Mandrill email provider statistics and deliverability context

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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 26, 2026), Mandrill is the email service provider (ESP) for 21,179 domains — 3.36% of 630,738 SPF-publishing domains. Over the last 30 days its share declined by 0.02 pp. Its strongest TLD is .com (51.4% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Last updated from the 2026-07-26 DNS snapshot.

21,179domains
3.36%of SPF-publishing domains
-0.02 ppshare, 30 days
333distinct TLDs
2026-07-26snapshot (updated daily)

What Mandrill represents in this dataset

Mailchimp transactional add-on (formerly standalone).

Directory category: Esp. The classification comes from include: mechanisms in the SPF record. It describes observed DNS infrastructure, not a commercial relationship and not the placement of any individual message.

What the 2026-07-26 snapshot shows about Mandrill

Across 333 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (51.4%), .org (6.1%), .nl (3.5%) — together 61.0% of the 21,179 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Google Workspace (Mailbox, 8,586 domains, 40.5% of them), followed by Microsoft 365 (31.4%). Its share of SPF-publishing domains moved -0.02 pp in 30 days — inside the daily noise of list rotation. Directly comparable by the same detection rule: Amazon SES, SendGrid (Twilio), Mailgun. Ranking between them reflects what is published in DNS, not delivery quality or volume sent. All figures come from a single daily DNS snapshot (2026-07-26); a domain appears here when its published records match the include: mechanisms in the SPF record rule, which is an infrastructure fact, not a commercial relationship.

Commonly used together with Mandrill

What else the same 21,179 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-07-26).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Mandrill users
MailboxGoogle Workspace8,58640.5%
MailboxMicrosoft 3656,64331.4%
MailboxSelf-Hosted1,1785.6%
MailboxUnknown / Other8924.2%
MailboxMimecast6543.1%
MailboxProofpoint4972.3%
ESPMailchimp4,52421.4%
ESPZendesk3,05014.4%
ESPAmazon SES2,81813.3%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)2,51811.9%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 333)

com — 10,887 (51.4%)
org — 1,293 (6.1%)
nl — 741 (3.5%)
co.uk — 646 (3.1%)
com.au — 436 (2.1%)
net — 434 (2.0%)
de — 392 (1.9%)
fr — 364 (1.7%)
io — 301 (1.4%)
be — 262 (1.2%)
com.br — 254 (1.2%)
it — 230 (1.1%)
ca — 217 (1.0%)
se — 210 (1.0%)
co — 197 (0.9%)
es — 194 (0.9%)
dk — 191 (0.9%)
ch — 158 (0.7%)
eu — 120 (0.6%)
ru — 115 (0.5%)
org.uk — 113 (0.5%)
cz — 105 (0.5%)
edu — 102 (0.5%)
gr — 101 (0.5%)
fi — 97 (0.5%)
com.ar — 95 (0.4%)
no — 95 (0.4%)
ro — 95 (0.4%)
au — 89 (0.4%)
co.nz — 87 (0.4%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Mandrill?

21,179 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Mandrill as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 26, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Mandrill's market share?

Mandrill holds 3.36% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-07-26). The number is recomputed every day.

Is Mandrill growing or declining?

Mandrill's share declined by 0.02 percentage points over the last 30 days (as of July 26, 2026).

What are the biggest alternatives to Mandrill?

The largest email service provider (ESP)s in the same category by Tranco top-1M share are: Amazon SES, SendGrid (Twilio), Mailgun, Zendesk, Mailchimp (as of 2026-07-26).

Largest email service provider (ESP)s in this category

Amazon SES (6.17%) · SendGrid (Twilio) (4.76%) · Mailgun (4.11%) · Zendesk (3.83%) · Mailchimp (3.70%) · HubSpot (3.19%) · Salesforce (2.62%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.13%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.82%) · Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) (1.45%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 21,179 domains.