Sprinklr Social vs. Sprout Social

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sprinklr Social
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Sprinklr Social’s platform empowers enterprise teams of all sizes to deliver a consistent brand experience across 35+ digital and social channels to drive engagement and revenue, with capabilities across publishing, engagement, listening, analytics, employee advocacy, influencer marketing and commerce. Content planning and scheduling using an editorial calendar, with a digital asset manager and the ability to publish across channels at AI…
$359
per month per seat
Sprout Social
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Sprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening for customers. Sprout also provides customer success and technical support, to deliver consistent value to all users. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, receives…
$199,249
per user/per month
Pricing
Sprinklr SocialSprout Social
Editions & Modules
Self-Serve SMM and Customer Service Solution
$359
per month per seat
Enterprise Custom Social Media Management Solution
Contact Sales
Standard
$199 annual / $249 monthly
per user/per month
Professional
$299 annual / $399 monthly
per user/per month
Advanced
$399 annual / $499 monthly
per user/per month
Free Trial
Free
for 30 days
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Sprinklr SocialSprout Social
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Sprinklr SocialSprout Social
Features
Sprinklr SocialSprout Social
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
9.5
Ratings
21% above category average
Sprout Social
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Boolean keyword searches10.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam8.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Sentiment analysis10.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Broad channel coverage10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
10.0
Ratings
22% above category average
Sprout Social
8.5
Ratings
6% above category average
Content planning and scheduling10.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Audience targeting10.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Content optimization10.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Workflow management10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
9.7
Ratings
20% above category average
Sprout Social
8.0
Ratings
1% above category average
Automated routing and prioritization9.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Customer interaction histories10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Bulk actions10.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
10.0
Ratings
25% above category average
Sprout Social
7.2
Ratings
7% below category average
Lead generation10.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Content marketing10.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Paid media management10.00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions10.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
10.0
Ratings
17% above category average
Sprout Social
8.7
Ratings
3% above category average
Twitter10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Facebook10.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
LinkedIn10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Google+10.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Instagram10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Pinterest10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
YouTube10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
10.0
Ratings
23% above category average
Sprout Social
8.7
Ratings
10% above category average
Campaign success analytics10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Real-time tracking10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Competitor analysis10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
9.5
Ratings
17% above category average
Sprout Social
7.9
Ratings
1% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges10.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Mobile access9.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
User Ratings
Sprinklr SocialSprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(0 ratings)
7.7
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
4.4
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Online Training
8.4
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sprinklr SocialSprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
Any large organization that is looking to have an effective social media presence and achieve outcomes through advertising would be benefited by using Sprinklr [Modern Sales & Engagement]. The system allows a streamlined way to see how your audience is responding to your posts and advertisements online. It would not be well suited for a company that is not engaged with a social media presence.
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Sprout is well suited for a social media manager juggling a wide roster of clients. Sprout allows you to schedule weeks or even months' worth of social posts across all different platforms. It is extremely reliable for scheduling posts; I never have to worry if a post gets up the way I intended to get it up. It is also great for reporting key analytics to clients. I do wish there were more analytics at times, but for high-level data, it does the job.
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Pros
  • Customization - Through Sprinklr's rules and robust custom field creation, you really can create a lot of customization for every facet of your business.
  • Listening - Their Listening Engine and Explorer are fantastic ways to proactively find engagement-friendly conversations, in addition competitively research your brand.
  • Care - Using their case formatting, messages and customer contacts can be routed and assigned easily to available reps, and their bot builder can help to automate your contacts without sacrificing a personal touch.
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  • The Landscape system that Sprout Social offers allows me to modify all the images that I want to publish on my social networks. This service allows me to modify the size of the image, add filters, modify the colors and much more, it is a very important tool to be able to have a better presentation of the images that we use in our publications on social networks.
  • It offers me a perfect statistical system where I can consult all kinds of movements that have occurred in all my social networks, I can see statistics individually or generally. The statistics allow me to see group reports, participation, information on audience movement on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn and also allow me to view the activity that has occurred in my account.
  • Sprout Social allows me to view a record in real time that shows me all the movements that my social networks are having by my employees. As Director of the Marketing Sector, this is a very important role, as I can know what actions my employees are taking to improve marketing with social networks.
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Cons
  • Overall, Sprinklr rewards users to do a lot of digging on their own to get to the more in-depth functionalities. For instance, the asset manager feature leads you to a dashboard with all the content you ever published but doesn't tell you what to do next or how to organize it
  • Sprinklr offers basic social listening features, but it is much more limited than other pure social listening players like Crimson Hexagon or Brandwatch. It is perfectly usable for a quick search but I wouldn't recommend it as your sole social listening platform
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  • Social media platforms don't always play nice with Sprout so it will always be a challenge to get all integrations to work properly.
  • Sprout Social is a growing organization and they are acquiring new technologies, which can be good. However, they often spend time in meetings upselling new services. I like to learn about enhancements and opportunities but prefer to focus on my investments first.
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Likelihood to Renew
I really do feel that Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media program. It covers everything you would need to do to run a strategic social media program. On top of that, the success managers are really the best. Our success manager goes above and beyond for us and has been so helpful to us with setting up some very specific repots and profiles. Paul (our CSM) has been great about keeping us up to date on the latest features and functionality as well as helping us set up innovative dashboards as need
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I like Sprout for our needs and I like that it is easy to use. We want something better than HootSuite but don't need a high-level fancy program. The only think I don't like is customer service (except for chat).
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Usability
The user interface, training via Sprinklr university and detailed articles on almost every topic in the knowledge portal make Sprinklr a complete package. This is also GDPR compliant, helping us stay good with the info security. The layout of the navigation is easy and anyone new to the tool won't be overwhelmed
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Sprout Social's ease of use and navigation throughout the technology are relatively easy to figure out and teach. We also had a representative thoroughly walk us through the features and functionality to set us up for success in using the platform. I didn’t give it a ten because there were times when the navigation didn’t make sense, but once you figured out the quirks, it didn’t cause any trouble.
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Reliability and Availability
Our account partners at Sprinklr are not only responsive to out needs, both domestically and internationally, but have consistently approached us with ideas on how to improve our communication and collaboration in a proactive manner.
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Uptime was OK, but given the fact that we are in Europe, there were some specific problems: They tended to take the system down for maintenance during the night in the US, which was during our workday. This was definitely problematic and hard to explain to our clients.
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Performance
Perfornace is not aan issue. The issues/bugs with this software are few and far between. And when one pops up the 24/7 support team is helpful, quick and informative.
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It is quick to post, however you have to refresh the page every time you add a new scheduled item.
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Support Rating
Sprinklr Modern Engagement is great for workflow and approvals, especially between teams or in-house/agency relationships. It is not well suited for smaller businesses or companies that have one account per platform. It seems like the functions would be too robust for a small business to handle. If there was an SMB version that would have got a 10 from me.
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Sprout Social's customer support is extremely responsive. They're also always looking for suggestions on how they can make the product better and will actually take your ideas to their team to see if they're worth implementing. I've never had an issue that couldn't be resolved by them in a timely manner.
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In-Person Training
I don't recall our training in detail. I know we met in person a few times, and did some over-the-phone product walk-throughs. It may have been somewhat informal -- I don't recall having any takeaways to refer to.
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Online Training
Through multiple webinars, easily accessible training documents, and ad-hoc sessions with my account manager I am never left in the dark when I have a question.
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Their training is good, but the promotion of it is even better. I don't need or have the time for training, but I was always happy to know it was there. They did a great job sending updates out and making me aware when there was a new feature that I may want training for. As for the training I never used it, so I can't comment on that
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Implementation Rating
The implementation personnel at Sprinklr are top-notch. They will work with you to make sure they setup Sprinklr in a way that best aligns with your structural needs
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Make sure you do it all the way. Do not break it into phases. Pour yourself a coffee, start it in the morning and you'll be done before you finish that coffee.
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Alternatives Considered
Sprinklr Modern Sales & Engagement stacks up [well] against its competitors because it has all the features and functionality
[a] team could expect from this application. And not just that, it has been
updating the application and deploying the latest features frequently that
helps us a lot in our day-to-day operations. I am really happy with it.
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When scouting different social media management platforms, Sprout Social stood out as the best choice despite other companies offering competitive features and lower rates. Some key factors solidified our decision to stay with Sprout Social. One major drawback we noticed with ione of the competitors was that their Advocacy extension operated under a completely different website name, making the experience kind of disjointed and confusing. Also, unlike Sprout Social’s 24-hour (or less) response time, another competitor’s customer service was based overseas, which limited our ability to resolve issues efficiently I assume. The combination of Sprout Social’s integration and support pretty much made it the clear winner for our needs.
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Scalability
Always start simple with Sprinklr, e.g. one client. You can easily grow over time adding products/units/regions, etc
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Return on Investment
  • Assisted with integrating global social media marketing departments together
  • Has resulted in some delayed customer support responses due to technical issues with Facebook integration
  • Lack of ability to message people on Instagram has led to poor community management on this platform.
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  • One positive impact has been a huge time saver for our team. Where we once had multiple systems and delays from producing content to approval to publishing, now everything is seamless.
  • Another positive impact is streamlining the onboarding process for new team members. Sprout Social is user-friendly and intuitive, making it easy to study even for someone completely new to social media.
  • One negative impact has been the time it takes to wade through irrelevant social listening posts. The filtering is not effective enough to eliminate the noise.
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ScreenShots

Sprout Social Screenshots

Screenshot of Sprout’s social media publishing tools, used to schedule and post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn simultaneously from a single Compose window.