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
76.020 76.692	57.862 59.573	16.204 15.500	1.954 1.619

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 (%)
76.11 % 77.68 %	21.32 % 20.21 %	2.57 % 2.11 %

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	5890 5987	4437 4637	1303 1225	150 125	75.33 % 77.45 %	22.12 % 20.46 %	2.55 % 2.09 %
Elektronics	6048 5846	4622 4605	1268 1122	158 119	76.42 % 78.77 %	20.97 % 19.19 %	2.61 % 2.04 %
Entertainment	5622 5868	4257 4533	1227 1216	138 119	75.72 % 77.25 %	21.82 % 20.72 %	2.45 % 2.03 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5858 5895	4497 4608	1202 1161	159 126	76.77 % 78.17 %	20.52 % 19.69 %	2.71 % 2.14 %
Food & Drink	5897 5809	4470 4491	1282 1195	145 123	75.80 % 77.31 %	21.74 % 20.57 %	2.46 % 2.12 %
Home & Garden	5664 5907	4264 4581	1249 1194	151 132	75.28 % 77.55 %	22.05 % 20.21 %	2.67 % 2.23 %
Finance	5843 5977	4644 4825	1041 1020	158 132	79.48 % 80.73 %	17.82 % 17.07 %	2.70 % 2.21 %
Health	5767 5891	4577 4772	1043 1002	147 117	79.37 % 81.00 %	18.09 % 17.01 %	2.55 % 1.99 %
Pets	5816 5809	4417 4488	1258 1200	141 121	75.95 % 77.26 %	21.63 % 20.66 %	2.42 % 2.08 %
Sport & Fitness	5815 5749	4441 4404	1221 1214	153 131	76.37 % 76.60 %	21.00 % 21.12 %	2.63 % 2.28 %
Job & Career	5804 6002	4254 4490	1399 1379	151 133	73.29 % 74.81 %	24.10 % 22.98 %	2.60 % 2.22 %
Dating	5947 5969	4274 4393	1532 1454	141 122	71.87 % 73.60 %	25.76 % 24.36 %	2.37 % 2.04 %
Other	6049 5983	4708 4746	1179 1118	162 119	77.83 % 79.32 %	19.49 % 18.69 %	2.68 % 1.99 %

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	5282 5419	3834 3986	1320 1318	128 115	72.59 % 73.56 %	24.99 % 24.32 %	2.42 % 2.12 %
Outlook Mail	5454 5295	4062 4018	1254 1162	138 115	74.48 % 75.88 %	22.99 % 21.95 %	2.53 % 2.17 %
Yahoo Mail	5391 5420	4040 4137	1215 1169	136 114	74.94 % 76.33 %	22.54 % 21.57 %	2.52 % 2.10 %
AOL Mail	5521 5539	4151 4278	1226 1137	144 124	75.19 % 77.23 %	22.21 % 20.53 %	2.61 % 2.24 %
Mail.com	5367 5555	4152 4390	1084 1047	131 118	77.36 % 79.03 %	20.20 % 18.85 %	2.44 % 2.12 %
Yandex Mail	5350 5331	4037 4100	1180 1115	133 116	75.46 % 76.91 %	22.06 % 20.92 %	2.49 % 2.18 %
GMX Mail	5582 5759	4153 4374	1275 1262	154 123	74.40 % 75.95 %	22.84 % 21.91 %	2.76 % 2.14 %
Zoho Mail	5323 5455	4111 4298	1079 1040	133 117	77.23 % 78.79 %	20.27 % 19.07 %	2.50 % 2.14 %
ProtonMail	5454 5395	4278 4308	1039 971	137 116	78.44 % 79.85 %	19.05 % 18.00 %	2.51 % 2.15 %
Custom Mail	5505 5470	4348 4428	1016 932	141 110	78.98 % 80.95 %	18.46 % 17.04 %	2.56 % 2.01 %
iCloud Mail	5399 5683	3902 4222	1359 1347	138 114	72.27 % 74.29 %	25.17 % 23.70 %	2.56 % 2.01 %
Tuta	5338 5417	4173 4318	1019 980	146 119	78.18 % 79.71 %	19.09 % 18.09 %	2.74 % 2.20 %
Juno.com	5551 5492	4322 4360	1075 1027	154 105	77.86 % 79.39 %	19.37 % 18.70 %	2.77 % 1.91 %
Mailfence	5503 5462	4299 4356	1063 993	141 113	78.12 % 79.75 %	19.32 % 18.18 %	2.56 % 2.07 %

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