Bloomreach vs. Ontraport

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomreach
Score 9.1 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
Ontraport
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
ONTRAPORT offers customer relations management services that help with content management (creating and hosting webpages), lead tracking, traditional marketing approaches (e-mail, SMS, social media, direct mail), managing online payments, and workflow automation.
$29
per month
Pricing
BloomreachOntraport
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BloomreachOntraport
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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.Ontraport offers a variety of plans to choose from based on the features needed. Pricing adjusts with the number of contacts in the database and users in the account. Monthly or annual plans are available, and all plans start with a 14-day free trial. Ontraport offers a Done-With-You Setup and Training Package for getting set up in the account quickly. Users can also access a free video library with step-by-step instructions on getting started and using every feature of the platform.
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Community Pulse
BloomreachOntraport
Features
BloomreachOntraport
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
8.3
99 Ratings
8% above category average
Ontraport
9.0
17 Ratings
17% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.586 Ratings8.216 Ratings
Dynamic content8.795 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.294 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Landing pages6.854 Ratings10.016 Ratings
A/B testing8.895 Ratings9.912 Ratings
Mobile optimization9.186 Ratings8.410 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting9.197 Ratings6.016 Ratings
List management8.082 Ratings10.016 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.071 Ratings9.813 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
7.7
79 Ratings
1% below category average
Ontraport
5.5
17 Ratings
35% below category average
Lead nurturing automation7.968 Ratings7.115 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading8.162 Ratings2.413 Ratings
Data quality management8.374 Ratings2.614 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks6.943 Ratings10.016 Ratings
Lead segmentation and distribution7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
7.3
73 Ratings
1% below category average
Ontraport
7.7
8 Ratings
4% above category average
Calendaring7.067 Ratings6.25 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.551 Ratings9.38 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
Ontraport
7.1
4 Ratings
4% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns7.146 Ratings7.13 Ratings
Social profile integration7.937 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
8.2
98 Ratings
11% above category average
Ontraport
9.3
16 Ratings
24% above category average
Dashboards7.898 Ratings10.015 Ratings
Standard reports8.394 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Custom reports8.594 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach
8.3
124 Ratings
11% above category average
Ontraport
7.3
15 Ratings
2% below category average
API8.6118 Ratings3.011 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.777 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Customizability8.787 Ratings10.013 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.512 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.812 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.89 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Third-party software integrations7.761 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BloomreachOntraport
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(187 ratings)
10.0
(20 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(11 ratings)
9.1
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(54 ratings)
7.8
(3 ratings)
Availability
7.5
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.9
(20 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(150 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.4
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(4 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.1
(21 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BloomreachOntraport
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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Ontraport
Here are some cases where Ontraport is well suited : - When writing emails, you can easily access to preview, manage the changes and go back to what you did before - When using automations, if there's an error, you can go back to a previous version of it. There are also some super tools that allows to see where a clients is on an automation without having to go through the all automation. It is less appropriate when you are several colleague that are addressing an issue on an email/automation as it doesn't allows you to be multiple person on the item.
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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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Ontraport
  • Dashboards for our daily stats.
  • The email follows up and broadcasts are simple and easy.
  • Sales and marketing can now see the impact they have working together. Nobody can point finger anymore.
  • They have the best customer support. I can't tell you how many times they have walked me through the problems that I created.
  • Amazing email inboxing.
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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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Ontraport
  • Wish they had more options for their forms. Would really like to use multi-step forms.
  • A lot of times their forms load slowly on the website. Would like to see them speed up their services.
  • Their broadcasting options are legacy. There are better options out there for sending broadcast messages.
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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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Ontraport
My client was already using Ontraport and had a decent investment in the tool. As soon as we turn around the revenue situation with my client's products, we will be ditching OAP immediately, despite the significant re-implementation cost we are going to face moving to a new system. I am part of a high-end, professional marketing group, and the overwhelming sentiment with these other professionals is that one should run away from this as fast as humanly possible. I thought their words were just ungrounded opinion, and I deeply regret that I did not heed them more closely before sinking still more time and effort into OAP.
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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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Ontraport
The software is just easy to use. The UI is fairly intuitive. The help system is pretty good. I find it is pretty quick to get my work completed and if I don't document my things well, I can always figure out how I did something when I need to make changes. When I have a problem the tech support is easy to deal with and when things need to get escalated they are resolved quickly.
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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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Ontraport
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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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Ontraport
Most of the time OP runs fine. But I've had to submit more support tickets this year do to messages, seq.'s or rules not running correctly. Also experienced slow response times moving in and around OP.
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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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Ontraport
The techs are reasonably savvy, highly courteous and want to do right by their customers. Unfortunately, the product they are supporting is so deeply flawed that there's only so much they can do when your legitimate business requirements are simply not supported.
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The Training was awesome
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Ontraport
I went to their Ontrapalooza event, and it opened my mind as to how the software can be used.
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Online Training
Bloomreach
very informative and patient
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Ontraport
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
All the deployments were done on time
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Ontraport
If you know your business, ONTRAPORT is easy
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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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Ontraport
Task management was the main thing that separated ONTRAPORT for me. Keeping things accountable. As well, I felt the campaign builder was slicker, and that the contact management was more robust. Custom fields are very customizable.
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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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Ontraport
With the new lower priced options, it's now easier for newer businesses to start with a more basic version and upgrade as they need more features.
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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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Ontraport
  • We are providing better customer service as a direct result of Ontraport. We can track where all of our customers are, what pages/sites/modules they are visiting with ease and tailor our communication accordingly.
  • Our marketing funnel has become vastly improved, meaning that our ROI for marketing has gone up. Sales this April are double what they were last year.
  • Our team works better together because we all have a better idea of what the other needs and when. The tasks that we can assign in Ontraport mean nothing gets missed, creating a better customer and employee experience.
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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.

Ontraport Screenshots

Screenshot of Manage, track, sort and add to a contact listScreenshot of Design professional emails, forms and landing pages with block formatsScreenshot of Utilize the Support Center's in-depth advice on maximizing Ontraport's features