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Courier Alternative: NotificationAPI - In-Depth Comparison (2024)

August 10, 2024

NotificationAPI is a Courier alternative, with many differences in notification features, pricing, support, and more. Read more here!

Courier Alternative: NotificationAPI - In-Depth Comparison (2024)

NotificationAPI is a Courier alternative, with many differences in notification features, pricing, support, and more. Read more here!

Full Disclosure

We are NotificationAPI, so of course, we are going to toot our own horns - boop boop. We’ve tried our best to stay as objective as possible in this comparison. If you notice an inaccuracy, let us know, and we will fix it.

TLDR

NotificationAPI:

Better for small to medium-sized B2B SaaS companies that want to move fast with their notification project and expect reliable customer support.

Courier:

Better for Enterprise companies that require complex workflow for a nuanced delivery system.

Defining Features

NotificationAPI includes an email service and exposes more email-related capabilities. It also includes an SMS service to send notifications to any country without Twilio. So overall, it’s much faster and easier to set up.

Courier acts as a router around your delivery services like SendGrid. So you have to set up your own 3rd-parties. However, Courier has a strong notification workflow builder and supports connecting more channels.

NotificationAPI

Courier

Reliability

Both NotificationAPI and Courier offer a stable service. However, NotificationAPI has better support, SLAs and additional data centers.

NotificationAPI

Courier

Pricing

NotificationAPI offers a clearer pricing model without hidden fees and caps. Many of Courier’s features seem locked behind the Enterprise tier.

NotificationAPI

Courier