SendGrid and SendPulse Email Deliverability Comparison

SendGrid

SendPulse

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

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
76.020 76.294	57.862 58.803	16.204 15.719	1.954 1.772

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. SendPulse beats SendGrid in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
76.11 % 77.07 %	21.32 % 20.60 %	2.57 % 2.32 %

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, SendPulse is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	5890 5685	4437 4390	1303 1157	150 138	75.33 % 77.22 %	22.12 % 20.35 %	2.55 % 2.43 %
Elektronics	6048 5616	4622 4308	1268 1170	158 138	76.42 % 76.71 %	20.97 % 20.83 %	2.61 % 2.46 %
Entertainment	5622 5869	4257 4518	1227 1219	138 132	75.72 % 76.98 %	21.82 % 20.77 %	2.45 % 2.25 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5858 6038	4497 4671	1202 1221	159 146	76.77 % 77.36 %	20.52 % 20.22 %	2.71 % 2.42 %
Food & Drink	5897 5714	4470 4386	1282 1201	145 127	75.80 % 76.76 %	21.74 % 21.02 %	2.46 % 2.22 %
Home & Garden	5664 6021	4264 4627	1249 1244	151 150	75.28 % 76.85 %	22.05 % 20.66 %	2.67 % 2.49 %
Finance	5843 5828	4644 4693	1041 1003	158 132	79.48 % 80.53 %	17.82 % 17.21 %	2.70 % 2.26 %
Health	5767 5935	4577 4739	1043 1050	147 146	79.37 % 79.85 %	18.09 % 17.69 %	2.55 % 2.46 %
Pets	5816 5872	4417 4504	1258 1235	141 133	75.95 % 76.70 %	21.63 % 21.03 %	2.42 % 2.26 %
Sport & Fitness	5815 5628	4441 4323	1221 1178	153 127	76.37 % 76.81 %	21.00 % 20.93 %	2.63 % 2.26 %
Job & Career	5804 6073	4254 4516	1399 1418	151 139	73.29 % 74.36 %	24.10 % 23.35 %	2.60 % 2.29 %
Dating	5947 5989	4274 4370	1532 1493	141 126	71.87 % 72.97 %	25.76 % 24.93 %	2.37 % 2.10 %
Other	6049 6026	4708 4758	1179 1130	162 138	77.83 % 78.96 %	19.49 % 18.75 %	2.68 % 2.29 %

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, SendPulse is better than SendGrid.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	5282 5491	3834 4026	1320 1343	128 122	72.59 % 73.32 %	24.99 % 24.46 %	2.42 % 2.22 %
Outlook Mail	5454 5429	4062 4069	1254 1235	138 125	74.48 % 74.95 %	22.99 % 22.75 %	2.53 % 2.30 %
Yahoo Mail	5391 5400	4040 4093	1215 1176	136 131	74.94 % 75.80 %	22.54 % 21.78 %	2.52 % 2.43 %
AOL Mail	5521 5475	4151 4183	1226 1163	144 129	75.19 % 76.40 %	22.21 % 21.24 %	2.61 % 2.36 %
Mail.com	5367 5368	4152 4214	1084 1027	131 127	77.36 % 78.50 %	20.20 % 19.13 %	2.44 % 2.37 %
Yandex Mail	5350 5335	4037 4024	1180 1186	133 125	75.46 % 75.43 %	22.06 % 22.23 %	2.49 % 2.34 %
GMX Mail	5582 5479	4153 4148	1275 1212	154 119	74.40 % 75.71 %	22.84 % 22.12 %	2.76 % 2.17 %
Zoho Mail	5323 5412	4111 4256	1079 1036	133 120	77.23 % 78.64 %	20.27 % 19.14 %	2.50 % 2.22 %
ProtonMail	5454 5485	4278 4385	1039 962	137 138	78.44 % 79.95 %	19.05 % 17.54 %	2.51 % 2.52 %
Custom Mail	5505 5425	4348 4334	1016 978	141 113	78.98 % 79.89 %	18.46 % 18.03 %	2.56 % 2.08 %
iCloud Mail	5399 5395	3902 3957	1359 1312	138 126	72.27 % 73.35 %	25.17 % 24.32 %	2.56 % 2.34 %
Tuta	5338 5543	4173 4374	1019 1034	146 135	78.18 % 78.91 %	19.09 % 18.65 %	2.74 % 2.44 %
Juno.com	5551 5416	4322 4302	1075 984	154 130	77.86 % 79.43 %	19.37 % 18.17 %	2.77 % 2.40 %
Mailfence	5503 5641	4299 4438	1063 1071	141 132	78.12 % 78.67 %	19.32 % 18.99 %	2.56 % 2.34 %

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