SparkPost email provider statistics and deliverability context

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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 26, 2026), SparkPost is the email service provider (ESP) for 2,669 domains — 0.42% of 630,738 SPF-publishing domains. Its share has been stable over the last 30 days. Its strongest TLD is .com (47.1% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

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

2,669domains
0.42%of SPF-publishing domains
-0.01 ppshare, 30 days
137distinct TLDs
2026-07-26snapshot (updated daily)

What SparkPost represents in this dataset

MessageBird-owned high-volume transactional email backbone.

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 SparkPost

Across 137 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (47.1%), .cz (8.8%), .org (7.0%) — together 62.9% of the 2,669 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, 1,104 domains, 41.4% of them), followed by Microsoft 365 (22.9%). Its share of SPF-publishing domains has not moved measurably in 30 days. 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 SparkPost

What else the same 2,669 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-07-26).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of SparkPost users
MailboxGoogle Workspace1,10441.4%
MailboxMicrosoft 36561022.9%
MailboxSelf-Hosted2479.3%
MailboxUnknown / Other1365.1%
MailboxMimecast642.4%
MailboxGeneric / unmatched (mx*.*)501.9%
ESPMandrill38114.3%
ESPAmazon SES37514.1%
ESPZendesk29411.0%
ESPMailchimp29010.9%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 137)

com — 1,258 (47.1%)
cz — 236 (8.8%)
org — 186 (7.0%)
net — 69 (2.6%)
nl — 64 (2.4%)
co.uk — 64 (2.4%)
sk — 53 (2.0%)
ro — 48 (1.8%)
de — 43 (1.6%)
io — 35 (1.3%)
it — 32 (1.2%)
com.au — 31 (1.2%)
be — 28 (1.0%)
com.br — 26 (1.0%)
fr — 26 (1.0%)
pl — 24 (0.9%)
eu — 22 (0.8%)
es — 20 (0.7%)
ca — 19 (0.7%)
ru — 15 (0.6%)
hu — 15 (0.6%)
edu — 12 (0.4%)
pt — 11 (0.4%)
co — 11 (0.4%)
ch — 11 (0.4%)
gov — 11 (0.4%)
gr — 11 (0.4%)
org.uk — 11 (0.4%)
ai — 10 (0.4%)
fi — 10 (0.4%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use SparkPost?

2,669 domains in the Tranco top-1M use SparkPost as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 26, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is SparkPost's market share?

SparkPost holds 0.42% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-07-26). The number is recomputed every day.

Is SparkPost growing or declining?

SparkPost's share has been stable over the last 30 days (±0.01 pp).

What are the biggest alternatives to SparkPost?

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%) · Mandrill (3.36%) · HubSpot (3.19%) · Salesforce (2.62%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.13%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.82%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 2,669 domains.