ContactPigeon vs Pardot

What users are saying about

Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 5 reviews and ratings

Score 7.7 out of 10

Based on 783 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Email & Online Marketing

ContactPigeon

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.7

Pardot

77%

Pardot ranks higher in 9/9 features

WYSIWYG email editor

N/A

0 Ratings

6.8

68%

87 Ratings

Dynamic content

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

78 Ratings

Ability to test dynamic content

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

75 Ratings

Landing pages

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

86 Ratings

A/B testing

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

79 Ratings

Mobile optimization

N/A

0 Ratings

7.3

73%

75 Ratings

Email deliverability reporting

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

177 Ratings

List management

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

90 Ratings

Triggered drip sequences

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

61 Ratings

Lead Management

ContactPigeon

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.4

Pardot

74%

Pardot ranks higher in 4/4 features

Lead nurturing

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

72%

83 Ratings

Lead scoring and grading

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

84 Ratings

Data quality management

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

70%

84 Ratings

Automated sales alerts and tasks

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

79 Ratings

Campaign Management

ContactPigeon

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.7

Pardot

77%

Pardot ranks higher in 2/2 features

Calendaring

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

74 Ratings

Event/webinar marketing

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

71 Ratings

Social Media Marketing

ContactPigeon

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.0

Pardot

70%

Pardot ranks higher in 2/2 features

Social sharing and campaigns

N/A

0 Ratings

6.5

65%

62 Ratings

Social profile integration

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

21 Ratings

Reporting & Analytics

ContactPigeon

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.0

Pardot

70%

Pardot ranks higher in 3/3 features

Dashboards

N/A

0 Ratings

7.1

71%

85 Ratings

Standard reports

N/A

0 Ratings

6.8

68%

88 Ratings

Custom reports

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

70%

66 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

ContactPigeon

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.5

Pardot

75%

Pardot ranks higher in 6/6 features

API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.3

73%

64 Ratings

Role-based workflow & approvals

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

70%

60 Ratings

Customizability

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

72%

80 Ratings

Integration with Salesforce.com

N/A

0 Ratings

9.4

94%

81 Ratings

Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

3 Ratings

Integration with SugarCRM

N/A

0 Ratings

5.4

54%

4 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

ContactPigeon is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew, Support Rating

ContactPigeon

91%

3 Ratings

7.6

Pardot

76%

148 Ratings

ContactPigeon

91%

1 Rating

1.4

Pardot

14%

86 Ratings

ContactPigeon

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

Pardot

85%

17 Ratings

ContactPigeon

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

Pardot

75%

16 Ratings

ContactPigeon

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

Pardot

83%

10 Ratings

ContactPigeon

91%

1 Rating

6.4

Pardot

64%

28 Ratings

ContactPigeon

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

Pardot

90%

3 Ratings

ContactPigeon

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

Pardot

81%

7 Ratings

ContactPigeon

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

Pardot

82%

22 Ratings

Pros

Customized newsletters with segmentations to target specific customers according to their visits in our website.
Landing pages, with [graphics] we create. It creates a special link for every campaign/landing page for use in our advertisements.
Pop ups in site. [We] can have pop ups in every page of our site. [We] want [this] in order to inform our customers for extra [discounts] [or] [gifts].

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Verified User

Project Manager in Marketing

Pharmaceuticals Company, 11-50 employees

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Pardot enables you to set up different environments via the Pardot Business Unit feature, this is helpful for when decentralization is still needed, but you want all business units working with the same tool.
Pardot enables you to quickly and easily create automation rules that can clean the database retro-actively.
Pardot has the ability to have multiple lead scoring models run at the same time.

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Robert Nagelmaker

Marketing Automation Specialist

Wolters KluwerInformation Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

The UI is too complex sometimes (hopefully their support is always there for us!)

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Apostolis Lianos

eCommerce Manager

tetragonobookstores.grRetail, 11-50 employees

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Email templates and drafts are really confusing. I trained various people to create their own templates, but they consistently got confused between publishing a template or just saving a draft, and where they needed to go back to find it.
Their help process is broken, at least for our particular use case. Because we have an enterprise license for Salesforce (even though we had a separate license for Pardot) whenever I needed help with something, I'd get stuck down a rabbit hole and couldn't submit a ticket.

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Verified User

Manager in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

$198 per month/billed annually

ContactPigeon Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard	$198.00¹
Pro	$385.00¹
Enterprise	$980.00¹

per month/billed annually

Additional Pricing Details

—

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$1,250 per month

Pardot Editions & Modules

Edition

Growth	$1,250¹
Plus	$2,500¹
Advanced	$4,000¹
Premium	$15,000¹

/month/up to 10,000 contacts billed annually

Additional Pricing Details

Salesforce Engage, an additional offering for sales and marketing alignment, is priced at $50 per month per user.

Likelihood to Renew

ContactPigeon 9.1

Based on 1 answer

I am absolutely happy with their services. For any problem or idea that arises, the support team is there to provide solutions, advise, and even write code for the website.

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Makis Paraskevopoulos

Digital Content Manager

TraumacareHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees

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Pardot 1.4

Based on 86 answers

As of right now we have not seen any other program that integrates as seamlessly into our Salesforce platform. We have barely scratched the surface of all the features and use cases. It would be irresponsible to make a move to another platform in the near future. We have not come up against any limitations that would prompt a need to switch

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Karol Clark

Marketing Manager

Soilworks, LLC - Soil Stabilization & Dust ControlEnvironmental Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Pardot 8.5

Based on 17 answers

The system has so many features that it does take a while to get spun up on what they all do and how they interact with each other. Once you dedicate the time to training to reach that crucial level of understanding however, it is easy to creatively apply the varied functionality of the program to address issues that would have previously seemed to mandate the use of another system.

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Marshall Darr

Sales Optimization Specialist

Stock & Option Solutions51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Pardot 7.5

Based on 16 answers

There have been a couple of service incidents over the past few months. I'm not sure if it has to do with Pardot integrating their infrastructure with ExactTarget. However, they responded well with proactive communication and a debrief as to what happened.

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Pam Risch

Lumina MarketingComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Pardot 8.3

Based on 10 answers

Though the make up of MA apps is not built this way today, it would be nice to see them become more real-time. The integration between Salesforce and Pardot is not a true real-time integration. If I modify something in Salesforce, those changes are not automatically reflected in Pardot immediately. There is a delay of about 15 minutes before the systems sync. This delay, although not long, is less than ideal We would love the systems to be integrated real time such that changes are propagated from one system to the other immediately.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

ContactPigeon 9.1

Based on 1 answer

It is honestly the best support team I've ever seen, always ready and willing to help.

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Makis Paraskevopoulos

Digital Content Manager

TraumacareHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees

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Pardot 6.4

Based on 28 answers

Pardot support is tremendous. The knowledge base and in-application targeted help articles and videos are thorough and straightforward. If those don't do it, Pardot has office hours every business day with members of the team available to answer anything. I've called twice and they are incredibly helpful.

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Verified User

Administrator in Marketing

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Pardot 9.0

Based on 3 answers

The trainers at the Pardot user conference (Elevate and Connections) were very knowledgeable and presented the material well. Again, the content was targeted to more of a new user audience, and was not really relevant for folks who had been using the product for 2+ years.

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Pam Risch

Lumina MarketingComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Pardot 8.1

Based on 7 answers

Pardot's online training touches on all topics briefly and vaguely without much indepth exploration into how a final outcome could look, such as Nurturing Campaigns, Email templates, landing page templates, etc...The only true way to uncover Pardot's full capabilities is to have Front End design and coding experience. Without this key skill set, I would not recommend Pardot to another business.

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Sean Marsh

Digital Business Developer

Quarsh CreativeComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Pardot 8.2

Based on 22 answers

Love the tool, so much easier to see what our visitors are doing, creating campaigns etc. One recommendation about forms in campaigns etc is to make sure the form is not shared between countries. To send out notifications to responsible, you should have one form per country or question.

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Anna Johansson

Web- & Community Manager

IFS in ScandinaviaInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

[I] haven't used other [products].

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Verified User

Project Manager in Marketing

Pharmaceuticals Company, 11-50 employees

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We moved from Act-On to Pardot almost a year ago. The way Pardot integrates with Salesforce and is able to report on the communications really drew us to change. We enjoyed the customization of the emails and the easier set up of the emails. Both products are similar but as stated, the reporting and processes were positive to my organization. The upside of Act-On is the ability to make lists and learn the system on your own. Pardot requires much more training on the front end.

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Danielle Armour

Development Manager- Corporate Partnerships

Young Survival CoalitionNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

25% growth in Email orders (YoY).
Higher open rates up to +46%.

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Apostolis Lianos

eCommerce Manager

tetragonobookstores.grRetail, 11-50 employees

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We spent several months and lots of money working with a outside integration partner, only to find out the journey we were trying to automate couldn't really be done and was better suited for Marketing Cloud. We ended up cancelling and switching to Marketing Cloud.

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Verified User

Director in Marketing

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pardot

WYSIWYG email editor

Dynamic content

Ability to test dynamic content

Landing pages

A/B testing

Mobile optimization

Email deliverability reporting

List management

Triggered drip sequences

ContactPigeon

Pardot

Lead nurturing

Lead scoring and grading

Data quality management

Automated sales alerts and tasks

ContactPigeon

Pardot

Calendaring

Event/webinar marketing

ContactPigeon

Pardot

Social sharing and campaigns

Social profile integration

ContactPigeon

Pardot

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

ContactPigeon

Pardot

API

Role-based workflow & approvals

Customizability

Integration with Salesforce.com

Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Integration with SugarCRM

ContactPigeon

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Likelihood to Recommend

ContactPigeon

Pardot

Pros

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Pardot

Cons

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Pardot

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

ContactPigeon Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version