MailerLite and SendGrid Email Deliverability Comparison

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

Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost
529.923 137.274	401.437 107.836	106.897 23.143	20.558 5.212

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. SendGrid beats MailerLite in this comparison.

Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
75.75 % 78.56 %	20.17 % 16.86 %	3.88 % 3.80 %

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, SendGrid is the clear winner.

Category	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Clothing	40882 10622	32035 8554	7295 1652	1458 354	78.36 % 80.53 %	17.84 % 15.55 %	3.57 % 3.33 %
Elektronics	40212 10542	30791 8336	7802 1719	1520 409	76.57 % 79.07 %	19.40 % 16.31 %	3.78 % 3.88 %
Entertainment	40358 10651	30619 8353	8159 1795	1482 422	75.87 % 78.42 %	20.22 % 16.85 %	3.67 % 3.96 %
Cosmetics & Beauty	41115 10565	31004 8306	8377 1791	1630 395	75.41 % 78.62 %	20.37 % 16.95 %	3.96 % 3.74 %
Food & Drink	41033 10555	32175 8472	7350 1623	1433 368	78.41 % 80.27 %	17.91 % 15.38 %	3.49 % 3.49 %
Home & Garden	40847 10624	32049 8527	7253 1625	1487 371	78.46 % 80.26 %	17.76 % 15.30 %	3.64 % 3.49 %
Finance	41240 10545	29945 8064	9418 1961	1784 435	72.61 % 76.47 %	22.84 % 18.60 %	4.33 % 4.13 %
Health	40960 10319	30150 7999	9108 1825	1637 420	73.61 % 77.52 %	22.24 % 17.69 %	4.00 % 4.07 %
Pets	40723 10446	31590 8302	7570 1677	1488 375	77.57 % 79.48 %	18.59 % 16.05 %	3.65 % 3.59 %
Sport & Fitness	40763 10690	30398 8303	8671 1899	1623 422	74.57 % 77.67 %	21.27 % 17.76 %	3.98 % 3.95 %
Job & Career	40862 10383	30198 7977	8910 1921	1699 409	73.90 % 76.83 %	21.81 % 18.50 %	4.16 % 3.94 %
Dating	40360 10674	28979 8178	9526 1947	1793 456	71.80 % 76.62 %	23.60 % 18.24 %	4.44 % 4.27 %
Other	40568 10658	31504 8465	7458 1708	1524 376	77.66 % 79.42 %	18.38 % 16.03 %	3.76 % 3.53 %

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, SendGrid is better than MailerLite.

Provider	Emails Sent	Emails Inbox	Emails Spam	Emails Lost	Inbox (%)	Spam (%)	Lost (%)
Gmail	49736 10506	35869 7821	11595 2161	2204 471	72.12 % 74.44 %	23.31 % 20.57 %	4.43 % 4.48 %
Outlook Mail	50211 10408	36834 7989	11192 1906	2077 443	73.36 % 76.76 %	22.29 % 18.31 %	4.14 % 4.26 %
Yahoo Mail	49805 10646	37470 8336	10271 1837	2001 403	75.23 % 78.30 %	20.62 % 17.26 %	4.02 % 3.79 %
AOL Mail	49621 10752	37342 8375	10245 1841	1953 455	75.25 % 77.89 %	20.65 % 17.12 %	3.94 % 4.23 %
Mail.com	49893 10480	38095 8270	9822 1725	1908 406	76.35 % 78.91 %	19.69 % 16.46 %	3.82 % 3.87 %
Yandex Mail	49421 10550	36614 8142	10690 1887	2025 424	74.09 % 77.18 %	21.63 % 17.89 %	4.10 % 4.02 %
GMX Mail	50154 10508	38411 8428	9895 1628	1767 358	76.59 % 80.21 %	19.73 % 15.49 %	3.52 % 3.41 %
Zoho Mail	49669 10682	38477 8532	9324 1678	1790 383	77.47 % 79.87 %	18.77 % 15.71 %	3.60 % 3.59 %
ProtonMail	49933 10547	38724 8529	9440 1583	1708 343	77.55 % 80.87 %	18.91 % 15.01 %	3.42 % 3.25 %
Custom Mail	50051 10386	39241 8368	8983 1576	1763 362	78.40 % 80.57 %	17.95 % 15.17 %	3.52 % 3.49 %
iCloud Mail	10426 10633	7717 8035	2108 2069	522 413	74.02 % 75.57 %	20.22 % 19.46 %	5.01 % 3.88 %
Tuta	10549 10677	8348 8555	1695 1675	416 385	79.14 % 80.13 %	16.07 % 15.69 %	3.94 % 3.61 %
Juno.com	10454 10499	8295 8456	1637 1577	424 366	79.35 % 80.54 %	15.66 % 15.02 %	4.06 % 3.49 %

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