| Best when | Engineering, product and growth all send messages to your users | A consumer brand’s marketing team runs campaigns and analytics on a large profile base |
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| Who uses it | Engineers, product, growth, and agents over MCP | Marketing and CRM teams; engineers integrate the SDKs and data |
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| Messages covered | Transactional, product and customer engagement, in one system | Campaigns and Flows; transactional alerts in Inform, a separate product |
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| Built and changed from | Dashboard agent, your own agent over MCP, CLI and API | Dashboard with Merlin AI; APIs for push and email campaigns |
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| Channels | Email, SMS, WhatsApp, mobile push, web push, Slack, Teams, in-app inbox, webhook | Push, web push, email, SMS, in-app, on-site, webhooks; WhatsApp, RCS and Cards as add-ons |
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| User data | Any JSON properties with no schema; lists, objects, tenants | Typed attributes, identity resolution, computed traits, catalogs |
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| Multi-tenancy | Nested tenants with own domain, provider, templates and defaults | Workspaces per app or brand; no tenant object |
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| Preferences | Per category across channels, digest schedule, tenant defaults | Email subscription categories; per-channel opt-in for push and SMS |
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| Journeys | Workflows with branch, digest, routing, failover and versions | Flows with splits, control groups, conversion goals, path optimisation |
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| In-app | Inbox on web and mobile, headless option, toasts | Pop-ups and nudges; Cards feed as an add-on |
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| Provider failover | Ordered provider list with timer, Essentials and up | Channel fallback in Inform only |
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| AI | Agents build workflows, write copy, send, and read the log | Merlin agents in the dashboard; 1:1 agentic decisioning |
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| Analytics | Delivery and engagement per message, workflow and tenant | Campaign analytics; funnels and cohorts as an add-on |
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| Log retention | 30 days Free, 90 days paid | Inform logs 30 days; events 60 days by default |
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| Hosting | SuprSend cloud on every plan; your VPC, on-prem or BYOC on Enterprise | MoEngage cloud, six data centres |
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| Pricing model | Per notification per channel; 10,000 free, Essentials $100 per month | Monthly tracked users, by quote, one-year minimum |
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| Implementation | Days: an API call or SDK, workflows in the dashboard or by CLI | Sales-led: SDKs, data mapping and imports; onboarding as an add-on |
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| G2 | 4.8, 129 reviews | 4.5, 523 reviews |
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