See why MSPs choose Palisade over Sendmarc

Switching to Palisade is frictionless. Our team handles the entire migration—domain DNS configuration, historical enforcement data transfer, and all client setup. You’ll have a dedicated onboarding specialist to manage the transition, and we integrate directly with ConnectWise, HaloPSA, and Autotask to sync all client configurations automatically. Most MSPs complete the switch within days rather than weeks.

Palisade’s AI Agent does the work for you—automatically detecting configuration issues, recommending enforcement timelines, and executing DMARC adjustments without manual intervention. Sendmarc guides your team through implementation, but it doesn’t offer an autonomous AI agent that executes enforcement for you. Palisade also offers easy API DNS deployment for programmatic control, hosted SPF for automatic IP flattening, a 100% DNS uptime guarantee, and a full sales enablement suite. Sendmarc’s free tier excludes API access, and it doesn’t publish a DNS uptime SLA.

Sendmarc offers guided, task-based implementation—its platform walks your team through each step, but reviewing reports and approving policy changes still sits with you. Palisade’s AI Agent actively monitors each domain, detects problems in real-time, recommends specific actions, and can execute enforcement changes automatically based on your approval workflow. This means Palisade customers typically reach p=reject in days, not months, with less ongoing oversight required from your team.

Palisade is built specifically for MSPs. Sendmarc serves MSPs and enterprises alike, with its own partner program and PSA integrations, so the real difference comes down to automation. Palisade integrates natively with ConnectWise, HaloPSA, and Autotask, supports unlimited clients, white-labels all reports for your branding, offers dedicated MSP onboarding teams, provides sales enablement materials, and structures pricing around your margin—pay-as-you-go with no hidden costs. And Palisade’s AI Agent executes the enforcement work itself, so your technicians spend less time in the platform.

Palisade offers transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing with no margin uncertainty—you know exactly what you’re paying and can price your clients accordingly. Sendmarc doesn’t publish pricing—paid plans are quote-based, so you’ll need to talk to sales to know what you’ll pay. Palisade includes unlimited email volume, hosted SPF, hosted MTA-STS, white-label reports, and BIMI discounts in core pricing, with no surprise overages as you grow.

Palisade gets clients to p=reject typically in days, not months. Sendmarc’s guided approach still relies on your team to drive each enforcement step—reviewing reports, identifying alignment issues, waiting for clients to approve policy changes, then updating DNS—so enforcement projects can take months. Palisade’s AI Agent compresses this into days. In internal Palisade case studies, customers saw open rates increase from 35% to 50% and booked 21% more meetings once DMARC was enforced.

Absolutely. Palisade scales infinitely—you can manage unlimited domains without performance degradation. Sendmarc also supports large domain counts, but its quote-based pricing can make cost forecasting harder as you scale. Palisade’s AI Agent actually becomes more efficient as you manage more domains, automatically triaging enforcement tasks and identifying patterns across your client base. Our pay-as-you-go model means pricing stays proportional to your volume without surprise overages.

Palisade’s AI Agent analyzes all sending sources before recommending enforcement moves. It automatically discovers undisclosed senders, validates SPF alignment, detects subdomain usage, and aligns DKIM before moving to p=reject. Sendmarc gives you detailed reporting to make those calls yourself; Palisade’s AI does the analysis and risk assessment for you. Palisade’s hosted SPF eliminates IP flattening errors, and the AI validates every enforcement transition to ensure zero legitimate email loss. We also offer a 100% DNS uptime guarantee—Sendmarc doesn’t publish a DNS uptime SLA.

Palisade assigns a dedicated onboarding team with “email geek” North American support to every customer—real humans who understand DMARC deeply. Sendmarc’s support is genuinely strong (NPS 97, 9.8/10 G2 score), so support alone won’t be the deciding factor. Where Palisade goes further is hands-on partnership: your onboarding team stays with you throughout enforcement, available for questions, escalations, and strategic guidance. We also include full sales enablement materials to help you position DMARC to clients. This transforms DMARC from a compliance headache into a revenue opportunity.