Segment — Customer Data Platform
Provider 
Founded 2008
Sells To Developer, Enterprise
Pricing Model Subscription, Usage-based
Ownership Public

Twilio Segment is Twilio's customer data platform, providing a single API to collect, unify, and activate first-party customer data.
Twilio Segment collects customer event data from websites, mobile apps, servers, and data warehouses, cleans and unifies it into shared customer profiles, and routes it to the tools a business already uses. Its product line spans a customer data pipeline for moving first-party data to hundreds of destinations, identity and profile unification, warehouse-native activation, and audience and journey engagement, with the official Twilio pages documenting 750-plus integrations and more than 550 built-in destinations.
Twilio acquired Segment in 2020 in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately 3.2 billion U.S. dollars, and the offering now operates under the Twilio brand on twilio.com, pairing Segment's customer data infrastructure with Twilio's communications products—messaging, voice, and email—so unified customer data can drive cross-channel engagement.
| Attribute | Segment — Customer Data Platform | Adobe Real-Time CDP | Complete CDP | mParticle — Customer Data Platform | Salesforce Data 360 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||||||
| Founded | 2008 | 1982 | 2011 | 2012 | 1999 | |
| Sells To | Developer, Enterprise | Enterprise | — | Enterprise | Enterprise, Small Business | |
| Pricing Model | Subscription, Usage-based | — | Recurring | Recurring, Software, Usage-based | Recurring | |
| Ownership | Public | — | Private Equity, Venture Capital | Equity, Venture Capital | Public |
Provider 
Founded 2008
Sells To Developer, Enterprise
Pricing Model Subscription, Usage-based
Ownership Public
Provider 
Founded 1982
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model —
Ownership —
Provider 
Founded 2011
Sells To —
Pricing Model Recurring
Ownership Private Equity, Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2012
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software, Usage-based
Ownership Equity, Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 1999
Sells To Enterprise, Small Business
Pricing Model Recurring
Ownership Public

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