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Amplitude vs Braze comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amplitude
Ranking in Mobile Marketing and Advertising
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Customer Data Analysis (1st), Web Analytics (1st), User Activity Monitoring (5th), AI Data Analysis (10th), AI Customer Experience Personalization (10th)
Braze
Ranking in Mobile Marketing and Advertising
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Mobile Marketing and Advertising category, the mindshare of Amplitude is 7.9%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Braze is 17.6%, down from 22.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile Marketing and Advertising Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Braze17.6%
Amplitude7.9%
Other74.5%
Mobile Marketing and Advertising
 

Featured Reviews

Saurav Bhattacharjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Analyst at Arcteryx
Empowers teams to build visualization-rich reports and make faster decisions using historical user behavior data
I think areas for Amplitude's improvement include data retention. The maximum data I have worked with, the clickstream data on Amplitude, is two years, whereas we rely on Tableau for historical data of at least two years. I am not sure whether it was my organization paying for lower retention or not, but having historical data would take away the reliance on Tableau. Secondly, reconciling clickstream data with Databricks or other AWS systems could help analysts spend less time verifying the accuracy of both sources, which would be really helpful. Lastly, a more focused approach on error logs is necessary. I have found that, at least with Intuit, we used Splunk more for error logs than Amplitude. Although Amplitude had the capability, developers seemed to prefer Splunk, so if that could be improved, it would be good.
Bhargavi Doddi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Engineering at Fox Corporation
Centralized journeys have streamlined multi-channel customer engagement and personalization
Overall, my experience with Braze has been very positive. If I had to mention areas for improvement, I would say the number of campaigns, canvas segments, and channel growth can become challenging to manage and organize. I would also like to see more flexibility around reporting and analytics, especially being able to easily combine cross-channel data and customize reports without relying on additional data from outside of Braze or data platform teams. Braze has been improving its reporting capabilities, and new reporting and dashboard features are definitely moving in the right direction. Additionally, making complex journeys easier to troubleshoot and maintain would be beneficial. When large canvases have multiple branches and conditions, having strong visibility into why a customer took a particular path would ease things for engineering and marketing teams. There is also a limitation regarding making the platform easier to manage at an enterprise scale, especially with a growing number of campaigns since Braze does not have features such as folders for organization. Regarding improvements, Braze's technical support is excellent, but I see areas where the experience could be smoother. On integration, Braze has a strong set of pre-built integrations and APIs; however, for some complex enterprise systems, integration can require engineering effort. More out-of-the-box connectors and simpler configurations would definitely help. From a UI perspective, while the platform is powerful, navigating and troubleshooting can take time with a large number of campaigns and complex canvases. Apart from that, I find the support extremely helpful overall, so I would not say there are major gaps, just opportunities for making this already strong platform easier to manage at scale. One area I would like to see improvement in is the visibility and troubleshooting experience. When running large-scale campaigns across multiple channels, more detailed end-to-end visibility on user interactions would be helpful, such as tracking when a particular user enters or exits a canvas or whether an issue occurs. I would also like to see ongoing improvements in reporting, particularly making it easier to connect campaign performance to our broader business metrics without extra engineering work. As Braze adds more AI capabilities, I see an opportunity to leverage AI not just for content creation but also for troubleshooting, identifying campaign issues, and explaining performance trends. This would save a significant amount of time for both the marketing and engineering teams.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Amplitude has impacted my organization positively in a huge way, as everyone uses it to gain insights into user behavior before implementing new features, which leads to massive positive change, data-driven development, lots of learning, and encouragement to use Amplitude in daily work for everyone in the company, not just analysts."
"Amplitude is a perfect product that will always fulfill all the data-related needs that your company has, and I would suggest anyone to go for it."
"Having accessible data which can be easily customized and manipulated by even business stakeholders with less technical knowledge is one of the best things."
"I loved using Amplitude because it allowed me to dive deep into product usage and analyze different customer segments."
"Amplitude has provided almost instant value to our dev team when they are deploying new trackable events and seeing how those events line up before they go out to production."
"Amplitude has positively impacted my organization as it allows us to make decisions based on data and iterate faster."
"Amplitude offers flexibility in real-time data analysis, allowing users to make immediate decisions."
"Thanks to the Amplitude dashboard, we could access all the proper data, and regardless of which team or which part, all teams' decision-making became based on the data extracted by Amplitude, which contributed to a positive data-driven cultural movement."
"I love Braze for their retargeting and automation because their automation tracks down user behavior in near real-time, allowing us to convert users based on their trigger actions."
"Overall, the combination of cross-channel orchestration, real-time triggers, personalization, and experimentation makes Braze very powerful for our marketing use cases and positively fits our organization."
"Thanks to Braze, I could make proper CRM scenarios and campaigns where everyone can directly understand the circumstance just from the campaign structures."
"The biggest positive impact has been making marketing, CRM, and lifecycle marketing more targeted and scalable."
"Braze has had a positive impact on my organization in that a lot of things which required some amount of technical effort previously can now be streamlined by the marketers, making marketers more agnostic and self-served, which has been the biggest impact."
"Segmentation is one of the best features Braze offers in my opinion, along with the ability to utilize the tool in building drip campaigns, drip campaigns off of existing campaigns, and then being able to leverage or pull levers based on real-time metrics."
"With Braze, it is now really more drag and drop, and marketing managers have the autonomy to create all these campaigns, reducing the time needed from a full week to just two to three days, which makes the work much easier."
"Now that I am very versed in Braze, I would definitely lean towards Braze as my preferred tool for its design capabilities, personalization features, ease of use, A/B testing, intelligent timing, and real-time engagement testing."
 

Cons

"Amplitude could be improved by being cheaper."
"Setting up reports in Amplitude was challenging for me as a newer user."
"Amplitude is almost perfect, but there are some charts I cannot create due to the large data structure."
"I think areas for Amplitude's improvement include data retention. The maximum data I have worked with, the clickstream data on Amplitude, is two years, whereas we rely on Tableau for historical data of at least two years."
"We have seen tagging issues with Amplitude in rare scenarios, which can be improved."
"The free features in Amplitude Analytics need enhancement."
"I give it a nine because it is close to a perfect ten for me, but it is only useful in one layer of the project, not the other, which the tool is supposed to do."
"Regarding how Amplitude can be improved, I think that dashboards and charts are ephemeral; people often create dashboards but rarely revisit them, so while a handful of dashboards might survive, the real value lies in the insight derived from them."
"Braze can be improved in areas where I felt it was lacking. I emphasize that this was four years ago, so perhaps it has changed in the meantime."
"Braze could improve the use of AI agents in the tool, as we currently have AI only in a few features such as copywriting, but we cannot build journeys with an AI agent supporting the process."
"I am not sure if this is a natural characteristic of CRM tools, but onboarding Braze into an organization requires significantly more effort."
"The drag-and-drop function was expected to be more understandable and easier to implement, but it turns out to be quite technical, making it difficult for marketing managers to develop components by themselves."
"If I had to mention areas for improvement, I would say the number of campaigns, canvas segments, and channel growth can become challenging to manage and organize."
"Given the higher price than other tools, we would expect in that case the tool to be very fluent, one hundred percent perfect, with no bugs and no latency, and that is not always the case."
"Braze needs to provide local support, especially for Indonesia, so we can discuss local context more effectively."
"Currently, I find that the AI decisioning features, particularly the churn model prediction, are underrated and could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is a little on the higher end, especially when considering scalability."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Insurance Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Media Company
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amplitude?
Amplitude can be improved by allowing more than a two-year look back window for most analyses. Usually, all they offer is that two-year look back window, and longer form time series analysis seems ...
What is your primary use case for Amplitude?
Amplitude is our main product insights system, and it allows us to view the activity on our website and quantify certain KPIs about how users interact with the site. We measure things such as month...
What advice do you have for others considering Amplitude?
I chose a rating of nine out of ten because Amplitude has virtually every functionality that we need except for the aforementioned lack of long form time series analysis, and their pricing is often...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Braze?
I do not have much to say about the pricing, setup cost, and licensing, except that it was not a decision-maker for me. However, I know that both Braze and CrossFit spent a significant amount on Br...
What needs improvement with Braze?
I did not find anything significant that needed to be improved about Braze, but perhaps making it easier to have linear journeys instead of building just three or four would be beneficial. Anything...
What is your primary use case for Braze?
My main use case for Braze is as a CRM strategist and previously a CRM campaign manager, where we had a team, so it was basically just quality assuring everything, occasionally using Canvas, buildi...
 

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