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SendGrid Reviews Summary

SendGrid has a rating of 1.7 stars from 57 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with SendGrid most frequently mention credit card and customer service. SendGrid ranks 223rd among Email Marketing sites.

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Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If I could give '0', I would. Horrible
April 30, 2024

I have been trying to get them to cancel my account for weeks now. Their double authentication does not work and I cannot access the account. There is nobody to speak with and the customer service is nonexistent. The only way to get them to stop billing you is to cancel your credit card. One of the worst companies I have ever dealt with.

Date of experience: April 30, 2024
Guatemala
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Had an account 10 years ago, tried to recuperate the password several times, email from email company never arrived.
Created new account with another domain I own. Received email telling me they can't create my account for security reasons but no reason given. Took me 2 wasted hours to arrive at that point. And I can leave this review in 2 minutes, totally worth it.

Date of experience: March 15, 2024
New Zealand
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I cannot believe that a company this size can be so incompetent. I worked through transferring my contacts ( 40,000+) from a competitor. I had several emails back and forth with them because of technical issues with adding people to the unsubscribe list. We spent a long time setting it up and then I sent the campaign. They stopped it after sending 9,000 emails saying there is "unusual activity in your account". There was no unusual activity - they are all legit. I contacted them via support ticket. They open my support ticket each time I sent it ( I can track their emails) - but they don't reply. I cannot contact them via chat online because it's broken and I cannot even create another ticket because "something went wrong". Unbelievable frustrating and incompetent. What sort of system is this? I believe I will be changing again shortly.

Date of experience: August 23, 2023
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worse Service Ever
August 1, 2023

We reported an issue 2 weeks ago and we are still waiting on a resolution or assistance. They do not help or follow up with any issues. I will be canceling this service. The worse experience ever.

Date of experience: August 1, 2023
Brazil
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Sendgrid got worse
March 23, 2023

Sendgrid got much worse the past few years, currently I can't even set up an account and use it without having to go through annoying hoops that get in the way. Impossible for a non-techie to signup and use

Date of experience: March 23, 2023
Belarus
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They just didn't accept my sign up and didn't state a reason for that. They just referenced a few docs none of which contained at least a single point my business violate. Highly disappointed

Date of experience: December 20, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Absolutely the worst software I've ever tried. Needed to use this for authentication because of the database I'm using and it takes forever to set it up, terrible UI and terrible service. Google auth a billion times better. $#*! this $#*!

Date of experience: June 13, 2022
GB
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Sendgrid are Terrible.

I once considered using them for my email service provider, but then I noticed that they were using my email address to send me spam emails. I got email after email from companies I'd never heard off, and I identified them all as being sent from Sendgrid (Spamcop stated this when it sent my spam complaints to the originator of each of the spam emails - ALL were from Sendgrid).

NONE of these spam emails had an unsubscribe link on them, so I couldn't unsubscribe and so I kept on getting more and more.

Without knowing an email address to write to to stop this deluge of spam there was nothing I could do to stop them. As a last resort I used hunter.io to find out all the email addresses associated with Sendgrid and I forwarded some of the spam emails to each of the Sendgrid addresses.

Surprise, surprise, that woke them up!

It seems that Sendgrid doesn't like receiving spam emails either!

But the email I got from the "Twilio SendGrid Abuse Team" (Twilio is their parent company) did not provide much confidence in them. Their lame effort was:

"Kindly note that Twilio is a data processor, not a data controller, and we cannot remove you from our customers' databases. Because many companies use us as a provider, we are not able to prevent you, globally, from receiving communications from us.

"Whilst we share in your frustration, if you're not receiving mail directly from us, but are receiving mail from one of our customers who is using the SendGrid platform, you will need to unsubscribe from each customer's mailing list individually."

In other words I was made to unsubscribe from each spam list that I hadn't subscribed to in the first place! Sendgrid set up the system that allows this to happen and yet they are unable to stop it happening. So "Don't blame us: blame the people who use us". I've never heard anything so pathetic and lame in all my life.

They even phrased it so that I felt a bit guilty about complaining about all the spam...

Since that time about early March I've been getting spam emails from them still, and each one I have to unsubscribe from individually.

Then the next one comes along, and I have to drop what I'm doing and unsubscribe from that.

Sendgrid and Twilio do not operate within the CAN-SPAM code of conduct or any other anti-spam directive; they are a feckless and useless company.

So God help the people who sign up for their service. Do they know that a lot of the emails they're paying for is being sent to people who don't want it? Probably not.

Do not use this company.

Date of experience: April 28, 2022
Argentina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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As a SaaS provider I have integrated through API, not only it was hard and required a couple of hacks, but I had to realise the hard way that a lot of their IPs are in RBLs and support won't remove them or take care of the offenders that led those to be blacklisted. As our client ended up with a 30% delivery rate they forced me to move to Amazon SES.

Date of experience: April 25, 2022
Peru
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrible service
April 11, 2022

Horrible service, horrible customer service, and they do everything they can to not let you cancel their service.

Campaigns weren't sending properly, had to make multiple tickets and spam their support so they actually work.

Customer service is extremely slow. And they don't help on their end, they mostly stick to their script speech telling you to read their guidelines. Sendinblue's service talks back in an hour and I spent a fraction of the price. Doesn't make sense. They don't put budget in service it seems.

They try their best to make get money out of you, can't remove credit cards, can't change them. Have to cancel in advance so if your team decides to change this month you can't, you're chained to their service. And they don't refund you. It's always your fault.

Despite having FREE plan they still keep charging, they are scammers.

Date of experience: April 11, 2022
Australia
13 reviews
27 helpful votes
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Next time you get spam from some shady sex/dating/gambling site - check the email headers. Odds are it's SendGrid pumping it out.

Super aggressive/unethical marketing emails breaking the law by having no unsubscribe function? Yep probably SendGrid.

Date of experience: February 21, 2022
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Can't get logged in
February 19, 2022

I've never experienced such a headache as I have with sendgrid once I signed up with the 2FA. I was able to sign in once, after that, I never received another code from the author app that I had to download to be able to sign in. I signed up with another email account, and set the 2FA to text me a code, I again received one text and have not been able to sign in again. You can't call in, they only offer that to the top tier customers. I have to try and rely on emails, fill out the form, wait. Get and email, wait, respond, wait. I'd go with another company.

Date of experience: February 19, 2022
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very unhappy with email deliverability issues
February 13, 2022

Sendgrid take no responsibility when it comes to their users abusing their service. I constantly have emails blocked because of abuse by another user of SendGrid - and while they assure me that they're doing "all they can", the emails still remain blocked - and I guess sending the emails from another IP address is out of the question...

I have clients complaining that their emails aren't getting sent - and to be able to find out, I need to pay for an addon to my paid account to be able to see the event history via API.

The support person also suggested that I upgrade to a plan, so I'm paying 6 times as much to be able to just have better email deliverability - which is why I started using SendGrid in the flipping first place!

What a crock...

Date of experience: February 13, 2022
Nevada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Over the top. Rude customer service. 5 years and will never recommend this company again. Do not waste your time so much better services to use!

Date of experience: January 14, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Complete spammers
August 24, 2021

This company is the pits. I get so much spam from them (from their clients) it is unreal. Spam is rare from the likes of Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Aweber etc but Sendgrid is incessant. They are a magnet for spammers. You send them an email to report it and their standard answer is to unsubscribe. Are you joking? Unsubscribe from something you never subscribed to? Doing so will just tell the spammer your email address is active. They don't seem to understand how spam works and the fact that by reporting it you're actually doing them a favour.

Date of experience: August 24, 2021
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Their website doesn't work. It simply takes you into loop and you can't enter any support details. Support response is pathetic.

Date of experience: July 27, 2021
Viet Nam
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I use 1000-2000 mails / month, I registered package with 40k mails. Someone put 400k spam emails to the system. Maybe the API keys is lost somehow. The Sendgrid helped to check the case and notified me to secure the account (I did not check it for 2 year). When I complaint about the monthly payment, Sendgrid checked the case and refund to customer. I'm appreciate about this.

Date of experience: June 4, 2021
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Can't access support unless logged in. Locked out for no reason. No warning was given and I cannot see anything they have sent that means we would be locked out. Terrible service. I was looking forward to using them.

Date of experience: November 17, 2020
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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All is well with Sendgrid until something breaks on the account. You then spend days pointlessly firing emails at support. Reputations are damaged - 100's of customers are complaining and you get nothing back from Sendgrid. This is the second account messup we have had in the last few months and it takes days to get some sort of resolution. I am looking forward to migrating off this platform as it seems to be f*&^^%d.

Date of experience: November 5, 2020
Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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BECAREFUL WITH SENDGRID., is a FRAUD!
I was on a 15 usd monthly plan for 5 months; on the 6th month they billed me for 1,800 usd from my card in one month, No explanation!
Sendgrid wont respond.

Date of experience: October 14, 2020

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