Compare MailChimp vs. SendGrid

MailChimp is ranked 1st in Cloud Email with 4 reviews while SendGrid which is ranked 2nd in Cloud Email with 1 review. MailChimp is rated 7.2, while SendGrid is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of MailChimp writes "Most email clients see them as a reputable provider, but having further details of the open rates would be nice". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SendGrid writes "No setup needed. You don't have to install anything, just use a very well documented API". MailChimp is most compared with Amazon SES , SendGrid and Mailjet, whereas SendGrid is most compared with SocketLabs, Amazon SES and SendinBlue.

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Most Helpful Review

Reviewer893021

Executive Director at a non-profit

It allows for dragging and dropping, which is much faster than writing HTML and CSS

This does not apply, as I took over an existing account in an existing organization.

Juan Ignacio Michelotti

Developer at a media company

No setup needed. You don't have to install anything, just use a very well documented API

Basically, we have replaced our SMTP server with this solution. (We had three SMTP servers, for development, testing, and production environments).... Read more »

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MailChimp is an email marketing service with more than 5 million users around the world. Design, send, and track email newsletters from anywhere. And since MailChimp is built to support lists with millions of subscribers, we'll scale with your company.	SendGrid helps you focus on your business without the cost and complexity of owning and maintaining an email infrastructure to ensure deliverability. SendGrid manages all of the technical details, from scaling the infrastructure, ISP outreach, reputation monitoring, whitelisting services and real time analytics. The SendGrid platform will improve your transactional and marketing email delivery, and easily scale to meet the needs of any business.
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