Email Marketing Platforms · reliability comparison
ActiveCampaign vs Brevo: which is more reliable? (2026)
Brevo is more reliable than ActiveCampaign, scoring 70.5 vs 49.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days ActiveCampaign reported 9 incidents and Brevo reported 29, with effective uptime of 98.11% and 99.68% respectively. Brevo resolves incidents faster on average (1h 24m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | ActiveCampaign | Brevo |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 49.1 | 70.5 |
| Rank (email marketing platforms) | #13 | #10 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.11% | 99.68% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 9 | 29 |
| Partial / major outages | 7 | 5 |
| Avg time to resolve | 5h 36m | 1h 24m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where ActiveCampaign and Brevo differ
- Brevo reported 3.2× as many incidents as ActiveCampaign over the last 90 days (29 vs 9).
- ActiveCampaign had 7 partial or major outages, compared with 5 for Brevo.
- Brevo fixes problems faster: 1h 24m on average, against 5h 36m for ActiveCampaign (4.0× quicker).
- ActiveCampaign's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Feb 10, 2026); Brevo's lasted 2h 2m (Oct 1, 2026).
90-day uptime
ActiveCampaign
Brevo
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent ActiveCampaign incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 35m
Delayed Processing for Imports, Exports, Bulk Actions, and Campaign sending.
Affected: Campaigns
- Major outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 8h 39m
Affected: API Availability, Email, API Availability, API Availability, SMS, ARC & ARC Services +36 more
- InformationalOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 13m
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 3h 23m
Whatsapp message responses delayed
Affected: WhatsApp
- Major outageSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 3h 50m
Affected: Email
- Partial outageSep 14, 2026 · resolved in 26m
Bulk Edit of contacts is not applying filters.
Affected: CRM, CRM, CRM
Recent Brevo incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 4h 21m
Affected: Marketing email tracking links, Transactional emails delivery, Outbound Webhooks, Workflows, Contacts, Meetings +4 more
- Degraded performanceOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 2h 11m
Error with doubleOptinConfirmation API
Affected: Contact Management API
- InformationalOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 55m
- Degraded performanceOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 20m
Affected: Account and Settings API
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 10m
Affected: Transactional emails tracking links, Transactional emails delivery, Brevo Tracker, Workflows
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 12m
Delay in Processing Loyalty API request
Affected: Loyalty API
Other email marketing platforms to consider
- Drip · #1 · 100% uptime
- MailerLite · #2 · 100% uptime
- Omnisend · #3 · 100% uptime
- AWeber · #4 · 100% uptime
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