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 Amazon SES than for mailtrap.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
76.660 76.316	58.836 58.485	15.978 16.034	1.846 1.797

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. Amazon SES beats mailtrap in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.75 % 76.64 %	20.84 % 21.01 %	2.41 % 2.35 %

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, Amazon SES is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5917 5892	4510 4476	1258 1286	149 130	76.22 % 75.97 %	21.26 % 21.83 %	2.52 % 2.21 %
Elektronics	5909 5947	4546 4575	1212 1226	151 146	76.93 % 76.93 %	20.51 % 20.62 %	2.56 % 2.46 %
Entertainment	5926 5912	4538 4538	1244 1236	144 138	76.58 % 76.76 %	20.99 % 20.91 %	2.43 % 2.33 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5802 5795	4486 4451	1178 1200	138 144	77.32 % 76.81 %	20.30 % 20.71 %	2.38 % 2.48 %
Food & Drink	5980 5939	4579 4534	1243 1274	158 131	76.57 % 76.34 %	20.79 % 21.45 %	2.64 % 2.21 %
Home & Garden	5907 5853	4456 4457	1308 1261	143 135	75.44 % 76.15 %	22.14 % 21.54 %	2.42 % 2.31 %
Finance	5841 5858	4672 4672	1038 1038	131 148	79.99 % 79.75 %	17.77 % 17.72 %	2.24 % 2.53 %
Health	5657 5846	4508 4670	1017 1034	132 142	79.69 % 79.88 %	17.98 % 17.69 %	2.33 % 2.43 %
Pets	5830 5998	4460 4582	1235 1278	135 138	76.50 % 76.39 %	21.18 % 21.31 %	2.32 % 2.30 %
Sport & Fitness	5961 5585	4542 4255	1278 1190	141 140	76.20 % 76.19 %	21.44 % 21.31 %	2.37 % 2.51 %
Job & Career	5839 5959	4386 4437	1313 1396	140 126	75.12 % 74.46 %	22.49 % 23.43 %	2.40 % 2.11 %
Dating	6056 5917	4410 4265	1508 1509	138 143	72.82 % 72.08 %	24.90 % 25.50 %	2.28 % 2.42 %
Other	6035 5815	4743 4573	1146 1106	146 136	78.59 % 78.64 %	18.99 % 19.02 %	2.42 % 2.34 %

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, Amazon SES is better than mailtrap.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5467 5538	4008 4036	1328 1364	131 138	73.31 % 72.88 %	24.29 % 24.63 %	2.40 % 2.49 %
Outlook Mail	5577 5599	4175 4175	1269 1285	133 139	74.86 % 74.57 %	22.75 % 22.95 %	2.38 % 2.48 %
Yahoo Mail	5411 5398	4091 4102	1187 1175	133 121	75.61 % 75.99 %	21.94 % 21.77 %	2.46 % 2.24 %
AOL Mail	5339 5562	4038 4247	1181 1185	120 130	75.63 % 76.36 %	22.12 % 21.31 %	2.25 % 2.34 %
Mail.com	5498 5464	4270 4228	1102 1112	126 124	77.66 % 77.38 %	20.04 % 20.35 %	2.29 % 2.27 %
Yandex Mail	5591 5402	4294 4086	1173 1184	124 132	76.80 % 75.64 %	20.98 % 21.92 %	2.22 % 2.44 %
GMX Mail	5506 5378	4150 4007	1231 1245	125 126	75.37 % 74.51 %	22.36 % 23.15 %	2.27 % 2.34 %
Zoho Mail	5437 5409	4246 4176	1058 1113	133 120	78.09 % 77.20 %	19.46 % 20.58 %	2.45 % 2.22 %
ProtonMail	5602 5489	4433 4328	1028 1034	141 127	79.13 % 78.85 %	18.35 % 18.84 %	2.52 % 2.31 %
Custom Mail	5239 5339	4162 4282	939 929	138 128	79.44 % 80.20 %	17.92 % 17.40 %	2.63 % 2.40 %
iCloud Mail	5718 5550	4161 4075	1415 1351	142 124	72.77 % 73.42 %	24.75 % 24.34 %	2.48 % 2.23 %
Tuta	5482 5500	4357 4351	983 1017	142 132	79.48 % 79.11 %	17.93 % 18.49 %	2.59 % 2.40 %
Juno.com	5379 5235	4209 4105	1042 1004	128 126	78.25 % 78.41 %	19.37 % 19.18 %	2.38 % 2.41 %
Mailfence	5414 5453	4242 4287	1042 1036	130 130	78.35 % 78.62 %	19.25 % 19.00 %	2.40 % 2.38 %

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