Adobe Real-Time CDP vs Lytics

Adobe Real-Time CDP9.2Visit Lytics8.5Visit

Higher score Adobe Real-Time CDP #2 in Customer Data Platforms 9.2/10 Pricing on request ✓ 3 of 3 features Visit Adobe CDP

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Lytics #8 in Customer Data Platforms 8.5/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 3 of 3 features Visit Lytics

• Adobe Real-Time CDP fits best

  Adobe-stack enterprise marketing organizations

• Lytics fits best

  Teams prioritizing profile and audience operations

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Side by side

Feature	Adobe Real-Time CDP 9.2/10 Visit ↗	Lytics 8.5/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.2	8.5
Ranking	#2 in Customer Data Platforms	#8 in Customer Data Platforms
Best for	Adobe-stack enterprise marketing organizations	Teams prioritizing profile and audience operations
Pricing model	Paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	—	—
Free plan	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, Android
Support	Community, Docs	Email, Phone, Docs
Compliance	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR	SOC 2, GDPR, SSO/SAML, 2FA
Integrations	9 integrations	6 integrations
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Adobe Real-Time CDP 3/3 · Lytics 3/3
Real-time profiles	✓	✓
Identity resolution	✓	✓
Audience activation	✓	✓
Specs
Data ingestion	Both	Both
Source connectors	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Destination connectors	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Unifies real-time customer and account profiles with identity resolution Supports batch, streaming, and edge segmentation with audience activation Adds governance, consent controls, predictive scoring, and look-alike audiences	Real-time unified profiles with identity resolution Audience membership updates in real time Broad ingestion, warehouse, and activation options
Cons	No free plan is available Pricing requires contacting Adobe and is based on profile volume Its strongest fit is organizations already working across Adobe Experience Platform	Developer access is capped at 2 million credits per month Activation routes through APIs, exports, or integrations Schema and identity-rule configuration can require planning
Our verdict	Adobe Real-Time CDP is an enterprise customer data platform built on Adobe Experience Platform. It brings together known, pseudonymous, online, offline, and partner data into unified customer and account profiles. B2C brands can use the… Read the review →	Lytics is a customer data platform for marketers, data teams, and enterprises that need to collect behavioral and customer data, resolve identities, manage unified profiles, build audiences, and activate them across marketing and… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Adobe Real-Time CDP — where it wins

  • Unifies real-time customer and account profiles with identity resolution
  • Supports batch, streaming, and edge segmentation with audience activation
  • Adds governance, consent controls, predictive scoring, and look-alike audiences

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan is available
  • Pricing requires contacting Adobe and is based on profile volume
  • Its strongest fit is organizations already working across Adobe Experience Platform

• Lytics — where it wins

  • Real-time unified profiles with identity resolution
  • Audience membership updates in real time
  • Broad ingestion, warehouse, and activation options

  Where it doesn't

  • Developer access is capped at 2 million credits per month
  • Activation routes through APIs, exports, or integrations
  • Schema and identity-rule configuration can require planning

• Adobe Real-Time CDP9.2/10 · Pricing on request

  A full-featured CDP for enterprises standardizing customer data across Adobe workflows.

  Visit Adobe CDPFull verdict →
• Lytics8.5/10 · Free plan

  A real-time CDP for teams managing identity, audiences, and activation.

  Visit LyticsFull verdict →