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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Zoom Workplace

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AZoom Workplace, Zoom’s open collaboration platform with an AI Companion, empowers teams to be more productive, and strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle with Zoom’s Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center.

    $16.99

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Twilio SendGridZoom Workplace
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $15
    per month
    Advanced
    $60
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Add-On Zoom Translated Captions
    $5
    per month per license
    Pro
    $16.99
    per month per user
    Business
    $21.99
    per month per user
    Add-On - Conference Room Connector
    $499
    per year
    Basic
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Add-On - Zoom Whiteboard
    starting at $2.49
    per month per user
    Add-On - Large Meetings
    starting at $600
    per year
    Add-On - Cloud Storage
    starting at $120
    per year
    Add-On Audio Conferencing
    starting at $1200
    per year
    Add-On Zoom Phone Power Pack
    Starting at $300
    per year per user
    Add-On - Quality of Service Subscription
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Twilio SendGridZoom Workplace
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Twilio SendGridZoom Workplace
    Considered Both Products
    Twilio
    No answer on this topic
    Zoom
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    We selected Zoom mostly because of cost and reliability. We liked the features that Zoom provided, we thought it was the easiest interface for ourselves as well as first-time users who have ever used a screen sharing service to be comfortable with. We also liked how we can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    I've generally used Skype less and less over the years... the main reason to do so is that I find the other party uses a different system than me, but we both have Skype accounts. The address book that I've built over the years is probably the main reason that this app is …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    75%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    412 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    72%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    386 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    437 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    65%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    287 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    327 Answers
    Features
    Twilio SendGridZoom Workplace
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.8
    50 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Zoom Workplace
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor9.337 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.740 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content4.438 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing9.330 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.938 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting5.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management4.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences4.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.1
    50 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Zoom Workplace
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards4.648 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports5.148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.631 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    8.2
    12 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Zoom Workplace
    -
    Ratings
    URL Validation7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Tracking7.512 Ratings00 Ratings
    Image Validation8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inbox Display8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check8.19 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spam Testing8.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews9.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.5
    1006 Ratings
    1% above category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings8.9998 Ratings
    High quality video00 Ratings8.9998 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.7
    1006 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Desktop sharing00 Ratings9.31005 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.7
    1012 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings9.0923 Ratings
    Meeting initiation00 Ratings9.1986 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.2961 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.5
    874 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Live chat00 Ratings9.1856 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.9
    864 Ratings
    11% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings8.9755 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings8.7829 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.1
    236 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings8.3112 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings7.8141 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings8.3218 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.2
    264 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings8.5192 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings8.7240 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings7.8147 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings8.0165 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings8.2210 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging00 Ratings7.9135 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription00 Ratings7.9183 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.8
    297 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings8.8263 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings8.9181 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Twilio SendGrid and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    Twilio SendGrid
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.7
    249 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Centralized communications management00 Ratings8.9199 Ratings
    Team messaging00 Ratings8.9214 Ratings
    Team document sharing00 Ratings8.6193 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics00 Ratings8.5202 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Twilio SendGridZoom Workplace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.7
    (61 ratings)
    8.8
    (1070 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    4.9
    (8 ratings)
    9.5
    (46 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (9 ratings)
    6.4
    (46 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Twilio SendGridZoom Workplace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Zoom
    In most cases, and I mean almost all, Zoom is vastly superior to Teams in terms of functionality and ease of use. Case in point: I recently tried to join a Teams meeting in the web browser, and it took me multiple attempts to access it. This NEVER happens with a Zoom link.
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    Pros
    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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    Zoom
    • Audio quality of phone calls is spot on. Calls are clear and crisp.
    • Video quality of video meetings are clear and there aren't any pixelization artifacts that some systems can have.
    • Having AI summaries have been life changing for us. We no longer have to concentrate on note taking, like we did in the past. The summaries are accurate and enable us to put our efforts in the meeting or conversation. Plus, we can save them into our practice management system as required.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    • Love notes - allow insertion of table or grid
    • Allow admin to turn off DND
    • Allow a way to group individual people chats - not channels just individual peeps into groups for ease of finding - like how you can group shared calendars into sections in Outlook
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    We're sticking with Zoom for the foreseeable future--given its compelling feature set, ease of use, and advanced technology, there's just no other competition to be excited about. Plus it's a Gartner-recognized industry leader, so it's a rather easy choice.
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    Usability
    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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    Zoom
    Zoom is made for the non tech office. It has features that can be made to do what you need to run things on a day to day basis. Immediately we we able to get meetings going with remote employees. The ability to be able to add smartphone connected people was a big plus. Zoom met our needs at the time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    There have been less than a handful of outages during our two years with Zoom, and whenever there was one, an email informing us of the outage went out immediately, and they had the issue resolved shortly thereafter.
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    Performance
    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    Zoom has among the best performance of any video conference platform, as I've mentioned several times. Besides that, their Chat platform works great, and their back end always runs smooth. It's unfortunate that reporting can now only be done by one month at a time, but nonetheless, it only takes a second to run any kind of Zoom report, whether it's an attendee report, Poll results, a user report, a list of meetings from the past month, etc.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Zoom
    Because I got a response right away, and was assigned one specific individual to work with me from the beginning to the resolution. I had an actual email address and direct contact with this person without having to start over and over every time I contacted Zoom - this singular individual remained attentive and was well informed on the subject matter and quite able to resolve my needs.
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    Implementation Rating
    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    If you receive any pushback from higher ups, point to any of the various positive reviews like this one. Or show Zoom's excellent Gartner report, or articles describing Zoom's partnership with Sequoia capital. It's not difficult to show how Zoom is a trustworthy industry leader with best-in-class technology.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Zoom
    Zoom Workplace is typically on the more expensive end against other options, but it's the industry leader for a reason. It has the most brand credibility by far, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. There are limitations when it comes to technical performance, customization and video/audio quality. I prefer Slack myself for communication apps, but Zoom Workplace is a good alternative.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    The billing and price model is really fair for so many functions that they offer, our remote work requires each of the features that Zoom offers, so accepting payment for a tool like this is the least we can do. I like that billing arrives on time and that they offer opportunities and payment times.
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    Scalability
    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    Because the Basic licenses are completely free, and because it's very easy to configure and install Zoom, and because anyone can join Zoom from a link without needing an account, scaling is a Breeze. There are absolutely no roadblocks. My company keeps adding more Zoom Pro license every week since it's so in demand. We were able to convert users from several different platforms onto Zoom with no trouble at all.
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    Professional Services
    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    Zoom is perfect for our business. We use it to video chat with prospective clients. The name recognition alone gives us credibility and it is very easy to screen share and send content out.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Zoom
    • We have not lost much productivity in our teamwork during the pandemic because of the ability to have Zoom video calls and keep everyone in touch. This is definitely a positive.
    • We are able to have more people participate in coaching sessions (described earlier) because we don't have room space limitations. This is a big positive.
    • Being able to start a meeting instantly is great when we are doing support and/or training with a client over the phone and need to be able to share a visible
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Zoom Workplace Screenshots

    Screenshot of an example collaboration feature. These are used to:
Transcribe, summarize, and capture action items with AI Companion from your in-person meetings.
Improve visibility and alignment by sharing emails to chats
Elevate a chat to a meeting or phone call to get to resolution faster. 
Continue meeting conversations and easily access shared information in Team Chat.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's productivity features. These features are used to:
Improve productivity across teams, locations, and time zones.
Organize project deliverables and assets in a centralized, collaborative doc.
Collaborate and map out projects visually on a whiteboard.
Jumpstart brainstorming sessions using AI and templates.
Gather valuable team input for well-informed decision-making with surveys and polls.
Stay on top of action items surfaced from across Zoom Workplace.Screenshot of some additional collaboration features. These are used to:
Optimize office experiences and in-person time.
Make sure remote participants feel connected with what is going on in the room.
Collaborate across remote and in-person teams on a virtual whiteboard.
Easily know and identify who is in the room and who is speaking in a Zoom Room with smart name tags and smart speaker tags.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's AI companion. This feature is used to streamline communications, improve productivity, increase employee engagement, and optimize flexible work.Screenshot of additional AI Companion features. The tools is also used to:
Launch internal campaigns.
Deliver visually rich updates with live streams, billboards, and videos.
Ensure critical comms are never missed with read receipts.
Send updates to deskless workers with Workvivo TV and Chat.