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
65.185 65.706	50.153 50.988	13.533 13.286	1.499 1.432

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 (%)
76.94 % 77.60 %	20.76 % 20.22 %	2.30 % 2.18 %

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	5061 4892	3889 3742	1054 1050	118 100	76.84 % 76.49 %	20.83 % 21.46 %	2.33 % 2.04 %
Elektronics	5043 5052	3919 3963	1007 981	117 108	77.71 % 78.44 %	19.97 % 19.42 %	2.32 % 2.14 %
Entertainment	5009 5002	3816 3815	1073 1077	120 110	76.18 % 76.27 %	21.42 % 21.53 %	2.40 % 2.20 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5165 5098	3989 4011	1056 987	120 100	77.23 % 78.68 %	20.45 % 19.36 %	2.32 % 1.96 %
Food & Drink	5126 5025	3916 3849	1094 1059	116 117	76.39 % 76.60 %	21.34 % 21.07 %	2.26 % 2.33 %
Home & Garden	4941 5029	3776 3916	1057 1004	108 109	76.42 % 77.87 %	21.39 % 19.96 %	2.19 % 2.17 %
Finance	4994 4986	4012 4036	860 830	122 120	80.34 % 80.95 %	17.22 % 16.65 %	2.44 % 2.41 %
Health	5103 4950	4121 4019	869 827	113 104	80.76 % 81.19 %	17.03 % 16.71 %	2.21 % 2.10 %
Pets	5124 5261	3911 4080	1090 1054	123 127	76.33 % 77.55 %	21.27 % 20.03 %	2.40 % 2.41 %
Sport & Fitness	4949 4975	3797 3829	1030 1030	122 116	76.72 % 76.96 %	20.81 % 20.70 %	2.47 % 2.33 %
Job & Career	4643 5118	3435 3852	1105 1159	103 107	73.98 % 75.26 %	23.80 % 22.65 %	2.22 % 2.09 %
Dating	5001 5189	3629 3817	1261 1271	111 101	72.57 % 73.56 %	25.21 % 24.49 %	2.22 % 1.95 %
Other	5026 5129	3943 4059	977 957	106 113	78.45 % 79.14 %	19.44 % 18.66 %	2.11 % 2.20 %

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	4467 4744	3273 3491	1084 1146	110 107	73.27 % 73.59 %	24.27 % 24.16 %	2.46 % 2.26 %
Outlook Mail	4749 4726	3602 3588	1046 1039	101 99	75.85 % 75.92 %	22.03 % 21.98 %	2.13 % 2.09 %
Yahoo Mail	4588 4711	3513 3600	970 1009	105 102	76.57 % 76.42 %	21.14 % 21.42 %	2.29 % 2.17 %
AOL Mail	4540 4639	3433 3576	999 957	108 106	75.62 % 77.09 %	22.00 % 20.63 %	2.38 % 2.28 %
Mail.com	4832 4931	3771 3874	952 950	109 107	78.04 % 78.56 %	19.70 % 19.27 %	2.26 % 2.17 %
Yandex Mail	4701 4763	3574 3670	1021 998	106 95	76.03 % 77.05 %	21.72 % 20.95 %	2.25 % 1.99 %
GMX Mail	4503 4692	3390 3575	1019 1012	94 105	75.28 % 76.19 %	22.63 % 21.57 %	2.09 % 2.24 %
Zoho Mail	4711 4535	3628 3566	977 879	106 90	77.01 % 78.63 %	20.74 % 19.38 %	2.25 % 1.98 %
ProtonMail	4501 4573	3552 3635	840 836	109 102	78.92 % 79.49 %	18.66 % 18.28 %	2.42 % 2.23 %
Custom Mail	4741 4678	3784 3782	846 791	111 105	79.81 % 80.85 %	17.84 % 16.91 %	2.34 % 2.24 %
iCloud Mail	4564 4660	3364 3479	1091 1074	109 107	73.71 % 74.66 %	23.90 % 23.05 %	2.39 % 2.30 %
Tuta	4795 4651	3785 3669	899 869	111 113	78.94 % 78.89 %	18.75 % 18.68 %	2.31 % 2.43 %
Juno.com	4717 4798	3724 3815	885 884	108 99	78.95 % 79.51 %	18.76 % 18.42 %	2.29 % 2.06 %
Mailfence	4776 4605	3760 3668	904 842	112 95	78.73 % 79.65 %	18.93 % 18.28 %	2.35 % 2.06 %

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