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
76.020 75.657	57.862 58.161	16.204 15.843	1.954 1.653

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 (%)
76.11 % 76.87 %	21.32 % 20.94 %	2.57 % 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, mailtrap is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5890 5903	4437 4509	1303 1275	150 119	75.33 % 76.38 %	22.12 % 21.60 %	2.55 % 2.02 %
Elektronics	6048 5971	4622 4588	1268 1243	158 140	76.42 % 76.84 %	20.97 % 20.82 %	2.61 % 2.34 %
Entertainment	5622 5858	4257 4522	1227 1206	138 130	75.72 % 77.19 %	21.82 % 20.59 %	2.45 % 2.22 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5858 5731	4497 4404	1202 1194	159 133	76.77 % 76.85 %	20.52 % 20.83 %	2.71 % 2.32 %
Food & Drink	5897 5950	4470 4562	1282 1268	145 120	75.80 % 76.67 %	21.74 % 21.31 %	2.46 % 2.02 %
Home & Garden	5664 5800	4264 4435	1249 1249	151 116	75.28 % 76.47 %	22.05 % 21.53 %	2.67 % 2.00 %
Finance	5843 5718	4644 4583	1041 1005	158 130	79.48 % 80.15 %	17.82 % 17.58 %	2.70 % 2.27 %
Health	5767 5773	4577 4626	1043 1020	147 127	79.37 % 80.13 %	18.09 % 17.67 %	2.55 % 2.20 %
Pets	5816 5906	4417 4501	1258 1276	141 129	75.95 % 76.21 %	21.63 % 21.61 %	2.42 % 2.18 %
Sport & Fitness	5815 5507	4441 4210	1221 1164	153 133	76.37 % 76.45 %	21.00 % 21.14 %	2.63 % 2.42 %
Job & Career	5804 5898	4254 4429	1399 1353	151 116	73.29 % 75.09 %	24.10 % 22.94 %	2.60 % 1.97 %
Dating	5947 5947	4274 4304	1532 1506	141 137	71.87 % 72.37 %	25.76 % 25.32 %	2.37 % 2.30 %
Other	6049 5695	4708 4488	1179 1084	162 123	77.83 % 78.81 %	19.49 % 19.03 %	2.68 % 2.16 %

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	5282 5532	3834 4030	1320 1375	128 127	72.59 % 72.85 %	24.99 % 24.86 %	2.42 % 2.30 %
Outlook Mail	5454 5474	4062 4097	1254 1251	138 126	74.48 % 74.84 %	22.99 % 22.85 %	2.53 % 2.30 %
Yahoo Mail	5391 5396	4040 4115	1215 1168	136 113	74.94 % 76.26 %	22.54 % 21.65 %	2.52 % 2.09 %
AOL Mail	5521 5501	4151 4199	1226 1176	144 126	75.19 % 76.33 %	22.21 % 21.38 %	2.61 % 2.29 %
Mail.com	5367 5440	4152 4213	1084 1111	131 116	77.36 % 77.44 %	20.20 % 20.42 %	2.44 % 2.13 %
Yandex Mail	5350 5434	4037 4130	1180 1180	133 124	75.46 % 76.00 %	22.06 % 21.72 %	2.49 % 2.28 %
GMX Mail	5582 5390	4153 4043	1275 1234	154 113	74.40 % 75.01 %	22.84 % 22.89 %	2.76 % 2.10 %
Zoho Mail	5323 5419	4111 4195	1079 1107	133 117	77.23 % 77.41 %	20.27 % 20.43 %	2.50 % 2.16 %
ProtonMail	5454 5447	4278 4327	1039 1010	137 110	78.44 % 79.44 %	19.05 % 18.54 %	2.51 % 2.02 %
Custom Mail	5505 5294	4348 4252	1016 921	141 121	78.98 % 80.32 %	18.46 % 17.40 %	2.56 % 2.29 %
iCloud Mail	5399 5411	3902 4002	1359 1299	138 110	72.27 % 73.96 %	25.17 % 24.01 %	2.56 % 2.03 %
Tuta	5338 5421	4173 4282	1019 1018	146 121	78.18 % 78.99 %	19.09 % 18.78 %	2.74 % 2.23 %
Juno.com	5551 5167	4322 4064	1075 983	154 120	77.86 % 78.65 %	19.37 % 19.02 %	2.77 % 2.32 %
Mailfence	5503 5331	4299 4212	1063 1010	141 109	78.12 % 79.01 %	19.32 % 18.95 %	2.56 % 2.04 %

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