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
63.318 63.999	50.377 49.508	12.086 13.525	1.393 1.496

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 (%)
79.56 % 77.36 %	19.09 % 21.13 %	2.20 % 2.34 %

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	4783 5051	3791 3954	902 1018	100 113	79.26 % 78.28 %	18.86 % 20.15 %	2.09 % 2.24 %
Elektronics	4905 5044	3933 3932	904 1037	102 130	80.18 % 77.95 %	18.43 % 20.56 %	2.08 % 2.58 %
Entertainment	4998 4979	3975 3850	980 1060	101 114	79.53 % 77.32 %	19.61 % 21.29 %	2.02 % 2.29 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4737 4990	3770 3870	882 1021	116 115	79.59 % 77.56 %	18.62 % 20.46 %	2.45 % 2.30 %
Food & Drink	4617 4820	3647 3750	912 1007	95 115	78.99 % 77.80 %	19.75 % 20.89 %	2.06 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	4836 4971	3828 3832	944 1069	116 112	79.16 % 77.09 %	19.52 % 21.50 %	2.40 % 2.25 %
Finance	4687 4885	3831 3928	785 915	99 114	81.74 % 80.41 %	16.75 % 18.73 %	2.11 % 2.33 %
Health	5034 4897	4112 3866	854 948	109 109	81.68 % 78.95 %	16.96 % 19.36 %	2.17 % 2.23 %
Pets	4993 4883	3976 3717	962 1085	111 116	79.63 % 76.12 %	19.27 % 22.22 %	2.22 % 2.38 %
Sport & Fitness	4969 4858	3933 3731	953 1040	107 120	79.15 % 76.80 %	19.18 % 21.41 %	2.15 % 2.47 %
Job & Career	5014 4694	3909 3523	1040 1090	115 106	77.96 % 75.05 %	20.74 % 23.22 %	2.29 % 2.26 %
Dating	4912 4718	3761 3480	1093 1156	117 112	76.57 % 73.76 %	22.25 % 24.50 %	2.38 % 2.37 %
Other	4833 5209	3911 4075	875 1079	105 120	80.92 % 78.23 %	18.10 % 20.71 %	2.17 % 2.30 %

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	4582 4749	3539 3539	991 1123	114 114	77.24 % 74.52 %	21.63 % 23.65 %	2.49 % 2.40 %
Outlook Mail	4660 4801	3641 3655	978 1057	99 116	78.13 % 76.13 %	20.99 % 22.02 %	2.12 % 2.42 %
Yahoo Mail	4753 4664	3765 3558	927 1011	111 106	79.21 % 76.29 %	19.50 % 21.68 %	2.34 % 2.27 %
AOL Mail	4566 4512	3627 3477	882 958	100 105	79.43 % 77.06 %	19.32 % 21.23 %	2.19 % 2.33 %
Mail.com	4696 4477	3790 3516	847 887	97 107	80.71 % 78.53 %	18.04 % 19.81 %	2.07 % 2.39 %
Yandex Mail	4585 4816	3632 3693	904 1054	101 107	79.21 % 76.68 %	19.72 % 21.89 %	2.20 % 2.22 %
GMX Mail	4760 4582	3773 3495	937 1042	107 109	79.26 % 76.28 %	19.68 % 22.74 %	2.25 % 2.38 %
Zoho Mail	4625 4636	3700 3606	857 969	95 115	80.00 % 77.78 %	18.53 % 20.90 %	2.05 % 2.48 %
ProtonMail	4507 4685	3646 3681	787 940	97 106	80.90 % 78.57 %	17.46 % 20.06 %	2.15 % 2.26 %
Custom Mail	4804 4758	3904 3782	846 895	106 100	81.27 % 79.49 %	17.61 % 18.81 %	2.21 % 2.10 %
iCloud Mail	4565 4667	3542 3484	943 1136	103 111	77.59 % 74.65 %	20.66 % 24.34 %	2.26 % 2.38 %
Tuta	4525 4667	3641 3699	803 929	99 112	80.46 % 79.26 %	17.75 % 19.91 %	2.19 % 2.40 %
Juno.com	4631 4673	3746 3679	817 927	103 117	80.89 % 78.73 %	17.64 % 19.84 %	2.22 % 2.50 %
Mailfence	3059 3312	2431 2644	567 597	61 71	79.47 % 79.83 %	18.54 % 18.03 %	1.99 % 2.14 %

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