Brevo
French email marketing and CRM platform formerly known as Sendinblue. Trusted by 600,000+ businesses across 180 countries with a generous free tier and GDPR-native infrastructure.
Quick facts
Combines email marketing, SMS, CRM and live chat in one platform with a genuinely usable free tier, so small businesses can run a full campaign stack without stitching several tools together.
Some advanced automation and reporting features that come standard in Mailchimp or HubSpot sit behind higher-tier paid plans.
Why does it score 83?
Incorporated in Paris, France – a full EU member state.
Backed by private equity investors, though management and employees became the largest shareholder group after a 2026 buyout.
Brevo runs its own infrastructure across France and Germany rather than leasing capacity from a big cloud provider.
GDPR-native by design, but the platform isn't open source and there's no independently published audit on record.
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BrevoWhat does it replace?
Mailchimp 
Hubspot 
Activecampaign 
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