# Notifly vs Knock

Canonical page: https://notifly.io/compare/knock
Claims last checked: 2026-11-08
Verified November 8, 2026 by the Notifly team. Every claim about Knock links the page it was read from, and this date is the day those pages were last read.

Knock alternatives compared on price: Knock Starter is $250/month plus per-message overage; Notifly is flat-rate, free to start, with roles on $149 Team.

Knock bills per message and reserves SAML SSO, SCIM, custom roles, and translations for its Enterprise plan. Notifly's flat plans start at $0 and put roles and translations on a $149 tier.

## Side by side

| Feature | Notifly | Knock (hosted plans) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pricing model | Flat plan, metered on trigger events | Per message — $0.005/message over the Starter allowance | https://knock.app/pricing |
| Free-plan volume | 10,000 events/month | 10K messages/month on Free | https://knock.app/pricing |
| First paid tier | $19/month (50,000 events) | $250/month Starter (50K messages) | https://knock.app/pricing |
| Fan-out across channels | One event, every channel it routes to | Each channel send counts as a message | https://knock.app/pricing |
| Message log retention | 24h free, 7 days Pro, 90 days Team | 30 days on Free and Starter, 90 days on Enterprise | https://knock.app/pricing |
| SAML 2.0 SSO | Enterprise | Enterprise only (Google SSO on lower plans) | https://knock.app/pricing |
| Directory sync (SCIM) | Enterprise | Enterprise only | https://knock.app/pricing |
| Custom roles and permissions | Team — $149/month | Enterprise only | https://knock.app/pricing |
| Translations (i18n) | Team — $149/month | “Only available on our Enterprise plan” | https://docs.knock.app/concepts/translations |
| Audit log of account events | Included on every plan, with CSV/NDJSON export | Enterprise plan | https://knock.app/enterprise |
| Remove vendor branding | Pro and up ($19/month) | Starter and up — not on Free | https://knock.app/pricing |
| In-app guides / guide recipients | In-app inbox, no per-user metering | Guides billed per guide recipient — 500 on Free, 2,500 on Starter, then $0.05 each on Starter; Enterprise priced by sales | https://knock.app/pricing |
| Team members | 3 on Free and Pro, unlimited on Team | Unlimited on all plans | https://knock.app/pricing |

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Notifly a good Knock alternative?

It is if your Knock bill is driven by message count, or if you need roles and translations without an Enterprise contract. Notifly meters the workflow trigger rather than each channel send, and puts role-based access control, translations and custom environments on a $149 self-serve plan. It is a weaker fit if you rely on Knock's in-app guides or need unlimited seats on a free plan.

### How does Knock compare with SuprSend?

Going by our own sourced comparisons of each: both meter every channel a notification reaches rather than the trigger, both give the free plan 10,000 messages or notifications a month, both offer unlimited team members on every plan, and both keep role-based access control on Enterprise. Where they differ on price is the first paid plan: Knock's Starter is $250 a month for 50K messages, while SuprSend's Essentials is $100 a month, billed annually, for 50,000 notifications. Notifly's Pro is $19 a month for 50,000 events, counted per trigger.

### What does per-message billing actually cost you?

The number that matters is not the first invoice, it is the second one. Digests, retries, multi-channel fan-out, and a growing in-app feed all multiply message count against a rate you cannot renegotiate. Notifly meters the trigger event instead: one workflow run is one event whether it lands in an inbox, an email, and a push, so fan-out changes your delivery bill with your own providers rather than your platform bill with us.

### How do I migrate from Knock to Notifly?

Create a free workspace, connect the email, SMS, push and chat providers you already use, and rebuild each Knock workflow in Notifly's visual editor with the same steps — channel sends, digest, delay and throttle. Then replace each Knock workflow trigger in your backend with POST /v1/events/trigger, sync your users as subscribers over the API, and move in-app feed rendering to Notifly's inbox. Run both side by side in the Development environment before you cut over.

### Which channels does Notifly support?

Email, SMS, mobile and web push, chat — Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp Business and more — and a real-time in-app inbox, across 70+ provider integrations, on every plan including the free one. You connect your own provider accounts and pay them directly.

### Do roles, translations or SSO need an Enterprise contract on Notifly?

Roles, translations, custom environments and an unlimited team are on the $149 Team plan, which you can buy self-serve. Start free; try Pro free for 14 days whenever you’re ready, no card needed. The audit log is on every plan. Only SAML or OIDC single sign-on and SCIM directory sync are Enterprise — the same as on Knock — and sales@notifly.io sets those up.

### How many team members can I add?

Three on the Free and Pro plans, and unlimited on Team. Knock includes unlimited team members on every plan, including its Free plan, so if seats are your only constraint Knock is more generous there.

### What does Knock do that Notifly doesn't?

Honesty cuts both ways. Knock is a polished product with a strong workflow editor, an in-app guides product — paywalls, dialogs and nudges built from your own components — that Notifly has no equivalent for, and a security and support organization sized for large customers. Unlimited team members are included on every one of its plans, including the free one, where Notifly caps Free and Pro at three. If seats are your constraint rather than roles or translations, that difference is real.

## Pricing breakdown

- Knock pricing: https://notifly.io/compare/knock/pricing (markdown: https://notifly.io/compare/knock/pricing.md) — What Knock costs in 2026: the Free plan, Starter at $250 with 50K messages then $0.005 each, worked bills at 10,000 to 500,000 messages, and Notifly's flat plans beside them.

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