MailerLite and Mailgun Email Deliverability Comparison

MailerLite

Mailgun

In this comparison, the deliverability of MailerLite 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 MailerLite than for Mailgun.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
65.001 64.615	50.857 49.541	12.922 13.785	1.453 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. MailerLite beats Mailgun in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
78.24 % 76.67 %	19.88 % 21.33 %	2.24 % 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, MailerLite is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	4842 5018	3740 3908	1022 1019	98 110	77.24 % 77.88 %	21.11 % 20.31 %	2.02 % 2.19 %
Elektronics	4916 5054	3884 3920	939 1033	115 132	79.01 % 77.56 %	19.10 % 20.44 %	2.34 % 2.61 %
Entertainment	4957 4913	3814 3747	1048 1071	109 122	76.94 % 76.27 %	21.14 % 21.80 %	2.20 % 2.48 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5008 4934	3967 3795	957 1024	101 120	79.21 % 76.92 %	19.11 % 20.75 %	2.02 % 2.43 %
Food & Drink	4971 4824	3858 3719	1012 1010	119 117	77.61 % 77.09 %	20.36 % 20.94 %	2.39 % 2.43 %
Home & Garden	4988 5089	3921 3914	980 1091	111 120	78.61 % 76.91 %	19.65 % 21.44 %	2.23 % 2.36 %
Finance	4881 5008	3951 4014	833 912	119 125	80.95 % 80.15 %	17.07 % 18.21 %	2.44 % 2.50 %
Health	5008 4944	4074 3899	838 953	106 118	81.35 % 78.86 %	16.73 % 19.28 %	2.12 % 2.39 %
Pets	5280 4996	4153 3764	1018 1123	129 127	78.66 % 75.34 %	19.28 % 22.48 %	2.44 % 2.54 %
Sport & Fitness	4941 4986	3837 3777	1004 1088	120 128	77.66 % 75.75 %	20.32 % 21.82 %	2.43 % 2.57 %
Job & Career	5006 4807	3806 3565	1112 1142	106 115	76.03 % 74.16 %	22.21 % 23.76 %	2.12 % 2.39 %
Dating	5140 4864	3824 3522	1221 1233	105 121	74.40 % 72.41 %	23.75 % 25.35 %	2.04 % 2.49 %
Other	5063 5178	4028 3997	938 1086	115 124	79.56 % 77.19 %	18.53 % 20.97 %	2.27 % 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, MailerLite is better than Mailgun.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	4749 4746	3543 3504	1104 1141	108 114	74.61 % 73.83 %	23.25 % 24.04 %	2.27 % 2.40 %
Outlook Mail	4776 4765	3672 3571	1032 1097	101 123	76.88 % 74.94 %	21.61 % 23.02 %	2.11 % 2.58 %
Yahoo Mail	4775 4672	3703 3514	979 1036	106 114	77.55 % 75.21 %	20.50 % 22.17 %	2.22 % 2.44 %
AOL Mail	4779 4455	3726 3409	952 960	113 105	77.97 % 76.52 %	19.92 % 21.55 %	2.36 % 2.36 %
Mail.com	4795 4524	3770 3511	923 911	108 116	78.62 % 77.61 %	19.25 % 20.14 %	2.25 % 2.56 %
Yandex Mail	4767 4871	3711 3709	969 1075	99 114	77.85 % 76.14 %	20.33 % 22.07 %	2.08 % 2.34 %
GMX Mail	4655 4538	3584 3415	980 1046	104 115	76.99 % 75.25 %	21.05 % 23.05 %	2.23 % 2.53 %
Zoho Mail	4659 4621	3690 3595	893 945	97 120	79.20 % 77.80 %	19.17 % 20.45 %	2.08 % 2.60 %
ProtonMail	4642 4697	3723 3679	850 926	110 110	80.20 % 78.33 %	18.31 % 19.71 %	2.37 % 2.34 %
Custom Mail	4666 4723	3772 3755	789 877	109 103	80.84 % 79.50 %	16.91 % 18.57 %	2.34 % 2.18 %
iCloud Mail	4551 4663	3454 3394	1015 1198	107 117	75.90 % 72.79 %	22.30 % 25.69 %	2.35 % 2.51 %
Tuta	4580 4639	3639 3646	844 904	112 113	79.45 % 78.59 %	18.43 % 19.49 %	2.45 % 2.44 %
Juno.com	4778 4641	3819 3630	891 909	102 124	79.93 % 78.22 %	18.65 % 19.59 %	2.13 % 2.67 %
Mailfence	3829 4060	3051 3209	701 760	77 91	79.68 % 79.04 %	18.31 % 18.72 %	2.01 % 2.24 %

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