Lob vs. Smarty

Smarty

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Lob	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Lob in San Francisco provides the building blocks for developers to automate offline correspondences. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. Lob also provides insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and a proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country.	$260 per month 3 users & Up to 3,000 monthly mailings
Smarty	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Smarty is a provider of location data intelligence. Smarty is able to process colossal amounts of location data and APIs verify, validate, enrich, standardize, geocode, and auto-complete addresses.	$20 per month 5k monthly lookups

Pricing

Lob

Smarty

Editions & Modules

Professional - US Address Autocomplete: $20
per month 5k monthly lookups
Professional - International Address Autocomplete: $40
per month 500 monthly lookups
Professional - US Address Validation: $54
per month 5k Lookups per month
US Reverse Geocoding: $54
per month 25k monthly lookups
Professional - International Address Verification: $65
per month 1k monthly lookups
US Rooftop Geocoding: $106
per month 5k monthly lookups
Unlimited - US Address Verification: $1,250
per month Lookups / month Up to 300 / second

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Lob	Smarty
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Lob	Smarty

Best Alternatives
	Lob	Smarty
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User Ratings
	Lob	Smarty
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Lob	Smarty
Likelihood to Recommend	Lob is working well for batched or scheduled jobs where timing isn't as critical. For items that need to be sent quickly, it's still faster to manually produce. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Smarty is best suited for when consumers need to enter or manage their address information within an application. Smarty is also used well for finding an address faster if consumers need to search for something like a location or to enter their addresses faster. consumers get a better product experience Incentivized JH Justin Hajek AVP of Program Manager Read full review
Pros	Address Verification and NCOA Cleaning Autocomplete for our forms that allow a user to SKIP typing Printing and mailing documents automatically over API Incentivized Salvatore (Sal) Salpietro Chief Experience Officer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Speed of mail production Additional options for mail types (envelopes, postcards, etc.) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Incentivized Salvatore (Sal) Salpietro Chief Experience Officer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Helped us reduce cost on product being sent to addresses that were invalid. Incentivized JJ Englert Founder & Product Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
ScreenShots	Lob Screenshots	Smarty Screenshots