Brevo vs. Maxemail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Brevo
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, is the leading customer relationship management (CRM) suite designed to fully cultivate long-term customer relationships and to empower businesses to expand in a fast changing digital world. With Brevo, businesses have a unified view of the customer journey in one easy-to-use platform thanks to intuitive and scalable marketing and CRM tools such as Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Chat, Marketing Automation, Meetings, and much more.
$0
per month
Maxemail
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Maxemail is an email marketing solution built around features such as multivariate testing, ROI tracking, and split testing.N/A
Pricing
BrevoMaxemail
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
per month
Lite
$25
per month
Premium
$65
per month
Enterprise
Contact sales team
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrevoMaxemail
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSendinBlue pricing is based on the number of email messages sent, rather than the number of contacts you keep in your account. Try SendinBlue with a free account and send up to 9,000 emails per month (300 emails per day). As your business grows, you can upgrade to a plan that meets your needs without breaking the bank! Send up to 40,000 emails per month for just $7.37 -- or send even more emails at great prices.
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Features
BrevoMaxemail
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Brevo
7.9
182 Ratings
3% below category average
Maxemail
9.3
1 Ratings
13% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.4163 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Dynamic content8.0147 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.5141 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Landing pages6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing6.510 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.1161 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.4178 Ratings10.01 Ratings
List management8.5176 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.5100 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Brevo
7.7
174 Ratings
2% below category average
Maxemail
10.0
1 Ratings
24% above category average
Dashboards8.019 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Standard reports8.4173 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Custom reports6.810 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Brevo
8.9
114 Ratings
5% above category average
Maxemail
-
Ratings
Link Tracking8.9114 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BrevoMaxemail
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(202 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BrevoMaxemail
Likelihood to Recommend
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
Brevo is an excellent email subscriber service provider for startups, small businesses, and budget-conscious users. BUT it's real strength is that as your business scales, so too does Brevo's services. As mentioned in my review, when compared to over-hyped, and super-expensive AWeber, Brevo wins out in every singly department. Not every 1000, 10000, etc. sub list generates thousands in revenue. So why do other companies charge as if it's a large profitable corporation based on the sub number thresholds? Brevo is reasonably priced without sacrificing solid service. HIGHLY recommended.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
Maxemail is perfect for sending newsletters to customers, as well as triggered emails and lifecycle emails. It proves vast ability for you to use customer data to make rich personalisation, and gives excellent deliverability.
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Pros
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
  • Sendinblue allows you to send emails that do not arrive in spam
  • Sendinblue, through its security measures and filters, helps keep contact databases well organized and up to date
  • Sendinblue offers an easy-to-use newsletter creation tool and, in case of lack of inspiration, many templates
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Emailcenter UK Limited
  • Maxemail provides great customer service.
  • Maxemail has a very powerful platform with a lot of capabilities.
  • Maxemail does dynamic email building and personalisation very well and gives you tools to do incredible things.
  • Maxemail provides fantastic deliverability for our emails.
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Cons
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
  • not easy to move/duplicate sections. much easier to just drag and drop. still working this out.
  • don't like the logo or text included with the newsletter sign up form. have now upgraded, but think this should not be included for lower pricing plans
  • not getting issues completely answered by support team. currently have an issue with email sign up not working on mobile. have been told it is not working, but not given any suggestions on how to fix this.
  • have had unusual issue come up with a link. On 2 separate occasions, with 2 separate newsletters that went out, and 2 different images/articles/links, the link was wrong. Even though we checked it, previewed it and sent test email before we sent out these newsletters and these links were correct. It is the section at the bottom of our current newsletter. On both these occasions, when the customer has forwarded the email they received to us, the link was was to an old link - and it was the same old link on both occasions. We have asked for this to be looked into and are waiting on reply. We are going to try to delete this section this week and re-create. It is not a good look for us.
  • We have another issue with how our newsletter is previewing in Outlook. The images and the text are not lining up - not on every section, but on 2 sections out of the 5 sections. Also, the Read Full Article text in the button is not showing properly. Again, not a professional look for us which we are not happy with.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
  • Maxemail lacks a lot of the 'add-ons' companies like mailchimp and others provide - such as landing pages and Zapier integration - but they don't need these features really and the features they do have excel above and beyond other companies.
  • Maxemail user interface looks daunting and was hard to teach to some people.
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Likelihood to Renew
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
SendinBlue is providing an excellent value to my business by simplifying and speeding up the way that we interact with our customers
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Emailcenter UK Limited
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Usability
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
I am a web designer and systems admin. I have not found anything with this system that was hard to use. Other systems make it hard to do simple tasks and is very limiting. SendinBlue doesn't limit you.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
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Reliability and Availability
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
I have never had any planned outages in the time I have been using the software and have had no issues with accessing it.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
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Performance
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
Everything loads very quickly, it saves as you go along so you're unlikely to loose work if your computer fails. Reports are there immediately too so you're able to act quickly on customer engagement.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
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Support Rating
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
These people helped me identify errors when setting up DKIM and were more than helpful in trying to diagnose low open rates with a few campaigns identifying where improvement can be made and how to more effectively manage contact lists. The support is excellent.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
If you follow all the steps of the setup process they give you, any one can set this up in about 1 - 2 hours.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
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Alternatives Considered
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
I selected Sendinblue because my users and customers don't speak and read English, so the french version of an email solution was the best way to answer them. Since 2017, I always recommended Sendinblue to my customers and partners, even if they use another solution, I convert them and never go back again.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
Maxemail had the perfect blend of the features we needed with pricing that works for us and incredible customer service. They did not have pushy sales, just transparent quality.
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Scalability
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
They have multiple options for upgrading bigger senders or if you need more emails sent in a month.
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Emailcenter UK Limited
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Return on Investment
Brevo (Sendinblue, Inc)
  • The ROI has been very positive - We have been able to bring the entire process in-house to the marketing department
  • We are saving time and money by not involving outside contractors
  • We save resources by not involving I.T.
  • The amount of time we save by being able to create the email from concept to completion, all by one person, is astronomical.
  • We save some cost by using the Sendinblue stock image options
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Emailcenter UK Limited
  • Maxemail was more experienced than our previous provider but the additional cost is small compared to the much higher quality.
  • Maxemail has given us flexbility to try a lot of things that have improved our email metrics.
  • Maxemail's customer service is quick and responsive so saves us time trying to get things done.
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ScreenShots

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