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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Braze

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ABraze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and brands. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns.N/A

    Intercom

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIntercom Helpdesk is the support workspace where human teammates handle customer conversations and tickets. Fin, the customer agent, and Copilot work in that same Inbox, so a case can move from an automated reply to a teammate with the conversation history attached.

    $39

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    BrazeIntercom
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essential
    $39
    per month per seat
    Advanced
    $99
    per month per seat
    Expert
    $139
    per month per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrazeIntercom
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Up to a 26% discount for annual billing.
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    Features
    BrazeIntercom
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Braze and Intercom
    Feature
    Braze
    -
    Ratings
    Intercom
    8.0
    15 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.613 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.59 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.114 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings7.515 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Braze and Intercom
    Feature
    Braze
    -
    Ratings
    Intercom
    8.4
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.415 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.412 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Braze and Intercom
    Feature
    Braze
    -
    Ratings
    Intercom
    7.9
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings6.88 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
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    BrazeIntercom
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    Simplify360
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Customer.io
    Score9.1 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Service Cloud
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrazeIntercom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (162 ratings)
    10.0
    (149 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (129 ratings)
    9.2
    (57 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (21 ratings)
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrazeIntercom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Braze
    If you're looking for a reliable, automated system to run customer feedback programme like the NPS, Braze offers possibly the best platform to operate such kind of a campaign. In addition, if you are looking to build email campaigns for existing clients with the goal of retention or relationship-building, Braze offers much better email delivery and engagement rates.
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    Salesforce
    Intercom is well suited to finding information that your colleague gets about one lead or User. It's less appropriate when you need some report that you can not custom, and the different categories are really not clear. Nevertheless, for the communication with your clients and feature clients, it's really perfect!
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    Pros
    Braze
    • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
    • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
    • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
    • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
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    Salesforce
    • Intercom is great for tracking user engagement, support, and marketing. I love that you can see what a user is doing on your site and send messages (email or chat) based on specific criteria.
    • Intercom is simple, easy to use, and great for website chats. It is very easy for customers to interact with.
    • Makes your team very accessible, also makes the support process simple for the end users. Good integrations and useful statistics provided.
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    Cons
    Braze
    • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
    • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
    • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
    • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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    Salesforce
    • Exporting conversations - we need to do this for things like customer disputes and chargebacks, however the export is a simple unformatted text file, which is not an acceptable capture of the threads as it can be simply edited. A clean and neat PDF export would be fantastic.
    • Better/simpler spam and abusive user blocking, maybe based on IP address or sender domain
    • A lower cost - there are many free/low cost platforms now, and I feel your costs are high
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Braze
    We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
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    Salesforce
    We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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    Usability
    Braze
    From my experience thus far, Braze is able to deeply integrate into a variety of tools and I haven't found a use case where Braze cannot offer a solution to an integration requirement. Integrations have been very easy to setup and developers have been able to manage and upgrade these seamlessly.
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    Salesforce
    Customizability: Intercom is highly customizable, allowing users to tailor the interface to their specific needs and preferences. This can help to improve usability by ensuring that users have quick and easy access to the features and information they need most, this can be done by using Macros, generating custom events and etc.
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    Support Rating
    Braze
    Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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    Salesforce
    Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.
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    Online Training
    Braze
    It's really well explained, there are lots of documentation about all topics. When we want to perform in a specific area, there are always a dedicated path. For each new feature, there is always some videos explaining the purpose and the new functionalities. Also I used to do the certification which allows me to show my achievements in my business environment.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Braze
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Braze
    Braze is a cross-channel and data-driven tool. It is much more intuitive and easier to use. It supports a high volume of sending. Braze team provides excellent follow-up and support, and we are part of a large community of clients who share knowledge and help.
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    Salesforce
    Intercom is much easier to use. Even though HubSpot's Support hub is a fairly new feature, it lacks so much. It is quite complicated to use and lacks many features that Intercom can offer just for the focus of customer service.
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    Return on Investment
    Braze
    • We saved a couple of million by switching from Salesforce to Braze.
    • We increased our engagement for a limited-time promo by 33% by simply running a 4-variant subject line test.
    • We managed to reduce our unsubscribe volume by 18% by excluding dormant users.
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    Salesforce
    • Increase in demo sets and deals won by engaging with prospects that hadn't requested a demo yet.
    • Increase in efficiency for our support team to receiving tickets.
    • Boosting registration for our on going training webinars as well as those for new product announcements.
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