SendGrid and MailerLite Email Deliverability Comparison

SendGrid

MailerLite

In this comparison, the deliverability of SendGrid and MailerLite 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 MailerLite than for SendGrid.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
76.060 76.517	58.104 59.197	16.008 15.635	1.948 1.685

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. MailerLite beats SendGrid in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.39 % 77.36 %	21.05 % 20.43 %	2.56 % 2.20 %

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, MailerLite is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5920 5998	4466 4604	1304 1270	150 124	75.44 % 76.76 %	22.03 % 21.17 %	2.53 % 2.07 %
Elektronics	6080 5858	4671 4602	1248 1134	161 122	76.83 % 78.56 %	20.53 % 19.36 %	2.65 % 2.08 %
Entertainment	5696 5850	4328 4477	1220 1242	148 131	75.98 % 76.53 %	21.42 % 21.23 %	2.60 % 2.24 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5831 5878	4492 4580	1183 1171	156 127	77.04 % 77.92 %	20.29 % 19.92 %	2.68 % 2.16 %
Food & Drink	5938 5736	4519 4409	1272 1201	147 126	76.10 % 76.87 %	21.42 % 20.94 %	2.48 % 2.20 %
Home & Garden	5605 5948	4257 4614	1206 1195	142 139	75.95 % 77.57 %	21.52 % 20.09 %	2.53 % 2.34 %
Finance	5835 5938	4637 4772	1042 1023	156 143	79.47 % 80.36 %	17.86 % 17.23 %	2.67 % 2.41 %
Health	5816 5940	4649 4809	1018 1011	149 120	79.93 % 80.96 %	17.50 % 17.02 %	2.56 % 2.02 %
Pets	5821 5892	4443 4534	1241 1227	137 131	76.33 % 76.95 %	21.32 % 20.82 %	2.35 % 2.22 %
Sport & Fitness	5852 5648	4474 4298	1225 1214	153 136	76.45 % 76.10 %	20.93 % 21.49 %	2.61 % 2.41 %
Job & Career	5698 5908	4193 4407	1364 1363	141 138	73.59 % 74.59 %	23.94 % 23.07 %	2.47 % 2.34 %
Dating	5975 5958	4290 4373	1541 1458	144 127	71.80 % 73.40 %	25.79 % 24.47 %	2.41 % 2.13 %
Other	5993 5965	4685 4718	1144 1126	164 121	78.17 % 79.09 %	19.09 % 18.88 %	2.74 % 2.03 %

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, MailerLite is better than SendGrid.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5250 5338	3818 3908	1308 1315	124 115	72.72 % 73.21 %	24.91 % 24.63 %	2.36 % 2.15 %
Outlook Mail	5514 5325	4135 4024	1237 1183	142 118	74.99 % 75.57 %	22.43 % 22.22 %	2.58 % 2.22 %
Yahoo Mail	5260 5490	3954 4183	1172 1187	134 120	75.17 % 76.19 %	22.28 % 21.62 %	2.55 % 2.19 %
AOL Mail	5457 5525	4105 4255	1210 1139	142 131	75.22 % 77.01 %	22.17 % 20.62 %	2.60 % 2.37 %
Mail.com	5460 5680	4233 4438	1091 1116	136 126	77.53 % 78.13 %	19.98 % 19.65 %	2.49 % 2.22 %
Yandex Mail	5380 5358	4061 4107	1186 1130	133 121	75.48 % 76.65 %	22.04 % 21.09 %	2.47 % 2.26 %
GMX Mail	5467 5737	4087 4344	1234 1265	146 128	74.76 % 75.72 %	22.57 % 22.05 %	2.67 % 2.23 %
Zoho Mail	5426 5448	4201 4266	1092 1062	133 120	77.42 % 78.30 %	20.13 % 19.49 %	2.45 % 2.20 %
ProtonMail	5425 5261	4264 4176	1025 962	136 123	78.60 % 79.38 %	18.89 % 18.29 %	2.51 % 2.34 %
Custom Mail	5513 5556	4405 4498	967 941	141 117	79.90 % 80.96 %	17.54 % 16.94 %	2.56 % 2.11 %
iCloud Mail	5455 5502	3973 4068	1341 1316	141 118	72.83 % 73.94 %	24.58 % 23.92 %	2.58 % 2.14 %
Tuta	5400 5284	4241 4194	1016 969	143 121	78.54 % 79.37 %	18.81 % 18.34 %	2.65 % 2.29 %
Juno.com	5523 5559	4308 4397	1062 1052	153 110	78.00 % 79.10 %	19.23 % 18.92 %	2.77 % 1.98 %
Mailfence	5530 5454	4319 4339	1067 998	144 117	78.10 % 79.56 %	19.29 % 18.30 %	2.60 % 2.15 %

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