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
540.132 147.018	409.890 120.269	108.635 20.997	20.807 4.850

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 (%)
75.89 % 81.81 %	20.11 % 14.28 %	3.85 % 3.30 %

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	41664 11146	32680 9325	7435 1411	1473 336	78.44 % 83.66 %	17.85 % 12.66 %	3.54 % 3.01 %
Elektronics	40972 11588	31417 9575	7938 1576	1540 363	76.68 % 82.63 %	19.37 % 13.60 %	3.76 % 3.13 %
Entertainment	41114 11484	31243 9388	8288 1642	1499 378	75.99 % 81.75 %	20.16 % 14.30 %	3.65 % 3.29 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	41834 11348	31598 9260	8501 1606	1648 386	75.53 % 81.60 %	20.32 % 14.15 %	3.94 % 3.40 %
Food & Drink	41882 11297	32881 9432	7488 1480	1456 336	78.51 % 83.49 %	17.88 % 13.10 %	3.48 % 2.97 %
Home & Garden	41591 11225	32675 9338	7378 1469	1504 366	78.56 % 83.19 %	17.74 % 13.09 %	3.62 % 3.26 %
Finance	41990 11110	30571 8916	9546 1770	1802 403	72.81 % 80.25 %	22.73 % 15.93 %	4.29 % 3.63 %
Health	41789 11143	30833 9015	9245 1671	1656 359	73.78 % 80.90 %	22.12 % 15.00 %	3.96 % 3.22 %
Pets	41593 11190	32313 9294	7714 1508	1511 313	77.69 % 83.06 %	18.55 % 13.48 %	3.63 % 2.80 %
Sport & Fitness	41551 11415	31058 9211	8801 1734	1641 396	74.75 % 80.69 %	21.18 % 15.19 %	3.95 % 3.47 %
Job & Career	41663 11418	30858 9079	9048 1796	1720 450	74.07 % 79.51 %	21.72 % 15.73 %	4.13 % 3.94 %
Dating	41150 11134	29619 8901	9665 1754	1814 410	71.98 % 79.94 %	23.49 % 15.75 %	4.41 % 3.68 %
Other	41339 11520	32144 9535	7588 1580	1543 354	77.76 % 82.77 %	18.36 % 13.72 %	3.73 % 3.07 %

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	50502 11410	36492 8852	11724 2006	2224 478	72.26 % 77.58 %	23.21 % 17.58 %	4.40 % 4.19 %
Outlook Mail	50961 11537	37461 9245	11327 1762	2094 436	73.51 % 80.13 %	22.23 % 15.27 %	4.11 % 3.78 %
Yahoo Mail	50638 11116	38160 9021	10406 1602	2022 379	75.36 % 81.15 %	20.55 % 14.41 %	3.99 % 3.41 %
AOL Mail	50479 11233	38048 9160	10387 1621	1975 366	75.37 % 81.55 %	20.58 % 14.43 %	3.91 % 3.26 %
Mail.com	50617 11347	38682 9327	9947 1565	1926 373	76.42 % 82.20 %	19.65 % 13.79 %	3.81 % 3.29 %
Yandex Mail	50192 11391	37254 9175	10815 1763	2043 408	74.22 % 80.55 %	21.55 % 15.48 %	4.07 % 3.58 %
GMX Mail	50901 11195	39034 9349	10013 1483	1786 313	76.69 % 83.51 %	19.67 % 13.25 %	3.51 % 2.80 %
Zoho Mail	50518 11426	39176 9485	9475 1542	1810 346	77.55 % 83.01 %	18.76 % 13.50 %	3.58 % 3.03 %
ProtonMail	50766 11352	39431 9506	9586 1434	1729 339	77.67 % 83.74 %	18.88 % 12.63 %	3.41 % 2.99 %
Custom Mail	50779 11100	39836 9300	9103 1381	1780 322	78.45 % 83.78 %	17.93 % 12.44 %	3.51 % 2.90 %
iCloud Mail	11150 11208	8322 8830	2234 1906	540 433	74.64 % 78.78 %	20.04 % 17.01 %	4.84 % 3.86 %
Tuta	11329 11491	8989 9577	1830 1523	435 352	79.35 % 83.34 %	16.15 % 13.25 %	3.84 % 3.06 %
Juno.com	11300 11212	9005 9442	1788 1409	443 305	79.69 % 84.21 %	15.82 % 12.57 %	3.92 % 2.72 %

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