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
64.970 64.960	49.945 49.948	13.532 13.541	1.493 1.471

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 (%)
76.87 % 76.89 %	20.83 % 20.85 %	2.30 % 2.26 %

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	5069 5117	3921 3930	1037 1068	111 119	77.35 % 76.80 %	20.46 % 20.87 %	2.19 % 2.33 %
Elektronics	4956 5247	3829 4097	1009 1034	118 116	77.26 % 78.08 %	20.36 % 19.71 %	2.38 % 2.21 %
Entertainment	4997 4932	3813 3749	1061 1067	123 116	76.31 % 76.01 %	21.23 % 21.63 %	2.46 % 2.35 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5082 5095	3911 3966	1052 1017	119 112	76.96 % 77.84 %	20.70 % 19.96 %	2.34 % 2.20 %
Food & Drink	5121 4938	3910 3775	1093 1046	118 117	76.35 % 76.45 %	21.34 % 21.18 %	2.30 % 2.37 %
Home & Garden	4885 4931	3714 3741	1063 1082	108 108	76.03 % 75.87 %	21.76 % 21.94 %	2.21 % 2.19 %
Finance	4986 4799	4004 3865	859 825	123 109	80.30 % 80.54 %	17.23 % 17.19 %	2.47 % 2.27 %
Health	5064 4950	4078 3983	873 853	113 114	80.53 % 80.46 %	17.24 % 17.23 %	2.23 % 2.30 %
Pets	5145 5072	3945 3864	1080 1091	120 117	76.68 % 76.18 %	20.99 % 21.51 %	2.33 % 2.31 %
Sport & Fitness	4935 4937	3787 3759	1027 1066	121 112	76.74 % 76.14 %	20.81 % 21.59 %	2.45 % 2.27 %
Job & Career	4611 5100	3408 3782	1101 1208	102 110	73.91 % 74.16 %	23.88 % 23.69 %	2.21 % 2.16 %
Dating	5050 4986	3651 3614	1289 1265	110 107	72.30 % 72.48 %	25.52 % 25.37 %	2.18 % 2.15 %
Other	5069 4856	3974 3823	988 919	107 114	78.40 % 78.73 %	19.49 % 18.93 %	2.11 % 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	4569 4759	3357 3496	1109 1156	103 107	73.47 % 73.46 %	24.27 % 24.29 %	2.25 % 2.25 %
Outlook Mail	4754 4424	3604 3345	1051 989	99 90	75.81 % 75.61 %	22.11 % 22.36 %	2.08 % 2.03 %
Yahoo Mail	4473 4564	3414 3450	953 1008	106 106	76.32 % 75.59 %	21.31 % 22.09 %	2.37 % 2.32 %
AOL Mail	4547 4596	3435 3467	1005 1021	107 108	75.54 % 75.44 %	22.10 % 22.21 %	2.35 % 2.35 %
Mail.com	4722 4663	3686 3641	929 915	107 107	78.06 % 78.08 %	19.67 % 19.62 %	2.27 % 2.29 %
Yandex Mail	4631 4682	3519 3575	1008 1008	104 99	75.99 % 76.36 %	21.77 % 21.53 %	2.25 % 2.11 %
GMX Mail	4530 4714	3396 3513	1042 1092	92 109	74.97 % 74.52 %	23.00 % 23.17 %	2.03 % 2.31 %
Zoho Mail	4641 4727	3576 3686	957 926	108 115	77.05 % 77.98 %	20.62 % 19.59 %	2.33 % 2.43 %
ProtonMail	4655 4388	3674 3482	871 813	110 93	78.93 % 79.35 %	18.71 % 18.53 %	2.36 % 2.12 %
Custom Mail	4671 4435	3740 3567	821 769	110 99	80.07 % 80.43 %	17.58 % 17.34 %	2.35 % 2.23 %
iCloud Mail	4667 4740	3451 3450	1106 1177	110 113	73.94 % 72.78 %	23.70 % 24.83 %	2.36 % 2.38 %
Tuta	4712 4889	3707 3863	891 920	114 106	78.67 % 79.01 %	18.91 % 18.82 %	2.42 % 2.17 %
Juno.com	4667 4728	3677 3757	879 863	111 108	78.79 % 79.46 %	18.83 % 18.25 %	2.38 % 2.28 %
Mailfence	4731 4651	3709 3656	910 884	112 111	78.40 % 78.61 %	19.23 % 19.01 %	2.37 % 2.39 %

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