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
64.658 64.823	49.747 49.612	13.457 13.681	1.454 1.530

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 (%)
76.94 % 76.53 %	20.81 % 21.11 %	2.25 % 2.36 %

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	4843 4967	3711 3819	1030 1044	102 104	76.63 % 76.89 %	21.27 % 21.02 %	2.11 % 2.09 %
Elektronics	5066 4857	3936 3760	1021 980	109 117	77.69 % 77.41 %	20.15 % 20.18 %	2.15 % 2.41 %
Entertainment	5063 4771	3908 3618	1047 1040	108 113	77.19 % 75.83 %	20.68 % 21.80 %	2.13 % 2.37 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4940 4820	3799 3701	1017 1006	124 113	76.90 % 76.78 %	20.59 % 20.87 %	2.51 % 2.34 %
Food & Drink	4982 4984	3793 3807	1075 1055	114 122	76.13 % 76.38 %	21.58 % 21.17 %	2.29 % 2.45 %
Home & Garden	4922 5148	3762 3953	1049 1083	111 112	76.43 % 76.79 %	21.31 % 21.04 %	2.26 % 2.18 %
Finance	4833 4877	3878 3936	854 824	101 117	80.24 % 80.71 %	17.67 % 16.90 %	2.09 % 2.40 %
Health	5019 4966	4046 3934	861 915	112 117	80.61 % 79.22 %	17.15 % 18.43 %	2.23 % 2.36 %
Pets	5067 5194	3871 3913	1079 1153	117 128	76.40 % 75.34 %	21.29 % 22.20 %	2.31 % 2.46 %
Sport & Fitness	5030 5132	3814 3914	1101 1088	115 130	75.83 % 76.27 %	21.89 % 21.20 %	2.29 % 2.53 %
Job & Career	4855 4862	3643 3595	1105 1152	107 115	75.04 % 73.94 %	22.76 % 23.69 %	2.20 % 2.37 %
Dating	5093 5050	3713 3652	1258 1280	122 118	72.90 % 72.32 %	24.70 % 25.35 %	2.40 % 2.34 %
Other	4945 5195	3873 4010	960 1061	112 124	78.32 % 77.19 %	19.41 % 20.42 %	2.26 % 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	4773 4496	3494 3284	1158 1109	121 103	73.20 % 73.04 %	24.26 % 24.67 %	2.54 % 2.29 %
Outlook Mail	4689 4640	3523 3442	1062 1082	104 116	75.13 % 74.18 %	22.65 % 23.32 %	2.22 % 2.50 %
Yahoo Mail	4650 4702	3535 3545	1009 1045	106 112	76.02 % 75.39 %	21.70 % 22.22 %	2.28 % 2.38 %
AOL Mail	4656 4529	3530 3443	1016 987	110 99	75.82 % 76.02 %	21.82 % 21.79 %	2.36 % 2.19 %
Mail.com	4552 4597	3558 3574	899 916	95 107	78.16 % 77.75 %	19.75 % 19.93 %	2.09 % 2.33 %
Yandex Mail	4788 4806	3636 3627	1046 1063	106 116	75.94 % 75.47 %	21.85 % 22.12 %	2.21 % 2.41 %
GMX Mail	4719 4404	3584 3284	1028 1016	107 104	75.95 % 74.57 %	21.78 % 23.07 %	2.27 % 2.36 %
Zoho Mail	4561 4758	3515 3712	936 927	110 119	77.07 % 78.02 %	20.52 % 19.48 %	2.41 % 2.50 %
ProtonMail	4551 4614	3606 3641	847 870	98 103	79.24 % 78.91 %	18.61 % 18.86 %	2.15 % 2.23 %
Custom Mail	4618 4551	3705 3632	816 820	97 99	80.23 % 79.81 %	17.67 % 18.02 %	2.10 % 2.18 %
iCloud Mail	4500 4634	3318 3330	1079 1190	103 114	73.73 % 71.86 %	23.98 % 25.68 %	2.29 % 2.46 %
Tuta	4585 4650	3628 3645	856 897	101 108	79.13 % 78.39 %	18.67 % 19.29 %	2.20 % 2.32 %
Juno.com	4449 4689	3511 3684	837 883	101 122	78.92 % 78.57 %	18.81 % 18.83 %	2.27 % 2.60 %
Mailfence	4567 4753	3604 3769	868 876	95 108	78.91 % 79.30 %	19.01 % 18.43 %	2.08 % 2.27 %

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