SendGrid and Rapidmail Email Deliverability Comparison

SendGrid

Rapidmail

In this comparison, the deliverability of SendGrid and Rapidmail 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 Rapidmail than for SendGrid.

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
76.020 75.594	57.862 58.369	16.204 15.552	1.954 1.673

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. Rapidmail beats SendGrid in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.11 % 77.21 %	21.32 % 20.57 %	2.57 % 2.21 %

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, Rapidmail is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5890 5920	4437 4546	1303 1235	150 139	75.33 % 76.79 %	22.12 % 20.86 %	2.55 % 2.35 %
Elektronics	6048 6066	4622 4748	1268 1192	158 126	76.42 % 78.27 %	20.97 % 19.65 %	2.61 % 2.08 %
Entertainment	5622 5690	4257 4363	1227 1196	138 131	75.72 % 76.68 %	21.82 % 21.02 %	2.45 % 2.30 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5858 5663	4497 4426	1202 1115	159 122	76.77 % 78.16 %	20.52 % 19.69 %	2.71 % 2.15 %
Food & Drink	5897 5842	4470 4495	1282 1210	145 137	75.80 % 76.94 %	21.74 % 20.71 %	2.46 % 2.35 %
Home & Garden	5664 5814	4264 4433	1249 1257	151 124	75.28 % 76.25 %	22.05 % 21.62 %	2.67 % 2.13 %
Finance	5843 5861	4644 4719	1041 1012	158 130	79.48 % 80.52 %	17.82 % 17.27 %	2.70 % 2.22 %
Health	5767 5788	4577 4679	1043 975	147 134	79.37 % 80.84 %	18.09 % 16.85 %	2.55 % 2.32 %
Pets	5816 5800	4417 4416	1258 1267	141 117	75.95 % 76.14 %	21.63 % 21.84 %	2.42 % 2.02 %
Sport & Fitness	5815 5748	4441 4398	1221 1216	153 134	76.37 % 76.51 %	21.00 % 21.16 %	2.63 % 2.33 %
Job & Career	5804 5561	4254 4158	1399 1293	151 110	73.29 % 74.77 %	24.10 % 23.25 %	2.60 % 1.98 %
Dating	5947 5831	4274 4242	1532 1461	141 128	71.87 % 72.75 %	25.76 % 25.06 %	2.37 % 2.20 %
Other	6049 6010	4708 4746	1179 1123	162 141	77.83 % 78.97 %	19.49 % 18.69 %	2.68 % 2.35 %

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, Rapidmail is better than SendGrid.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5282 5429	3834 3982	1320 1329	128 118	72.59 % 73.35 %	24.99 % 24.48 %	2.42 % 2.17 %
Outlook Mail	5454 5332	4062 4024	1254 1191	138 117	74.48 % 75.47 %	22.99 % 22.34 %	2.53 % 2.19 %
Yahoo Mail	5391 5386	4040 4100	1215 1168	136 118	74.94 % 76.12 %	22.54 % 21.69 %	2.52 % 2.19 %
AOL Mail	5521 5472	4151 4149	1226 1204	144 119	75.19 % 75.82 %	22.21 % 22.00 %	2.61 % 2.17 %
Mail.com	5367 5540	4152 4357	1084 1058	131 125	77.36 % 78.65 %	20.20 % 19.10 %	2.44 % 2.26 %
Yandex Mail	5350 5576	4037 4308	1180 1144	133 124	75.46 % 77.26 %	22.06 % 20.52 %	2.49 % 2.22 %
GMX Mail	5582 5316	4153 3995	1275 1205	154 116	74.40 % 75.15 %	22.84 % 22.67 %	2.76 % 2.18 %
Zoho Mail	5323 5593	4111 4392	1079 1070	133 131	77.23 % 78.53 %	20.27 % 19.13 %	2.50 % 2.34 %
ProtonMail	5454 5229	4278 4171	1039 945	137 113	78.44 % 79.77 %	19.05 % 18.07 %	2.51 % 2.16 %
Custom Mail	5505 5416	4348 4349	1016 945	141 122	78.98 % 80.30 %	18.46 % 17.45 %	2.56 % 2.25 %
iCloud Mail	5399 5261	3902 3840	1359 1309	138 112	72.27 % 72.99 %	25.17 % 24.88 %	2.56 % 2.13 %
Tuta	5338 5326	4173 4201	1019 1011	146 114	78.18 % 78.88 %	19.09 % 18.98 %	2.74 % 2.14 %
Juno.com	5551 5439	4322 4337	1075 980	154 122	77.86 % 79.74 %	19.37 % 18.02 %	2.77 % 2.24 %
Mailfence	5503 5279	4299 4164	1063 993	141 122	78.12 % 78.88 %	19.32 % 18.81 %	2.56 % 2.31 %

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