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AWS Pinpoint alternatives, before October 30, 2026.

Amazon Pinpoint reaches end of support on October 30, 2026, and stopped accepting new customers in May 2025. Push and SMS APIs continue under AWS End User Messaging; campaigns, journeys, segments, and analytics do not. This roundup compares five real alternatives — including the official AWS path — with dated pricing and honest verdicts.

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deadline · October 30, 2026

Amazon Pinpoint reaches end of support on October 30, 2026.

What breaks: The Pinpoint console and all Pinpoint engagement resources — endpoints, segments, campaigns, journeys, and analytics — become inaccessible. Pinpoint has been closed to new customers since May 20, 2025.

What continues: Push, SMS, voice, and OTP APIs continue under AWS End User Messaging. AWS points campaigns and journeys at Amazon Connect, and email at Amazon SES.

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the options

What should replace AWS Pinpoint? Ranked, honestly.

AWS End User Messaging

Official AWS successor (channels)

Best for teams staying on AWS that used Pinpoint primarily as a delivery pipe. It is the official successor for push, SMS, voice, and OTP — the same channel APIs, continued — so migration work is minimal. It has no campaign authoring, journeys, or segment builder; AWS points those at Amazon Connect.

Pay-as-you-go: first 1M push notifications/mo free, then $1 per additional 1M; SMS priced per message by destination country. As of June 2026.

Ambathat’s us

Agent-native engagement backend

Best when Pinpoint was your engagement layer — segments, scheduled push campaigns, analytics — and you want it back as one surface instead of two AWS products. An AI agent recreates exported segments and campaigns over MCP, and the same backend adds auth, data, streaks, and an economy. Honest limit: Amba does not send SMS.

Free (1,000 MAU, 1K push/mo), Pro $20/mo (50K push), Scale $200/mo (500K push), posted linear overages — no sales call. As of June 2026.

Braze

Enterprise engagement platform

Best for large brands replacing Pinpoint journeys with deeper cross-channel orchestration — the Canvas journey builder, real-time segmentation, push, email, SMS, and WhatsApp — operated by a marketing team. Enterprise-only: no free tier, no self-serve, sales-led contracts.

Enterprise-only, contact sales; third-party estimates put typical deployments in the six figures annually. Treat dollar figures as estimates. As of June 2026.

OneSignal

Push & messaging channel

Best when you only need the push channel replaced, quickly and cheaply, on top of a backend you already run. Mature deliverability, a huge install base, and a generous free tier — but it stores subscribers and segments for messaging, not your app’s domain data.

Free tier (unlimited push subscribers), paid plans from ~$19/mo metered on subscribers and message volume. As of June 2026.

Customer.io

Behavioral messaging automation

Best for product and growth teams that used Pinpoint journeys for event-triggered messaging and want a more capable automation layer — visual journeys, real-time profiles, omnichannel sends — over events you pipe in from a backend you already operate.

Usage-based from ~$100/mo (Essentials); Premium from ~$1,000/mo; Enterprise custom. As of June 2026.

Amba builds this site — it appears once, with the same honest verdict standard as every other option. Pricing verified June 2026; enterprise figures are third-party estimates.

at a glance

Every option, capability by capability.

capabilityAWS EUMAmbaBrazeOneSignalCustomer.io
One backend (auth + data + push + economy + social)
Push notifications (iOS + Android, scheduled)
Live user segments from rulespartial
Daily content scheduling / CMSpartial
Product analytics (events, funnels, retention)partialpartialpartial
Agent installs the whole backend over MCPpartialpartialpartial
Free, self-serve start — no sales callpartial

● built-in · partial = limited / add-on · — not offered. “Agent installs the whole backend” means the MCP surface is an entire app backend, not read/write access to one product.

What exactly shuts down on October 30, 2026?

After October 30, 2026, the Amazon Pinpoint console and Pinpoint resources — endpoints, segments, campaigns, journeys, and analytics — become inaccessible. The channel APIs (push, SMS, voice, OTP) are not affected: they were renamed AWS End User Messaging in 2024 and continue. AWS recommends Amazon Connect outbound campaigns for the engagement features and Amazon SES for email. In short: the pipes survive, the engagement product goes away.

Is AWS End User Messaging the same thing as Pinpoint?

No — it is the surviving half. AWS End User Messaging is the official successor for Pinpoint’s delivery APIs: push notifications, SMS, voice, and OTP. What it does not carry over is everything many teams actually used Pinpoint for: campaign authoring, journeys, the segment builder, and engagement analytics. Those map to Amazon Connect — a contact-center product — or to a third-party replacement.

Should you replace Pinpoint with one tool or two?

If you only used Pinpoint as a delivery pipe, AWS End User Messaging is a near-drop-in and the cheapest path. If you used campaigns, segments, and journeys, you also need an engagement layer: Amazon Connect (built for contact centers), an enterprise platform like Braze, or an engagement backend like Amba, where segments, scheduled push campaigns, and analytics live in one surface an AI agent can recreate from your Pinpoint export. Teams that send SMS keep AWS End User Messaging for that channel either way.

the agent path

Hand the switch to your coding agent

Amba’s MCP server at https://mcp.amba.dev provisions the account, project, and keys with no browser — amba_developer_signup mints everything in one call. Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-capable agent:

Connect to the Amba MCP server at https://mcp.amba.dev and call amba_developer_signup to create an account and project — the response includes the developer token and project keys. Then recreate my exported Pinpoint engagement setup: one amba_segments_create call per segment (project_id, name, rules) and one amba_push_campaigns_create call per campaign (project_id, title, body, optional segment_id and scheduled_at). Verify delivery with amba_push_send_test before scheduling anything.
questions

AWS Pinpoint alternatives — FAQ

When does AWS Pinpoint shut down?

Amazon Pinpoint reaches end of support on October 30, 2026, and stopped accepting new customers on May 20, 2025. After the deadline you can no longer access the Pinpoint console or resources — endpoints, segments, campaigns, journeys, and analytics. The push, SMS, voice, and OTP APIs continue under AWS End User Messaging.

What is the official replacement for AWS Pinpoint?

AWS splits it in two: AWS End User Messaging is the official successor for the delivery APIs (push, SMS, voice, OTP), and Amazon Connect outbound campaigns is AWS’s recommended home for campaigns, journeys, and segments, with SES for email. No single AWS service replaces all of Pinpoint.

What happens to my Pinpoint segments and campaigns?

They become inaccessible after October 30, 2026 — export them before the deadline. Segment definitions and campaign configs don’t import anywhere automatically; you recreate them in whichever replacement you choose. An AI agent can rebuild them on Amba over MCP with amba_segments_create and amba_push_campaigns_create from your exported definitions.

Is Amba a drop-in replacement for AWS Pinpoint?

For push engagement, mostly: rule-based segments, scheduled push campaigns, and analytics live in one backend an agent recreates from your export. Amba does not send SMS — keep AWS End User Messaging for that channel. The migration guide covers the export-and-recreate sequence step by step.

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Competitor pricing verified June 2026. Enterprise figures are third-party estimates.

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