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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    Constant Contact

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AConstant Contact is a full-featured email marketing solution with capabilities such as social media integration, drag-and-drop editing, and real-time reporting. It is a bulk email tool designed for SMB customers. Since 2019, Constant Contact also offers marketing automation features, a website and landing page builder, and other tools to support midsize businesses.

    $12

    per month

    Pricing
    CloudflareConstant Contact
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Lite
    Starting at $12.00
    per month
    Standard
    Starting at $35.00
    per month
    Premium
    Starting at $80.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudflareConstant Contact
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—The SMS Marketing tool can be added to any Standard or Premium Constant Contact account. SMS is only available in the US for Standard and Premium paid plans. SMS can be added when logged in to an account after purchase. Plans start at $10/month for up to 500 messages.
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    Community Pulse
    CloudflareConstant Contact
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare and CloudFront are both great tools. I would recommend Cloudflare for sites that are not hosted on Amazon, and CloudFront for sites using Amazon Web Services.

    The pricing and features are comparable. Overall, Cloudflare's free tier offers more services, which gives …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    We did not use any other services for this as we know and understand that CloudFlare is the leader in the industry and we wanted the best setup possible. They also came highly recommended from our hosting company. So not too much to comment on here.
    Incentivized
    Constant Contact
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    85%
    Would buy again
    61 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    165 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    61 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    46 Answers
    Features
    CloudflareConstant Contact
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Cloudflare and Constant Contact
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Constant Contact
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic Scalability9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Cloudflare and Constant Contact
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    Constant Contact
    9.0
    120 Ratings
    11% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.7102 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.7104 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.582 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings9.378 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings8.473 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.686 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.9116 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.3118 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Cloudflare and Constant Contact
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    Constant Contact
    8.5
    117 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.488 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.8115 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.558 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Cloudflare and Constant Contact
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    Constant Contact
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    3% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings7.934 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings8.932 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings8.635 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings7.928 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings9.856 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings6.026 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings9.968 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CloudflareConstant Contact
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudflareConstant Contact
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    9.8
    (135 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.9
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (154 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudflareConstant Contact
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
    Incentivized
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    Constant Contact
    Constant Contact is an excellent tool for sending out flyers and newsletters. However, I feel the content's appearance is typically all the same. When I receive an email from Constant Contact, I can immediately identify it - the templates usually all look the same. When sending out communications with images, it is easy to use Constant Contact and link webpages. However, the email layout is always vertical and can get very lengthy. I prefer a more flip-book approach with options to flip the page.
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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    Constant Contact
    • Market segmentation is great: my main segmentation is by region because that's how our sales team is divided.
    • Lists: making customized email lists is easy and intuitive; the custom fields allow some flexibility in case our fields don't exactly line up with Constant Contact's.
    • Campaigns: creating campaigns is quick and simple. I especially appreciate the 'resend to non-openers' option. I am constantly using this feature.
    • Subject line generator: I like using the recommended subject lines. I'm able to plug in their recommended ideas, or sometimes, this feature helps me generate my own ideas.
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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
    Incentivized
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    Constant Contact
    • It would be nice if we had more customizable options for emails - like moving around pictures and text boxes, rather than a set spot for everything to go.
    • I would like it if multiple people could work on a document at one time. So if I'm in charge of graphics, I can get those updated while someone else is entering content, etc.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
    Incentivized
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    Constant Contact
    There is no doubt that we are going to renew Constant Contact. We have not just invested a lot of time in learning and creating a great looking product but we have developed a strong database of information that allows us to track how we are doing for each newsletter. This supports our goals of creating products that residents desire and are excited to receive.
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    Constant Contact
    There is always room for improvement. I don't know how they test their systems, but they should invite not-so computer savvy people to test it. If I, as an expert have problems, they need to think like the technophobe. Since I've used Constant Contact in the past as part of my former employment, I have not viewed any of the tutorials and just jumped in to work on my client's newsletter. With that said, I found some areas easy and some a bit cumbersome
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
    Incentivized
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    Constant Contact
    No major problems in sending out the email campaigns and accessing the analytics
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
    Incentivized
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    Constant Contact
    The system seemed quite slow sometimes. Specifically, there was sometimes a delay in sends if it was during a high traffic period. There were time-outs when uploading new code for an email, and a lag in reporting analytics which was sometimes as long as 72 hours
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    Constant Contact
    I think the overall support for Constant Contact has always been incredible; I have nothing negative to say. Our customer support representative was attentive, easy to understand, and very knowledgeable. I never felt like I wasn't a priority of his and my issues, while very small, were fixed in a very short time frame.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    Constant Contact
    Implementation is very easy for someone who wants to send out the “batch and blast” type newsletters. If you want to use their templates with no customizations, the product works fine. However, the more customizations you get into involving link color, etc, that’s where things can get tricky for someone who may not be familiar with coding
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
    Incentivized
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    Constant Contact
    Constant Contact is much more intuitive for people who are not tech-savvy. Also, while sendgrid offered more options in it's drag and drop interface, it displayed differently across different email clients, which made it very cumbersome to use. It also took much longer to upload contact lists and it was harder to manage existing contacts. Performance in sendgrid was much slower as well, and the Preview feature was quite buggy. Our team initially chose sendgrid because of the integration options that it's API offered, but we ultimately switched to Constant Contact because it was much easier to build campaigns and better suited our requirements.
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
    Incentivized
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    Constant Contact
    Very reliable in sending email campaigns and controlling the recipients so that no contact is sent the same email more than once, even if they are on a resent list
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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    Constant Contact
    • I have had nothing but positive impacts from using Constant Contact.
    • The church is large, and there are many subgroups and axillary groups within the church. Setting up specific groups based on responsibility, interest, member goals, and service needs allows me to send information quickly, saving valuable time for other tasks.
    • Constant Contact allows leadership to stay personally engaged with the members I work with, without over-taxing my time. It feels so seamless.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Constant Contact Screenshots

    Screenshot of the AI Content Generator that can be used to create content for emails, social posts, or SMS.Screenshot of an example automation workflow. These help to ensure a business's marketing is always on.Screenshot of some of the available pre-built email templates, that can be edited with the included drag-and-drop email editor.Screenshot of the Social Posting tool, used to plan and post social media messaging across platforms.Screenshot of the SMS Marketing feature.Screenshot of some of Constant Contact's available integrations.