SendGrid and mailtrap Email Deliverability Comparison

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In this comparison, the deliverability of SendGrid and mailtrap 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
76.060 75.551	58.104 58.133	16.008 15.767	1.948 1.651

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

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

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

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