mailtrap and SendGrid Email Deliverability Comparison

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
62.804 62.600	50.873 49.846	9.435 10.115	2.496 2.639

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 (%)
81.00 % 79.63 %	15.02 % 16.16 %	3.97 % 4.22 %

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	4783 4926	3983 4050	634 706	166 170	83.27 % 82.22 %	13.26 % 14.33 %	3.47 % 3.45 %
Elektronics	4864 4870	4018 3891	684 755	162 224	82.61 % 79.90 %	14.06 % 15.50 %	3.33 % 4.60 %
Entertainment	4822 4832	3907 3841	725 788	190 203	81.02 % 79.49 %	15.04 % 16.31 %	3.94 % 4.20 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	4810 4831	3866 3848	728 785	216 198	80.37 % 79.65 %	15.14 % 16.25 %	4.49 % 4.10 %
Food & Drink	4848 4850	4045 3981	630 691	173 178	83.44 % 82.08 %	13.00 % 14.25 %	3.57 % 3.67 %
Home & Garden	4844 4866	4041 3970	639 693	164 203	83.42 % 81.59 %	13.19 % 14.24 %	3.39 % 4.17 %
Finance	4868 4748	3817 3655	829 869	222 224	78.41 % 76.98 %	17.03 % 18.30 %	4.56 % 4.72 %
Health	4846 4733	3857 3723	779 810	210 200	79.59 % 78.66 %	16.08 % 17.11 %	4.33 % 4.23 %
Pets	4815 4681	3967 3788	685 703	163 190	82.39 % 80.92 %	14.23 % 15.02 %	3.39 % 4.06 %
Sport & Fitness	4820 4964	3845 3898	770 854	205 212	79.77 % 78.53 %	15.98 % 17.20 %	4.25 % 4.27 %
Job & Career	4785 4779	3758 3691	814 877	213 211	78.54 % 77.23 %	17.01 % 18.35 %	4.45 % 4.42 %
Dating	4765 4790	3712 3681	823 863	230 246	77.90 % 76.85 %	17.27 % 18.02 %	4.83 % 5.14 %
Other	4934 4730	4057 3829	695 721	182 180	82.23 % 80.95 %	14.09 % 15.24 %	3.69 % 3.81 %

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	4834 4720	3631 3489	952 979	251 252	75.11 % 73.92 %	19.69 % 20.74 %	5.19 % 5.34 %
Outlook Mail	4990 4764	3959 3697	828 842	203 225	79.34 % 77.60 %	16.59 % 17.67 %	4.07 % 4.72 %
Yahoo Mail	4777 4881	3866 3866	741 807	170 208	80.93 % 79.21 %	15.51 % 16.53 %	3.56 % 4.26 %
AOL Mail	4886 5010	3928 3936	750 834	208 240	80.39 % 78.56 %	15.35 % 16.65 %	4.26 % 4.79 %
Mail.com	4941 4802	4019 3848	721 748	201 206	81.34 % 80.13 %	14.59 % 15.58 %	4.07 % 4.29 %
Yandex Mail	4829 4750	3811 3699	799 836	219 215	78.92 % 77.87 %	16.55 % 17.60 %	4.54 % 4.53 %
GMX Mail	4774 4695	3957 3848	647 679	170 168	82.89 % 81.96 %	13.55 % 14.46 %	3.56 % 3.58 %
Zoho Mail	4781 4771	3971 3879	637 699	173 193	83.06 % 81.30 %	13.32 % 14.65 %	3.62 % 4.05 %
ProtonMail	4804 4917	4031 4076	599 679	174 162	83.91 % 82.90 %	12.47 % 13.81 %	3.62 % 3.29 %
Custom Mail	4890 4805	4092 3942	629 676	169 187	83.68 % 82.04 %	12.86 % 14.07 %	3.46 % 3.89 %
iCloud Mail	4824 4874	3692 3717	899 956	233 201	76.53 % 76.26 %	18.64 % 19.61 %	4.83 % 4.12 %
Tuta	4686 4790	3893 3887	630 700	163 203	83.08 % 81.15 %	13.44 % 14.61 %	3.48 % 4.24 %
Juno.com	4788 4821	4023 3962	603 680	162 179	84.02 % 82.18 %	12.59 % 14.10 %	3.38 % 3.71 %

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