mailtrap and SendGrid Email Deliverability Comparison

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SendGrid

In this comparison, the deliverability of mailtrap and SendGrid 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 SendGrid.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
75.657 76.020	58.161 57.862	15.843 16.204	1.653 1.954

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 SendGrid in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.87 % 76.11 %	20.94 % 21.32 %	2.18 % 2.57 %

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 5890	4509 4437	1275 1303	119 150	76.38 % 75.33 %	21.60 % 22.12 %	2.02 % 2.55 %
Elektronics	5971 6048	4588 4622	1243 1268	140 158	76.84 % 76.42 %	20.82 % 20.97 %	2.34 % 2.61 %
Entertainment	5858 5622	4522 4257	1206 1227	130 138	77.19 % 75.72 %	20.59 % 21.82 %	2.22 % 2.45 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5731 5858	4404 4497	1194 1202	133 159	76.85 % 76.77 %	20.83 % 20.52 %	2.32 % 2.71 %
Food & Drink	5950 5897	4562 4470	1268 1282	120 145	76.67 % 75.80 %	21.31 % 21.74 %	2.02 % 2.46 %
Home & Garden	5800 5664	4435 4264	1249 1249	116 151	76.47 % 75.28 %	21.53 % 22.05 %	2.00 % 2.67 %
Finance	5718 5843	4583 4644	1005 1041	130 158	80.15 % 79.48 %	17.58 % 17.82 %	2.27 % 2.70 %
Health	5773 5767	4626 4577	1020 1043	127 147	80.13 % 79.37 %	17.67 % 18.09 %	2.20 % 2.55 %
Pets	5906 5816	4501 4417	1276 1258	129 141	76.21 % 75.95 %	21.61 % 21.63 %	2.18 % 2.42 %
Sport & Fitness	5507 5815	4210 4441	1164 1221	133 153	76.45 % 76.37 %	21.14 % 21.00 %	2.42 % 2.63 %
Job & Career	5898 5804	4429 4254	1353 1399	116 151	75.09 % 73.29 %	22.94 % 24.10 %	1.97 % 2.60 %
Dating	5947 5947	4304 4274	1506 1532	137 141	72.37 % 71.87 %	25.32 % 25.76 %	2.30 % 2.37 %
Other	5695 6049	4488 4708	1084 1179	123 162	78.81 % 77.83 %	19.03 % 19.49 %	2.16 % 2.68 %

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 SendGrid.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5532 5282	4030 3834	1375 1320	127 128	72.85 % 72.59 %	24.86 % 24.99 %	2.30 % 2.42 %
Outlook Mail	5474 5454	4097 4062	1251 1254	126 138	74.84 % 74.48 %	22.85 % 22.99 %	2.30 % 2.53 %
Yahoo Mail	5396 5391	4115 4040	1168 1215	113 136	76.26 % 74.94 %	21.65 % 22.54 %	2.09 % 2.52 %
AOL Mail	5501 5521	4199 4151	1176 1226	126 144	76.33 % 75.19 %	21.38 % 22.21 %	2.29 % 2.61 %
Mail.com	5440 5367	4213 4152	1111 1084	116 131	77.44 % 77.36 %	20.42 % 20.20 %	2.13 % 2.44 %
Yandex Mail	5434 5350	4130 4037	1180 1180	124 133	76.00 % 75.46 %	21.72 % 22.06 %	2.28 % 2.49 %
GMX Mail	5390 5582	4043 4153	1234 1275	113 154	75.01 % 74.40 %	22.89 % 22.84 %	2.10 % 2.76 %
Zoho Mail	5419 5323	4195 4111	1107 1079	117 133	77.41 % 77.23 %	20.43 % 20.27 %	2.16 % 2.50 %
ProtonMail	5447 5454	4327 4278	1010 1039	110 137	79.44 % 78.44 %	18.54 % 19.05 %	2.02 % 2.51 %
Custom Mail	5294 5505	4252 4348	921 1016	121 141	80.32 % 78.98 %	17.40 % 18.46 %	2.29 % 2.56 %
iCloud Mail	5411 5399	4002 3902	1299 1359	110 138	73.96 % 72.27 %	24.01 % 25.17 %	2.03 % 2.56 %
Tuta	5421 5338	4282 4173	1018 1019	121 146	78.99 % 78.18 %	18.78 % 19.09 %	2.23 % 2.74 %
Juno.com	5167 5551	4064 4322	983 1075	120 154	78.65 % 77.86 %	19.02 % 19.37 %	2.32 % 2.77 %
Mailfence	5331 5503	4212 4299	1010 1063	109 141	79.01 % 78.12 %	18.95 % 19.32 %	2.04 % 2.56 %

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