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They solve different problems. Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is an all-in-one marketing suite aimed at SMBs that want email, SMS, a CRM, and automation in one visual tool. Customer.io is a developer-oriented platform for behavioral messaging triggered by real-time user events. Pick Brevo if a marketer is the main user and you want breadth in one place. Pick Customer.io if engineers own messaging and you need event-driven journeys off your product data."},{q:"Is Brevo or Customer.io cheaper?",a:"It depends entirely on your shape, so compare on their current pricing pages rather than a number here. Brevo prices on contacts and email volume and offers a free tier, which suits smaller lists. Customer.io prices on usage and profiles and is built for teams that will use its depth. The cheaper option is whichever matches how you actually send, not a headline rate."},{q:"Do Brevo and Customer.io handle deliverability?",a:"Both authenticate your domain and send competently, and both can deliver well. What neither is fundamentally built around is active, per-domain reputation control as a first-class job. That's a different category of product. If your real bottleneck is mail reaching the inbox at all, that's worth naming separately from the marketing-automation choice."},{q:"Where does sendmsg.io fit in this comparison?",a:"It's not a third marketing suite. sendmsg.io is the sending-infrastructure and deliverability layer. If you've already picked Brevo or Customer.io for automation but your problem is inbox placement, reputation, or transactional reliability, that's the layer sendmsg.io owns. 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1,animate:{opacity:1,y:0},transition:{duration:.4},className:"text-sm text-gray-500 mb-8 flex items-center gap-2",children:[e.jsx(n,{to:"/",className:"hover:text-accent-400 transition-colors",children:"Home"}),e.jsx(o,{className:"h-3.5 w-3.5"}),e.jsx("span",{className:"text-gray-300",children:"Brevo vs Customer.io"})]}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"prose prose-invert max-w-none",children:[e.jsxs("div",{className:"bg-accent-500/[0.05] border-l-2 border-accent-500/40 rounded-r-lg p-6 mb-8",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"text-sm font-semibold text-accent-400 uppercase tracking-wider mb-2 m-0",children:"The short version"}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-base text-gray-200 leading-relaxed m-0",children:'Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is for a marketer who wants email, SMS, a CRM, and automation in one visual tool. Customer.io is for a product team that wants to trigger messages off real-time user events. They overlap on the word "email" and almost nowhere else. Choose by who owns messaging at your company.'})]}),e.jsx("h2",{className:"text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold text-white mt-12 mb-4 tracking-tight",children:"How they actually differ"}),e.jsx("div",{className:"overflow-x-auto my-6 rounded-lg border border-dark-700",children:e.jsxs("table",{className:"w-full text-sm border-collapse m-0",children:[e.jsx("thead",{children:e.jsxs("tr",{className:"bg-dark-800",children:[e.jsx("th",{className:"text-left p-3 font-semibold text-gray-300 border-b border-dark-700",children:"Dimension"}),e.jsx("th",{className:"text-left p-3 font-semibold text-accent-400 border-b border-dark-700",children:"Brevo"}),e.jsx("th",{className:"text-left p-3 font-semibold text-accent-400 border-b border-dark-700",children:"Customer.io"})]})}),e.jsx("tbody",{children:l.map((t,a)=>e.jsxs("tr",{className:a%2?"bg-dark-800/30":"",children:[e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 font-medium text-gray-200 align-top border-b border-dark-700/50",children:t.feature}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-gray-400 align-top border-b border-dark-700/50",children:t.brevo}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-gray-400 align-top border-b border-dark-700/50",children:t.customerio})]},t.feature))})]})}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-sm text-gray-500 leading-relaxed mb-5",children:"Pricing and feature specifics change often; check each vendor's current pricing page before deciding. This table is about shape and fit, not live numbers."}),e.jsx("h2",{className:"text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold text-white mt-12 mb-4 tracking-tight",children:"When Brevo is the right call"}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-base text-gray-300 leading-relaxed mb-5",children:"Pick Brevo when a marketer, not an engineer, is the main user, and you want breadth in one place: campaigns, basic automation, a CRM, SMS, all behind visual builders. For a small business that doesn't want to stitch tools together or write code to send, that consolidation is the appeal. It's the generalist."}),e.jsx("h2",{className:"text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold text-white mt-12 mb-4 tracking-tight",children:"When Customer.io is the right call"}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-base text-gray-300 leading-relaxed mb-5",children:"Pick Customer.io when engineers or a product team own messaging and you need journeys triggered by what users actually do: real-time events and attributes flowing from your product. It rewards teams that will use its data depth and API-first design. It's the specialist for behavioral lifecycle messaging."}),e.jsx("h2",{className:"text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold text-white mt-12 mb-4 tracking-tight",children:"When neither is your real problem"}),e.jsxs("p",{className:"text-base text-gray-300 leading-relaxed mb-5",children:["Here's the case both comparisons miss. Sometimes the question isn't which automation tool to buy. It's why your mail keeps landing in spam. Marketing-automation suites assume the email arrives. When it doesn't, no amount of journey-building helps. That's a ",e.jsx(n,{to:"/glossary/sender-reputation",className:"text-accent-400 hover:text-accent-300",children:"reputation"})," and ",e.jsx(n,{to:"/glossary/inbox-placement",className:"text-accent-400 hover:text-accent-300",children:"inbox-placement"})," problem, and it sits a layer below the tool you pick."]}),e.jsxs("p",{className:"text-base text-gray-300 leading-relaxed mb-5",children:["That layer is what sendmsg.io owns. It's not a third marketing suite competing with Brevo or Customer.io. It's the sending infrastru

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