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
75.657 76.173	58.161 58.444	15.843 15.941	1.653 1.788

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 (%)
76.87 % 76.73 %	20.94 % 20.93 %	2.18 % 2.35 %

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	5903 5934	4509 4477	1275 1320	119 137	76.38 % 75.45 %	21.60 % 22.24 %	2.02 % 2.31 %
Elektronics	5971 5704	4588 4394	1243 1180	140 130	76.84 % 77.03 %	20.82 % 20.69 %	2.34 % 2.28 %
Entertainment	5858 5823	4522 4409	1206 1277	130 137	77.19 % 75.72 %	20.59 % 21.93 %	2.22 % 2.35 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5731 5475	4404 4210	1194 1137	133 128	76.85 % 76.89 %	20.83 % 20.77 %	2.32 % 2.34 %
Food & Drink	5950 5949	4562 4521	1268 1286	120 142	76.67 % 76.00 %	21.31 % 21.62 %	2.02 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	5800 6054	4435 4663	1249 1256	116 135	76.47 % 77.02 %	21.53 % 20.75 %	2.00 % 2.23 %
Finance	5718 5723	4583 4617	1005 969	130 137	80.15 % 80.67 %	17.58 % 16.93 %	2.27 % 2.39 %
Health	5773 5918	4626 4755	1020 1029	127 134	80.13 % 80.35 %	17.67 % 17.39 %	2.20 % 2.26 %
Pets	5906 6007	4501 4583	1276 1288	129 136	76.21 % 76.29 %	21.61 % 21.44 %	2.18 % 2.26 %
Sport & Fitness	5507 5728	4210 4360	1164 1230	133 138	76.45 % 76.12 %	21.14 % 21.47 %	2.42 % 2.41 %
Job & Career	5898 5933	4429 4451	1353 1343	116 139	75.09 % 75.02 %	22.94 % 22.64 %	1.97 % 2.34 %
Dating	5947 5846	4304 4246	1506 1459	137 141	72.37 % 72.63 %	25.32 % 24.96 %	2.30 % 2.41 %
Other	5695 6079	4488 4758	1084 1167	123 154	78.81 % 78.27 %	19.03 % 19.20 %	2.16 % 2.53 %

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	5532 5222	4030 3816	1375 1279	127 127	72.85 % 73.08 %	24.86 % 24.49 %	2.30 % 2.43 %
Outlook Mail	5474 5375	4097 4031	1251 1216	126 128	74.84 % 75.00 %	22.85 % 22.62 %	2.30 % 2.38 %
Yahoo Mail	5396 5536	4115 4220	1168 1193	113 123	76.26 % 76.23 %	21.65 % 21.55 %	2.09 % 2.22 %
AOL Mail	5501 5422	4199 4125	1176 1163	126 134	76.33 % 76.08 %	21.38 % 21.45 %	2.29 % 2.47 %
Mail.com	5440 5494	4213 4277	1111 1093	116 124	77.44 % 77.85 %	20.42 % 19.89 %	2.13 % 2.26 %
Yandex Mail	5434 5575	4130 4223	1180 1221	124 131	76.00 % 75.75 %	21.72 % 21.90 %	2.28 % 2.35 %
GMX Mail	5390 5500	4043 4147	1234 1230	113 123	75.01 % 75.40 %	22.89 % 22.36 %	2.10 % 2.24 %
Zoho Mail	5419 5513	4195 4299	1107 1082	117 132	77.41 % 77.98 %	20.43 % 19.63 %	2.16 % 2.39 %
ProtonMail	5447 5242	4327 4133	1010 985	110 124	79.44 % 78.84 %	18.54 % 18.79 %	2.02 % 2.37 %
Custom Mail	5294 5395	4252 4283	921 979	121 133	80.32 % 79.39 %	17.40 % 18.15 %	2.29 % 2.47 %
iCloud Mail	5411 5576	4002 4038	1299 1413	110 125	73.96 % 72.42 %	24.01 % 25.34 %	2.03 % 2.24 %
Tuta	5421 5566	4282 4357	1018 1086	121 123	78.99 % 78.28 %	18.78 % 19.51 %	2.23 % 2.21 %
Juno.com	5167 5540	4064 4367	983 1036	120 137	78.65 % 78.83 %	19.02 % 18.70 %	2.32 % 2.47 %
Mailfence	5331 5217	4212 4128	1010 965	109 124	79.01 % 79.13 %	18.95 % 18.50 %	2.04 % 2.38 %

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