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
75.185 77.005	57.581 58.115	15.855 16.752	1.749 2.138

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

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

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

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