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
75.657 76.796	58.161 58.531	15.843 16.313	1.653 1.952

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

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

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

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