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
64.932 65.521	50.153 50.907	13.282 13.179	1.497 1.435

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 (%)
77.24 % 77.70 %	20.46 % 20.11 %	2.31 % 2.19 %

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	5103 4961	3943 3876	1047 976	113 109	77.27 % 78.13 %	20.52 % 19.67 %	2.21 % 2.20 %
Elektronics	4961 4951	3866 3874	977 974	118 103	77.93 % 78.25 %	19.69 % 19.67 %	2.38 % 2.08 %
Entertainment	5086 5077	3899 3934	1062 1030	125 113	76.66 % 77.49 %	20.88 % 20.29 %	2.46 % 2.23 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	5102 5054	3963 3971	1018 973	121 110	77.68 % 78.57 %	19.95 % 19.25 %	2.37 % 2.18 %
Food & Drink	5136 5089	3928 3929	1081 1048	127 112	76.48 % 77.21 %	21.05 % 20.59 %	2.47 % 2.20 %
Home & Garden	4813 5184	3675 3978	1031 1090	107 116	76.36 % 76.74 %	21.42 % 21.03 %	2.22 % 2.24 %
Finance	5025 5048	4057 4090	845 851	123 107	80.74 % 81.02 %	16.82 % 16.86 %	2.45 % 2.12 %
Health	4953 5057	3995 4087	846 850	112 120	80.66 % 80.82 %	17.08 % 16.81 %	2.26 % 2.37 %
Pets	4990 4983	3847 3812	1031 1064	112 107	77.09 % 76.50 %	20.66 % 21.35 %	2.24 % 2.15 %
Sport & Fitness	4946 4837	3810 3733	1018 998	118 106	77.03 % 77.18 %	20.58 % 20.63 %	2.39 % 2.19 %
Job & Career	4725 5053	3533 3779	1091 1168	101 106	74.77 % 74.79 %	23.09 % 23.11 %	2.14 % 2.10 %
Dating	5071 5039	3680 3706	1282 1225	109 108	72.57 % 73.55 %	25.28 % 24.31 %	2.15 % 2.14 %
Other	5021 5188	3957 4138	953 932	111 118	78.81 % 79.76 %	18.98 % 17.96 %	2.21 % 2.27 %

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	4574 4730	3353 3484	1124 1153	97 93	73.31 % 73.66 %	24.57 % 24.38 %	2.12 % 1.97 %
Outlook Mail	4731 4582	3584 3492	1046 991	101 99	75.76 % 76.21 %	22.11 % 21.63 %	2.13 % 2.16 %
Yahoo Mail	4397 4631	3385 3546	917 976	95 109	76.98 % 76.57 %	20.86 % 21.08 %	2.16 % 2.35 %
AOL Mail	4653 4770	3547 3701	993 966	113 103	76.23 % 77.59 %	21.34 % 20.25 %	2.43 % 2.16 %
Mail.com	4754 4783	3721 3763	926 911	107 109	78.27 % 78.67 %	19.48 % 19.05 %	2.25 % 2.28 %
Yandex Mail	4689 4563	3607 3505	980 962	102 96	76.92 % 76.81 %	20.90 % 21.08 %	2.18 % 2.10 %
GMX Mail	4629 4712	3482 3565	1048 1039	99 108	75.22 % 75.66 %	22.64 % 22.05 %	2.14 % 2.29 %
Zoho Mail	4600 4706	3586 3713	907 896	107 97	77.96 % 78.90 %	19.72 % 19.04 %	2.33 % 2.06 %
ProtonMail	4628 4718	3668 3802	854 802	106 114	79.26 % 80.58 %	18.45 % 17.00 %	2.29 % 2.42 %
Custom Mail	4683 4638	3768 3743	799 803	116 92	80.46 % 80.70 %	17.06 % 17.31 %	2.48 % 1.98 %
iCloud Mail	4593 4689	3406 3459	1080 1131	107 99	74.16 % 73.77 %	23.51 % 24.12 %	2.33 % 2.11 %
Tuta	4570 4589	3628 3638	829 848	113 103	79.39 % 79.28 %	18.14 % 18.48 %	2.47 % 2.24 %
Juno.com	4647 4703	3662 3751	869 848	116 104	78.80 % 79.76 %	18.70 % 18.03 %	2.50 % 2.21 %
Mailfence	4784 4707	3756 3745	910 853	118 109	78.51 % 79.56 %	19.02 % 18.12 %	2.47 % 2.32 %

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