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
75.551 76.915	58.133 58.159	15.767 16.629	1.651 2.127

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 (%)
76.95 % 75.61 %	20.87 % 21.62 %	2.19 % 2.77 %

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	5811 6114	4441 4603	1249 1336	121 175	76.42 % 75.29 %	21.49 % 21.85 %	2.08 % 2.86 %
Elektronics	6039 5727	4639 4319	1255 1237	145 171	76.82 % 75.41 %	20.78 % 21.60 %	2.40 % 2.99 %
Entertainment	5903 5928	4574 4505	1203 1263	126 160	77.49 % 76.00 %	20.38 % 21.31 %	2.13 % 2.70 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5801 5686	4452 4333	1216 1202	133 151	76.75 % 76.20 %	20.96 % 21.14 %	2.29 % 2.66 %
Food & Drink	5889 6029	4505 4542	1258 1310	126 177	76.50 % 75.34 %	21.36 % 21.73 %	2.14 % 2.94 %
Home & Garden	5754 5919	4435 4427	1199 1327	120 165	77.08 % 74.79 %	20.84 % 22.42 %	2.09 % 2.79 %
Finance	5792 5822	4635 4623	1035 1048	122 151	80.02 % 79.41 %	17.87 % 18.00 %	2.11 % 2.59 %
Health	5759 5742	4621 4494	1015 1093	123 155	80.24 % 78.27 %	17.62 % 19.04 %	2.14 % 2.70 %
Pets	5948 5837	4551 4411	1266 1270	131 156	76.51 % 75.57 %	21.28 % 21.76 %	2.20 % 2.67 %
Sport & Fitness	5636 5959	4297 4485	1209 1305	130 169	76.24 % 75.26 %	21.45 % 21.90 %	2.31 % 2.84 %
Job & Career	5765 5969	4326 4390	1323 1414	116 165	75.04 % 73.55 %	22.95 % 23.69 %	2.01 % 2.76 %
Dating	5826 6086	4229 4336	1464 1589	133 161	72.59 % 71.25 %	25.13 % 26.11 %	2.28 % 2.65 %
Other	5628 6097	4428 4691	1075 1235	125 171	78.68 % 76.94 %	19.10 % 20.26 %	2.22 % 2.80 %

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	5598 5594	4089 4047	1378 1389	131 158	73.04 % 72.35 %	24.62 % 24.83 %	2.34 % 2.82 %
Outlook Mail	5540 5617	4155 4164	1260 1300	125 153	75.00 % 74.13 %	22.74 % 23.14 %	2.26 % 2.72 %
Yahoo Mail	5379 5486	4103 4073	1165 1257	111 156	76.28 % 74.24 %	21.66 % 22.91 %	2.06 % 2.84 %
AOL Mail	5582 5505	4278 4127	1178 1232	126 146	76.64 % 74.97 %	21.10 % 22.38 %	2.26 % 2.65 %
Mail.com	5366 5447	4162 4168	1093 1131	111 148	77.56 % 76.52 %	20.37 % 20.76 %	2.07 % 2.72 %
Yandex Mail	5451 5546	4130 4197	1196 1215	125 134	75.77 % 75.68 %	21.94 % 21.91 %	2.29 % 2.42 %
GMX Mail	5369 5485	4035 4068	1222 1275	112 142	75.15 % 74.17 %	22.76 % 23.25 %	2.09 % 2.59 %
Zoho Mail	5412 5364	4185 4118	1103 1094	124 152	77.33 % 76.77 %	20.38 % 20.40 %	2.29 % 2.83 %
ProtonMail	5363 5613	4265 4375	990 1078	108 160	79.53 % 77.94 %	18.46 % 19.21 %	2.01 % 2.85 %
Custom Mail	5238 5239	4218 4086	905 999	115 154	80.53 % 77.99 %	17.28 % 19.07 %	2.20 % 2.94 %
iCloud Mail	5364 5587	3961 3997	1294 1429	109 161	73.84 % 71.54 %	24.12 % 25.58 %	2.03 % 2.88 %
Tuta	5381 5710	4269 4463	994 1082	118 165	79.33 % 78.16 %	18.47 % 18.95 %	2.19 % 2.89 %
Juno.com	5132 5302	4047 4078	963 1076	122 148	78.86 % 76.91 %	18.76 % 20.29 %	2.38 % 2.79 %
Mailfence	5376 5420	4236 4198	1026 1072	114 150	78.79 % 77.45 %	19.08 % 19.78 %	2.12 % 2.77 %

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