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
77.005 75.185	58.115 57.581	16.752 15.855	2.138 1.749

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 (%)
75.47 % 76.59 %	21.75 % 21.09 %	2.78 % 2.33 %

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	6185 5837	4653 4437	1353 1273	179 127	75.23 % 76.02 %	21.88 % 21.81 %	2.89 % 2.18 %
Elektronics	5641 6010	4262 4600	1208 1268	171 142	75.55 % 76.54 %	21.41 % 21.10 %	3.03 % 2.36 %
Entertainment	5966 5923	4517 4570	1290 1217	159 136	75.71 % 77.16 %	21.62 % 20.55 %	2.67 % 2.30 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5704 5687	4340 4350	1214 1193	150 144	76.09 % 76.49 %	21.28 % 20.98 %	2.63 % 2.53 %
Food & Drink	6036 5844	4522 4458	1336 1250	178 136	74.92 % 76.28 %	22.13 % 21.39 %	2.95 % 2.33 %
Home & Garden	5952 5734	4433 4384	1355 1217	164 133	74.48 % 76.46 %	22.77 % 21.22 %	2.76 % 2.32 %
Finance	5847 5731	4638 4565	1058 1041	151 125	79.32 % 79.65 %	18.09 % 18.16 %	2.58 % 2.18 %
Health	5799 5818	4532 4653	1110 1037	157 128	78.15 % 79.98 %	19.14 % 17.82 %	2.71 % 2.20 %
Pets	5771 5837	4334 4437	1284 1262	153 138	75.10 % 76.02 %	22.25 % 21.62 %	2.65 % 2.36 %
Sport & Fitness	5974 5733	4502 4345	1302 1246	170 142	75.36 % 75.79 %	21.79 % 21.73 %	2.85 % 2.48 %
Job & Career	5898 5747	4328 4281	1403 1338	167 128	73.38 % 74.49 %	23.79 % 23.28 %	2.83 % 2.23 %
Dating	6064 5685	4326 4108	1578 1437	160 140	71.34 % 72.26 %	26.02 % 25.28 %	2.64 % 2.46 %
Other	6168 5599	4728 4393	1261 1076	179 130	76.65 % 78.46 %	20.44 % 19.22 %	2.90 % 2.32 %

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	5714 5574	4156 4050	1400 1380	158 144	72.73 % 72.66 %	24.50 % 24.76 %	2.77 % 2.58 %
Outlook Mail	5494 5462	4066 4073	1273 1255	155 134	74.01 % 74.57 %	23.17 % 22.98 %	2.82 % 2.45 %
Yahoo Mail	5514 5304	4084 4022	1272 1159	158 123	74.07 % 75.83 %	23.07 % 21.85 %	2.87 % 2.32 %
AOL Mail	5520 5594	4135 4257	1240 1204	145 133	74.91 % 76.10 %	22.46 % 21.52 %	2.63 % 2.38 %
Mail.com	5466 5286	4168 4095	1150 1078	148 113	76.25 % 77.47 %	21.04 % 20.39 %	2.71 % 2.14 %
Yandex Mail	5488 5635	4136 4238	1215 1265	137 132	75.36 % 75.21 %	22.14 % 22.45 %	2.50 % 2.34 %
GMX Mail	5433 5294	4019 3973	1266 1202	148 119	73.97 % 75.05 %	23.30 % 22.70 %	2.72 % 2.25 %
Zoho Mail	5493 5421	4196 4174	1142 1119	155 128	76.39 % 77.00 %	20.79 % 20.64 %	2.82 % 2.36 %
ProtonMail	5582 5263	4346 4160	1080 984	156 119	77.86 % 79.04 %	19.35 % 18.70 %	2.79 % 2.26 %
Custom Mail	5204 5237	4064 4196	991 917	149 124	78.09 % 80.12 %	19.04 % 17.51 %	2.86 % 2.37 %
iCloud Mail	5619 5332	4011 3931	1444 1287	164 114	71.38 % 73.72 %	25.70 % 24.14 %	2.92 % 2.14 %
Tuta	5664 5336	4405 4216	1097 998	162 122	77.77 % 79.01 %	19.37 % 18.70 %	2.86 % 2.29 %
Juno.com	5290 5160	4060 4059	1079 976	151 125	76.75 % 78.66 %	20.40 % 18.91 %	2.85 % 2.42 %
Mailfence	5524 5287	4269 4137	1103 1031	152 119	77.28 % 78.25 %	19.97 % 19.50 %	2.75 % 2.25 %

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