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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 20.9%, up 21.1% compared to last year.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Social CRM, holds 6.2% mindshare, down 6.5% since last year.
Mobile Marketing and Advertising Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Braze20.9%
Amplitude9.0%
Leanplum8.2%
Other61.900000000000006%
Mobile Marketing and Advertising
Social CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Marketing Cloud6.2%
HootSuite13.9%
Sprout Social9.7%
Other70.2%
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

"Compared to other tools and platforms, Braze is very friendly for building automations, and this is the biggest advantage I see."
"Braze has positively impacted my organization by directly helping to increase LTV and retention and by helping with the independence of the marketing team."
"The biggest positive impact has been making marketing, CRM, and lifecycle marketing more targeted and scalable."
"Thanks to Braze, I could make proper CRM scenarios and campaigns where everyone can directly understand the circumstance just from the campaign structures."
"Braze can be improved, but honestly, I feel it's a pretty perfect tool."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I like the user interface it has a nice look and feel."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The feature of Salesforce Marketing Cloud that has had the largest impact on improving my campaign outcomes is the recent WhatsApp integration, which allows Salesforce to connect with subscribers through different channels such as SMS, email, or WhatsApp."
"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."
"The solution is completely scalable, the sky really is the limit, and if a company needs to expand it, it can do so as much as it wants."
"Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a fantastic solution, but be aware of its technicalities when installation."
"We haven't had any issues with integration."
"Salesforce Marketing Cloud's integrations are seamless since it is a native application. It helps us with B2B and B2C send-outs and can handle large columns."
 

Cons

"One area where Braze could be improved is usability for more complex campaigns."
"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."
"One area I think Braze could improve is reporting flexibility."
"I think Braze can be improved by delivering new AI tools, and it could also provide options where we could see how the contract is progressing each month without needing to ask the sales person."
"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."
"Braze could improve the data analysis capabilities."
"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."
"Customer support could be improved, especially for new features where I do not always receive proper solutions from the platform provider."
"Salesforce Marketing Cloud could improve by having more graphical options because a lot of tables are now only numbers and percentages and data. I prefer graphs, lines, and pie charts. I know there are ways to receive this from Salesforce Marketing Cloud. It doesn't play a huge role in my daily work to invest the time to figure it out. I feel that it would be time wasted. They could make the graphical options easier to find and use in the future."
"It's a very good solution, but the way the prices are structured is not always good, and I feel like that is a problem."
"Salesforce Marketing Cloud is expensive. The email functionality should be more modern and user-friendly."
"We have struggled to get resolution of support tickets from the Salesforce team."
"A few of our clients found using Salesforce Marketing Cloud challenging after they upgraded, they were finding it difficult to just move to the newer version of Salesforce and they were complaining about the customer support because they did not help them out."
"User management could be better."
"In a future release it would be great to have the ability to connect the data from social media and email marketing and have it in one dashboard."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"On a scale where one is the lowest and ten is the most expensive, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"Salesforce Marketing Cloud is affordable, considering the significant improvements it brings to our campaign results."
"Its licensing is on an annual basis. Customers are okay with its licensing cost, and they don't find it expensive."
"It's not cheap, which is why I recommend that you use Marketing Cloud to create automated journeys. If you plan to use Marketing Cloud just to send emails, use another tool."
"The licensing cost for the solution is on a yearly basis."
"The price is expensive."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing 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?
Braze could improve its documentation regarding functionalities. While I enjoy the AI Operator feature, I believe there should be a clearer verification method to ensure that the operator executes ...
What is your primary use case for Braze?
I have implemented Braze, trained people on it, and set up automated journeys in Braze using Canvas, the CDI Sync via data warehouses, and created custom journeys based on different types of use 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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