Transactional Email APIs · reliability comparison
Loops vs Postmark: which is more reliable? (2026)
Loops is more reliable than Postmark, scoring 96.3 vs 68.3 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Loops reported 1 incident and Postmark reported 8, with effective uptime of 99.98% and 99.58% respectively. Loops resolves incidents faster on average (1h 34m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Loops | Postmark |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 96.3 | 68.3 |
| Rank (transactional email APIs) | #3 | #10 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.98% | 99.58% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 1 | 8 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 34m | 7h 41m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Loops and Postmark differ
- Postmark reported 8× as many incidents as Loops over the last 90 days (8 vs 1).
- Loops fixes problems faster: 1h 34m on average, against 7h 41m for Postmark (4.9× quicker).
- Loops's longest outage on record lasted 46m (Mar 2, 2026); Postmark's lasted 1d 3h (Feb 1, 2026).
90-day uptime
Loops
Postmark
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Loops incidents
- Degraded performanceSep 11, 2026 · resolved in 1h 34m
Delay in email metric processing
Affected: App
Recent Postmark incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 1h 43m
- MaintenanceOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 3h
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 2h 6m
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 3h 59m
- Degraded performanceSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 20m
- Degraded performanceSep 17, 2026 · resolved in 1h 33m
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