mParticle vs. Twilio Segment

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
mParticle
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The mParticle customer data platform supports data collection from a wide variety of sources and provides standardization, cleansing and deduping, and tags, as well as data enrichment via scoring, contextual or behavioral data, as well as segmentation and customer profile management.N/A
Twilio Segment
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Segment is a customer data platform that helps engineering teams at companies like Tradesy, TIME, Inc., Gap, Lending Tree, PayPal, and Fender, etc., achieve time and cost savings on their data infrastructure, which was acquired by Twilio November 2020. The vendor says they also enable Product, BI, and Marketing teams to access 200+ tools (Mixpanel, Salesforce, Marketo, Redshift, etc.) to better understand and optimize customer preferences for growth— all integrations are pre-built and…
$0
Includes 1,000 visitors/mo
Pricing
mParticleTwilio Segment
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0.00
Includes 1,000 visitors/mo
Team
$120.00
Includes 10,000 visitors/mo
Business
Contact Sales
Custom Volume
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
mParticleTwilio Segment
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
mParticleTwilio Segment
Considered Both Products
mParticle
Chose mParticle
We are definitely aware of Amplitude CDP and how they are constantly making updates to their CDP to make it better. If their offerings are a lot better than mParticle's, it might make sense to jump ship to Amplitude since we already use them for Analytics anyway.
Chose mParticle
I wasn't a part of the decision making process
Chose mParticle
mParticle has a bigger catalog of services you can interface with and provides a more complete check for data integrity. It also allows you to use any analytics solution.
Chose mParticle
vs Segment, mParticle seems a bit fresher (more recently founded) and a better mobile app focus.
Chose mParticle
Great customer service over Segment and really solid UI.
Twilio Segment
Chose Twilio Segment
Mixpanel and Amplitude offer strong data analytics and Google Analytics is powerful for web data, but their integration capabilities are less extensive compared to Twilio Segment. It's easy-to-use api and data collection and cleaning capabilities Twilio Segment operates as a …
Chose Twilio Segment
We chose Twilio Segment for the good API integration and node resources, I would use Ontraport again, particularly if I didn't have the requirements for API and development/platform integration. Certainly the set up and management is easy and seamless with both the API and the …
Chose Twilio Segment
Tealium was slow to set up and unreliable. It has better pricing but took significantly more Dev time to implement. We also could not debug issues and their support was slow to assist.
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment is considerably cheaper but doesn't have the GUI for non-SQL users. GA Premium doesn't have all the data connectors, and can be more difficult to configure on SPAs.
Chose Twilio Segment
I'm not sure these are "official competitors" (or alternatives) to Segment, but we use them in parallel for different goals. We use Datadog for logging and monitoring and we use Mixpanel to perform data analysis based on the data we gather using Segment (and other sources). I …
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment is far more versatile than Mixpanel alone. We still use Mixpanel, but it wouldn't be nearly as useful without Segement.
Chose Twilio Segment
We tried to set up our entire data analytics process through these tools but there were some parts of the data capture, set-up, analytics that was missing with these tools. None of them could provide the ease of setting up with a complete picture of the data and analytics like …
Chose Twilio Segment
It's much more personalized and user-focused data available in real-time, and immediately exported to an external database. It's provided more control over how the information is used and displayed for actionable insights.
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment is not really suitable for most websites that have more than 10k MTU - If you run a semi-popular website, there are many tools out there that will do basic web analytics, like Google Analytics. Google Analytics provides simple resources for tracking user growth, …
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment syncs different data than those apps, making it a useful addition to the stack.
Chose Twilio Segment
The competitors above either charge a lot if you want to warehouse your data, don't allow data warehousing, or make it very difficult to warehouse your data (requiring you to write custom scripts and run them on schedulers). Segment makes it easy to warehouse your application's …
Chose Twilio Segment
There were no other solutions like Segment that I evaluated. I've never even heard of a comparable solution.
Chose Twilio Segment
Similar offering, since I didn't go with them I couldn't a more in depth response.
Chose Twilio Segment
See my previous response. Google Tag Manager is great if you are firmly in the Google ecosphere. But they don't have as many integrations as Segment.io
Chose Twilio Segment
Looked at Google Tag Manager, but too complicated. Segment.io mostly competes with each individual martech tool of implementing all the event tracking yourself for each tool.
Features
mParticleTwilio Segment
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
mParticle
-
Ratings
Twilio Segment
7.6
Ratings
8% below category average
Tag library00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Tag variable mapping00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Page load times00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
mParticle
-
Ratings
Twilio Segment
7.6
Ratings
7% below category average
Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Traffic allocation control00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Website personalization00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customer Data Management
Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Product A and Product B
mParticle
-
Ratings
Twilio Segment
8.3
Ratings
2% below category average
Account Scoring00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Customer Data Governance00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Connectors00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Data Enhancement00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Ingestion00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Data Storage00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Data Visibility00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Event Data00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Identity Resolution00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
mParticleTwilio Segment
Likelihood to Recommend
6.8
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.5
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
mParticleTwilio Segment
Likelihood to Recommend
Do not integrate multiple analytics / customer messaging / download attribution SDKs into your mobile or web apps, duplicating data and risking a fragemented view of the customer. Instead integrate mParticle as a CDP, and configure the necessary integrations which will enable you to progress towards a world of the single-view of the customer. Also works great to import historical data into a newly onboarded/integrated tool.
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Best suited: - Merging emails coming from: Facebook leads forms, Unbounce or landing pages forms, Google forms, any other kind of lead generation tool and bundling all that information together for a single user "profile". - Passing events generated in multiple applications by the same user (product selected in web, product discarded in cart, etc) and delivering those events into other applications (like a CRM) Less appropriate: - Reading/updating data directly from segment from a frontend application
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Pros
  • Collect customer data from multiple sources.
  • Integrated with wide breadth of vendors and verticals.
  • Helps track unregistered user data into registered user data.
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  • Unmatched insight into the customer journey when they come into contact with our business.
  • The ability for it to break down data in a way that allows us to analyse customer engagement.
  • It efficiently integrates with my current softwares eg Shopify.
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Cons
  • UI for events for customers takes time to update, its unreliable.
  • Hard to inspect the data once its inputted.
  • Not possible to link data with other non-customer related data.
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  • Potentially, it could "warn" the developers/product about areas in our code that are not covered by events (and let us decide if it's "be design" or we missed it).
  • It's difficult to get accumulated history data exported out in order to analyze it.
  • There's no easy way to compare data from 2 sources (our main target is to compare the same events between our test environment and prod environment).
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Likelihood to Renew
It's a great tool for beginners but not scalable to advance use cases. It's not it's a fault in our case, because any platform is as good as the data collected
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Support Rating
They will go above and beyond and will file tickets If they don't have the answer. They are friendly, respectful, and punctual.
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Over the period it took us to set up, we kept going back to their enablement team to help us with the setup, and they were always ready and were very helpful in the entire process. Even with their documentation, they took the time out to help us work through the process. We've never had a message/email unanswered for more than an hour on working days.
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Alternatives Considered
mParticle has a bigger catalog of services you can interface with and provides a more complete check for data integrity. It also allows you to use any analytics solution.
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Segment is not really suitable for most websites that have more than 10k MTU - If you run a semi-popular website, there are many tools out there that will do basic web analytics, like Google Analytics. Google Analytics provides simple resources for tracking user growth, demographics, and conversion rates of websites, which is more suitable for companies that are looking for simpler analytics data.
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Return on Investment
  • This might be less of an issue with mParticle, but often times we found ourselves troubleshooting discrepancies between what mParticle showed vs downstream analytics platforms, more so than troubleshooting the issue itself.
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  • Event tracking lets you take ownership of your own data, which in part makes it easy to craft metrics and do deep dives to see how your product is working. This has a huge ROI, because without metrics you're basically flying blind.
  • You can also use Segment's event tracking to fuel your experimentation and AB testing strategies. AB testing is the best way to ship features in a tech product with confidence that you're making a positive impact.
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