mailtrap and Amazon SES Email Deliverability Comparison

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Amazon SES

In this comparison, the deliverability of mailtrap and Amazon SES 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
63.318 64.456	50.377 51.232	12.086 12.207	1.393 1.447

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 (%)
79.56 % 79.48 %	19.09 % 18.94 %	2.20 % 2.24 %

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	4783 4838	3791 3818	902 949	100 104	79.26 % 78.92 %	18.86 % 19.62 %	2.09 % 2.15 %
Elektronics	4905 5000	3933 3966	904 937	102 111	80.18 % 79.32 %	18.43 % 18.74 %	2.08 % 2.22 %
Entertainment	4998 4804	3975 3820	980 908	101 104	79.53 % 79.52 %	19.61 % 18.90 %	2.02 % 2.16 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4737 5054	3770 4039	882 942	116 106	79.59 % 79.92 %	18.62 % 18.64 %	2.45 % 2.10 %
Food & Drink	4617 5071	3647 4017	912 974	95 117	78.99 % 79.22 %	19.75 % 19.21 %	2.06 % 2.31 %
Home & Garden	4836 5106	3828 4034	944 997	116 117	79.16 % 79.01 %	19.52 % 19.53 %	2.40 % 2.29 %
Finance	4687 4930	3831 4057	785 795	99 110	81.74 % 82.29 %	16.75 % 16.13 %	2.11 % 2.23 %
Health	5034 4996	4112 4104	854 815	109 108	81.68 % 82.15 %	16.96 % 16.31 %	2.17 % 2.16 %
Pets	4993 4837	3976 3817	962 954	111 113	79.63 % 78.91 %	19.27 % 19.72 %	2.22 % 2.34 %
Sport & Fitness	4969 4943	3933 3899	953 961	107 111	79.15 % 78.88 %	19.18 % 19.44 %	2.15 % 2.25 %
Job & Career	5014 5131	3909 4005	1040 1041	115 112	77.96 % 78.05 %	20.74 % 20.29 %	2.29 % 2.18 %
Dating	4912 4758	3761 3634	1093 1053	117 110	76.57 % 76.38 %	22.25 % 22.13 %	2.38 % 2.31 %
Other	4833 4988	3911 4022	875 881	105 124	80.92 % 80.63 %	18.10 % 17.66 %	2.17 % 2.49 %

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	4582 4760	3539 3677	991 998	114 103	77.24 % 77.25 %	21.63 % 20.97 %	2.49 % 2.16 %
Outlook Mail	4660 4626	3641 3627	978 927	99 104	78.13 % 78.40 %	20.99 % 20.04 %	2.12 % 2.25 %
Yahoo Mail	4753 4532	3765 3628	927 831	111 101	79.21 % 80.05 %	19.50 % 18.34 %	2.34 % 2.23 %
AOL Mail	4566 4780	3627 3790	882 923	100 101	79.43 % 79.29 %	19.32 % 19.31 %	2.19 % 2.11 %
Mail.com	4696 4596	3790 3690	847 839	97 100	80.71 % 80.29 %	18.04 % 18.26 %	2.07 % 2.18 %
Yandex Mail	4585 4673	3632 3696	904 917	101 111	79.21 % 79.09 %	19.72 % 19.62 %	2.20 % 2.38 %
GMX Mail	4760 4736	3773 3738	937 914	107 109	79.26 % 78.93 %	19.68 % 19.30 %	2.25 % 2.30 %
Zoho Mail	4625 4798	3700 3835	857 896	95 107	80.00 % 79.93 %	18.53 % 18.67 %	2.05 % 2.23 %
ProtonMail	4507 4839	3646 3916	787 831	97 107	80.90 % 80.93 %	17.46 % 17.17 %	2.15 % 2.21 %
Custom Mail	4804 4720	3904 3865	846 801	106 101	81.27 % 81.89 %	17.61 % 16.97 %	2.21 % 2.14 %
iCloud Mail	4565 4771	3542 3666	943 1030	103 118	77.59 % 76.84 %	20.66 % 21.59 %	2.26 % 2.47 %
Tuta	4525 4800	3641 3868	803 871	99 115	80.46 % 80.58 %	17.75 % 18.15 %	2.19 % 2.40 %
Juno.com	4631 4639	3746 3747	817 802	103 100	80.89 % 80.77 %	17.64 % 17.29 %	2.22 % 2.16 %
Mailfence	3059 3186	2431 2489	567 627	61 70	79.47 % 78.12 %	18.54 % 19.68 %	1.99 % 2.20 %

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