	18.16 % 17.02 %	2.18 % 2.37 %
Health	5818 5901	4653 4740	1037 1029	128 132	79.98 % 80.33 %	17.82 % 17.44 %	2.20 % 2.24 %
Pets	5837 6106	4437 4646	1262 1322	138 138	76.02 % 76.09 %	21.62 % 21.65 %	2.36 % 2.26 %
Sport & Fitness	5733 5766	4345 4387	1246 1235	142 144	75.79 % 76.08 %	21.73 % 21.42 %	2.48 % 2.50 %
Job & Career	5747 5894	4281 4429	1338 1326	128 139	74.49 % 75.14 %	23.28 % 22.50 %	2.23 % 2.36 %
Dating	5685 5917	4108 4302	1437 1476	140 139	72.26 % 72.71 %	25.28 % 24.95 %	2.46 % 2.35 %
Other	5599 6021	4393 4681	1076 1199	130 141	78.46 % 77.74 %	19.22 % 19.91 %	2.32 % 2.34 %

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	5574 5225	4050 3843	1380 1261	144 121	72.66 % 73.55 %	24.76 % 24.13 %	2.58 % 2.32 %
Outlook Mail	5462 5372	4073 4050	1255 1197	134 125	74.57 % 75.39 %	22.98 % 22.28 %	2.45 % 2.33 %
Yahoo Mail	5304 5614	4022 4270	1159 1223	123 121	75.83 % 76.06 %	21.85 % 21.78 %	2.32 % 2.16 %
AOL Mail	5594 5264	4257 4012	1204 1129	133 123	76.10 % 76.22 %	21.52 % 21.45 %	2.38 % 2.34 %
Mail.com	5286 5427	4095 4242	1078 1064	113 121	77.47 % 78.16 %	20.39 % 19.61 %	2.14 % 2.23 %
Yandex Mail	5635 5673	4238 4290	1265 1249	132 134	75.21 % 75.62 %	22.45 % 22.02 %	2.34 % 2.36 %
GMX Mail	5294 5269	3973 3982	1202 1162	119 125	75.05 % 75.57 %	22.70 % 22.05 %	2.25 % 2.37 %
Zoho Mail	5421 5447	4174 4246	1119 1069	128 132	77.00 % 77.95 %	20.64 % 19.63 %	2.36 % 2.42 %
ProtonMail	5263 5379	4160 4253	984 1002	119 124	79.04 % 79.07 %	18.70 % 18.63 %	2.26 % 2.31 %
Custom Mail	5237 5254	4196 4185	917 952	124 117	80.12 % 79.65 %	17.51 % 18.12 %	2.37 % 2.23 %
iCloud Mail	5332 5489	3931 3954	1287 1408	114 127	73.72 % 72.03 %	24.14 % 25.65 %	2.14 % 2.31 %
Tuta	5336 5433	4216 4263	998 1045	122 125	79.01 % 78.46 %	18.70 % 19.23 %	2.29 % 2.30 %
Juno.com	5160 5454	4059 4307	976 1009	125 138	78.66 % 78.97 %	18.91 % 18.50 %	2.42 % 2.53 %
Mailfence	5287 5374	4137 4275	1031 982	119 117	78.25 % 79.55 %	19.50 % 18.27 %	2.25 % 2.18 %

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