Amazon SES and mailtrap Email Deliverability Comparison

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In this comparison, the deliverability of Amazon SES and mailtrap 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 Amazon SES.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
66.195 64.136	49.906 49.496	14.478 13.214	1.811 1.426

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 Amazon SES in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
75.39 % 77.17 %	21.87 % 20.60 %	2.74 % 2.22 %

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	5319 4940	3992 3791	1177 1042	150 107	75.05 % 76.74 %	22.13 % 21.09 %	2.82 % 2.17 %
Elektronics	4743 5186	3580 3998	1025 1069	138 119	75.48 % 77.09 %	21.61 % 20.61 %	2.91 % 2.29 %
Entertainment	5189 5106	3919 3964	1133 1030	137 112	75.53 % 77.63 %	21.83 % 20.17 %	2.64 % 2.19 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4842 4814	3673 3704	1047 994	122 116	75.86 % 76.94 %	21.62 % 20.65 %	2.52 % 2.41 %
Food & Drink	5176 4943	3874 3809	1153 1022	149 112	74.85 % 77.06 %	22.28 % 20.68 %	2.88 % 2.27 %
Home & Garden	5130 4852	3815 3732	1172 1013	143 107	74.37 % 76.92 %	22.85 % 20.88 %	2.79 % 2.21 %
Finance	5025 4958	3974 3966	921 893	130 99	79.08 % 79.99 %	18.33 % 18.01 %	2.59 % 2.00 %
Health	5079 4960	3983 4002	960 855	136 103	78.42 % 80.69 %	18.90 % 17.24 %	2.68 % 2.08 %
Pets	4968 5020	3726 3857	1110 1053	132 110	75.00 % 76.83 %	22.34 % 20.98 %	2.66 % 2.19 %
Sport & Fitness	5085 4910	3829 3742	1114 1050	142 118	75.30 % 76.21 %	21.91 % 21.38 %	2.79 % 2.40 %
Job & Career	5105 4867	3750 3650	1214 1114	141 103	73.46 % 74.99 %	23.78 % 22.89 %	2.76 % 2.12 %
Dating	5238 4833	3750 3542	1349 1178	139 113	71.59 % 73.29 %	25.75 % 24.37 %	2.65 % 2.34 %
Other	5296 4747	4041 3739	1103 901	152 107	76.30 % 78.77 %	20.83 % 18.98 %	2.87 % 2.25 %

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 Amazon SES.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	4881 4712	3533 3466	1214 1129	134 117	72.38 % 73.56 %	24.87 % 23.96 %	2.75 % 2.48 %
Outlook Mail	4740 4643	3515 3482	1096 1050	129 111	74.16 % 74.99 %	23.12 % 22.61 %	2.72 % 2.39 %
Yahoo Mail	4752 4550	3511 3485	1108 965	133 100	73.88 % 76.59 %	23.32 % 21.21 %	2.80 % 2.20 %
AOL Mail	4761 4714	3579 3619	1058 986	124 109	75.17 % 76.77 %	22.22 % 20.92 %	2.60 % 2.31 %
Mail.com	4663 4518	3553 3528	985 900	125 90	76.20 % 78.09 %	21.12 % 19.92 %	2.68 % 1.99 %
Yandex Mail	4708 4813	3534 3646	1056 1057	118 110	75.06 % 75.75 %	22.43 % 21.96 %	2.51 % 2.29 %
GMX Mail	4685 4500	3453 3404	1110 1000	122 96	73.70 % 75.64 %	23.69 % 22.22 %	2.60 % 2.13 %
Zoho Mail	4670 4566	3547 3545	992 916	131 105	75.95 % 77.64 %	21.24 % 20.06 %	2.81 % 2.30 %
ProtonMail	4822 4557	3765 3626	924 832	133 99	78.08 % 79.57 %	19.16 % 18.26 %	2.76 % 2.17 %
Custom Mail	4433 4515	3458 3635	853 778	122 102	78.01 % 80.51 %	19.24 % 17.23 %	2.75 % 2.26 %
iCloud Mail	4799 4603	3441 3405	1219 1103	139 95	71.70 % 73.97 %	25.40 % 23.96 %	2.90 % 2.06 %
Tuta	4878 4562	3785 3625	953 838	140 99	77.59 % 79.46 %	19.54 % 18.37 %	2.87 % 2.17 %
Juno.com	4576 4367	3501 3461	946 807	129 99	76.51 % 79.25 %	20.67 % 18.48 %	2.82 % 2.27 %
Mailfence	4827 4516	3731 3569	964 853	132 94	77.29 % 79.03 %	19.97 % 18.89 %	2.73 % 2.08 %

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