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
63.763 63.401	48.627 48.855	14.148 13.349	1.517 1.672

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 (%)
76.26 % 77.06 %	22.19 % 21.05 %	2.38 % 2.64 %

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	5052 4972	3843 3815	1128 1051	123 132	76.07 % 76.73 %	22.33 % 21.14 %	2.43 % 2.65 %
Elektronics	4831 5033	3712 3880	1058 1064	118 129	76.84 % 77.09 %	21.90 % 21.14 %	2.44 % 2.56 %
Entertainment	4928 4786	3748 3672	1120 1022	118 126	76.06 % 76.72 %	22.73 % 21.35 %	2.39 % 2.63 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5169 4944	3952 3834	1129 1021	122 132	76.46 % 77.55 %	21.84 % 20.65 %	2.36 % 2.67 %
Food & Drink	4895 4745	3714 3646	1094 1023	120 130	75.87 % 76.84 %	22.35 % 21.56 %	2.45 % 2.74 %
Home & Garden	4846 4709	3669 3602	1102 1026	114 125	75.71 % 76.49 %	22.74 % 21.79 %	2.35 % 2.65 %
Finance	5029 4704	3930 3740	1020 865	124 125	78.15 % 79.51 %	20.28 % 18.39 %	2.47 % 2.66 %
Health	4894 4867	3867 3861	954 919	102 133	79.02 % 79.33 %	19.49 % 18.88 %	2.08 % 2.73 %
Pets	5017 5130	3813 3925	1116 1087	124 138	76.00 % 76.51 %	22.24 % 21.19 %	2.47 % 2.69 %
Sport & Fitness	4830 4867	3686 3762	1089 1005	122 120	76.31 % 77.30 %	22.55 % 20.65 %	2.53 % 2.47 %
Job & Career	4652 5081	3450 3825	1120 1189	111 132	74.16 % 75.28 %	24.08 % 23.40 %	2.39 % 2.60 %
Dating	4736 4767	3479 3531	1175 1127	111 120	73.46 % 74.07 %	24.81 % 23.64 %	2.34 % 2.52 %
Other	4884 4796	3764 3762	1043 950	108 130	77.07 % 78.44 %	21.36 % 19.81 %	2.21 % 2.71 %

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	4707 4818	3472 3617	1154 1128	120 130	73.76 % 75.07 %	24.52 % 23.41 %	2.55 % 2.70 %
Outlook Mail	4784 4397	3620 3349	1099 974	109 117	75.67 % 76.17 %	22.97 % 22.15 %	2.28 % 2.66 %
Yahoo Mail	4589 4570	3508 3482	1011 1001	113 118	76.44 % 76.19 %	22.03 % 21.90 %	2.46 % 2.58 %
AOL Mail	4500 4821	3398 3657	1033 1048	108 130	75.51 % 75.86 %	22.96 % 21.74 %	2.40 % 2.70 %
Mail.com	4714 4688	3636 3641	1004 970	109 126	77.13 % 77.67 %	21.30 % 20.69 %	2.31 % 2.69 %
Yandex Mail	4643 4387	3521 3362	1066 935	107 106	75.83 % 76.64 %	22.96 % 21.31 %	2.30 % 2.42 %
GMX Mail	4574 4730	3450 3616	1073 1055	101 125	75.43 % 76.45 %	23.46 % 22.30 %	2.21 % 2.64 %
Zoho Mail	4886 4549	3725 3570	1097 881	110 125	76.24 % 78.48 %	22.45 % 19.37 %	2.25 % 2.75 %
ProtonMail	4464 4585	3454 3596	938 914	109 113	77.37 % 78.43 %	21.01 % 19.93 %	2.44 % 2.46 %
Custom Mail	4727 4610	3657 3661	984 863	116 118	77.36 % 79.41 %	20.82 % 18.72 %	2.45 % 2.56 %
iCloud Mail	4605 4726	3400 3532	1120 1101	114 126	73.83 % 74.74 %	24.32 % 23.30 %	2.48 % 2.67 %
Tuta	4628 4784	3589 3730	983 948	114 132	77.55 % 77.97 %	21.24 % 19.82 %	2.46 % 2.76 %
Juno.com	4703 4652	3654 3656	967 917	110 122	77.70 % 78.59 %	20.56 % 19.71 %	2.34 % 2.62 %
Mailfence	3239 3084	2543 2386	619 614	77 84	78.51 % 77.37 %	19.11 % 19.91 %	2.38 % 2.72 %

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