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
64.932 64.973	50.153 50.580	13.282 13.066	1.497 1.327

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 (%)
77.24 % 77.85 %	20.46 % 20.11 %	2.31 % 2.04 %

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	5103 5125	3943 3975	1047 1036	113 114	77.27 % 77.56 %	20.52 % 20.21 %	2.21 % 2.22 %
Elektronics	4961 5286	3866 4184	977 1000	118 102	77.93 % 79.15 %	19.69 % 18.92 %	2.38 % 1.93 %
Entertainment	5086 4901	3899 3786	1062 1014	125 101	76.66 % 77.25 %	20.88 % 20.69 %	2.46 % 2.06 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5102 5121	3963 4031	1018 990	121 100	77.68 % 78.72 %	19.95 % 19.33 %	2.37 % 1.95 %
Food & Drink	5136 4995	3928 3879	1081 1004	127 112	76.48 % 77.66 %	21.05 % 20.10 %	2.47 % 2.24 %
Home & Garden	4813 4882	3675 3754	1031 1032	107 96	76.36 % 76.89 %	21.42 % 21.14 %	2.22 % 1.97 %
Finance	5025 4835	4057 3934	845 798	123 103	80.74 % 81.37 %	16.82 % 16.50 %	2.45 % 2.13 %
Health	4953 4932	3995 4030	846 799	112 103	80.66 % 81.71 %	17.08 % 16.20 %	2.26 % 2.09 %
Pets	4990 5087	3847 3921	1031 1066	112 100	77.09 % 77.08 %	20.66 % 20.96 %	2.24 % 1.97 %
Sport & Fitness	4946 4943	3810 3798	1018 1044	118 101	77.03 % 76.84 %	20.58 % 21.12 %	2.39 % 2.04 %
Job & Career	4725 4985	3533 3742	1091 1146	101 97	74.77 % 75.07 %	23.09 % 22.99 %	2.14 % 1.95 %
Dating	5071 4899	3680 3592	1282 1214	109 93	72.57 % 73.32 %	25.28 % 24.78 %	2.15 % 1.90 %
Other	5021 4982	3957 3954	953 923	111 105	78.81 % 79.37 %	18.98 % 18.53 %	2.21 % 2.11 %

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	4574 4720	3353 3512	1124 1111	97 97	73.31 % 74.41 %	24.57 % 23.54 %	2.12 % 2.06 %
Outlook Mail	4731 4484	3584 3415	1046 987	101 82	75.76 % 76.16 %	22.11 % 22.01 %	2.13 % 1.83 %
Yahoo Mail	4397 4575	3385 3530	917 951	95 94	76.98 % 77.16 %	20.86 % 20.79 %	2.16 % 2.05 %
AOL Mail	4653 4562	3547 3477	993 989	113 96	76.23 % 76.22 %	21.34 % 21.68 %	2.43 % 2.10 %
Mail.com	4754 4767	3721 3766	926 904	107 97	78.27 % 79.00 %	19.48 % 18.96 %	2.25 % 2.03 %
Yandex Mail	4689 4704	3607 3635	980 975	102 94	76.92 % 77.27 %	20.90 % 20.73 %	2.18 % 2.00 %
GMX Mail	4629 4690	3482 3536	1048 1053	99 101	75.22 % 75.39 %	22.64 % 22.45 %	2.14 % 2.15 %
Zoho Mail	4600 4688	3586 3706	907 880	107 102	77.96 % 79.05 %	19.72 % 18.77 %	2.33 % 2.18 %
ProtonMail	4628 4428	3668 3543	854 797	106 88	79.26 % 80.01 %	18.45 % 18.00 %	2.29 % 1.99 %
Custom Mail	4683 4541	3768 3682	799 769	116 90	80.46 % 81.08 %	17.06 % 16.93 %	2.48 % 1.98 %
iCloud Mail	4593 4693	3406 3465	1080 1128	107 100	74.16 % 73.83 %	23.51 % 24.04 %	2.33 % 2.13 %
Tuta	4570 4857	3628 3893	829 872	113 92	79.39 % 80.15 %	18.14 % 17.95 %	2.47 % 1.89 %
Juno.com	4647 4641	3662 3733	869 811	116 97	78.80 % 80.44 %	18.70 % 17.47 %	2.50 % 2.09 %
Mailfence	4784 4623	3756 3687	910 839	118 97	78.51 % 79.75 %	19.02 % 18.15 %	2.47 % 2.10 %

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