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
75.551 76.060	58.133 58.104	15.767 16.008	1.651 1.948

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 (%)
76.95 % 76.39 %	20.87 % 21.05 %	2.19 % 2.56 %

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	5811 5920	4441 4466	1249 1304	121 150	76.42 % 75.44 %	21.49 % 22.03 %	2.08 % 2.53 %
Elektronics	6039 6080	4639 4671	1255 1248	145 161	76.82 % 76.83 %	20.78 % 20.53 %	2.40 % 2.65 %
Entertainment	5903 5696	4574 4328	1203 1220	126 148	77.49 % 75.98 %	20.38 % 21.42 %	2.13 % 2.60 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5801 5831	4452 4492	1216 1183	133 156	76.75 % 77.04 %	20.96 % 20.29 %	2.29 % 2.68 %
Food & Drink	5889 5938	4505 4519	1258 1272	126 147	76.50 % 76.10 %	21.36 % 21.42 %	2.14 % 2.48 %
Home & Garden	5754 5605	4435 4257	1199 1206	120 142	77.08 % 75.95 %	20.84 % 21.52 %	2.09 % 2.53 %
Finance	5792 5835	4635 4637	1035 1042	122 156	80.02 % 79.47 %	17.87 % 17.86 %	2.11 % 2.67 %
Health	5759 5816	4621 4649	1015 1018	123 149	80.24 % 79.93 %	17.62 % 17.50 %	2.14 % 2.56 %
Pets	5948 5821	4551 4443	1266 1241	131 137	76.51 % 76.33 %	21.28 % 21.32 %	2.20 % 2.35 %
Sport & Fitness	5636 5852	4297 4474	1209 1225	130 153	76.24 % 76.45 %	21.45 % 20.93 %	2.31 % 2.61 %
Job & Career	5765 5698	4326 4193	1323 1364	116 141	75.04 % 73.59 %	22.95 % 23.94 %	2.01 % 2.47 %
Dating	5826 5975	4229 4290	1464 1541	133 144	72.59 % 71.80 %	25.13 % 25.79 %	2.28 % 2.41 %
Other	5628 5993	4428 4685	1075 1144	125 164	78.68 % 78.17 %	19.10 % 19.09 %	2.22 % 2.74 %

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	5598 5250	4089 3818	1378 1308	131 124	73.04 % 72.72 %	24.62 % 24.91 %	2.34 % 2.36 %
Outlook Mail	5540 5514	4155 4135	1260 1237	125 142	75.00 % 74.99 %	22.74 % 22.43 %	2.26 % 2.58 %
Yahoo Mail	5379 5260	4103 3954	1165 1172	111 134	76.28 % 75.17 %	21.66 % 22.28 %	2.06 % 2.55 %
AOL Mail	5582 5457	4278 4105	1178 1210	126 142	76.64 % 75.22 %	21.10 % 22.17 %	2.26 % 2.60 %
Mail.com	5366 5460	4162 4233	1093 1091	111 136	77.56 % 77.53 %	20.37 % 19.98 %	2.07 % 2.49 %
Yandex Mail	5451 5380	4130 4061	1196 1186	125 133	75.77 % 75.48 %	21.94 % 22.04 %	2.29 % 2.47 %
GMX Mail	5369 5467	4035 4087	1222 1234	112 146	75.15 % 74.76 %	22.76 % 22.57 %	2.09 % 2.67 %
Zoho Mail	5412 5426	4185 4201	1103 1092	124 133	77.33 % 77.42 %	20.38 % 20.13 %	2.29 % 2.45 %
ProtonMail	5363 5425	4265 4264	990 1025	108 136	79.53 % 78.60 %	18.46 % 18.89 %	2.01 % 2.51 %
Custom Mail	5238 5513	4218 4405	905 967	115 141	80.53 % 79.90 %	17.28 % 17.54 %	2.20 % 2.56 %
iCloud Mail	5364 5455	3961 3973	1294 1341	109 141	73.84 % 72.83 %	24.12 % 24.58 %	2.03 % 2.58 %
Tuta	5381 5400	4269 4241	994 1016	118 143	79.33 % 78.54 %	18.47 % 18.81 %	2.19 % 2.65 %
Juno.com	5132 5523	4047 4308	963 1062	122 153	78.86 % 78.00 %	18.76 % 19.23 %	2.38 % 2.77 %
Mailfence	5376 5530	4236 4319	1026 1067	114 144	78.79 % 78.10 %	19.08 % 19.29 %	2.12 % 2.60 %

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