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Braze vs CleverTap comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Braze
Ranking in Mobile Marketing and Advertising
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CleverTap
Ranking in Mobile Marketing and Advertising
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
9
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 Braze is 17.6%, down from 22.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CleverTap is 7.2%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile Marketing and Advertising Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Braze17.6%
CleverTap7.2%
Other75.2%
Mobile Marketing and Advertising
 

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.
Carol Gabriel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Unisys
Targeted journeys have boosted engagement and support teams track user behavior daily
CleverTap helps in enhancing the user experience, increasing engagement, and keeping track of events, for example, which user clicked which event and what actions took place. It even notices which services have not been used for a long time and reminds about it. The analytics is good, and the communication made by CleverTap through emails and SMS is effective. Additionally, push notifications are great, and the segmentation of customers is excellent, including Omnichannel journeys. CleverTap has positively impacted my organization by increasing engagement, increasing activation and reactivation. I have seen a plus 30% open rate for push notifications, a plus 3% conversion rate, and a 20% return on investment for growth.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Thanks to Braze, I could make proper CRM scenarios and campaigns where everyone can directly understand the circumstance just from the campaign structures."
"For business impact, we achieved a 28% increase in credit card sales, driven by contextual targeting, in-app messages, and onboarding flows triggered immediately after specific users' touch points in the in-app application and on the forms on our website."
"Compared to other tools and platforms, Braze is very friendly for building automations, and this is the biggest advantage I see."
"At OLX, Braze helped our team reach our goals, and I have seen improvements in engagement rates such as CTR and open rates on emails and push notifications, along with an improvement in conversion rates using Canvas and communications in near-real-time."
"Braze has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to save money, as we saved around $800,000 by switching from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to Braze while also making it easier to see our customer journeys and for our producers to set things up."
"We went from about three percent engagement on average per channel to around eight to ten percent overall CTR."
"For me, the ease of Braze is valuable; it is very user friendly, so anyone like myself can pick it up and learn quite quickly."
"My advice for others looking to use Braze is to go ahead; it is one of the best marketing automation or customer engagement platforms available in the market."
"We have seen clear measurable return on investment after implementing CleverTap, both in terms of revenue impact and operational efficiency."
"CleverTap has positively impacted my organization because we were able to increase activation metrics like match start and match completion rates by 18 and 29%, respectively, and we saw an increase in our Play Store ratings, but beyond that, we could not continue our initiatives due to the Unity integration issue."
"Since I started using CleverTap, I have seen some improvements, especially because it has been very efficient and perfect for my organization."
"From my experience, CleverTap is doing exceptional work."
"With the help of CleverTap's decision-making AI, CleverAI, we are able to easily improve our overall customer retention by 25 percent."
"Before using CleverTap, our sales last month were 57 lakhs, and when we started using CleverTap, the sales automatically increased to 97 lakhs, which is a huge number."
"CleverTap has positively impacted my organization as we use it to send communications and generate better revenue from targeting users through various channels."
"Thanks to CleverTap, we could easily create all of those campaign scenarios and make them happen."
 

Cons

"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."
"Braze can be improved from a reporting standpoint to include AI, where we are able to integrate it to provide us with real-time insights."
"Currently, I find that the AI decisioning features, particularly the churn model prediction, are underrated and could be better."
"Braze is not a very strong analytics platform."
"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 needs to provide local support, especially for Indonesia, so we can discuss local context more effectively."
"My biggest complaint for the most part is how complicated it tends to be with Ticketmaster specifically."
"The pricing is tied directly to data points volume, and unoptimized telemetry or redundant attribute tracking can quickly consume contracted allocations, leading to unexpected overage costs."
"CleverTap can be improved as their pricing needs to be lower because I think that CleverTap is one of the pricey platforms in the CRM field."
"One area that could be improved is the overall usability of the platform as the number of campaign segments grows."
"One area of improvement I would suggest for CleverTap can be on the user interface; it is not very user-friendly."
"I would recommend improving the website loading time because whenever I open the CleverTap website to see my dashboard data, it takes a bit of time."
"CleverTap can be improved by adding some basic functionality to journeys that would allow me to target dynamically previous users who have visited the homepage but have not made a purchase in the last 15 days, as there is currently no way to communicate with them dynamically, only a static base is available."
"From a product manager's perspective, CleverTap follows a usage-based and tier pricing model, which is fairly standard for customer engagement platforms, but it comes with both advantages and some complexity."
"In my experience, CleverTap is not stable, at least for Unity."
"I intend to use CleverTap extensively for a campaign, but there are constraints with many features not up to mark or due to broken features."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Media Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Educational Organization
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CleverTap?
Their pricing is pricey compared to my expectations. The licensing is straightforward, but the pricing is higher than my expectation.
What needs improvement with CleverTap?
CleverTap can be improved by adding some basic functionality to journeys that would allow me to target dynamically previous users who have visited the homepage but have not made a purchase in the l...
What is your primary use case for CleverTap?
My main use case for CleverTap is targeting users to retain them or acquire new users by using different channels such as SMS, push notifications, WhatsApp, and RCS. A specific example of how I hav...
 

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