Mailgun and SendGrid Email Deliverability Comparison

Mailgun

SendGrid

In this comparison, the deliverability of Mailgun and SendGrid 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 SendGrid.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
64.615 64.547	49.541 49.094	13.785 14.120	1.579 1.594

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 SendGrid in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.67 % 76.06 %	21.33 % 21.88 %	2.44 % 2.47 %

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	5018 5059	3908 3839	1019 1121	110 126	77.88 % 75.88 %	20.31 % 22.16 %	2.19 % 2.49 %
Elektronics	5054 4978	3920 3821	1033 1057	132 126	77.56 % 76.76 %	20.44 % 21.23 %	2.61 % 2.53 %
Entertainment	4913 5004	3747 3771	1071 1134	122 128	76.27 % 75.36 %	21.80 % 22.66 %	2.48 % 2.56 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4934 5094	3795 3896	1024 1080	120 124	76.92 % 76.48 %	20.75 % 21.20 %	2.43 % 2.43 %
Food & Drink	4824 5062	3719 3823	1010 1128	117 125	77.09 % 75.52 %	20.94 % 22.28 %	2.43 % 2.47 %
Home & Garden	5089 4911	3914 3715	1091 1105	120 116	76.91 % 75.65 %	21.44 % 22.50 %	2.36 % 2.36 %
Finance	5008 5039	4014 3961	912 972	125 129	80.15 % 78.61 %	18.21 % 19.29 %	2.50 % 2.56 %
Health	4944 4971	3899 3953	953 914	118 113	78.86 % 79.52 %	19.28 % 18.39 %	2.39 % 2.27 %
Pets	4996 5036	3764 3814	1123 1105	127 132	75.34 % 75.73 %	22.48 % 21.94 %	2.54 % 2.62 %
Sport & Fitness	4986 4891	3777 3712	1088 1088	128 129	75.75 % 75.89 %	21.82 % 22.24 %	2.57 % 2.64 %
Job & Career	4807 4630	3565 3393	1142 1133	115 114	74.16 % 73.28 %	23.76 % 24.47 %	2.39 % 2.46 %
Dating	4864 4935	3522 3577	1233 1252	121 120	72.41 % 72.48 %	25.35 % 25.37 %	2.49 % 2.43 %
Other	5178 4937	3997 3819	1086 1031	124 112	77.19 % 77.35 %	20.97 % 20.88 %	2.39 % 2.27 %

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 SendGrid.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	4746 4616	3504 3369	1141 1142	114 122	73.83 % 72.99 %	24.04 % 24.74 %	2.40 % 2.64 %
Outlook Mail	4765 4779	3571 3606	1097 1083	123 112	74.94 % 75.46 %	23.02 % 22.66 %	2.58 % 2.34 %
Yahoo Mail	4672 4541	3514 3450	1036 1002	114 113	75.21 % 75.97 %	22.17 % 22.07 %	2.44 % 2.49 %
AOL Mail	4455 4511	3409 3386	960 1041	105 115	76.52 % 75.06 %	21.55 % 23.08 %	2.36 % 2.55 %
Mail.com	4524 4781	3511 3683	911 998	116 115	77.61 % 77.03 %	20.14 % 20.87 %	2.56 % 2.41 %
Yandex Mail	4871 4658	3709 3494	1075 1075	114 112	76.14 % 75.01 %	22.07 % 23.08 %	2.34 % 2.40 %
GMX Mail	4538 4600	3415 3450	1046 1073	115 104	75.25 % 75.00 %	23.05 % 23.33 %	2.53 % 2.26 %
Zoho Mail	4621 4791	3595 3649	945 1055	120 112	77.80 % 76.16 %	20.45 % 22.02 %	2.60 % 2.34 %
ProtonMail	4697 4516	3679 3490	926 923	110 116	78.33 % 77.28 %	19.71 % 20.44 %	2.34 % 2.57 %
Custom Mail	4723 4727	3755 3689	877 926	103 117	79.50 % 78.04 %	18.57 % 19.59 %	2.18 % 2.48 %
iCloud Mail	4663 4569	3394 3361	1198 1114	117 118	72.79 % 73.56 %	25.69 % 24.38 %	2.51 % 2.58 %
Tuta	4639 4715	3646 3647	904 969	113 120	78.59 % 77.35 %	19.49 % 20.55 %	2.44 % 2.55 %
Juno.com	4641 4710	3630 3667	909 940	124 117	78.22 % 77.86 %	19.59 % 19.96 %	2.67 % 2.48 %
Mailfence	4060 4033	3209 3153	760 779	91 101	79.04 % 78.18 %	18.72 % 19.32 %	2.24 % 2.50 %

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