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Notification infrastructure for product teams

Best for: Product teams building notification infrastructure for multi-tenant SaaS products

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The editorial note

What to know about Knock

Knock is a developer-focused notification infrastructure platform for building multi-channel notification systems. It handles email, SMS, push, in-app, Slack, and webhook notifications through a workflow engine and a pre-built notification center component. Unlike Novu (open-source), Knock is a managed SaaS with enterprise features including tenant management, user preferences, and notification analytics.

Is it right for you?

Who Knock suits

Choose it if

  • Product teams building notification infrastructure for multi-tenant SaaS products

Look elsewhere if

  • Simple single-channel notification use cases (Resend for email alone is simpler)

What you get

Key features

  • Multi-channel workflows
  • Notification center
  • User preferences
  • Tenant isolation
  • Analytics
  • Email, SMS, push, Slack
  • API

Works with

Integrations7

The trade-off

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Multi-tenant support
  • Notification center component
  • User preferences management
  • Workflow engine
  • Great documentation
  • Generous free tier

Cons

  • Pricing at scale
  • Managed only (no self-hosting)
  • Less known than Novu

Quick read

At a glance

Category
Development & Coding
Pricing model
Freemium
Free plan
Available
Free trial
Not listed
Website
knock.app

The verdict

Our take on Knock

Best managed notification platform for multi-tenant SaaS. Knock's tenant isolation and user preferences management solve real problems for product teams.

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