RudderStack vs mParticle

Don’t put up with price floors, data silos, black boxes, and rigid tools. RudderStack delivers the streaming capabilities you want from mParticle with more flexibility, and our warehouse native platform makes your data cloud a single source of truth to power every team.

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mParticle

More flexibility. More control.More power.

RudderStack is the real Warehouse Native CDP and the most flexible, cost effective mParticle alternative.

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Data lives in your cloud, not a black box
Transparent, configurable profile builder
Schema flexibility
Custom event transformations
Integrated data governance
SDK sources1820
Cloud sources30+0
Real time destinations200+300+
Warehouse destinations124
Reverse ETL sync times5 mins1 hour
Event replay
Live event viewerComprehensiveLimited
Powering consistent experiences for leading brands:
Grafana Labs
Crate & Barrel
AllBirds
Cars.com
HP
Grafana Labs
Crate & Barrel
AllBirds
Cars.com
HP

Key differentiators

Warehouse Native (really)

RudderStack’s builds customer profiles in your data cloud, making it the single source of truth, and enables you to easily activate profiles downstream. mParticles approach to warehouse activation forces you to maintain separate data silos.

Data ownership and lower TCO

With RudderStack, you own your data (reducing privacy and compliance risks), so you don’t pay us to store it. Plus, you don’t pay for engagement features you already have elsewhere, you get the infrastructure and activation tools you need without the bloat.

Extreme flexibility

RudderStack simplifies data collection, identity resolution, and activation without sacrificing flexibility. Define custom events, shape payloads with code-based transformations, and build fully configurable profiles in your warehouse. mParticle enforces a rigid event structure and limits the customization of events and profiles.

What our clients say about us

"Our previous CDP was a black box and it expected everything in very specific ways. That was a major blocker for us. Now I can build my own integrations, filter events, and enrich data, all through Transformations. I can solve problems on my timeline instead of waiting months for features."

Edvard Kristiansen

VP of Insights

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"We’re starting to proactively shape the customer experience through predictive traits. Our team has increased retention 1.7x by sending compelling, personalized offers to the customers we detect are likely to churn."

Mike Sperduti

VP of Data Engineering

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"Rudderstack's compliance toolkit allows us to remove PII from our analytics and stream different classes of product events to different destinations. Rules are easy to set up and have predictable results. We'd be lost without them!"

Imo Wright

Staff Data Engineer at Accurx

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We don’t store your data

We put privacy controls in your hands.

GDPR
SOC Type 2
HIPAA Compliant

More features our customers love

Real-time transformations

Apply templated transformations for common scenarios or write custom transformations for any use case with JavaScript or Python.

Schema Flexibility

Easily customize your events to match your business requirements with RudderStack’s flexible approach to schema management and validation.

Live events viewer

Debug quickly and effectively with a live events viewer that gives you granular, real-time visibility into events at the source, at transformation, and upon delivery.

Warehouse native profile builder

Build complete customer profiles for any entity, using transparent, customizable logic that runs entirely in your own data cloud.

Real-time API

Make the customer 360 from your warehouse available in real-time to power personalized experiences across your digital properties.

Best in class support

Go further, faster with support from a team that’s constantly praised by customers as knowledgeable, helpful, and extremely responsive.

Start delivering
business value faster

Implement RudderStack and start driving measurable business results in less than 90 days.