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Constant Contact vs Mailgun, from Pathwire

Constant Contact
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Top Rated
716 Ratings
Mailgun, from Pathwire
48 Ratings

Constant Contact

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Score 8.1 out of 100

Based on 716 reviews and ratings

Mailgun, from Pathwire

48 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 100

Based on 48 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

    Email & Online Marketing

    7.7

    Constant Contact

    77%

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    Constant Contact ranks higher in 9/9 features
    Constant Contact ranks higher in 9/9 features

    WYSIWYG email editor

    7.8
    78%
    82 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Dynamic content

    7.6
    76%
    82 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Ability to test dynamic content

    7.5
    75%
    81 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Landing pages

    7.6
    76%
    56 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    A/B testing

    7.4
    74%
    52 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Mobile optimization

    8.0
    80%
    85 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Email deliverability reporting

    8.6
    86%
    135 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    List management

    8.4
    84%
    90 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Triggered drip sequences

    6.7
    67%
    47 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Reporting & Analytics

    7.8

    Constant Contact

    78%

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    Constant Contact ranks higher in 3/3 features
    Constant Contact ranks higher in 3/3 features

    Dashboards

    7.8
    78%
    87 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Standard reports

    8.2
    82%
    87 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Custom reports

    7.5
    75%
    58 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Pre-Send Testing

    8.1

    Constant Contact

    81%

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    Constant Contact ranks higher in 8/8 features
    Constant Contact ranks higher in 8/8 features

    URL Validation

    8.4
    84%
    31 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Link Tracking

    8.0
    80%
    34 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Image Validation

    8.2
    82%
    31 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Inbox Display

    8.0
    80%
    34 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Email Accessibility Tools

    8.0
    80%
    28 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Spelling and Grammar Check

    7.8
    78%
    31 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Spam Testing

    7.8
    78%
    26 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Email Previews

    8.6
    86%
    40 Ratings
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Attribute Ratings

    • Constant Contact is rated higher in 3 areas: Usability, Performance, Support Rating
    • Mailgun, from Pathwire is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Availability
    • Constant Contact and Mailgun, from Pathwire are tied in 1 area: Product Scalability

    Likelihood to Recommend

    8.3

    Constant Contact

    83%
    106 Ratings
    9.1

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    91%
    25 Ratings

    Likelihood to Renew

    9.0

    Constant Contact

    90%
    21 Ratings

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Usability

    10.0

    Constant Contact

    100%
    9 Ratings
    7.0

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    70%
    1 Rating

    Availability

    9.0

    Constant Contact

    90%
    4 Ratings
    10.0

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    100%
    1 Rating

    Performance

    10.0

    Constant Contact

    100%
    4 Ratings
    9.0

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    90%
    1 Rating

    Support Rating

    10.0

    Constant Contact

    100%
    17 Ratings
    7.4

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    74%
    9 Ratings

    Online Training

    10.0

    Constant Contact

    100%
    1 Rating

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Implementation Rating

    10.0

    Constant Contact

    100%
    9 Ratings

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Product Scalability

    10.0

    Constant Contact

    100%
    1 Rating
    10.0

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    100%
    1 Rating

    Likelihood to Recommend

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact is great when trying to target specific market segments. We typically like to segment our master list by region, but also have product segments, as well. They do provide pre-made segments to start you off too.We don't usually use their email builder, we find others to be more flexible, intuitive, and have more variety. We do prefer emailing from Constant Contact, however.

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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Mailgun's pay-as-you-go pricing structure is fantastic, especially if you don't need to send that much email. The pricing, including the free tier, is much more generous than what you can get with some pricier providers, like SendGrid. I mainly just use Mailgun as an SMTP server for web services, and the service has been set-up-and-forget, which is great because I never even have to log onto the Mailgun website and do any work. Mailing list support also looks great for rolling-your-own and not relying on more expensive mailing list services.

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    Pros

    Constant Contact

    • You can accomplish quite a bit using the drag and drop interface, so there is less custom HTML required.
    • Easy to use for folks who are not tech savvy.
    • Very quick upload speed for contact lists when compared with other email marketing vendors.
    • Easy to customize contact lists.
    • Displays much more consistently across different email clients when compared with other email marketing vendors.

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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    • Its SMTP is very easy to use and it integrates easy with all CMS and frameworks.
    • It allows you to have a record of the incoming/outgoing emails and get useful statistics about them.
    • Thanks to their 5000 free emails per month, it is a very good option to startups and small companies.

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    Cons

    Constant Contact

    • The interface is definitely a bit difficult to use and it takes some getting used to.
    • More customization and exporting of html would be awesome.
    • They could expand on features that other email marketing software has such as tying in with social media, more flows, etc.

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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    • No built-in templating features (This was a bit sad after coming from Mandrill which excelled at this)
    • Dashboard UI (although easy to use) is a bit dated in appearance
    • Logs are cumbersome compared to Mandrill
    • Setting up TLD (top level domain) names (things like .online or .church) that are not common require an email to tech support (this is annoying)
    • Sometimes can be slow in delivery
    • Shared IP addresses can be SPAM filtered or delayed (requires an email to support to have a new one assigned - Note: this can be mitigated by buying a dedicated one for a monthly fee)

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    Joshua Weaver | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Pricing Details

    Constant Contact

    General

    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    $9.99 per month

    Constant Contact Editions & Modules

    Edition
    Core$9.991
    Plus$45.001
    1. per month
    Additional Pricing Details
    —

    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    General

    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    $35 per month

    Mailgun, from Pathwire Editions & Modules

    Edition
    FlexFree
    Foundation$352
    Growth$802
    Scale$902
    1. none
    2. per month
    Additional Pricing Details
    —

    Likelihood to Renew

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact 9.0
    Based on 21 answers
    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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    Ty Swartz, CPP, USN Ret. | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Usability

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact 10.0
    Based on 9 answers
    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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    Giselle Aguiar | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Mailgun, from Pathwire 7.0
    Based on 1 answer
    It could be more up-to-date and could offer some extra features that other competitors do like templating and better querying and filtering. As it is right now most things are easy to use but seem rather barebones next to Mandrill. The API is easy to implement thanks to the great documentation which is why I recommend Mailgun so often.

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    Reliability and Availability

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact 9.0
    Based on 4 answers
    No major problems in sending out the email campaigns and accessing the analytics

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Mailgun, from Pathwire 10.0
    Based on 1 answer
    There have been a few minor outages through the years, but nothing more than a few minutes. These small outages are to be expected in any kind of a SaaS product, but Mailgun handles them very well. We designed our software to just retry sending after a while if there is an outage. As far as I know, we have never had to do more than a few retry cycles. This is all automated on our end, so we rarely even notice. Our customers have never noticed any mail sending outages.

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    Performance

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact 10.0
    Based on 4 answers
    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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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Mailgun, from Pathwire 9.0
    Based on 1 answer
    The API and the deliverability of emails is excellent. Their API is very responsive and performs perfectly fine. I have no complaints there. Their management interface though (accessed through the web) is pretty slow though. Searching through lists of emails when I'm tracking down a problem for a customer can take 10+ seconds which is annoyingly high for a modern web app.

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    Support Rating

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact 10.0
    Based on 17 answers
    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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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Mailgun, from Pathwire 7.4
    Based on 9 answers
    You can't seem to get ANY support until you shell out hundreds of dollars per month. I even did this when we could not deliver mail with Mailgun, and the response was slow and inadequate. Nor would they refund my money. I'll never be a customer of Mailgun again.

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    Implementation Rating

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact 10.0
    Based on 9 answers
    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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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Alternatives Considered

    Constant Contact

    We tried Mailchimp. We could send messages to larger groups for free with Constant Contact. And we simply found more people read the emails and responded more frequently when we used Constant Contact. I think it's because it didn't feel as much like a marketing tool as when we contacted them with Mailchimp.

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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    MailGun is more expensive than SparkPost and about the same price-wise as SendGrid. MailGun had a notably easy set-up process, since they are the first SMTP service we signed up with, and their support has been very helpful in identifying deliverability issues, providing documentation on IP reputation management, and recommending best sending practices.

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    Scalability

    Constant Contact

    Constant Contact 10.0
    Based on 1 answer
    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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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    Mailgun, from Pathwire 10.0
    Based on 1 answer
    Over the past six years, Mailgun has scaled with our growth very easily. We haven't had to make any code changes to handle our larger volume today, and their pricing has scaled naturally with our growth. As far as I know, there is nothing we will need to do in order to grow 10-fold. Mailgun just handles the load really well.

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    Return on Investment

    Constant Contact

    • Good email marketing option that we need to expand on
    • We have not had a strong determinable ROI, but we do not always know if a donation resulted from an email
    • Very affordable and we plan in keeping it as a resource

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    Terri Betts | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Mailgun, from Pathwire

    • By not investing in our mail server, we have saved huge amount of money and time. For configuration and installation of an email server on Linux-based server, we would have to hire a network administrator.
    • If email delivery is an issue in a hosting provider, another solution is to switch the hosting. Fortunately with Mailgun, we didn't need to try different hosts and experiment which one works best for emails. We can stick to our existing web hosting provider and would not need to change it just for the sake of improving email deliverability.
    • The pricing of Mailgun is very cheap and straightforward. First 10K emails are free every month and that's a big advantage for our organization because our volume of emails is rarely more than 10K per month.

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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