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Braze vs Salesforce Marketing Cloud comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Braze
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Marketing and Advertising (1st)
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Social CRM (3rd), Marketing Automation (1st), Marketing Management (1st), Social Media Management Solutions (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Braze and Salesforce Marketing Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Braze is designed for Mobile Marketing and Advertising and holds a mindshare of 20.5%, down 22.2% compared to last year.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Social CRM, holds 6.3% mindshare, down 7.3% since last year.
Mobile Marketing and Advertising Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Braze20.5%
Amplitude8.1%
Leanplum7.8%
Other63.6%
Mobile Marketing and Advertising
Social CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Marketing Cloud6.3%
HootSuite13.7%
Sprout Social9.7%
Other70.3%
Social CRM
 

Featured Reviews

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.
GauravSingh2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Targeted email journeys have boosted campaign insight and now need better data access and support
I feel that Salesforce Marketing Cloud can be improved in how the data views are accessed; it would be better to have something more physical. With data extensions, you can view them directly, but for data views, it is very difficult as you can only send it out or load it into data extensions. Improvements can also be made in the connections to different external tools such as Azure or AWS. Customer support can be improved in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, as sometimes it is not clear what the issue is or how to approach solving it, and it also takes time to resolve issues.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Braze has allowed us to reduce the time of creation and setup by half for campaign creation, for at least one-off campaigns and automated workflows, which is really great."
"Honestly, I cannot identify any use case where Braze does not serve as the right tool if the data setup is properly organized."
"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."
"Braze has positively impacted my organization by becoming our new CRM tool, allowing various other people without technical skills to use it, reducing workload and the review process when it comes to execution with the help of design and content writers."
"Braze has had a positive impact on my organization by making our CRM and lifecycle marketing much more targeted and efficient."
"Braze's customer service was really eager to help and listen to the pain points that we were providing, and I didn't see this level of service anywhere else, not at Salesforce or Oracle, so this was amazing."
"Braze can be improved, but honestly, I feel it's a pretty perfect tool."
"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."
"Salesforce Marketing Cloud integrates with multiple systems seamlessly, enabling effective lead management."
"The scalability of the solution is perfect."
"The Journey Builder, which has been around for a while and follows the steps that customers use, is the greatest tool that Salesforce has."
"The Salesforce ecosystem is more powerful than Siebel.Salesforce is fully integrated."
"Marketing Cloud offers a 360 customers experience as it integrates with Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, the CRM portion of Salesforce. The different platforms integrate easily which makes it easy to manage customer communication using a single point of truth."
"I recommend Salesforce Marketing Cloud; it is easier to implement and cost-effective."
"A powerful platform with robust features for a seamless one-tool solution."
"I like that I can constantly add leads to Salesforce Marketing Cloud and look at accounts there. I also like that the solution lets me set up meetings."
 

Cons

"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 am not sure if this is a natural characteristic of CRM tools, but onboarding Braze into an organization requires significantly more effort."
"Braze could improve its documentation regarding functionalities."
"Currently, I find that the AI decisioning features, particularly the churn model prediction, are underrated and could be better."
"One area where Braze could be improved is usability for more complex campaigns."
"My biggest complaint for the most part is how complicated it tends to be with Ticketmaster specifically."
"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 does a very good job in terms of capabilities, but sometimes the roadmaps could be a bit clearer."
"Managing large volumes of data takes too long."
"This solution could be more user-friendly."
"There could be easier tools to configure the product and to create landing pages to better handle large data sets."
"The solution can have a better UI. Salesforce Marketing Cloud should consider making its solution more robust for error handling."
"Salesforce Marketing Cloud could improve by having the ability to detect duplicate accounts."
"We'd like to see more integrations with third-party products."
"The encryption and decryption have room for improvement."
"I found that the tool is more complex than expected. It requires a deeper understanding to utilize its capabilities thoroughly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It's normal pricing."
"This solution is priced in the medium to high price range."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"It is a license per user."
"Salesforce has different versions of the solution and some are more suitable for smaller clients. However, Salesforce is expensive."
"The licensing cost for the solution is on a yearly basis."
"Salesforce is an expensive solution."
"We did a yearly license. We negotiated and got a great deal. I don't think we would have gotten far with the regular price, but they negotiated, so it was worth that."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Media Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise34
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Braze?
Braze is a pretty expensive tool, but because it is also a very qualitative one. Given the higher price than other tools, we would expect in that case the tool to be very fluent, one hundred percen...
What needs improvement with Braze?
I cannot think of any feature at the moment that can be improved in Braze.
What is your primary use case for Braze?
Braze is a very complete tool from a CRM and CDP point of view. Braze offers several features, mainly in the segmentation area, and also for communication automation. One of the most interesting ca...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce Marketing Cloud?
I did not work on any pricing or implementation aspects but learned on my own when dealing with Revenue Cloud products.
What needs improvement with Salesforce Marketing Cloud?
Regarding areas for improvement, the realization of value from Salesforce Einstein's predictive AI features is a notable challenge. Although the implementation partner highlighted these capabilitie...
What is your primary use case for Salesforce Marketing Cloud?
As a consultant, I partner with organizations to optimize their use of Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC). My engagement often begins pre-implementation, where I lead the requirements gathering proc...
 

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Sample Customers

1-800flowers.com, Delivery Heroes, Dominoe's Pizza, Epix, Ibotta, iHeartMedia, Jet, Opera, Tinder, Urban Outfitters
American Express, Financial Conduct Authority, KPN, Merck KGaA, Peterborough City Council, The Chapar, ADP, Financial Times, Stanley Black & Decker, SureFlap, Western Union, Philips
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