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
66.036 64.339	49.737 49.599	14.491 13.283	1.808 1.457

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 (%)
75.32 % 77.09 %	21.94 % 20.65 %	2.74 % 2.26 %

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	5214 4906	3908 3763	1158 1039	148 104	74.95 % 76.70 %	22.21 % 21.18 %	2.84 % 2.12 %
Elektronics	4850 5247	3642 4073	1071 1055	137 119	75.09 % 77.63 %	22.08 % 20.11 %	2.82 % 2.27 %
Entertainment	5119 5049	3884 3918	1102 1019	133 112	75.87 % 77.60 %	21.53 % 20.18 %	2.60 % 2.22 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4924 4855	3722 3723	1074 1013	128 119	75.59 % 76.68 %	21.81 % 20.87 %	2.60 % 2.45 %
Food & Drink	5217 4989	3868 3819	1204 1051	145 119	74.14 % 76.55 %	23.08 % 21.07 %	2.78 % 2.39 %
Home & Garden	5102 4872	3787 3742	1175 1022	140 108	74.23 % 76.81 %	23.03 % 20.98 %	2.74 % 2.22 %
Finance	5016 4798	3975 3841	910 859	131 98	79.25 % 80.05 %	18.14 % 17.90 %	2.61 % 2.04 %
Health	5061 4968	3985 4019	942 839	134 110	78.74 % 80.90 %	18.61 % 16.89 %	2.65 % 2.21 %
Pets	4986 5064	3735 3872	1118 1078	133 114	74.91 % 76.46 %	22.42 % 21.29 %	2.67 % 2.25 %
Sport & Fitness	5033 4916	3800 3751	1091 1050	142 115	75.50 % 76.30 %	21.68 % 21.36 %	2.82 % 2.34 %
Job & Career	5166 4828	3782 3629	1241 1090	143 109	73.21 % 75.17 %	24.02 % 22.58 %	2.77 % 2.26 %
Dating	5130 4994	3669 3652	1321 1221	140 121	71.52 % 73.13 %	25.75 % 24.45 %	2.73 % 2.42 %
Other	5218 4853	3980 3797	1084 947	154 109	76.27 % 78.24 %	20.77 % 19.51 %	2.95 % 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	4899 4718	3520 3470	1243 1133	136 115	71.85 % 73.55 %	25.37 % 24.01 %	2.78 % 2.44 %
Outlook Mail	4615 4652	3424 3502	1064 1038	127 112	74.19 % 75.28 %	23.06 % 22.31 %	2.75 % 2.41 %
Yahoo Mail	4657 4641	3468 3548	1056 985	133 108	74.47 % 76.45 %	22.68 % 21.22 %	2.86 % 2.33 %
AOL Mail	4765 4789	3549 3647	1089 1028	127 114	74.48 % 76.15 %	22.85 % 21.47 %	2.67 % 2.38 %
Mail.com	4684 4609	3584 3613	978 901	122 95	76.52 % 78.39 %	20.88 % 19.55 %	2.60 % 2.06 %
Yandex Mail	4694 4777	3508 3631	1065 1033	121 113	74.73 % 76.01 %	22.69 % 21.62 %	2.58 % 2.37 %
GMX Mail	4692 4588	3470 3487	1095 999	127 102	73.96 % 76.00 %	23.34 % 21.77 %	2.71 % 2.22 %
Zoho Mail	4739 4524	3596 3504	1013 920	130 100	75.88 % 77.45 %	21.38 % 20.34 %	2.74 % 2.21 %
ProtonMail	4851 4578	3774 3638	943 839	134 101	77.80 % 79.47 %	19.44 % 18.33 %	2.76 % 2.21 %
Custom Mail	4470 4531	3477 3641	874 787	119 103	77.79 % 80.36 %	19.55 % 17.37 %	2.66 % 2.27 %
iCloud Mail	4787 4482	3429 3315	1219 1068	139 99	71.63 % 73.96 %	25.46 % 23.83 %	2.90 % 2.21 %
Tuta	4825 4533	3728 3592	960 840	137 101	77.26 % 79.24 %	19.90 % 18.53 %	2.84 % 2.23 %
Juno.com	4597 4441	3525 3492	942 848	130 101	76.68 % 78.63 %	20.49 % 19.09 %	2.83 % 2.27 %
Mailfence	4761 4476	3685 3519	950 864	126 93	77.40 % 78.62 %	19.95 % 19.30 %	2.65 % 2.08 %

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