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
63.763 64.130	48.627 50.230	14.148 12.956	1.517 1.469

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 (%)
76.26 % 78.33 %	22.19 % 20.20 %	2.38 % 2.29 %

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	5052 4814	3843 3744	1128 1001	123 105	76.07 % 77.77 %	22.33 % 20.79 %	2.43 % 2.18 %
Elektronics	4831 4954	3712 3895	1058 968	118 116	76.84 % 78.62 %	21.90 % 19.54 %	2.44 % 2.34 %
Entertainment	4928 4872	3748 3770	1120 1025	118 109	76.06 % 77.38 %	22.73 % 21.04 %	2.39 % 2.24 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5169 4881	3952 3859	1129 956	122 104	76.46 % 79.06 %	21.84 % 19.59 %	2.36 % 2.13 %
Food & Drink	4895 4995	3714 3887	1094 1025	120 120	75.87 % 77.82 %	22.35 % 20.52 %	2.45 % 2.40 %
Home & Garden	4846 4860	3669 3826	1102 986	114 111	75.71 % 78.72 %	22.74 % 20.29 %	2.35 % 2.28 %
Finance	5029 4835	3930 3889	1020 854	124 116	78.15 % 80.43 %	20.28 % 17.66 %	2.47 % 2.40 %
Health	4894 4912	3867 3965	954 887	102 107	79.02 % 80.72 %	19.49 % 18.06 %	2.08 % 2.18 %
Pets	5017 5155	3813 4057	1116 1006	124 123	76.00 % 78.70 %	22.24 % 19.52 %	2.47 % 2.39 %
Sport & Fitness	4830 4882	3686 3804	1089 1006	122 120	76.31 % 77.92 %	22.55 % 20.61 %	2.53 % 2.46 %
Job & Career	4652 4973	3450 3807	1120 1108	111 109	74.16 % 76.55 %	24.08 % 22.28 %	2.39 % 2.19 %
Dating	4736 5014	3479 3764	1175 1184	111 110	73.46 % 75.07 %	24.81 % 23.61 %	2.34 % 2.19 %
Other	4884 4983	3764 3963	1043 950	108 119	77.07 % 79.53 %	21.36 % 19.06 %	2.21 % 2.39 %

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	4707 4697	3472 3532	1154 1085	120 115	73.76 % 75.20 %	24.52 % 23.10 %	2.55 % 2.45 %
Outlook Mail	4784 4718	3620 3633	1099 1018	109 104	75.67 % 77.00 %	22.97 % 21.58 %	2.28 % 2.20 %
Yahoo Mail	4589 4713	3508 3671	1011 976	113 107	76.44 % 77.89 %	22.03 % 20.71 %	2.46 % 2.27 %
AOL Mail	4500 4709	3398 3677	1033 960	108 110	75.51 % 78.08 %	22.96 % 20.39 %	2.40 % 2.34 %
Mail.com	4714 4720	3636 3737	1004 906	109 107	77.13 % 79.17 %	21.30 % 19.19 %	2.31 % 2.27 %
Yandex Mail	4643 4810	3521 3752	1066 983	107 103	75.83 % 78.00 %	22.96 % 20.44 %	2.30 % 2.14 %
GMX Mail	4574 4668	3450 3604	1073 999	101 108	75.43 % 77.21 %	23.46 % 21.40 %	2.21 % 2.31 %
Zoho Mail	4886 4656	3725 3695	1097 914	110 99	76.24 % 79.36 %	22.45 % 19.63 %	2.25 % 2.13 %
ProtonMail	4464 4703	3454 3763	938 897	109 109	77.37 % 80.01 %	21.01 % 19.07 %	2.44 % 2.32 %
Custom Mail	4727 4629	3657 3717	984 829	116 111	77.36 % 80.30 %	20.82 % 17.91 %	2.45 % 2.40 %
iCloud Mail	4605 4594	3400 3520	1120 1025	114 108	73.83 % 76.62 %	24.32 % 22.31 %	2.48 % 2.35 %
Tuta	4628 4650	3589 3676	983 888	114 116	77.55 % 79.05 %	21.24 % 19.10 %	2.46 % 2.49 %
Juno.com	4703 4784	3654 3811	967 903	110 108	77.70 % 79.66 %	20.56 % 18.88 %	2.34 % 2.26 %
Mailfence	3239 3079	2543 2442	619 573	77 64	78.51 % 79.31 %	19.11 % 18.61 %	2.38 % 2.08 %

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