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
64.364 64.615	50.801 49.541	12.496 13.785	1.364 1.579

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 (%)
78.93 % 76.67 %	19.41 % 21.33 %	2.12 % 2.44 %

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	4816 5018	3783 3908	935 1019	97 110	78.55 % 77.88 %	19.41 % 20.31 %	2.01 % 2.19 %
Elektronics	5011 5054	3995 3920	932 1033	101 132	79.72 % 77.56 %	18.60 % 20.44 %	2.02 % 2.61 %
Entertainment	5115 4913	4033 3747	1010 1071	101 122	78.85 % 76.27 %	19.75 % 21.80 %	1.97 % 2.48 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4888 4934	3856 3795	935 1024	113 120	78.89 % 76.92 %	19.13 % 20.75 %	2.31 % 2.43 %
Food & Drink	4803 4824	3762 3719	958 1010	102 117	78.33 % 77.09 %	19.95 % 20.94 %	2.12 % 2.43 %
Home & Garden	4922 5089	3862 3914	980 1091	114 120	78.46 % 76.91 %	19.91 % 21.44 %	2.32 % 2.36 %
Finance	4783 5008	3895 4014	808 912	93 125	81.43 % 80.15 %	16.89 % 18.21 %	1.94 % 2.50 %
Health	5040 4944	4107 3899	851 953	103 118	81.49 % 78.86 %	16.88 % 19.28 %	2.04 % 2.39 %
Pets	5040 4996	3988 3764	972 1123	108 127	79.13 % 75.34 %	19.29 % 22.48 %	2.14 % 2.54 %
Sport & Fitness	5073 4986	3979 3777	1011 1088	105 128	78.43 % 75.75 %	19.93 % 21.82 %	2.07 % 2.57 %
Job & Career	5017 4807	3862 3565	1069 1142	111 115	76.98 % 74.16 %	21.31 % 23.76 %	2.21 % 2.39 %
Dating	4940 4864	3735 3522	1135 1233	111 121	75.61 % 72.41 %	22.98 % 25.35 %	2.25 % 2.49 %
Other	4916 5178	3944 3997	900 1086	105 124	80.23 % 77.19 %	18.31 % 20.97 %	2.14 % 2.39 %

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	4690 4746	3570 3504	1052 1141	111 114	76.12 % 73.83 %	22.43 % 24.04 %	2.37 % 2.40 %
Outlook Mail	4718 4765	3622 3571	1020 1097	94 123	76.77 % 74.94 %	21.62 % 23.02 %	1.99 % 2.58 %
Yahoo Mail	4756 4672	3731 3514	948 1036	104 114	78.45 % 75.21 %	19.93 % 22.17 %	2.19 % 2.44 %
AOL Mail	4666 4455	3663 3409	922 960	101 105	78.50 % 76.52 %	19.76 % 21.55 %	2.16 % 2.36 %
Mail.com	4691 4524	3767 3511	852 911	94 116	80.30 % 77.61 %	18.16 % 20.14 %	2.00 % 2.56 %
Yandex Mail	4685 4871	3670 3709	950 1075	96 114	78.34 % 76.14 %	20.28 % 22.07 %	2.05 % 2.34 %
GMX Mail	4720 4538	3689 3415	963 1046	101 115	78.16 % 75.25 %	20.40 % 23.05 %	2.14 % 2.53 %
Zoho Mail	4639 4621	3693 3595	862 945	95 120	79.61 % 77.80 %	18.58 % 20.45 %	2.05 % 2.60 %
ProtonMail	4425 4697	3579 3679	766 926	93 110	80.88 % 78.33 %	17.31 % 19.71 %	2.10 % 2.34 %
Custom Mail	4707 4723	3827 3755	806 877	98 103	81.30 % 79.50 %	17.12 % 18.57 %	2.08 % 2.18 %
iCloud Mail	4615 4663	3520 3394	1011 1198	102 117	76.27 % 72.79 %	21.91 % 25.69 %	2.21 % 2.51 %
Tuta	4526 4639	3643 3646	806 904	93 113	80.49 % 78.59 %	17.81 % 19.49 %	2.05 % 2.44 %
Juno.com	4618 4641	3721 3630	817 909	101 124	80.58 % 78.22 %	17.69 % 19.59 %	2.19 % 2.67 %
Mailfence	3908 4060	3106 3209	721 760	81 91	79.48 % 79.04 %	18.45 % 18.72 %	2.07 % 2.24 %

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