Omnisend
AI EcommerceFreemium
Email, SMS, and web push marketing automation platform for ecommerce returning $79 for every $1 spent, trusted by 150,000+ Shopify and WooCommerce brands.
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Smartly
AI EcommercePaid
AI advertising platform that unifies creative production, campaign management, and media optimization across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, CTV, and 10+ social channels.
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Pricing
Pricing Comparison
Omnisend
Free$0
250 contacts, 500 emails/month, 60 SMS, 500 web push, all features included
Standard$From $16/mo
Contact-based pricing, unlimited emails (12x contacts/month), 24/7 support
Pro$From $59/mo
Unlimited emails, SMS credits included equal to plan price, advanced AI features
Custom$Custom
Migration support, dedicated account expert, custom contact limits
Smartly
Enterprise$Custom
Percentage of ad spend with minimum monthly fees — contact sales for a tailored quote based on channels, features, and spend volume
Features
Feature Comparison
Omnisend
AI Email CopywritingAI Send-Time OptimizationAI Product Recommendations in EmailAI Forms BuilderSMS Marketing ChannelWeb Push NotificationsPre-Built Ecommerce Automation WorkflowsAbandoned Cart RecoveryBrowse Abandonment TriggersPost-Purchase Email SeriesWelcome Series AutomationWin-Back CampaignsAdvanced SegmentationDrag-and-Drop Email BuilderProduct Picker (Direct from Catalog)Countdown Timers in EmailsMCP Integration (ChatGPT and Claude Support)
Smartly
AI Creative Production at Scale (1.9M+ Assets)Dynamic Creative OptimizationVideo Ad Templates and ProductionCreator Connect (Influencer Integration)Cross-Channel Campaign ManagementPredictive Budget AllocationAI Audience Targeting and SegmentationAutomated Campaign Rules and TriggersCatalog-Based Dynamic AdsCross-Platform Reporting DashboardReal-Time Bid OptimizationAd Creative Rotation (Anti-Fatigue)CTV and Display AdvertisingConversational Commerce Ad FormatsRetail Media ManagementAI Performance InsightsPartner Marketplace
Fit
Best For & Not For
Omnisend
✅ Best For
✅Ecommerce brands on Shopify or WooCommerce that want all email, SMS, and push notification marketing in a single platform at a significantly lower price point than Klaviyo, without sacrificing features or deliverability.
✅Growing DTC brands that want to set up a full automated lifecycle marketing system — from welcome through post-purchase and win-back — using pre-built workflows that require no marketing automation expertise to configure.
❌ Not For
❌B2B companies or service businesses whose marketing is driven by lead nurturing, account-based outreach, or CRM-heavy sales sequences rather than ecommerce-specific triggers like cart abandonment and purchase-based segmentation.
❌Large enterprise brands with complex multi-region infrastructure requirements, dedicated IP needs, and advanced custom API integrations that go beyond Omnisend's current enterprise capability.
Smartly
✅ Best For
✅Enterprise DTC brands, large-scale retailers, and global consumer companies managing six- or seven-figure monthly paid social budgets across multiple channels who need to eliminate the manual overhead of managing campaigns, creatives, and reporting in separate platform UIs.
✅Performance marketing agencies managing multiple high-budget client accounts simultaneously who need to produce thousands of creative variants and deploy them across Meta, TikTok, and CTV from a single workflow without losing campaign coherence.
❌ Not For
❌Small businesses and startups with monthly ad budgets under $10,000 who do not generate enough campaign data for Smartly's AI optimization to show meaningful lift, and for whom the platform's enterprise pricing model would consume an outsized share of their budget.
❌Individual marketers or lean teams looking for a simple, self-serve social ad tool with transparent flat pricing, as Smartly is priced as a percentage of media spend and requires a sales conversation to get started.
Availability
Platform & Accessibility
Omnisend
web-basedapimobile
Smartly
web-basedapi
Use & Audience
Tasks & Who It's For
Integrations
Integrations
Omnisend
E-commerce
ShopifyWooCommerceBigCommercePrestaShop
Automation
Zapier
Customer Support
Gorgias
Marketing
YotpoKlaviyo
Smartly
Marketing
Meta AdsTikTok AdsPinterest AdsSnapchat AdsGoogle AdsYouTube
E-commerce
Shopify
Data & Spreadsheets
Google Sheets
Use Cases
Real-world Use Cases
Omnisend
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Rachel Riley, a UK childrenswear brand, runs their entire email and SMS marketing on Omnisend and sees 48.1% of total store revenue attributed to Omnisend campaigns and automations during BFCM 2024, with year-over-year Omnisend-driven revenue growing 77%.2
A solo Shopify founder running a coffee brand uses Omnisend's pre-built abandoned cart automation to recover $3,200 in the first month after setup, without writing a single line of code or needing any marketing background.3
A fashion accessories brand uses Omnisend's AI send-time optimization to schedule the same campaign across 18,000 subscribers, each receiving it at their personal peak open time, lifting open rates by 31% versus their previous fixed-time sends.Smartly
1
A global fashion retailer uses Smartly to generate 8,000 localized creative variations for a pan-European product launch in 12 languages in one day, a task that previously took their creative team three weeks of manual production per market.2
Samsung's performance marketing team uses Smartly's predictive budget allocation to automatically shift spend across TikTok, Pinterest, and Meta in real time, eliminating the daily campaign review meeting and improving overall ROAS by 22% without increasing total media budget.3
A DTC food brand uses Smartly's creative rotation feature to automatically cycle 40 video ad variants across their Meta campaigns, reducing creative fatigue-driven CPM increases by 35% over a 90-day period compared to their previous manual rotation schedule.Keep Exploring
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