Transactional Email APIs · reliability comparison

Elastic Email vs Twilio SendGrid: which is more reliable? (2026)

Twilio SendGrid is more reliable than Elastic Email, scoring 94.8 vs 82.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Elastic Email reported 3 incidents and Twilio SendGrid reported 5, with effective uptime of 99.84% and 99.98% respectively. Twilio SendGrid resolves incidents faster on average (1h 9m).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

MetricElastic EmailTwilio SendGrid
Reliability score82.494.8
Rank (transactional email APIs)#7#4
Uptime (90 days)99.84%99.98%
Incidents (90 days)35
Partial / major outages10
Avg time to resolve6h 19m1h 9m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Elastic Email and Twilio SendGrid differ

  • Twilio SendGrid reported 67% more incidents than Elastic Email over the last 90 days (5 vs 3).
  • Elastic Email had 1 partial or major outage, compared with 0 for Twilio SendGrid.
  • Twilio SendGrid fixes problems faster: 1h 9m on average, against 6h 19m for Elastic Email (5.5× quicker).
  • Elastic Email's longest outage on record lasted 1h 43m (Sep 1, 2026); Twilio SendGrid's lasted 2h 2m (Jul 8, 2026).

90-day uptime

Elastic Email

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 96.41% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 2, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 94.26% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 23, 2026: 96.14% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026: no incidentsOct 6, 2026: 98.81% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 7, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.840% average daily uptimeToday

Twilio SendGrid

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 99.08% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 14, 2026 – Oct 23, 2026: no incidentsOct 24, 2026: 99.47% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 25, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.984% average daily uptimeToday

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