Amazon SES and mailtrap Email Deliverability Comparison

Amazon SES

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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
64.456 63.318	51.232 50.377	12.207 12.086	1.447 1.393

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 (%)
79.48 % 79.56 %	18.94 % 19.09 %	2.24 % 2.20 %

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	4838 4783	3818 3791	949 902	104 100	78.92 % 79.26 %	19.62 % 18.86 %	2.15 % 2.09 %
Elektronics	5000 4905	3966 3933	937 904	111 102	79.32 % 80.18 %	18.74 % 18.43 %	2.22 % 2.08 %
Entertainment	4804 4998	3820 3975	908 980	104 101	79.52 % 79.53 %	18.90 % 19.61 %	2.16 % 2.02 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5054 4737	4039 3770	942 882	106 116	79.92 % 79.59 %	18.64 % 18.62 %	2.10 % 2.45 %
Food & Drink	5071 4617	4017 3647	974 912	117 95	79.22 % 78.99 %	19.21 % 19.75 %	2.31 % 2.06 %
Home & Garden	5106 4836	4034 3828	997 944	117 116	79.01 % 79.16 %	19.53 % 19.52 %	2.29 % 2.40 %
Finance	4930 4687	4057 3831	795 785	110 99	82.29 % 81.74 %	16.13 % 16.75 %	2.23 % 2.11 %
Health	4996 5034	4104 4112	815 854	108 109	82.15 % 81.68 %	16.31 % 16.96 %	2.16 % 2.17 %
Pets	4837 4993	3817 3976	954 962	113 111	78.91 % 79.63 %	19.72 % 19.27 %	2.34 % 2.22 %
Sport & Fitness	4943 4969	3899 3933	961 953	111 107	78.88 % 79.15 %	19.44 % 19.18 %	2.25 % 2.15 %
Job & Career	5131 5014	4005 3909	1041 1040	112 115	78.05 % 77.96 %	20.29 % 20.74 %	2.18 % 2.29 %
Dating	4758 4912	3634 3761	1053 1093	110 117	76.38 % 76.57 %	22.13 % 22.25 %	2.31 % 2.38 %
Other	4988 4833	4022 3911	881 875	124 105	80.63 % 80.92 %	17.66 % 18.10 %	2.49 % 2.17 %

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	4760 4582	3677 3539	998 991	103 114	77.25 % 77.24 %	20.97 % 21.63 %	2.16 % 2.49 %
Outlook Mail	4626 4660	3627 3641	927 978	104 99	78.40 % 78.13 %	20.04 % 20.99 %	2.25 % 2.12 %
Yahoo Mail	4532 4753	3628 3765	831 927	101 111	80.05 % 79.21 %	18.34 % 19.50 %	2.23 % 2.34 %
AOL Mail	4780 4566	3790 3627	923 882	101 100	79.29 % 79.43 %	19.31 % 19.32 %	2.11 % 2.19 %
Mail.com	4596 4696	3690 3790	839 847	100 97	80.29 % 80.71 %	18.26 % 18.04 %	2.18 % 2.07 %
Yandex Mail	4673 4585	3696 3632	917 904	111 101	79.09 % 79.21 %	19.62 % 19.72 %	2.38 % 2.20 %
GMX Mail	4736 4760	3738 3773	914 937	109 107	78.93 % 79.26 %	19.30 % 19.68 %	2.30 % 2.25 %
Zoho Mail	4798 4625	3835 3700	896 857	107 95	79.93 % 80.00 %	18.67 % 18.53 %	2.23 % 2.05 %
ProtonMail	4839 4507	3916 3646	831 787	107 97	80.93 % 80.90 %	17.17 % 17.46 %	2.21 % 2.15 %
Custom Mail	4720 4804	3865 3904	801 846	101 106	81.89 % 81.27 %	16.97 % 17.61 %	2.14 % 2.21 %
iCloud Mail	4771 4565	3666 3542	1030 943	118 103	76.84 % 77.59 %	21.59 % 20.66 %	2.47 % 2.26 %
Tuta	4800 4525	3868 3641	871 803	115 99	80.58 % 80.46 %	18.15 % 17.75 %	2.40 % 2.19 %
Juno.com	4639 4631	3747 3746	802 817	100 103	80.77 % 80.89 %	17.29 % 17.64 %	2.16 % 2.22 %
Mailfence	3186 3059	2489 2431	627 567	70 61	78.12 % 79.47 %	19.68 % 18.54 %	2.20 % 1.99 %

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