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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mailmeteor

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AMailmeteor is an email marketing platform for Gmail, that provides a way to run mail merge campaigns so that each recipient gets a personalized email. Users can then send personalized emails with Gmail.

    $9.99

    per month 2000 emails per day

    Twilio SendGrid

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ATwilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber. Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by providing: MORE EFFICIENT EMAIL BUILDING The campaign building process is free from frustrating, rigid step-by-step wizards that slow users down. The vendor says…

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    MailmeteorTwilio SendGrid
    Editions & Modules
    Premium
    $9.99
    per month 2000 emails per day
    Pro
    $24.99
    per month 2000 emails per day
    Business
    $49.99
    per month 2000 emails per day
    Basic
    $15
    per month
    Advanced
    $60
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MailmeteorTwilio SendGrid
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    MailmeteorTwilio SendGrid
    Considered Both Products
    Mailmeteor
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    75%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    72%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    65%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    MailmeteorTwilio SendGrid
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Mailmeteor and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Mailmeteor
    9.1
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.8
    50 Ratings
    17% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor9.01 Ratings9.337 Ratings
    Dynamic content9.01 Ratings6.740 Ratings
    Landing pages8.01 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    A/B testing8.01 Ratings9.330 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting10.01 Ratings5.050 Ratings
    List management10.01 Ratings4.744 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences10.01 Ratings4.624 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings4.438 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.938 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Mailmeteor and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Mailmeteor
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.1
    50 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Dashboards10.01 Ratings4.748 Ratings
    Standard reports10.01 Ratings5.148 Ratings
    Custom reports10.01 Ratings8.631 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Mailmeteor and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Mailmeteor
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Twilio SendGrid
    8.2
    12 Ratings
    1% above category average
    URL Validation8.01 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Link Tracking10.01 Ratings7.512 Ratings
    Image Validation8.01 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Inbox Display10.01 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools10.01 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Spam Testing10.01 Ratings8.111 Ratings
    Email Previews10.01 Ratings9.112 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MailmeteorTwilio SendGrid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.7
    (61 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.9
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MailmeteorTwilio SendGrid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Mailmeteor
    I had problems sending and communicating to one hundred and fifty (150) clients. I was supposed to send them information about the ongoing migration and training for new suppliers for our new program. Since the emails and client information is a lot, I had to seek for help. That's where Mailmeteor came in, I was advised by a colleague and I have been using it ever since.
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    Twilio
    If you're prepared to build out your whole staff UX, audience creation, email production, and analytics on your own using API, this tool may have that flexibility. If you require a sturdy drag and drop production tool, this tool has it but at the expense of a lot of other critical functionality. Out of the box analytics/reporting, is extremely limited. Complex queries, even something like pulling those who haven't engaged in email within a certain time period, is clunky. If you require any support at all, this is not the tool for you. I'm a deliverability consultant and have used many of the top email marketing tools and SendGrid has been extremely difficult for my team. I do not recommend it. Shiny and bright during sales, pretty disappointing thereafter.
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    Pros
    Mailmeteor
    • Sending batch emails
    • Providing real time updates on the status of the communication sent
    • Provides analyzation on certain errors or glitches that is caused by the communication in progress
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    Twilio
    • Managing email lists / audiences is easy with features like groups and segments.
    • They provide pre-built email templates that are very easy to modify. It is also super easy to create new email templates with their drag-and-drop email builder.
    • Provides clear / easy-to-read analytics of email campaigns.
    • I can easily import large email contact lists all at once or add a user manually one-at-a-time, when needed.
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    Cons
    Mailmeteor
    • The website is too simple.
    • You need to accurately arrange email placement, won't accept separation as simple as "coma".
    • Though it may provide real time assessment on the status of the communication sent, most of the time especially when encountering errors, it doesn't provide exact info on what the errors were.
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    Twilio
    • Not necessarily their Email API but their email in general - they are currently in beta for automated email sequences but are still bare bones. Much more work is needed before it can be used mainstream and be able to convert everything to SendGrid.
    • Helping with warming up our dedicated IP for the best-sending score.
    • We seem to hit the promotions folder a decent amount (maybe the IP problem above) and even a lot of their emails hit my spam or promotions folder (whether they be transactional or marketing) which isn't a great sign when trusting an ESP.
    • Transactional email sequences would be a huge plus.
    • Now that Twilio owns SenGrid, having an integrated platform where you could see all our transactional emails together.
    • Better reporting and split reporting between transactional and marketing emails.
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    Usability
    Mailmeteor
    As mentioned, on a daily basis, communication serves a vital role though my job. That's why having a partner that could provide assistance with the task that makes most of my overall workload, keeps my mind at ease and will always provide a breeze in progress. In every milestone that we hit, truly Mailmeteor is part of it.
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    Twilio
    It is usable but needs improvement in overall user experience and ease of use. A new joinee/anyone new to the tool would need more tarining currently before he can use the platform seamlessly. The set-up to value realization time for Twilio SendGrid customers is generally high because of this concern.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Mailmeteor
    No answers on this topic
    Twilio
    Twilio SendGrid Email API is everything we want it to be, and we have no reason to look for any other solution. Features and pricing match exactly what we need. As developers for SaaS products, Twilio SendGrid Email API provides a great service. I hope that they stay this way and don't inflate the service with too many marketing oriented features, because there are other tools for that and Twilio SendGrid Email API is a API for sending email first and foremost.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Mailmeteor
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    Twilio
    Sendgrid has a lot of features that other providers have and a few more - like the dynamic template builder, which AWS SES doesn't have. We choose the provider based on the scenario of use and the provider we're using. If we're going to be making regular changes to a template, then we'd go with Sendgrid, as the changes will be easier to make and don't necessarily require developer intervention.
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    Return on Investment
    Mailmeteor
    • Ease of functionality
    • ROI
    • Speed in task progress
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    Twilio
    • As it was cheaper than the transactional service we previously used, it saved costs.
    • The API was relatively easy to work with so it helped us ship the service and test it quickly.
    • We still use the transactional email service, even though we recognize its limits as it meets our immediate needs.
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