---
title: BuzzKit vs Braze
description: An open source alternative to Braze for teams that want push as infrastructure, not a contract.
canonical: https://buzzkit.dev/compare/braze
last-updated: 2026-09-02
---

# BuzzKit vs Braze. Push infrastructure without the enterprise contract.

Braze is an enterprise engagement platform sold to marketing teams. BuzzKit is push as infrastructure for developers, open source and ready in an afternoon.

## Side by side

| Capability | BuzzKit | Braze |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Channels** | | |
| iOS push | Yes | Yes |
| Live Activities | Yes | Yes |
| Android push | Soon | Yes |
| Email | Soon | Yes |
| SMS | Soon | Yes |
| In-app messages | — | Yes |
| **Sending** | | |
| Your own APNs and FCM keys | Yes | Yes |
| Action buttons and deep links | Yes | Yes |
| Delivery in each subscriber’s time zone | Yes | Yes |
| Quiet hours and daily caps | Yes | Yes |
| A ledger of every delivery attempt | Yes | Yes |
| **Audience** | | |
| Subscribers by your own ids | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited subscribers | Yes | Priced per active user |
| Segments over attributes and events | Yes | Yes |
| Topics and preferences | Yes | Yes |
| Tenants for platforms built on top of it | Yes | — |
| **Automation** | | |
| Workflows that start from user events | Yes | Yes |
| Conditions on what the user did | Yes | Yes |
| Wait for an event | Yes | Yes |
| Wait for a quiet moment on the device | Yes | — |
| Branches and loops | Yes | Yes |
| Call your own API from a step | Yes | Yes |
| Workflows as versioned specs | Yes | — |
| Webhooks from other tools as events | Yes | Integrations |
| **Platform** | | |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted on your infrastructure | Yes | — |
| Pricing | Per delivery | Custom contract |
| Free plan | Yes | — |

## Choose BuzzKit when

- You want everything a push needs in one place: sending, segments, scheduling, preferences, workflows and a ledger, from one POST.
- Engineers own notifications and want an API, a spec and a ledger.
- You want to start in an afternoon without a sales process.
- You run a platform and need isolated tenants with their own keys.

## Choose Braze when

- A marketing team runs campaigns across many channels from a console.
- You need in-app messages, content cards and cross-channel analytics.
- You need enterprise support and compliance programs today.

## Questions

### Is BuzzKit meant for the same teams as Braze?

BuzzKit is built for developers who want push as infrastructure they own, while Braze serves marketing and growth teams with a console across many channels. Some companies will use one of each.

### Can BuzzKit handle enterprise scale?

Sends fan out through a durable queue in pages, retries are scheduled with backoff, and each subscriber lives on its own Durable Object. A million-subscriber topic is thousands of small jobs that resume from a cursor if anything dies.

### Does BuzzKit have analytics?

The dashboard shows subscribers, deliveries, events and runs over time, and every message carries counts per outcome. Deeper analysis reads the event stream, which is yours to query.

## Start

- [Start sending](https://buzzkit.dev/dashboard)
- [API Reference](https://docs.buzzkit.dev)
- [BuzzKit on GitHub](https://github.com/buzzkit-dev/buzzkit)