MailHardener provides a focused suite of tools primarily centered around DMARC, SPF, and DKIM enforcement. We found its DMARC report analysis robust, offering clear insights into authentication failures and legitimate traffic patterns.
Beyond DMARC, it includes features for SPF flattening, hosted DMARC, and DNS monitoring, which are crucial for maintaining email security and compliance. Its strength lies in its specialized approach to email authentication, making it a powerful tool for DMARC-centric needs.
Everest, on the other hand, offers a much broader platform, encompassing a wide array of email deliverability features beyond just DMARC. We experienced its capabilities for inbox placement testing, reputation monitoring (including blocklists), and email validation.
While its DMARC reporting is present, it's part of a larger ecosystem that also addresses email design testing, competitive intelligence, and engagement analytics. Everest aims to be a complete email success platform, providing a holistic view of email performance.
How easy is each product to use
User experience
MailHardener’s user interface is straightforward and purpose-built. We found it relatively easy to navigate, especially for those who are primarily concerned with DMARC implementation and monitoring. The dashboards present DMARC data clearly, making it simple to identify authentication issues.
Setting up policies and domain configurations is intuitive, focusing on core DMARC functionalities without unnecessary clutter. It's a pragmatic design that prioritizes efficiency for specific tasks.
Everest has a more extensive platform, which inherently means a steeper learning curve for new users. We found that while it offers powerful customization for dashboards, it can initially be challenging to find specific data or features due to the sheer volume of options.
However, once we became familiar with the layout, the ability to aggregate multiple data sources and create personalized views became a significant advantage. It requires an investment of time to master, but pays off with comprehensive insights.
Which product has the best support
Support
Our experience with MailHardener's support has been consistently positive, especially for DMARC-related queries. Their team demonstrated deep expertise in email authentication protocols and were able to provide clear, actionable advice.
Response times were generally good, and we appreciated their direct approach to troubleshooting specific DMARC implementation challenges. It feels like a dedicated support team focused on their specialized product.
Everest's support, while available, can be a mixed bag according to user feedback and our own observations. While some users report positive experiences with dedicated account managers, others mentioned challenges with technical questions taking longer to resolve.
The breadth of the platform means support staff need a wide range of knowledge, which can sometimes lead to less granular expertise in specific areas. Onboarding can also be a more involved process, requiring sustained engagement to fully leverage the platform.
Who should use each product
Suitability
MailHardener is exceptionally well-suited for organizations, from SMBs to enterprises, that prioritize robust DMARC enforcement and email authentication. MSPs will find its multi-tenancy features beneficial for managing multiple client domains efficiently.
If your primary goal is to achieve DMARC compliance, prevent email spoofing, and gain clear visibility into your authentication data, MailHardener offers a powerful and dedicated solution without the complexity of a broader deliverability suite.
Everest caters to a wider audience, particularly mid-market to enterprise-level organizations that require a comprehensive email success platform. It's ideal for marketing and deliverability teams looking for an all-in-one solution that covers inbox placement, reputation, design, and analytics.
For MSPs, Everest can offer a broad array of services to clients, though its DMARC features might be less specialized than MailHardener's. If you need a full 360-degree view of your email program's health and performance, Everest provides a robust, albeit more complex, ecosystem.
How does MailHardener compare with Everest?
DMARC report analysis
Detailed analysis of DMARC aggregate and forensic reports.
Core strength, offering deep insights and clear visualizations.
Included as part of a broader deliverability suite.
Source detection
Identifies email sending sources.
Automatically categorizes sending sources for easier management.
Helps in identifying known and unknown sending infrastructure.
Forward detection
Identifies email forwarding activity.
Helps understand how emails are being routed and re-authenticated.
Assists in diagnosing deliverability issues related to forwarding.
Spoof detection
Detects attempts at email impersonation.
Central to DMARC's purpose, with robust alerting.
Provides insights into potential brand abuse and phishing.
Notifications and alerts
Automated alerts for DMARC failures, spoofing, and other issues.
Configurable alerts for critical DMARC events.
Alerts for various deliverability and reputation metrics.
Reporting
Comprehensive dashboards and customizable reports.
Focused, clear, and actionable DMARC reports.
Extensive reporting across all aspects of email deliverability.
API
Application Programming Interface for integration.
Available for integrating DMARC data.
Comprehensive APIs for various features, though some users report issues.
Multi-tenancy
Ability to manage multiple client accounts from a single interface.
Excellent for MSPs managing multiple domains.
Designed for agencies and larger teams.
SPF flattening
Helps manage SPF DNS lookup limits.
Key feature to prevent SPF lookup failures.
Not a primary feature within Everest.
Hosted DMARC
DMARC record hosting and management.
Simplifies DMARC record deployment.
Requires DMARC record to be hosted externally.
BIMI
Brand Indicators for Message Identification support.
Assists with BIMI implementation and monitoring.
BIMI support is not a core offering.
MTA-STS/TLS-RPT
Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security and TLS Reporting.
Offers tools for MTA-STS and TLS-RPT implementation.
Not a focus area for Everest.
Blocklists and reputation
Monitoring of IP/domain blocklists and sender reputation.
Monitors major blocklists for proactive reputation management.
Robust reputation monitoring, including blocklists and IP certification.
AI copilot
AI-powered assistance for insights or actions.
No AI copilot feature identified.
No dedicated AI copilot feature.
DNS monitoring
Monitors DNS records for changes or issues.
Helps detect critical DNS record problems affecting email.
Provides some DNS health checks within its broader monitoring.
Self hostable
Option to host the software on your own infrastructure.
Cloud-based SaaS solution only.
Cloud-based SaaS solution only.
Free trial/free tier
Availability of a free trial or a permanent free plan.
Offers a free tier with basic functionalities.
Elements plan offers a small volume free tier.
Drawbacks and what to watch out for
MailHardener, while highly specialized and effective for DMARC, lacks the broader deliverability features that some larger organizations might need, such as advanced inbox placement testing or granular engagement analytics. Everest, despite its comprehensive feature set, can be complex to navigate initially, and some users report inconsistencies with customer support and API integrations, and its email validation for services like Gmail can be unreliable.
We have pulled the average ratings from G2 for each product, and also included the most recent negative reviews for each product in full. Positive reviews tend to have less detail and have a higher chance of being fraudulent, so negative reviews are a better signal for your decision.
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4.2 / 5(189)
No G2 reviews
G2 is the most popular review platform for DMARC products, so this is a strong signal that this product is not popular.
Shady sales practice shoot down ok software - don't use these guys
0.5 / 5
What do you like best about Everest?
The software is decent and the validation program works for Microsoft (Hotmail etc) based email, but not for Gmail
What do you dislike about Everest?
Terrible sales practice. Call you within 45 days of renewal, when you ask to change you are told you can't as there is a hidden lock-in in the T+Cs, you need to give 60 days' notice.
Legal but shady, we renewed and then immediately gave notice for next year. They used to be good not so now.
Recommendations to others considering Everest:
Find another supplier, these guys are sharks
What problems is Everest solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helped delivery to MS-based email
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Good for Beginners in Deliverability...Could be Better for Pros
2.0 / 5
What do you like best about Everest?
Setting up Dashboards to monitor all deliverability metrics
What do you dislike about Everest?
Support is okay, but it could be lot better
Navigational aids are not comparable to other industry-rated tools.
Recommendations to others considering Everest:
New to the deliverability landscape, this tool is perfect for you, but if you are an industry pro and understand the ins and outs of deliverability I would look elsewhere.
What problems is Everest solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improving inbox placement
Lowering spam complaints
Bryan P.
Email, SMS Marketing Director Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Review after using more than 2 months
2.5 / 5
What do you like best about Everest?
Able to help in domain and IP blacklisted daily checking.
Quick display the domain reputation status.
After using Inbox placement service and domains/IP pools, feel their interface is nice and clear.
What do you dislike about Everest?
Does not provide the IP or domain score with ISP like Hotmail and Yahoo.
Inbox percentage in accurate due to need send to all seed's ISP just able to get the score.
Inbox percentage for Hotmail does not accurate.
Does not provide whitelisting service for IPs. It is just a simple domain blacklisting status system.
What problems is Everest solving and how is that benefiting you?
None of the problem have been solving through this Everest. It just a inbox placement display system only.
Easily noticed on domain blacklisted only. Other than this are nothing.
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
It's been really difficult to switch over to Everest from Return Path due to seedlist testing issues
2.5 / 5
What do you like best about Everest?
I like the accessibility to create dashboards and share across the org.
What do you dislike about Everest?
The only downside was that it was extremely difficult to switch over to everest from return path due to seedlisting issues mainly from our ESP, Braze
What problems is Everest solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly using everest for deliverability measurement. havent had the chance to use it for more since we've been spending a lot of time switching platforms.
Verified User in Food & Beverages
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
So far not so good
3.0 / 5
What do you like best about Everest?
We've been working on setting up since mid-August, but due to issues on the platform side, have been unable to fully set up. That said, our account manager has been responsive and diligently working on getting the issues resolved, so I would say that the user support is the best part.
What do you dislike about Everest?
We're on our third month trying to get set up due to platform issues, which I think is not great considering the price. Return Path set up went much smoother, and we were able to get started right away without a hitch.
Recommendations to others considering Everest:
Prepare for a longer-than-estimated setup process.
What problems is Everest solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring email deliverability is of utmost importance to our business. Being able to see when things take a turn for the worse and being able to react quickly helps us keep our email reputation positive and keeps our emails in user's inboxes!
Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Pricing
MailHardener provides clearer, simpler pricing for its DMARC-focused services, while Everest's pricing is more complex and tiered, reflecting its broader suite of deliverability features.
Small
Up to 10k emails / month
Free tier available for smaller volumes, Standard plan starts at 49 EUR/month
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