MailerLite and Mailgun Email Deliverability Comparison

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 Mailgun than for MailerLite.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
529.923 136.673	401.437 112.088	106.897 18.804	20.558 4.589

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. Mailgun beats MailerLite in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
75.75 % 82.01 %	20.17 % 13.76 %	3.88 % 3.36 %

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, Mailgun is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	40882 10319	32035 8666	7295 1246	1458 314	78.36 % 83.98 %	17.84 % 12.07 %	3.57 % 3.04 %
Elektronics	40212 10745	30791 8904	7802 1395	1520 341	76.57 % 82.87 %	19.40 % 12.98 %	3.78 % 3.17 %
Entertainment	40358 10652	30619 8724	8159 1469	1482 356	75.87 % 81.90 %	20.22 % 13.79 %	3.67 % 3.34 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	41115 10570	31004 8649	8377 1455	1630 365	75.41 % 81.83 %	20.37 % 13.77 %	3.96 % 3.45 %
Food & Drink	41033 10527	32175 8817	7350 1318	1433 321	78.41 % 83.76 %	17.91 % 12.52 %	3.49 % 3.05 %
Home & Garden	40847 10450	32049 8720	7253 1297	1487 345	78.46 % 83.44 %	17.76 % 12.41 %	3.64 % 3.30 %
Finance	41240 10332	29945 8300	9418 1584	1784 384	72.61 % 80.33 %	22.84 % 15.33 %	4.33 % 3.72 %
Health	40960 10370	30150 8403	9108 1500	1637 343	73.61 % 81.03 %	22.24 % 14.46 %	4.00 % 3.31 %
Pets	40723 10462	31590 8710	7570 1363	1488 296	77.57 % 83.25 %	18.59 % 13.03 %	3.65 % 2.83 %
Sport & Fitness	40763 10618	30398 8593	8671 1568	1623 376	74.57 % 80.93 %	21.27 % 14.77 %	3.98 % 3.54 %
Job & Career	40862 10594	30198 8436	8910 1622	1699 428	73.90 % 79.63 %	21.81 % 15.31 %	4.16 % 4.04 %
Dating	40360 10360	28979 8300	9526 1589	1793 390	71.80 % 80.12 %	23.60 % 15.34 %	4.44 % 3.76 %
Other	40568 10674	31504 8866	7458 1398	1524 330	77.66 % 83.06 %	18.38 % 13.10 %	3.76 % 3.09 %

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, Mailgun is better than MailerLite.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	49736 10631	35869 8243	11595 1843	2204 458	72.12 % 77.54 %	23.31 % 17.34 %	4.43 % 4.31 %
Outlook Mail	50211 10751	36834 8621	11192 1594	2077 416	73.36 % 80.19 %	22.29 % 14.83 %	4.14 % 3.87 %
Yahoo Mail	49805 10311	37470 8393	10271 1454	2001 358	75.23 % 81.40 %	20.62 % 14.10 %	4.02 % 3.47 %
AOL Mail	49621 10509	37342 8583	10245 1474	1953 347	75.25 % 81.67 %	20.65 % 14.03 %	3.94 % 3.30 %
Mail.com	49893 10553	38095 8705	9822 1399	1908 353	76.35 % 82.49 %	19.69 % 13.26 %	3.82 % 3.35 %
Yandex Mail	49421 10553	36614 8515	10690 1579	2025 387	74.09 % 80.69 %	21.63 % 14.96 %	4.10 % 3.67 %
GMX Mail	50154 10395	38411 8708	9895 1306	1767 293	76.59 % 83.77 %	19.73 % 12.56 %	3.52 % 2.82 %
Zoho Mail	49669 10626	38477 8853	9324 1355	1790 326	77.47 % 83.31 %	18.77 % 12.75 %	3.60 % 3.07 %
ProtonMail	49933 10615	38724 8923	9440 1280	1708 321	77.55 % 84.06 %	18.91 % 12.06 %	3.42 % 3.02 %
Custom Mail	50051 10277	39241 8652	8983 1215	1763 301	78.40 % 84.19 %	17.95 % 11.82 %	3.52 % 2.93 %
iCloud Mail	10426 10362	7717 8159	2108 1705	522 413	74.02 % 78.74 %	20.22 % 16.45 %	5.01 % 3.99 %
Tuta	10549 10686	8348 8928	1695 1363	416 332	79.14 % 83.55 %	16.07 % 12.76 %	3.94 % 3.11 %
Juno.com	10454 10404	8295 8805	1637 1237	424 284	79.35 % 84.63 %	15.66 % 11.89 %	4.06 % 2.73 %

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