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Add to SafariWhen comparing SendGrid vs HubSpot, the Slant community recommends SendGrid for most people. In the question“What are the best email marketing software (SaaS)?” SendGrid is ranked 3rd while HubSpot is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose SendGrid is:
SendGrid offers amazing analytics and reports. You can check which messages are delivered, which are marked as spam and much more. SendGrid also lets you download the data in order to look through it locally.
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Pros
Pro Excellent analytics
SendGrid offers amazing analytics and reports. You can check which messages are delivered, which are marked as spam and much more. SendGrid also lets you download the data in order to look through it locally.
Pro Great support for beginners and experienced users
If you are just getting started with email marketing and transactional emails or if you get stuck somewhere, SendGrid includes amazing videos and guides to help you work out any problem you may have. What's more, it also has phone, chat and email support available 24/7.
Pro Both newsletter and transactional emails
Usually when choosing a service to send your application's emails you need two. One to send the newsletter or news and promotions from the marketing team and the other to send you application's automatic emails and messages.
With SendGrid you don't have to choose two because it doubles both as a transactional and marketing platform at once.
Pro Has a free tier
12,000 free e-mails per month.
Pro Easy to use API
The API is very easy to use and very intuitive. On top of that, the documentation for the API is complete and very useful, covering everything you need to know.
Pro Easy-to-use platform
Hubspot has a simple and straightforward platform. Hubspot's design is made to be intuitive for people with no coding ability.
Pro Demo version available
You can try its demo version to assess your needs and budget as well as the tools functionality.
Cons
Con Port 2525 is not encrypted
Most cloud providers block ports 25, 465, and 587. Port 2525 is commonly open but SendGrid only allows unencrypted messages via that port.
Note: There are also so some certificate issues (see https://support.sendgrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/200182008-Certificate-verification-failed-for-smtp-sendgrid-net)
Con Poor deliverability of emails
Con Not suitable for people without a technical background
There are some features which are missing by default from SendGrid (sign-up forms or follow-up messages just to name a few). In order to implement those in your emails, you need to know how to program because you have to code them yourself through SendGrid's API.
Con No sandbox/test mode
Does not support test keys that can be used to check integration with SendGrid and that cannot be used to send real e-mail out. It means that either you don't cannot verify that your integration with SendGrid works during development, or you have to use real credentials which should not be shared widely across your team.
Con Can't view contents of sent emails
They do not capture the sent emails. This means you cannot check that the email was sent correctly, and it makes it harder to debug issues that arise.
Con Annual lock-in contract
By default, the contracts are annual, but it would be preferable to have it monthly considering that they have pricey packages. We are talking about $200 per month (basic) that becomes a $2400 LOCK-IN annual contract. Having contracts by month allows you to terminate the contract earlier with lesser loss than having to pay an entire year's cost.
Con Paid technical support
It can be quite frustrating say you are already facing technical issues, and still, you need to pay their technical support to have this addressed.
