Lob vs. PostGrid Address Verification

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lob
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Lob in San Francisco provides the building blocks for developers to automate offline correspondences. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. Lob also provides insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and a proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country.
$260
per month 3 users & Up to 3,000 monthly mailings
PostGrid Address Verification
Score 10.0 out of 10
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PostGrid Address Verification API and platform allows companies to verify, validate, standardize, autocomplete and parse postal addresses globally across 245+ countries. The service cleans data along with a lot of other metadata into the user's system. It can be used on a website or a custom application to get more accurate and clean data.N/A
Pricing
LobPostGrid Address Verification
Editions & Modules
Startup Plan
$260
per month 3 users & Up to 3,000 monthly mailings
Growth Plan
$550
per month 5 users & Up to 6,000 monthly mailings
Developer Plan
Free
1 user & Up to 500 monthly mailings
Enterprise Plan
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LobPostGrid Address Verification
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
LobPostGrid Address Verification
Considered Both Products
Lob
Chose Lob
Mainly for the post-pay feature. This was a big jump for us in month-end reconciliation and our accounting team as well as our Marketing Ops Manager are forever grateful.
Chose Lob
Easier to use APIs. Faster time to market.
Chose Lob
Lob integrates like a SaaS company. PFL has limited technical integration. Lob allows us to scale through the same technical integration. Everything is self serve with Lob while it seems everything at PFL requires some interaction with a human.
Chose Lob
Root keeps Lob because it is already deeply integrated into our systems, and replacing it would require significant engineering effort with limited expected cost savings. As well as the unknowns that come with other options, switching vendors would likely require a significant …
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Abbott. Lob is way more user-friendly and reliable.
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OCW is cheaper and better suited for our product
Chose Lob
lob has a more overall greater pricing and apis and their costumer service is very easy to deal with
Chose Lob
LOB was one of the most affordable options when searching for alternatives. They've performed well to date as well.
PostGrid Address Verification
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Score 9.0 out of 10

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Enterprises
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User Ratings
LobPostGrid Address Verification
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
6.8
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Usability
7.5
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Availability
8.2
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Performance
8.2
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Support Rating
7.3
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Configurability
7.3
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Ease of integration
8.1
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Product Scalability
8.2
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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User Testimonials
LobPostGrid Address Verification
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great for low-cost, high-volume mail campaigns for our agents. The price is very reasonable, and they can send out a lot. Once the design is approved and they send a list, we handle it, then Lob. When we have agents who want to handwrite the addresses, we choose someone else (a local print shop) to print and send them to our agents.
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PostGrid Address Verification is good for teams that does address verification regularly or if you want to batch clean your customer address data in a single go. We do it daily basis so it works out quite well for us. We didn't need to implement anything as our product team was able to verify data quickly by watching tutorial videos.
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Pros
  • Address Verification and NCOA Cleaning
  • Autocomplete for our forms that allow a user to SKIP typing
  • Printing and mailing documents automatically over API
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  • Address validation
  • Address automcomplete
  • Bulk address validation
  • Address verification api
  • address validation api
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Cons
  • An automatically scheduled data export would be nice.
  • Functions such as adding or editing bank accounts, updating check details, and querying data require knowledge of the specific code and API infrastructure. It would be nice to do these things without being an engineer trained in their specific interface language.
  • They reduced their retention period on their interface to like 3 months, which is not ideal.
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  • Zip code search for us
  • giving distance between addresses
  • nothing else
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Likelihood to Renew
will continue to use for specific mailing requirements
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Usability
I am rating it a 9 because even though there is a strong learning curve once you have an understanding of the platform it is very powerful. You are able to fully automate and run a multitude of tests at scale and because of that I believe the usability is quite strong
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Reliability and Availability
i never witnessed a problem with lob
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Performance
perfect except from a minor tracking options missed
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Support Rating
good support, not many examples I can think of
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Implementation Rating
didn't participate but as for my information it was smooth
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Alternatives Considered
Root keeps Lob because it is already deeply integrated into our systems, and replacing it would require significant engineering effort with limited expected cost savings. As well as the unknowns that come with other options, switching vendors would likely require a significant multi-quarter effort without clear cost savings or efficiency gains.
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Reliable, premium address data
Advanced geocoding features
Outstanding API uptime
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Scalability
it will scale very well if its for saas companies
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Return on Investment
  • The hard part is that the agents mostly see the returns over us, so I don't know the specific numbers.
  • Some agents have great responses; others not as much. Or they get 75% of their mailers returned, and we don't know why.
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  • Better quality data
  • Reduce form abandonment
  • Increase form completion
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ScreenShots

Lob Screenshots

Screenshot of Lob's available integrations, that include CRM, CDP or marketing automation tools.Screenshot of Lob Analytics. These demonstrate the value of every send and find winning strategies with advanced analytics.Screenshot of Lob Template Gallery. This includes professionally designed templates optimized by a team of experts.Screenshot of Lob analytics dashboard shows trackable events from direct mail campaigns.

PostGrid Address Verification Screenshots

Screenshot of resources such as developer guides, and API documentation.Screenshot of Usage metrics on the number of addresses validated and the number of API calls with a reporting dashboardScreenshot of Instant suggestions to auto-complete the addresses with the relevant details like correct Address, Street, and Postal Codes/Zipcodes and eliminate bad data entry.Screenshot of Search, Standardize, and validate addresses of more than 245 countries and territories with PostGrid's Address Validation API.Screenshot of PostGrid's bulk address verification helps validate, standardize, & correct addresses. Upload & verify CSV lists of global addresses via its dashboard or API.Screenshot of