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
76.796 75.657	58.531 58.161	16.313 15.843	1.952 1.653

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 (%)
76.22 % 76.87 %	21.24 % 20.94 %	2.54 % 2.18 %

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	6096 5903	4639 4509	1298 1275	159 119	76.10 % 76.38 %	21.29 % 21.60 %	2.61 % 2.02 %
Elektronics	5759 5971	4393 4588	1211 1243	155 140	76.28 % 76.84 %	21.03 % 20.82 %	2.69 % 2.34 %
Entertainment	5912 5858	4526 4522	1239 1206	147 130	76.56 % 77.19 %	20.96 % 20.59 %	2.49 % 2.22 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5686 5731	4358 4404	1187 1194	141 133	76.64 % 76.85 %	20.88 % 20.83 %	2.48 % 2.32 %
Food & Drink	5971 5950	4533 4562	1272 1268	166 120	75.92 % 76.67 %	21.30 % 21.31 %	2.78 % 2.02 %
Home & Garden	5924 5800	4444 4435	1327 1249	153 116	75.02 % 76.47 %	22.40 % 21.53 %	2.58 % 2.00 %
Finance	5801 5718	4612 4583	1048 1005	141 130	79.50 % 80.15 %	18.07 % 17.58 %	2.43 % 2.27 %
Health	5676 5773	4496 4626	1041 1020	139 127	79.21 % 80.13 %	18.34 % 17.67 %	2.45 % 2.20 %
Pets	5863 5906	4473 4501	1244 1276	146 129	76.29 % 76.21 %	21.22 % 21.61 %	2.49 % 2.18 %
Sport & Fitness	5981 5507	4518 4210	1311 1164	152 133	75.54 % 76.45 %	21.92 % 21.14 %	2.54 % 2.42 %
Job & Career	5911 5898	4393 4429	1366 1353	152 116	74.32 % 75.09 %	23.11 % 22.94 %	2.57 % 1.97 %
Dating	6055 5947	4357 4304	1553 1506	145 137	71.96 % 72.37 %	25.65 % 25.32 %	2.39 % 2.30 %
Other	6161 5695	4789 4488	1216 1084	156 123	77.73 % 78.81 %	19.74 % 19.03 %	2.53 % 2.16 %

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	5507 5532	4008 4030	1360 1375	139 127	72.78 % 72.85 %	24.70 % 24.86 %	2.52 % 2.30 %
Outlook Mail	5624 5474	4190 4097	1294 1251	140 126	74.50 % 74.84 %	23.01 % 22.85 %	2.49 % 2.30 %
Yahoo Mail	5392 5396	4028 4115	1222 1168	142 113	74.70 % 76.26 %	22.66 % 21.65 %	2.63 % 2.09 %
AOL Mail	5396 5501	4057 4199	1210 1176	129 126	75.19 % 76.33 %	22.42 % 21.38 %	2.39 % 2.29 %
Mail.com	5505 5440	4255 4213	1113 1111	137 116	77.29 % 77.44 %	20.22 % 20.42 %	2.49 % 2.13 %
Yandex Mail	5633 5434	4298 4130	1205 1180	130 124	76.30 % 76.00 %	21.39 % 21.72 %	2.31 % 2.28 %
GMX Mail	5505 5390	4118 4043	1255 1234	132 113	74.80 % 75.01 %	22.80 % 22.89 %	2.40 % 2.10 %
Zoho Mail	5405 5419	4188 4195	1074 1107	143 117	77.48 % 77.41 %	19.87 % 20.43 %	2.65 % 2.16 %
ProtonMail	5571 5447	4377 4327	1049 1010	145 110	78.57 % 79.44 %	18.83 % 18.54 %	2.60 % 2.02 %
Custom Mail	5241 5294	4131 4252	966 921	144 121	78.82 % 80.32 %	18.43 % 17.40 %	2.75 % 2.29 %
iCloud Mail	5680 5411	4096 4002	1434 1299	150 110	72.11 % 73.96 %	25.25 % 24.01 %	2.64 % 2.03 %
Tuta	5624 5421	4448 4282	1024 1018	152 121	79.09 % 78.99 %	18.21 % 18.78 %	2.70 % 2.23 %
Juno.com	5360 5167	4161 4064	1066 983	133 120	77.63 % 78.65 %	19.89 % 19.02 %	2.48 % 2.32 %
Mailfence	5353 5331	4176 4212	1041 1010	136 109	78.01 % 79.01 %	19.45 % 18.95 %	2.54 % 2.04 %

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