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Email marketing platforms · October 2026 Edition

Sender vs Klaviyo

Zero of fourteen models named Sender first on the direct prompt; zero named Klaviyo. Sender was named by ten of the fourteen models and Klaviyo by twelve and Sender carries 10 labels and Klaviyo 26, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Sender

accepted challenger

Vilnius, Lithuania, founded 2012. Named in eight categories this edition.

Klaviyo

accepted challenger

Boston, United States, founded 2012. Named in thirteen categories this edition.

First-choice share4%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%15%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels1026A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Sender reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.HubSpot Marketing Hub was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Sender · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Klaviyo · ActiveCampaign vs Sender

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the email marketing platforms page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
SenderFirst choices, of fourteen modelsKlaviyo
Direct00
Paraphrase001 against Klaviyo
Comparative02
Budget-constrained20
Scale-constrained01
Negative013 against Klaviyo
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Sender and Klaviyo stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Sender Klaviyo first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Sender on the left and Klaviyo on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Sender and Klaviyo stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
DeepSeek V4 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
GLM 4.7 FlashXHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Brevo, Klaviyo

Neither was named

12 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Brevo, GetResponse
GPT-5.4 miniHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Gemini 3.5 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Customer.io, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Perplexity SonarHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Outreach, Salesloft, ZoomInfo Marketing
Grok 4.1 FastHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage
Mistral SmallActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub
Llama 4 MaverickActiveCampaign alternatives: Dotdigital, Salesforce Email Marketing
Qwen 3.7 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, SharpSpring
Kimi K2ActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub
MiniMax M2.5ActiveCampaign alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
GPT-6 LunaHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Muse Glimmer 30BActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Sender leads by eleven points.
Sender11%#5 of 11
Klaviyo0%#9 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Sender leads by two points.
Sender4%#5 of 14
Klaviyo2%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Klaviyo leads at enterprise.
Klaviyo2%#9 of 13
Sender0%#– of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Sender

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Klaviyo

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“Avoid tools like ... Klaviyo (ecommerce-focused) for serious B2B lead nurturing.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Category A: The "Growth" Platform (Most Likely Fit) *Examples:* ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo (if E-commerce), Drip, Keap.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.