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
64.364 65.251	50.801 50.995	12.496 12.880	1.364 1.512

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 (%)
78.93 % 78.15 %	19.41 % 19.74 %	2.12 % 2.32 %

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	4816 5007	3783 3880	935 1032	97 112	78.55 % 77.49 %	19.41 % 20.61 %	2.01 % 2.24 %
Elektronics	5011 5002	3995 3917	932 978	101 119	79.72 % 78.31 %	18.60 % 19.55 %	2.02 % 2.38 %
Entertainment	5115 4940	4033 3861	1010 980	101 108	78.85 % 78.16 %	19.75 % 19.84 %	1.97 % 2.19 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4888 5084	3856 4002	935 985	113 107	78.89 % 78.72 %	19.13 % 19.37 %	2.31 % 2.10 %
Food & Drink	4803 5128	3762 3992	958 1028	102 120	78.33 % 77.85 %	19.95 % 20.05 %	2.12 % 2.34 %
Home & Garden	4922 5035	3862 3904	980 1025	114 121	78.46 % 77.54 %	19.91 % 20.36 %	2.32 % 2.40 %
Finance	4783 5047	3895 4121	808 813	93 119	81.43 % 81.65 %	16.89 % 16.11 %	1.94 % 2.36 %
Health	5040 5036	4107 4091	851 833	103 114	81.49 % 81.24 %	16.88 % 16.54 %	2.04 % 2.26 %
Pets	5040 4904	3988 3800	972 1010	108 112	79.13 % 77.49 %	19.29 % 20.60 %	2.14 % 2.28 %
Sport & Fitness	5073 5080	3979 3956	1011 1019	105 120	78.43 % 77.87 %	19.93 % 20.06 %	2.07 % 2.36 %
Job & Career	5017 5195	3862 3957	1069 1128	111 117	76.98 % 76.17 %	21.31 % 21.71 %	2.21 % 2.25 %
Dating	4940 4876	3735 3617	1135 1141	111 119	75.61 % 74.18 %	22.98 % 23.40 %	2.25 % 2.44 %
Other	4916 4917	3944 3897	900 908	105 124	80.23 % 79.26 %	18.31 % 18.47 %	2.14 % 2.52 %

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	4690 4863	3570 3671	1052 1091	111 113	76.12 % 75.49 %	22.43 % 22.43 %	2.37 % 2.32 %
Outlook Mail	4718 4669	3622 3596	1020 976	94 108	76.77 % 77.02 %	21.62 % 20.90 %	1.99 % 2.31 %
Yahoo Mail	4756 4612	3731 3624	948 895	104 106	78.45 % 78.58 %	19.93 % 19.41 %	2.19 % 2.30 %
AOL Mail	4666 4893	3663 3830	922 973	101 106	78.50 % 78.28 %	19.76 % 19.89 %	2.16 % 2.17 %
Mail.com	4691 4597	3767 3631	852 872	94 102	80.30 % 78.99 %	18.16 % 18.97 %	2.00 % 2.22 %
Yandex Mail	4685 4643	3670 3588	950 961	96 105	78.34 % 77.28 %	20.28 % 20.70 %	2.05 % 2.26 %
GMX Mail	4720 4647	3689 3593	963 965	101 108	78.16 % 77.32 %	20.40 % 20.77 %	2.14 % 2.32 %
Zoho Mail	4639 4696	3693 3688	862 912	95 108	79.61 % 78.53 %	18.58 % 19.42 %	2.05 % 2.30 %
ProtonMail	4425 4871	3579 3895	766 865	93 112	80.88 % 79.96 %	17.31 % 17.76 %	2.10 % 2.30 %
Custom Mail	4707 4628	3827 3738	806 798	98 102	81.30 % 80.77 %	17.12 % 17.24 %	2.08 % 2.20 %
iCloud Mail	4615 4756	3520 3559	1011 1088	102 119	76.27 % 74.83 %	21.91 % 22.88 %	2.21 % 2.50 %
Tuta	4526 4809	3643 3810	806 895	93 120	80.49 % 79.23 %	17.81 % 18.61 %	2.05 % 2.50 %
Juno.com	4618 4601	3721 3672	817 817	101 109	80.58 % 79.81 %	17.69 % 17.76 %	2.19 % 2.37 %
Mailfence	3908 3966	3106 3100	721 772	81 94	79.48 % 78.16 %	18.45 % 19.47 %	2.07 % 2.37 %

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