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  5. Chat by Stream vs Twilio SendGrid

Chat by Stream vs Twilio SendGrid

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Overview

Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Stacks11.1K
Followers5.7K
Votes720
Chat by Stream
Chat by Stream
Stacks18
Followers54
Votes95

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Detailed Comparison

Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Chat by Stream
Chat by Stream

Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.

Chat API and SDK. With a beautiful UI Kit, easy to use React Components and powerful API. Add Chat to any application in a matter of hours. The tech uses Go, RocksDB and Raft. By the creators of Stream, the API that powers activity feeds for more than 300 million users.

Open Tracking;Click Tracking;Unsubscribe Tracking;SMTP Relay;SMTP API;Web API;DKIM;SPF;Reputation Monitoring;ISP Monitoring;Domain Level Load Balancing;ISP Deliverability Outreach;Return Path Certified Partner;Support via Phone, Chat, Email, Online Support Portal
Reactions;Threads & Replies; Presence/who is online;Fulltext search on chat messages;Messages states; Typing Indicators;Message history;Powerful query support for channels and users;AI based moderation for spam and profanity;User Roles;@mentions;User invites;Mute users;Ban users;Flag Messages;Custom Messages;React Components;Push notifications;Webhooks;Unread message counts;Multi Region support;GDPR compliancy tools;HIPAA ready;Custom Slack Style Slash commands;Highly available infrastructure with Raft replication;Giphy integration;Url enrichment;Video Playback; CDN integrated;Fast response time; On premise;Fully customizable;Powerful CLI;Unlimited message retention;99.999% uptime SLA; 24/7 phone support; SAML login; 2FA for developer accounts;Emoticons;File uploads via select, drag and drop and clipboard; React Native Components;
Statistics
Stacks
11.1K
Stacks
18
Followers
5.7K
Followers
54
Votes
720
Votes
95
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 190
    Easy setup
  • 137
    Cheap and simple
  • 107
    Easy email integration!
  • 86
    Reliable
  • 58
    Well-documented
Cons
  • 3
    Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
  • 1
    Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
  • 0
    Shares IP blacklist removal
Pros
  • 15
    Reasonable Pricing
  • 14
    Threads
  • 13
    Very fast and scalable
  • 13
    SDKs for React, RN, Android and iOS are better
  • 13
    Reactions
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Twilio
Twilio
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Heroku
Heroku
Parse
Parse
Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
CloudBees
CloudBees
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Keen
Keen
PHP
PHP
React Native
React Native
Python
Python
Ruby
Ruby
Swift
Swift
React
React
.NET
.NET
Java
Java

What are some alternatives to Twilio SendGrid, Chat by Stream?

Mandrill

Mandrill

Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.

Mailgun

Mailgun

Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.

Amazon SES

Amazon SES

Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

SendBird

SendBird

SendBird is a Messaging SDK, Chat API, and fully managed chat infrastructure for your mobile apps and websites. Embeddable chat for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Unity, .NET.

sendwithus

sendwithus

Send email from your app with a simple API call, Sendwithus manages the rest. Templates, testing, data management, segments, and analytics are all accessible through a friendly dashboard.

Postmark

Postmark

Postmark removes the headaches of delivering and parsing email for webapps with minimal setup time and zero maintenance.

Sinch

Sinch

Sinch makes it easy for developers to add voice, messaging and SMS to their apps with just a few lines of code. Enrich your apps with communications that your users will love.

Mailjet

Mailjet

Mailjet is a real-time Cloud Emailing platform: scalable, agile and flexible. Our unique algorithm boosts your deliverability and our platform provides in-depth insight so you can optimize more than ever.

ChannelizeIO

ChannelizeIO

Add In-App User-to-User Communication into Mobile Apps & Websites, with rich & engaging Text Chat, Video, and Audio Calling experiences, to Increase User Engagement and Enable new Revenue Streams.

SparkPost

SparkPost

SparkPost is the world’s #1 email delivery provider. We empower companies with actionable, real-time data to send relevant email to their customers which increases engagement and both top and bottom line revenue.

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