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
66.041 64.767	49.987 50.335	14.393 13.133	1.661 1.299

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 (%)
75.69 % 77.72 %	21.79 % 20.28 %	2.52 % 2.01 %

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	5176 4817	3891 3743	1157 984	128 90	75.17 % 77.70 %	22.35 % 20.43 %	2.47 % 1.87 %
Elektronics	4959 5044	3758 3967	1073 980	128 97	75.78 % 78.65 %	21.64 % 19.43 %	2.58 % 1.92 %
Entertainment	5013 5093	3809 3959	1089 1037	115 97	75.98 % 77.73 %	21.72 % 20.36 %	2.29 % 1.90 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5082 4928	3884 3823	1083 994	115 111	76.43 % 77.58 %	21.31 % 20.17 %	2.26 % 2.25 %
Food & Drink	5138 4971	3866 3835	1142 1039	130 97	75.24 % 77.15 %	22.23 % 20.90 %	2.53 % 1.95 %
Home & Garden	5077 4860	3810 3751	1135 1008	132 101	75.04 % 77.18 %	22.36 % 20.74 %	2.60 % 2.08 %
Finance	5091 4863	4065 3923	896 850	130 90	79.85 % 80.67 %	17.60 % 17.48 %	2.55 % 1.85 %
Health	5068 5070	4017 4102	926 870	125 98	79.26 % 80.91 %	18.27 % 17.16 %	2.47 % 1.93 %
Pets	5058 5092	3791 3947	1140 1037	127 108	74.95 % 77.51 %	22.54 % 20.37 %	2.51 % 2.12 %
Sport & Fitness	5116 5019	3846 3859	1137 1061	133 99	75.18 % 76.89 %	22.22 % 21.14 %	2.60 % 1.97 %
Job & Career	5150 5019	3767 3801	1254 1115	129 103	73.15 % 75.73 %	24.35 % 22.22 %	2.50 % 2.05 %
Dating	5017 5066	3560 3725	1324 1231	133 110	70.96 % 73.53 %	26.39 % 24.30 %	2.65 % 2.17 %
Other	5096 4925	3923 3900	1037 927	136 98	76.98 % 79.19 %	20.35 % 18.82 %	2.67 % 1.99 %

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	4870 4705	3514 3484	1235 1116	121 105	72.16 % 74.05 %	25.36 % 23.72 %	2.48 % 2.23 %
Outlook Mail	4676 4682	3471 3528	1085 1067	120 87	74.23 % 75.35 %	23.20 % 22.79 %	2.57 % 1.86 %
Yahoo Mail	4648 4750	3511 3659	1016 994	121 97	75.54 % 77.03 %	21.86 % 20.93 %	2.60 % 2.04 %
AOL Mail	4816 4614	3634 3543	1067 975	115 96	75.46 % 76.79 %	22.16 % 21.13 %	2.39 % 2.08 %
Mail.com	4564 4654	3498 3682	956 882	110 90	76.64 % 79.11 %	20.95 % 18.95 %	2.41 % 1.93 %
Yandex Mail	4786 4758	3583 3652	1090 1014	113 92	74.86 % 76.75 %	22.77 % 21.31 %	2.36 % 1.93 %
GMX Mail	4640 4704	3440 3605	1080 1004	120 95	74.14 % 76.64 %	23.28 % 21.34 %	2.59 % 2.02 %
Zoho Mail	4693 4650	3563 3644	1013 912	117 94	75.92 % 78.37 %	21.59 % 19.61 %	2.49 % 2.02 %
ProtonMail	4856 4425	3783 3550	951 787	122 88	77.90 % 80.23 %	19.58 % 17.79 %	2.51 % 1.99 %
Custom Mail	4542 4638	3565 3743	868 804	109 91	78.49 % 80.70 %	19.11 % 17.34 %	2.40 % 1.96 %
iCloud Mail	4782 4496	3421 3360	1231 1045	130 91	71.54 % 74.73 %	25.74 % 23.24 %	2.72 % 2.02 %
Tuta	4850 4555	3751 3614	968 852	131 89	77.34 % 79.34 %	19.96 % 18.70 %	2.70 % 1.95 %
Juno.com	4636 4497	3609 3583	908 819	119 95	77.85 % 79.68 %	19.59 % 18.21 %	2.57 % 2.11 %
Mailfence	4682 4639	3644 3688	925 862	113 89	77.83 % 79.50 %	19.76 % 18.58 %	2.41 % 1.92 %

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