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 mailtrap than for Mailgun.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
76.316 76.077	58.485 58.049	16.034 16.197	1.797 1.831

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 (%)
76.64 % 76.30 %	21.01 % 21.29 %	2.35 % 2.41 %

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	5892 5855	4476 4381	1286 1335	130 139	75.97 % 74.82 %	21.83 % 22.80 %	2.21 % 2.37 %
Elektronics	5947 5720	4575 4393	1226 1197	146 130	76.93 % 76.80 %	20.62 % 20.93 %	2.46 % 2.27 %
Entertainment	5912 5826	4538 4378	1236 1308	138 140	76.76 % 75.15 %	20.91 % 22.45 %	2.33 % 2.40 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5795 5567	4451 4251	1200 1178	144 138	76.81 % 76.36 %	20.71 % 21.16 %	2.48 % 2.48 %
Food & Drink	5939 5934	4534 4495	1274 1297	131 142	76.34 % 75.75 %	21.45 % 21.86 %	2.21 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	5853 6032	4457 4622	1261 1271	135 139	76.15 % 76.62 %	21.54 % 21.07 %	2.31 % 2.30 %
Finance	5858 5773	4672 4627	1038 1004	148 142	79.75 % 80.15 %	17.72 % 17.39 %	2.53 % 2.46 %
Health	5846 5946	4670 4761	1034 1046	142 139	79.88 % 80.07 %	17.69 % 17.59 %	2.43 % 2.34 %
Pets	5998 6019	4582 4567	1278 1316	138 136	76.39 % 75.88 %	21.31 % 21.86 %	2.30 % 2.26 %
Sport & Fitness	5585 5650	4255 4296	1190 1212	140 142	76.19 % 76.04 %	21.31 % 21.45 %	2.51 % 2.51 %
Job & Career	5959 5992	4437 4477	1396 1374	126 141	74.46 % 74.72 %	23.43 % 22.93 %	2.11 % 2.35 %
Dating	5917 5742	4265 4123	1509 1477	143 142	72.08 % 71.80 %	25.50 % 25.72 %	2.42 % 2.47 %
Other	5815 6021	4573 4678	1106 1182	136 161	78.64 % 77.69 %	19.02 % 19.63 %	2.34 % 2.67 %

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	5538 5339	4036 3890	1364 1319	138 130	72.88 % 72.86 %	24.63 % 24.71 %	2.49 % 2.43 %
Outlook Mail	5599 5428	4175 4057	1285 1231	139 140	74.57 % 74.74 %	22.95 % 22.68 %	2.48 % 2.58 %
Yahoo Mail	5398 5411	4102 4099	1175 1193	121 119	75.99 % 75.75 %	21.77 % 22.05 %	2.24 % 2.20 %
AOL Mail	5562 5425	4247 4095	1185 1195	130 135	76.36 % 75.48 %	21.31 % 22.03 %	2.34 % 2.49 %
Mail.com	5464 5451	4228 4218	1112 1104	124 129	77.38 % 77.38 %	20.35 % 20.25 %	2.27 % 2.37 %
Yandex Mail	5402 5527	4086 4169	1184 1225	132 133	75.64 % 75.43 %	21.92 % 22.16 %	2.44 % 2.41 %
GMX Mail	5378 5613	4007 4213	1245 1270	126 130	74.51 % 75.06 %	23.15 % 22.63 %	2.34 % 2.32 %
Zoho Mail	5409 5391	4176 4175	1113 1085	120 131	77.20 % 77.44 %	20.58 % 20.13 %	2.22 % 2.43 %
ProtonMail	5489 5330	4328 4184	1034 1019	127 127	78.85 % 78.50 %	18.84 % 19.12 %	2.31 % 2.38 %
Custom Mail	5339 5403	4282 4262	929 1005	128 136	80.20 % 78.88 %	17.40 % 18.60 %	2.40 % 2.52 %
iCloud Mail	5550 5561	4075 4002	1351 1431	124 128	73.42 % 71.97 %	24.34 % 25.73 %	2.23 % 2.30 %
Tuta	5500 5603	4351 4371	1017 1107	132 125	79.11 % 78.01 %	18.49 % 19.76 %	2.40 % 2.23 %
Juno.com	5235 5389	4105 4224	1004 1029	126 136	78.41 % 78.38 %	19.18 % 19.09 %	2.41 % 2.52 %
Mailfence	5453 5206	4287 4090	1036 984	130 132	78.62 % 78.56 %	19.00 % 18.90 %	2.38 % 2.54 %

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