Taxi Alternative

The Taxi for Email* Alternative
Built for What Comes Next

Hop out of the Taxi and onto the Alpaca—with zero rebuild costs.

Taxi for Email set the standard for modular email, and for years, it just worked. Leaving a system your team relies on is daunting, and the worry about switching costs is real. Alpaco is engineered by long-time Taxi contributors to carry your modular foundation forward seamlessly—featuring a free native in-app converter, instant AST code translation, and modern upgrades.

Convert instantly

Upload your Taxi for Email templates directly in your browser. Translate your design system in seconds with zero developer queues.

1:1 translation

Preserve 100% of your layout modules, brand guardrails, and dynamic ESP tokens with zero loss.

Drag Taxi for Email templates here
✓ taxi-templates.html • Converted
Taxi for Email → Alpaco 100% Preserved
SEE IT IN ACTION

Watch the Taxi for Email converter in action

See how an existing Taxi for Email design system translates into Alpaco in seconds with 100% logic retention and zero developer queues.

6-minute real-time converter demonstration

MIGRATION WORKFLOW

How to migrate from Taxi for Email to Alpaco in 3 steps

Three simple steps right inside your Alpaco dashboard. Convert legacy Taxi for Email templates into clean, readable code with zero developer lock-in.

STEP 01

Log in to your Alpaco account

Log in to your team workspace and access the dashboard where your email design systems live.

STEP 02

Upload your Taxi for Email templates

Locate the built-in Taxi converter, and drop in your template file. The converter automatically separates proprietary inline Taxi for Email tags into clean Liquid templates and external input configurations.

STEP 03 Full Code Control

Review and edit your code

Inspect your converted HTML and CSS directly in the editor. Your templates stay clean with standard Liquid and zero code pollution, while input guardrails and field types are configured externally.

Proprietary inline Taxi for Email code
Standard, modern Liquid + input configurations
2014

Early Days Contributors

Among Taxi for Email’s earliest customers. Worked directly with the London team to co-shape core features of the platform.

2020

Acquisitions & Stagnation

Platform acquisitions slowed developer roadmap. Enterprise teams became trapped in legacy technical debt.

2021

Alpaco: The Modern Successor

Engineered from a decade of modular expertise. Native 100% AST syntax parsing, real-time collaboration, zero rebuild.

Heritage

From the beginning with Taxi for Email

Back in the early days, when modular email was first taking shape, we were among Taxi for Email’s earliest customers and design system developers. We worked directly with the original team in London—reporting edge cases, beta-testing early features, and helping shape some of the core syntax and modular rules that made the platform special in its prime.

When platform innovation stalled after acquisitions, we watched teams we cared about get trapped in technical debt. We built Alpaco because we’ve lived and breathed Taxi’s code for a decade—and we knew marketing teams deserved a modular home that carries their exact design systems forward with zero rebuild cost.

Filip Bisp
Filip Bisp
Co-founder & CEO, Alpaco • LinkedIn
PLATFORM COMPARISON

Alpaco vs Taxi for Email: Platform Comparison

Compare core capabilities side-by-side. Bring your exact Taxi for Email design system over with zero rebuild costs and zero downtime, while unlocking deeper customization, an intuitive drag-and-drop editor, AI-enabled workflows, and free ESP integrations.

Capability
Alpaco
Taxi for Email*
Modular Email design systems Improved Included
Drag & Drop editor Improved Included
ESP integrations Free Additional cost
Link tags Included Included
Brand guardrails Local & global Global
Full Liquid Templating Included Limited
Image editing Included Not Available
Image hosting Additional cost Additional cost
Multi-language translation Improved Manual workflow
AI Assistant Available Not available
Approval workflows Improved Available
Team Organisation Improved Not Available
Revision history Included Available
MCP enabled Included Available
Modular Email design systems
Alpaco
Improved
Taxi for Email
Included
Drag & Drop editor
Alpaco
Improved
Taxi for Email
Included
ESP integrations
Alpaco
Free
Taxi for Email
Additional cost
Link tags
Alpaco
Included
Taxi for Email
Included
Brand guardrails
Alpaco
Local & global
Taxi for Email
Global
Full Liquid Templating
Alpaco
Included
Taxi for Email
Limited
Image editing
Alpaco
Included
Taxi for Email
Not Available
Image hosting
Alpaco
Additional cost
Taxi for Email
Additional cost
Multi-language translation
Alpaco
Improved
Taxi for Email
Manual workflow
AI Assistant
Alpaco
Available
Taxi for Email
Not available
Approval workflows
Alpaco
Improved
Taxi for Email
Available
Team Organisation
Alpaco
Improved
Taxi for Email
Not Available
Revision history
Alpaco
Included
Taxi for Email
Available
ESP CONTINUITY

Keep Your Email Sending Platform. Zero Sending Migration.

Keep your contacts, journeys, segments, and automation workflows exactly where they are. Just like Taxi for Email, Alpaco is a dedicated creation environment that connects seamlessly to your existing sending platforms—with direct API sync and 100% data isolation.

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Frequently Asked Questions - Alpaco Mascot
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about migrating from Taxi for Email to Alpaco.

Alpaco was built by email veterans who spent over a decade living, breathing, and contributing directly to the Taxi ecosystem. We know firsthand what made Taxi for Email great, what it took to build and contribute to it, and what teams need to carry their systems forward. We paired that deep heritage with a free, native, automated Taxi converter built directly into the platform—so instead of waiting days for agencies or vendors to manually rebuild your templates, you upload your files and have an active, modular Email Design System running in seconds.

Alpaco contains an automated code compiler built directly into the platform. When you upload your Taxi for Email templates or code packages, our deterministic AST converter automatically analyzes the syntax, maps layout rules and editable attributes to Alpaco modular blocks and typed inputs, and compiles a fully functional Email Design System within seconds.

Minutes, not days. Unlike manual rebuilding services that rely on outside developer queues and multi-day turnarounds, Alpaco built an automated in-app converter. You execute the conversion yourself immediately in your browser with zero downtime.

Yes. The Alpaco converter preserves dynamic code syntax including Liquid, Salesforce Marketing Cloud AMPscript, Braze Connected Content, Klaviyo tags, and custom merge tags without modifying your conditional logic.

Yes. The native Taxi for Email converter is 100% free and included inside every Alpaco workspace. There are no conversion fees, per-template charges, or hidden consulting retainers.

No. Alpaco connects directly to your existing sending platform (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Adobe Campaign, Customer.io, Iterable, etc.). Your subscriber data, automations, and delivery infrastructure remain completely untouched.

Manual rebuild agencies depend on human coders who manually transcribe HTML, introducing transcription errors, missed Outlook quirks, and multi-day delays. Alpaco's in-app converter runs via a deterministic AST code compiler, delivering instant execution, zero human errors, and complete self-serve autonomy.

Absolutely. Once imported, your Taxi for Email design system is immediately visible in the Alpaco drag-and-drop editor. You can test module combinations, preview responsive mobile renderings, and verify locked brand guardrails before sending any campaigns.

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*Taxi for Email is a registered trademark of Bird (formerly SparkPost/MessageBird). Alpaco is an independent platform and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Bird. References to Taxi for Email are used strictly for nominative and comparative identification purposes.