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
76.303 75.947	58.002 58.113	16.304 15.989	1.997 1.845

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 (%)
76.02 % 76.52 %	21.37 % 21.05 %	2.62 % 2.43 %

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	5965 6000	4487 4581	1329 1268	149 151	75.22 % 76.35 %	22.28 % 21.13 %	2.50 % 2.52 %
Elektronics	5985 6019	4561 4666	1263 1221	161 132	76.21 % 77.52 %	21.10 % 20.29 %	2.69 % 2.19 %
Entertainment	5627 5738	4248 4348	1238 1247	141 143	75.49 % 75.78 %	22.00 % 21.73 %	2.51 % 2.49 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5894 5721	4530 4439	1201 1146	163 136	76.86 % 77.59 %	20.38 % 20.03 %	2.77 % 2.38 %
Food & Drink	5868 5897	4443 4501	1272 1247	153 149	75.72 % 76.33 %	21.68 % 21.15 %	2.61 % 2.53 %
Home & Garden	5755 5697	4323 4305	1277 1255	155 137	75.12 % 75.57 %	22.19 % 22.03 %	2.69 % 2.40 %
Finance	5902 5918	4678 4712	1065 1058	159 148	79.26 % 79.62 %	18.04 % 17.88 %	2.69 % 2.50 %
Health	5737 5872	4557 4692	1031 1030	149 150	79.43 % 79.90 %	17.97 % 17.54 %	2.60 % 2.55 %
Pets	5824 5832	4417 4392	1263 1306	144 134	75.84 % 75.31 %	21.69 % 22.39 %	2.47 % 2.30 %
Sport & Fitness	5806 5813	4418 4428	1236 1242	152 143	76.09 % 76.17 %	21.29 % 21.37 %	2.62 % 2.46 %
Job & Career	5890 5522	4309 4089	1422 1309	159 124	73.16 % 74.05 %	24.14 % 23.71 %	2.70 % 2.25 %
Dating	6018 5841	4339 4206	1532 1491	147 144	72.10 % 72.01 %	25.46 % 25.53 %	2.44 % 2.47 %
Other	6032 6077	4692 4754	1175 1169	165 154	77.79 % 78.23 %	19.48 % 19.24 %	2.74 % 2.53 %

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	5318 5377	3857 3919	1331 1327	130 131	72.53 % 72.88 %	25.03 % 24.68 %	2.44 % 2.44 %
Outlook Mail	5423 5385	4041 4014	1244 1237	138 134	74.52 % 74.54 %	22.94 % 22.97 %	2.54 % 2.49 %
Yahoo Mail	5322 5453	3990 4122	1195 1201	137 130	74.97 % 75.59 %	22.45 % 22.02 %	2.57 % 2.38 %
AOL Mail	5577 5547	4194 4171	1233 1242	150 134	75.20 % 75.19 %	22.11 % 22.39 %	2.69 % 2.42 %
Mail.com	5353 5564	4129 4323	1089 1107	135 134	77.13 % 77.70 %	20.34 % 19.90 %	2.52 % 2.41 %
Yandex Mail	5352 5566	4026 4229	1185 1205	141 132	75.22 % 75.98 %	22.14 % 21.65 %	2.63 % 2.37 %
GMX Mail	5779 5330	4295 3979	1318 1221	166 130	74.32 % 74.65 %	22.81 % 22.91 %	2.87 % 2.44 %
Zoho Mail	5400 5635	4167 4386	1098 1107	135 142	77.17 % 77.83 %	20.33 % 19.65 %	2.50 % 2.52 %
ProtonMail	5471 5261	4286 4158	1046 975	139 128	78.34 % 79.03 %	19.12 % 18.53 %	2.54 % 2.43 %
Custom Mail	5498 5387	4336 4285	1018 966	144 136	78.87 % 79.54 %	18.52 % 17.93 %	2.62 % 2.52 %
iCloud Mail	5408 5390	3906 3899	1364 1363	138 128	72.23 % 72.34 %	25.22 % 25.29 %	2.55 % 2.37 %
Tuta	5273 5276	4094 4142	1033 1013	146 121	77.64 % 78.51 %	19.59 % 19.20 %	2.77 % 2.29 %
Juno.com	5599 5518	4363 4360	1079 1022	157 136	77.92 % 79.01 %	19.27 % 18.52 %	2.80 % 2.46 %
Mailfence	5530 5258	4318 4126	1071 1003	141 129	78.08 % 78.47 %	19.37 % 19.08 %	2.55 % 2.45 %

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