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Braze vs mParticle comparison

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Braze
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Marketing and Advertising (3rd)
mParticle
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Braze and mParticle aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Braze is designed for Mobile Marketing and Advertising and holds a mindshare of 11.2%, down 27.0% compared to last year.
mParticle, on the other hand, focuses on Customer Data Platforms (CDP), holds 4.5% mindshare, up 2.9% since last year.
Mobile Marketing and Advertising Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Braze11.2%
Leanplum9.9%
CleverTap8.6%
Other70.3%
Mobile Marketing and Advertising
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
mParticle4.5%
Segment9.9%
Treasure Data5.1%
Other80.5%
Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
 

Featured Reviews

Steven Pearson - PeerSpot reviewer
CRM Manager at Monument Bank
Unified customer profiles have powered automated journeys and precise data driven campaigns
I found the platform excellent for having unified customer profiles, which I believe is one of the biggest selling points of Braze because it allows you to know your customer in a single profile card. The ease with which you can add new attributes and events and neatly package values underneath is impressive. In banking, we pushed clients towards different types of banking rates and tiers, which has me always wanting to return, leading to a lot of qualifications and certificates because I enjoy the platform so much and want to engage with it further down my career. Braze's best features, for me, are the unified profile cards, along with the ease of connecting different channels, including email as a focus, plus push notifications and extending that to things to in-app messages, content cards, and SMS. That connection is felt immediately upon onboarding with Braze, as the ease of use and the sophisticated UI design allows marketers or automation specialists such as me to do amazing things quickly and intuitively. Braze's analytics side is another interesting part, as it allows you to slice campaigns and different tests that you were running very easily, unlike other platforms I have used, such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, which often requires workarounds for information. With Braze, the friendly UI enables you to download large volumes of data about your customers and understand campaign performance and why people reacted as they did. Braze's campaign feature is also essential for experts using automation or large-scale segmentation, and the campaign execution side is very intuitive, allowing for slick A/B testing and accurate conversion goal setup.
Mayank Gambhir - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Success Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
Unified user data has powered accurate journeys and reduces data firefighting for complex campaigns
Identity resolution plus the data governance together make the biggest difference for my clients. If I have to pick one, identity resolution, and immediately tie to it governance, then it makes the most sense. Why this matters the most in fintech is that fintech majorly deals with the log out, logged in journeys, phone number, email ID, customer ID, device ID, KYC, compliance, risk flags, cross-device usage for web and application. Without strong identity resolution, the same user would appear multiple times, and users would get wrong messages. Compliance risk increases, and life cycle journeys would break. This is a daily pain for them. Before mParticle, there wasn't much of a real impact. But after mParticle, we have one unified user profile with the correct life cycle stage for pre-KYC, KYC done, funded, and they are in the transacting mode right now. Reliable segmentation in MoEngage would be the third benefit. For us, there would be fewer daily escalations regarding the data. There is a steep learning curve for non-technical teams. The pain point here is that mParticle is very powerful but not a very marketer-friendly tool right now. Marketing teams would still rely heavily on the data teams and engineers for changing or explanations. Since clients sometimes feel that mParticle requires strong technical support, especially for marketing teams trying to understand data behavior, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying that it's technical by design. Another point would be limited self-serve visibility for marketers again. The marketers would want easier previews of what data will reach MoEngage. I'm specifically talking in terms of integration with MoEngage because that is where I have put all my work for the past few years. Clients often want more self-serve visibility into the downstream data impact without needing to involve data teams. Documentation is actually very strong, and it's not very technical, which is what clients liked. It's very detailed and accurate documentation. It majorly has clear coverage of SDKs, event structures, and identity concepts. It's very reliable when the engineering teams use it. It's very thorough and technically solid. Where it could improve is that it's very dense, again technical, and it's hard for marketers and operations teams to consume. The biggest point would be that there are very few business context examples. Clients sometimes struggle because the documentation is very technical and could benefit from more business-oriented examples and use case-driven guides.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Braze is an excellent tool that covers my main use case."
"Braze's best features, for me, are the unified profile cards, along with the ease of connecting different channels, including email as a focus, plus push notifications and extending that to things to in-app messages, content cards, and SMS."
"mParticle helps to target audiences accurately based on what we have triggered, and it is very useful for triggering audiences."
"mParticle has had a very positive impact on my organization by centralizing event collection and enforcing data governance."
"mParticle is good, and we are pleased to have it on our side."
"In summary, mParticle improved outcomes by making MoEngage campaigns more accurate, helped us trigger more reliably, and made teams faster and more confident by creating trust in the data."
"mParticle significantly reduces the data relation friction for both my clients and me; for clients, it ensures clean, unified, and compliant data reaches MoEngage, and for me, as a CSM for them, it reduces firefighting, makes campaign behavior more predictable, and allows me to focus more on strategy and outcomes rather than debugging all the problems for them."
 

Cons

"Braze could improve the data analysis capabilities."
"mParticle's biggest opportunity is improving time to value and business visibility for non-technical teams."
"There is a steep learning curve for non-technical teams."
"mParticle can be improved as it is somewhat complicated for non-technical users, though it is totally easy to use for technical users."
"mParticle can be improved in showing the event counts; currently, it only displays counts by hour, and I would find it beneficial to add a feature that indicates the exact minute the event is received."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
19%
Real Estate/Law Firm
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Braze?
Overall, the pricing structure and licensing for Braze were positive, as it is cheaper than some competitors while providing greater value. There was some back and forth around legal sign-off regar...
What needs improvement with Braze?
I think Braze could probably be improved by having more access options for users who have previously engaged with the platform to keep them invested and wanting to return. I do not have too much to...
What is your primary use case for Braze?
My main use case for Braze is automation, as I have always been interested in automation. Braze was the tool we used to send customer lifecycle journeys, trigger and run one-off campaign sends, mos...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for mParticle?
I was not part of the team that dealt with pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Another team handled that, and I was not part of that team. I only used mParticle for audience triggering.
What needs improvement with mParticle?
mParticle can be improved as it is somewhat complicated for non-technical users, though it is totally easy to use for technical users. Data plans, identity rules, and routing logic can be complex f...
What is your primary use case for mParticle?
I use mParticle for centralized data collection and governance to collect events and send this to analytics and marketing platforms, creating a single place that significantly reduces data inconsis...
 

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