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    Twilio SendGrid

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ATwilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber. Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by providing: MORE EFFICIENT EMAIL BUILDING The campaign building process is free from frustrating, rigid step-by-step wizards that slow users down. The vendor says…

    $15

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    validTo

    N/AN/AvalidTo is an email verification service used to increase email deliverability, designed to achieve this by improving mailing lists hygiene and sender reputation. 100 verifications are free at sign up.N/A
    Pricing
    Twilio SendGridvalidTo
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $15
    per month
    Advanced
    $60
    per month
    Free
    Free
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Twilio SendGridvalidTo
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Twilio SendGridvalidTo
    Considered Both Products
    Twilio
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    79%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    74%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    74%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
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    Features
    Twilio SendGridvalidTo
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Twilio SendGrid and validTo
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    7.1
    48 Ratings
    11% below category average
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    WYSIWYG email editor7.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.838 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content5.636 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages8.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.448 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management7.642 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences7.222 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Twilio SendGrid and validTo
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    7.6
    48 Ratings
    1% below category average
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    Dashboards7.446 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.246 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.230 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Twilio SendGrid and validTo
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    8.2
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
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    URL Validation7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Tracking8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Image Validation9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inbox Display7.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools7.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spam Testing8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Twilio SendGridvalidTo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (59 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    3.0
    (9 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Twilio SendGridvalidTo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Twilio
    Twilio SendGrid is well suited for those organizations who need to send mass emails very often to their prospects and customers and thus may be wary of a reliable tool that can do that without affecting domain reputation. It may be less suited for organizations which do not have say more than 10,000 target prospects and thus may rely only on 1:few ABM for sending emails.
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    Pros
    Twilio
    • Managing email lists / audiences is easy with features like groups and segments.
    • They provide pre-built email templates that are very easy to modify. It is also super easy to create new email templates with their drag-and-drop email builder.
    • Provides clear / easy-to-read analytics of email campaigns.
    • I can easily import large email contact lists all at once or add a user manually one-at-a-time, when needed.
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    Cons
    Twilio
    • Not necessarily their Email API but their email in general - they are currently in beta for automated email sequences but are still bare bones. Much more work is needed before it can be used mainstream and be able to convert everything to SendGrid.
    • Helping with warming up our dedicated IP for the best-sending score.
    • We seem to hit the promotions folder a decent amount (maybe the IP problem above) and even a lot of their emails hit my spam or promotions folder (whether they be transactional or marketing) which isn't a great sign when trusting an ESP.
    • Transactional email sequences would be a huge plus.
    • Now that Twilio owns SenGrid, having an integrated platform where you could see all our transactional emails together.
    • Better reporting and split reporting between transactional and marketing emails.
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    Usability
    Twilio
    It has the potential to be really cool. However, it feels as if it was created by developers for developers (and I work with developers, yet even for me the instrument was somewhat not easy to use - just read SendGrid's help manuals...) However, if you are into data and your way of thinking is more mathematical rather than lyrical, you'll enjoy this instrument
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    Support Rating
    Twilio
    Twilio SendGrid Email API is everything we want it to be, and we have no reason to look for any other solution. Features and pricing match exactly what we need. As developers for SaaS products, Twilio SendGrid Email API provides a great service. I hope that they stay this way and don't inflate the service with too many marketing oriented features, because there are other tools for that and Twilio SendGrid Email API is a API for sending email first and foremost.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Twilio
    Sendgrid has a lot of features that other providers have and a few more - like the dynamic template builder, which AWS SES doesn't have. We choose the provider based on the scenario of use and the provider we're using. If we're going to be making regular changes to a template, then we'd go with Sendgrid, as the changes will be easier to make and don't necessarily require developer intervention.
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    Return on Investment
    Twilio
    • As it was cheaper than the transactional service we previously used, it saved costs.
    • The API was relatively easy to work with so it helped us ship the service and test it quickly.
    • We still use the transactional email service, even though we recognize its limits as it meets our immediate needs.
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