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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SparkPost (discontinued)

    Score2.8 out of 10
    N/ASparkPost offered real-time analysis of email delivery and customer engagement as well as personalized email templates. The service has been discontinued.

    $30

    per month

    Tidio

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ATidio is a live chat app powered by a chatbot and that comes with mailing features.

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    SparkPost (discontinued)Tidio
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $30
    per month
    Premier
    $75
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Free
    $0
    life time
    Starter
    $29
    per month
    Growth
    $59
    per month
    Plus
    $749
    per month
    Premium
    $2999
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SparkPost (discontinued)Tidio
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All plans come with a 7-day free trial, no credit card required. Additional addons and upgrades available.
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    User Ratings
    SparkPost (discontinued)Tidio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    SparkPost (discontinued)Tidio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Our early experiences with SparkPost were great; we were looking for a low-cost (or no-cost) solution to our email messaging needs, and SparkPost had the best low-cost option: 100,000 messages per month for free, guaranteed for life. Even though our team has experience with other APIs, we chose SparkPost because it felt like the best value. Our experience with it was great. Two years ago, they discontinued their free option but sent the existing users the following message: "When you signed up, we promised that if we ever changed the terms of our 100K free plan, we would continue to honor the original plan for the life of the account. I would like to reaffirm this promise: while this plan is no longer available to new customers, you are grandfathered into this level of free sending volume." The following year, apparently following a change in leadership, they decided to "deprecate" existing free plans, dropping us down from 100,000 messages per month to 500, the lowest of any email API service I'm aware of. No recognition of the broken promise, the reneged guarantee, just a 20% off coupon. This atrocious behavior that reeks of a new culture of squeezing as much money as possible out of its users and has coincided with a steady deterioration of functionality and customer service. At this point, I have no idea why anyone would pay more for a worse service that treats its users so poorly when you could use SendGrid or a similar competitor for a lower price and way more features.
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    Tidio
    Tidio is well suited for businesses who want to chat with their site visitors in real time. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the user experience on the visitor side is great as well. Perfect for installing on a marketing site, proprietary portal, and more. Can set up an after hours bot to help triage requests from clients and prospective clients when you are back in office.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • When you don't want to spent time writing your own code to send emails from your apps
    • When you're looking for a product which provides all that you need regarding email features to make it part of your software
    • When you want to use a product which includes templates that can be re-used instead of writing your own and all the required effort to do that
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    Tidio
    • Very intuitive interface and management.
    • Scalable plans that don't require me to purchase features I don't need.
    • Super simple chat bot administration.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • When I first implemented SparkPost, I did not take advantage of the sub-account feature, and my account was suspended on New Year's Eve. It took two days until I could speak with a support representative to get my account re-activated. I am now using sub-accounts to alleviate the underlying problem, but I was disappointed that my account was suspended by an automated system with no notice.
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    Tidio
    • Unable to ban visitors by site referrer (spam sites)
    • Chatbot conditional logic could be a bit simpler/cleaner
    • Occasional issues with the desktop app (in browser never gives us trouble though)
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Would give it a zero if I could. Their customer service used to be incredible; fast response times, really hands-on with their users, and a pretty regular feedback process. They sent me an awesome t-shirt that became part of my go-to climbing gear. But for the past year, their response times went way down, their customer service was less helpful and generally a lot more rude, and they haven't asked for customer input once since their leadership change
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    Tidio
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    Mailchimp and sendgrid are giving good services and good customer support 24/7 and ROI is increased with this as transition is very smooth. SparkPost is very expensive and not good as much as we think and they will least worried about your mails, tickets, call and messages. Highly not recommended this SparkPost to any one
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    Tidio
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • It has helped us with our IP health and making sure that we avoid spam traps
    • Very high deliverability and automatic retrying once they have the event
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    Tidio
    • Helped us get new deals from site visitors
    • Helped us get renewals from current clients
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