Bloomreach vs. Klaviyo

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomreach
Score 9.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Bloomreach personalizes the customer experience for brands around the world. Loomi AI, its agentic platform, understands customers in context — then tailors their experience in real time. Connected to applications at every touchpoint, Loomi AI brings personalization to life across email, web,…N/A
Klaviyo
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Klaviyo is a marketing automation platform that helps businesses to centralize and use every piece of their customer data. With Klaviyo, businesses can combine customer data with more than 350 native integrations to automate personalized email and SMS communications that make customers feel seen. From mom-and-pop shops to established companies, Klaviyo states businesses like Dermalogica, Living Proof, Solo Stove, Citizen Watches, and more than 143,000 other paying users leverage their platform…
$20
per month
Pricing
BloomreachKlaviyo
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BloomreachKlaviyo
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.Paid plans start at $20/month and include: 251 - 500 contacts 5,000 monthly email sends 150 SMS/MMS sending credits Applicable SMS carrier fees Mobile push notifications (free beta) Email and chat support Additional contacts, email and text sending credits, and service plans available to meet the needs of any size business. View all of our pricing and estimate your total cost of ownership at klaviyo.com/pricing
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Community Pulse
BloomreachKlaviyo
Considered Both Products
Bloomreach
Chose Bloomreach
From working almost 4 years with Klaviyo we started noticing many discrepancies on the analytics side, and also on the user experience we were providing with the product recommendations that did not performed the way we expected. Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for …
Chose Bloomreach
Bloomreach has it all in one package - and for retailers with many products and many markets you'll find that Bloomreach makes it easy to get an overview over performance for each country, and the email editor is a great tool for multi-language customers. Especially the newest …
Chose Bloomreach
Stand out topics:
- Ease of use
- Multi-market support
Chose Bloomreach
The flexibility in Bloomreach can't be beaten by the other platforms. The customer service and the software
Chose Bloomreach
Bloomreach allows for a far more detailed analysis of customer data than the other platforms compared to. The other platforms do provide far more out-of-the-box than Bloomreach, but would not allow us to bring the analytics function of the business in-house as Bloomreach has.
Chose Bloomreach
Blows all competitors out of the water
Klaviyo

No answer on this topic

Features
BloomreachKlaviyo
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
8.4
101 Ratings
9% above category average
Klaviyo
8.4
134 Ratings
9% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.588 Ratings8.4120 Ratings
Dynamic content8.797 Ratings8.2126 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.296 Ratings7.6118 Ratings
Landing pages6.855 Ratings8.02 Ratings
A/B testing8.997 Ratings8.3120 Ratings
Mobile optimization9.188 Ratings8.6129 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting9.198 Ratings8.7132 Ratings
List management8.084 Ratings8.6132 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.073 Ratings8.8118 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
7.9
81 Ratings
1% above category average
Klaviyo
7.6
103 Ratings
3% below category average
Lead nurturing automation7.969 Ratings8.298 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading8.064 Ratings7.150 Ratings
Data quality management8.476 Ratings7.860 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks6.945 Ratings7.353 Ratings
Lead segmentation and distribution8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
7.2
75 Ratings
3% below category average
Klaviyo
8.2
47 Ratings
10% above category average
Calendaring6.969 Ratings8.247 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.652 Ratings00 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
7.5
54 Ratings
2% above category average
Klaviyo
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Ratings
Social sharing and campaigns7.146 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration7.937 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
8.2
100 Ratings
11% above category average
Klaviyo
7.8
129 Ratings
6% above category average
Dashboards7.9100 Ratings8.1129 Ratings
Standard reports8.496 Ratings7.7125 Ratings
Custom reports8.596 Ratings7.585 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
8.3
126 Ratings
10% above category average
Klaviyo
8.1
107 Ratings
8% above category average
API8.7120 Ratings8.4100 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.779 Ratings8.255 Ratings
Customizability8.889 Ratings7.474 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.612 Ratings8.320 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Third-party software integrations7.763 Ratings8.150 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
BloomreachKlaviyo
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(189 ratings)
8.4
(134 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(11 ratings)
9.5
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(54 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
7.5
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.9
(20 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(152 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.1
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BloomreachKlaviyo
Likelihood to Recommend
Bloomreach
They've just been a great partner to work with. They put forth 100% when bringing platforms to the merchant and were highly prepared and knowledgeable during the sales cycle and implementation, and remained very connected post-implementation to ensure client success with the platform. Their CEO is always eager to sit down, talk shop, and listen to clients' needs, and you can tell from his enthusiasm that he cares about making this company the best in class.
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Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a leader in the space, but I might recommend it to a colleague for its price point. There are other options that are more affordable and provide most of the tools Klaviyo offers. I also think it can be complicated to use for a new user.
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Pros
Bloomreach
  • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
  • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
  • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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Klaviyo
  • Klaviyo's template builder is very intuitive yet straightforward enough that an inexperienced user can catch on quickly.
  • Their flow builder is also quite intuitive and allows us to build intricate, highly targeted flows.
  • I appreciate their built-in compliance warnings & checks as they apply to opt-out methods, SMS compliance, and overall deliverability.
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Cons
Bloomreach
  • Improve introduction to Bloomreach-specific terminology such as running aggregates. These are really powerful but can be difficult to understand
  • Introduce more options for report exporting - it would be good to be able to schedule reports to send to different email addresses
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Klaviyo
  • Needs more visible critical notifications as we once exceeded our monthly email limit right during the Black Friday campaign. The notification was not visible enough for us to catch it on time, as a result, some emails scheduled to be sent over the weekend were never sent
  • Better library of dynamic values available for use inside emails
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Likelihood to Renew
Bloomreach
We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
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Klaviyo
Klaviyo is simply a great solution for e-com email marketing & customer relationship management:
  1. User journey visibility: We can see our clients' customers on their individual user journeys (open email, site visits) to better understand and accommodate your customers.
  2. Flow automation: Creating automated emails that follow up with new leads, those who abandoned carts, purchased.
  3. Email design: So easy to use, and more friendly than some other visual builders that we've used.
  4. Metrics visibility: We can see our clients' metrics very easily and adjust efforts accordingly.
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Usability
Bloomreach
In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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Klaviyo
The only reason why I did not give it a 10/10 is that it cannot distinguish purchases that came through subscription recharges instead of purchases that were driven directly by email sends. Other than that, the automation qualities, design features, and segmentation options make this an incredible email platform, and I am very happy with it
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Reliability and Availability
Bloomreach
The platform is generally reliable - major outages are rare and most day-to-day campaign operations run without interruption. Where it dips: occasional slowdowns in the analytics dashboard during peak loads, and sometimes scenario executions get delayed without clear explanation. The real-time event processing is mostly solids. Overall uptime is strong - it is not something that keeps me up at night, but it is not flawless either.
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Klaviyo
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Performance
Bloomreach
Performance in Bloomreach Content is quite good but you need to be ready. Your implementation should follow all the good practices (avoid crazy patterns) and the environment setup should be the right one. With all that, Bloomreach's performance is quite solid. Our usage makes use of complex queries and most of them are really quick. Only when you need something really complex and you aggregate queries that should be separated you would get slower results (but then again, that is not a good practice for any platform).
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Klaviyo
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Support Rating
Bloomreach
The project team consistently delivers excellent collaboration and is always available whenever assistance is needed. Their responsiveness and commitment make working together smooth and efficient. Bloomreach support, which is included for free in the platform, can also be quite useful, especially for quick clarifications. However, the quality and speed of their responses can sometimes vary, depending on the issue.
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Klaviyo
Their support is always quick and we have recurring meetings with our advisor. they were great when we first started at walking us through the platform and helping us understand how to do the overall setup. They also have a wide variety of articles that cover must issues in a very clear manner that will get you out of a predicament really fast.
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The Training was awesome
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Klaviyo
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Online Training
Bloomreach
very informative and patient
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Klaviyo
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
All the deployments were done on time
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Klaviyo
Don't cut corners, do it right the first time, if you take your time to build everything the way you want it then it will run itself. The platform will help you increase revenue as long as you use the tools it provides. Don't be scared to ask questions, the support team will help you get to the next level
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Alternatives Considered
Bloomreach
Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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Klaviyo
Klaviyo's ability to really tackle the entire marketing contact ecosystem on one platform is what really won us over. The price for everything was competitive, not necessarily the cheapest but competitive, and the ability to see that data flow from every interaction was what was crucial to us. Additionally, Klaviyo is the core of our B2C business. We were not focused on anything other than how we interact with customers directly, and Klaviyo was a direct win for us. The one negative is Klaviyo's ability to work with our B2B side of our business, because it doesn't integrate with platforms like HubSpot. That is a massive downside, but the upside justified the investment.
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Scalability
Bloomreach
there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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Klaviyo
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Return on Investment
Bloomreach
  • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
  • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
  • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
  • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
  • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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Klaviyo
  • Klaviyo brought our email channel to the top performing channel over Paid Ads several times (according to G Analytics), before Klaviyo Paid Ads were always top and the email channel struggled to even stay in 2nd place.
  • Klaviyo did cost quite a bit more than our old email platform but the ROI was much higher so it paid for itself.
  • Klaviyo implemented tools that allowed us to have a higher customer satisfaction with things like letting customers choose to receive less emails instead of unsubscribing.
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ScreenShots

Bloomreach Screenshots

Screenshot of Funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of Retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of Web layers with A/B testing.Screenshot of The drag and drop campaign editor.Screenshot of The WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templates.Screenshot of The CRM with 360° customer behaviour history.

Klaviyo Screenshots

Screenshot of Web forms to grow contact listsScreenshot of Personalized recommendations that resonateScreenshot of Smarter targeting. Deeper personalization.Screenshot of Display of how performance stacks up against peers