SendGrid vs. SparkPost

Compare the status, incidents stats and history between SendGrid and SparkPost

Every service has different practices when updating its status page, so compare these stats with a grain of salt. E.g., one service can be more aggressive when updating its status page than other so that they will have more incidents, but it doesn't mean it is worse than the other.

SendGrid

SendGrid current official status is Ongoing Maintenance

Statistics

3
Incidents in the last 7 days
11
Incidents in the last 30 days
21
Incidents in the last 90 days

Latest incidents

Resolved Legacy Marketing campaign menu unavaliable

Starting around 8 PM PST on 31-07-2025, our engineers began investigating an issue with Legacy MC feature. Customer may not be able to access the Legacy MC menu. We will provide another update in a...

Resolved 500 error when accessing sender authentication validation endpoint

Starting around 3:17 pm PDT on 7/31/2025, our engineers began investigating an issue impacting the sender authentication validation endpoint. Some users may experience an elevated number of 500 err...

Resolved Delayed Group Unsubscribes

Starting around 5:30 PM Pacific Time on July 29th, our engineers began investigating an issue with the Group Unsubscribe functionality. Customers may experience delays in recipients being added or ...

SparkPost

SparkPost current official status is Operational

Statistics

0
Incidents in the last 7 days
1
Incidents in the last 30 days
5
Incidents in the last 90 days

Latest incidents

Resolved Outbound message delivery to Yahoo is delayed/slow

We are actively investigating a rise in delivery latency for outbound messages to Yahoo. Our current assessment indicates the issue may lie with Yahoo, and we are continuing to monitor the situation.

Resolved Outbound message delivery is delayed/slow for some SparkPost customers (US hosted only)

We are investigating an increase in delivery latency for a small percentage of outbound messages. (NOTE: This does not impact our customers hosted in the EU.)

Resolved Relay Webhook delays in EU

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

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