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# Customer.io Review

From $100-$1,000/month 3 plans

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-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   Integrations
    
-   User Reviews
    
-   Popular Comparisons
    

## Overview

Customer.io

4.7

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Pricing

Starting at $100.00 usage based per month

### About Customer.io

Customer.io is a leading customer engagement platform designed for tech-savvy organizations to create personalized customer journeys that engage, convert, and scale. Use first-party data to send meaningful messages across all channels, including email, in-app, push, SMS, and webhooks. Today, 7500+ brands trust their messaging needs with Customer.io. Customer.io’s suite of products includes Journeys, a messaging automation tool, Data Pipelines, a customer data platform; and Parcel, a code editor designed for email. Founded in 2012, Customer.io is a globally distributed, remote-first company named one of the fastest-growing private companies on the 2023 Inc. 5000 list.

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## Customer.io User Interface

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4.7

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.32Ease of use
-   4.25Value for money
-   4.54Customer support
-   4.34Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $100.00 per month

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-   4.75Customer support
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## Customer.io Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $100.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Essential

$100.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

-   Up to 8,000 profiles
-   Send Emails/Push/In-App/SMS
-   Visual Workflow Builder
-   Segmentation

Premium

$1,000.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

-   Custom Data
-   Message Volume
-   Managed Deliverability
-   Dedicated IPs
-   Parcel Pro Licenses
-   HIPAA Compliance

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

-   Managed Infrastructure
-   Quarterly Success Reviews
-   Audit Logging & Data Governance
-   Parcel Business Licenses

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## Customer.io Features

-   Popular features found in Marketing Automation
    
    A/B Testing
    
    Campaign Analytics
    
    Drip Campaigns
    
    Landing Pages/Web Forms
    
    Lead Management
    
    Multi-Channel Marketing
    
    Multivariate Testing
    
    ROI Tracking
    
    Sales Analytics
    
    Segmentation
    
    Social Marketing
    
-   More features of Customer.io
    
    Access Controls/Permissions
    
    Activity Dashboard
    
    Activity Tracking
    
    Alerts/Notifications
    
    API
    
    App Notifications
    
    Audience Targeting
    
    Autoresponders
    
    Behavior Tracking
    
    Campaign Management
    
    Campaign Planning
    
    Campaign Scheduling
    
    Campaign Segmentation
    
    CAN-SPAM Compliance
    
    Channel Management
    
    Click Tracking
    
    Compliance Management
    
    Contact Database
    
    Contact Management
    
    Content Creation
    
    Content Management
    
    Conversion Tracking
    
    CRM
    
    Customer Database
    
    Customer Experience Management
    
    Customer History
    
    Customer Journey Mapping
    
    Customer Profiles
    
    Customer Segmentation
    
    Customer Surveys
    
    Customizable Branding
    
    Customizable CTAs
    
    Customizable Fields
    
    Customizable Reports
    
    Customizable Templates
    
    Data Capture and Transfer
    
    Data Connectors
    
    Data Import/Export
    
    Data Integration
    
    Data Security
    
    Data Synchronization
    
    Drag & Drop
    
    Dynamic Content
    
    Email Campaign Management
    
    Email Management
    
    Email Marketing
    
    Email Templates
    
    Email Tracking
    
    Engagement Tracking
    
    Event Triggered Actions
    
    GDPR Compliance
    
    Geotargeting
    
    HTML Editor
    
    Image Library
    
    Lead Capture
    
    Lead Qualification
    
    List Management
    
    Marketing Automation
    
    Mobile Access
    
    Mobile Optimization
    
    Multi-Campaign
    
    Multi-Channel Communication
    
    Multi-Language
    
    Multiple Data Sources
    
    Notification Editor
    
    Notification Scheduling
    
    Personalization
    
    Preview Functionality
    
    Push Notifications
    
    Real-Time Analytics
    
    Real-Time Data
    
    Real-Time Notifications
    
    Real-Time Reporting
    
    Reporting/Analytics
    
    Reporting & Statistics
    
    Secure Data Storage
    
    SMS Marketing
    
    SMS Messaging
    
    SMS Notifications
    
    Social Media Integration
    
    Subscriber Management
    
    Subscription Management
    
    Tagging
    
    Template Management
    
    Third-Party Integrations
    
    Visual Analytics
    
    Visual Workflow Management
    
    Web Notifications
    
    Workflow Automation
    
    Workflow Management
    
    WYSIWYG Editor
    

## Customer.io Integrations

Segment

Integration rated 4.8 from 11 reviews

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## Customer.io User Reviews

## Customer.io customer ratings

- Overall rating: 4.7/5
- Total reviews: 87

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 63 reviews (72%)
- 4 stars: 21 reviews (24%)
- 3 stars: 2 reviews (2%)
- 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 1 reviews (1%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.3/5
- Value for money: 4.3/5
- Customer support: 4.5/5
- Functionality: 4.3/5

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### I still love customer.io

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Aifton C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: January 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Still overall very positive and I would continue to recommend customer.io to other marketing professionals

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I’m still loving how easy it is to segment out audiences and schedule sins in the platform. Recent AI upgrades have also made work seamless.

#### Cons

I still wish there was a higher file, upload capacity and more video options for emails, but I understand that different platform have different limitations

---

### Review of Customer.io from avid user

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Drew H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We love it. It surpasses all of the cheaper options and plugs into our product in a way more efficient way. I regularly recommend it to friends in similar sized businesses.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Functionality is really great. It is easy to use, and the flow of setting up campaigns and broadcasts makes perfect sense. I've used the drag and drop as well as uploaded HTML into different campaigns. Testing is good, the omni channel approach all in one section is super helpful. It's built like a marketing manager had a say but a developer and engineer understood all the actual requirements.

#### Cons

Analytics and the reporting, as mentioned previously. The conversion rate should be more adjustable to show people who entered journeys and converted vs just how many emails were sent and conversions. It makes changing up campaigns a little tougher, but still doable with exports and managing the analytics manually.

#### Reasons for choosing Customer.io

This was recommended by a colleague who had used it previously, and we bought in right away.

#### Reasons for switching to Customer.io

Too many different little tools when everything is built into Customer.io

---

### Email automation tool

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Shilpa S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: September 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I don’t find this product very easy to use but it’s one of the best so far I’ve used in the email automation space.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 2/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

I liked that I could run my drip campaigns on this tool. The complexity of the drips could be managed.

#### Cons

It requires a dedicated developer which might not always be possible. There should be a few automated codes.

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### I've been a Customer.io user for ~3 years and would highly recommend it to growing startups

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Beth S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Consumer Electronics
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Customer.io has evolved so much since I started using it! In the beginning, we had to use a lot of workarounds like sending leads via Zapier but they've made huge quality-of-life improvements. We can either use our data connectors to facilitate lead management but they also have a form connector that makes this process a breeze.I love how easily Customer.io connects to our existing data structure and makes it super easy to break down data silos across our suite of tools. The integrations are really easy to use!The campaign builder is super flexible and allows us to not only send marketing comms to our users but also to clean up data and use it to automate basic tasks within the platform. Emails are very easy to setup, especially with the ability to save rows and use snippets. This saves us time when creating new content. We also frequently use the display conditions for email as we have different offerings for users in Canada VS the US. This helps us really customize the content to fit the users' needs.

#### Cons

While Customer.io does offer SMS/mobile messaging, it would be great if they integrated with more companies so we had more options here.

#### Reasons for switching to Customer.io

While we're mainly an e-commerce company, we also have a mobile app that is really important in the user journey. Klaviyo worked well for ecomm-specific engagements and tracking but wasn't built to support to in-depth customer tracking we needed from our app. We switched to Customer.io because it was a cost-effective option that allowed us to track both transactional events as well as user behaviours within our app and marketing site.

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### The marketing campaign tool for any startup, scaleup or e-commerce that want a reliable tool to work

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Jeremy L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: January 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The UI/UX is really great and intuitive. It comes with a lot of features and different channels. It can be used by many different types of people, from not knowing how to code at all, to more advanced users. Enabling complex possibilities.

#### Cons

Setting up our dedicated preference center required quite some time and resources. Plus it did break native campaign tracking as well as the native unsubscribe button. But they are coming with a new feature on this side really soon.The second pain is focused on data analysis. There is quite some interesting data point, but it can quickly get tough when you try to extract specific behavior or data point. They know about it and are working also on this big part of the product.

#### Reasons for choosing Customer.io

The core product strength, the great UX, a comprehensive and competitive pricing

---

### Our go-to automation software

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Pedro F.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall my team is very happy with the software and we would recommend it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It's very easy to use and does 90% of what you'd need to automate your marketing.

#### Cons

Some of the UI choices over time have become worst, like elements covering crucial elements (eg. minimap when editing an email), and their push to become more of a CDP than a marketing software has made the platform more cluttered for those who, like me, want to use it for marketing automation. Lastly, but possibly most importantly, the fact that we still can't DUPLICATE a campaign is absurd. Having to re-create campaign settings each time is such a time waste, for a seemingly obvious (And simple) feature.

#### Reasons for choosing Customer.io

Price and ease-of-use.

#### Reasons for switching to Customer.io

Customer.io is much more capable of managing multi-channel campaigns, with complex segmentation.

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### One of the best email marketing tools I've used!

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Chelsea G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I've been using Customer.io for almost two years and couldn't be happier with our experience! It was super easy to transition from our previous email client and integrate and connect with our other software. It's been an important piece of our marketing strategy and has helped us generate upsells and new leads.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I've worked in many email marketing tools over the years and Customer.io is by far the easiest to use for every member on our marketing team! The drag and drop tool has really helped us achieve the same brand look across every email we send - and it's easy enough that even our copywriters can create emails. No designers or developers needed!

#### Cons

The only limitation is that I wish the dashboard and interface was a bit more user friendly. I feel like the image library is buried. I feel like there's so many impressive C.io features get hidden. I also wish you set your "Email Settings" in your Team Profile and those settings could be applied to every email instead of manually inputting them each time.

#### Reasons for choosing Customer.io

We had various demo calls with the alternative products listed above and C.io stood out to our entire team. The ease of use was unmatched. It was exactly the platform we had been looking for.

#### Reasons for switching to Customer.io

We were not happy with the usability of Intercom for our Marketing Emails. The functionality of C.io was seamless and so easy to use for our entire team. As a designer, I was able to create a library of row designs tailored to our brand library so now anyone on the team can throw together a branded, well-designed email. C.io has made my job SO much easier!

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### Highly recommend!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Wendy Z.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

The customer success and support team at CustomerIO have been a massive factor in my experience. I cannot express my appreciation enough. They are prompt, amiable, and always willing to go the extra mile whenever I reach out to them. I really value the CSM assigned to our account. He has not only taught me how to use Customer.io, but he's also doubled as a strategic partner in helping me bring my ideas to life through Customer.io.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I find the product to be user-friendly and enjoyable. The campaign builder is my favorite feature as it allows me to create intricate journey flows with ease. The 'wait until' action block has been a game-changer for me as it has minimized the need for engineering resources.

#### Cons

I've been using Customer.io for 6 months now and honestly, I don't have any complaints. Seems like for every issue I've had, the support team is dedicated to unblocking me. There are always ways to improve a product, but in terms of important game-changing features, they really thought of everything.

#### Reasons for choosing Customer.io

Cost and level of support

#### Reasons for switching to Customer.io

Customer.io saved us money and engineering resources. It was easier to use at our current size.

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### Awesome marketing platform!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It's great and does everything we need it to!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The automations are the best part of the software. We can easily create any type of campaign and manipulate it for our needs.

#### Cons

It would be cool if we could just duplicate a workspace entirely with all the segments and campaigns instead of recreating everything. Another thing that would be cool is being able to do a dynamic wait. Or have a queue type of system built-in for webhooks.

#### Reasons for choosing Customer.io

It auto-populated the customer attributes when we linked up Segment. It also had better logic control.

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### A Great Marketing Automation Platform with an amazing support team

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We are mainly using C.io for lead nurturing purposes. We are quite confident with the fact they will improve their product with better reporting features.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I've tried many marketing automation tools and Customer.io is clearly making a difference in terms of UX, documentation, and customer support!

#### Cons

It can be quite complex sometimes according to your needs but thanks to their great UX, documentation, and support team, you'll find solutions. There are some missing features (eg. cohort analysis) but hopefully, they are working on it.

#### Reasons for switching to Customer.io

We needed a tool with true Marketing Automation Platform features.

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