15Five vs. Alchemer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
15Five
Score 8.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
15Five in San Francisco offers their employee performance management platform, which emphasizes employee engagement via pulse surveys and an emphasis on frequent feedback, fast one-on-one meeting planning, objective tracking, and other related features.
$7
per person/per month
Alchemer
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo) is an online survey tool that helps companies design surveys and collect and analyze data. Features include branding, logic & branching, mobile surveys, question types, and reporting.
$49
per month
Pricing
15FiveAlchemer
Editions & Modules
Basic
$7
per person/per month
Plus
$14
per person/per month
Performance
Custom Pricing
Collaborator
$49
per month
Professional
$149
per month
Full Access
$249
per month
Enterprise and Business
Contact for quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
15FiveAlchemer
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
15FiveAlchemer
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
15Five
5.4
36 Ratings
35% below category average
Alchemer
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting5.629 Ratings00 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting5.131 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting5.635 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility4.828 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking5.832 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
15Five
6.8
36 Ratings
18% below category average
Alchemer
-
Ratings
Performance plans6.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Plan weighting6.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager note taking4.931 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.118 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking5.426 Ratings00 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.629 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow restrictions8.115 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.123 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting5.426 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
15Five
-
Ratings
Alchemer
8.9
13 Ratings
13% above category average
Survey templates00 Ratings8.712 Ratings
Themes00 Ratings8.313 Ratings
Custom logo/branding00 Ratings9.812 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
15Five
-
Ratings
Alchemer
8.6
14 Ratings
0% below category average
Changes to live survey00 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Question design help00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
Multiple question types00 Ratings9.514 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
15Five
-
Ratings
Alchemer
8.0
14 Ratings
4% below category average
Survey logic flexibility00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
15Five
-
Ratings
Alchemer
7.6
14 Ratings
8% below category average
Response tracking00 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Data export00 Ratings6.914 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings6.214 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.213 Ratings
Analytics00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
15Five
-
Ratings
Alchemer
8.6
12 Ratings
3% above category average
Access controls00 Ratings8.211 Ratings
Compliance00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
15Five
-
Ratings
Alchemer
8.8
13 Ratings
9% above category average
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
Respondent restrictions00 Ratings8.613 Ratings
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User Ratings
15FiveAlchemer
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(43 ratings)
8.6
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(3 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(24 ratings)
6.7
(5 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
15FiveAlchemer
Likelihood to Recommend
15Five
I believe if your managers can't make time to have in-person or live check-ins with their employees, the 15Five surveys and tools can create a semblance of care and follow-up, but many employees resent how impersonal it is. If you are able to have more face-to-face interactions or Zoom one-on-ones, those are almost always better-received by employees.
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
SurveyGizmo works extremely well as a platform for receiving survey responses. As a survey/business analytics tool, the platform offers extensive options for customization and deployment of professional questionnaires. Our team has found SurveyGizmo to be extremely well suited for the modern administrative employee. Surveys are relatively easy to create, deploy, and manage responses in real time. Furthermore, monitoring / managing the results enables businesses to provide any necessary follow-up based on key results. Our team spends quite a bit of time testing out survey tools and have found SurveyGizmo to be a solid option for the needs of our team. Furthermore, we have recommended the platform to other departments within our organization that have uniquely different skillsets from our own. Overall, we see SurveyGizmo as a tool that can be used across most organizational teams if implemented with the specific user-experience in mind.
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Pros
15Five
  • The Pulse Check feature is both easy to use and allows staff and management to gauge how team health is.
  • The metric and key performance tools are very well designed.
  • Automated reminders and reporting are great features.
  • I find the customer services to be best in class.
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
  • Attaching images! Survey Gizmo makes attaching images from surveys a breeze. I've tried other popular survey tools and it can be difficult for users to submit images as part of their survey (e.g. some only allow 1 picture per question, whereas Survey Gizmo allows a range for you to select from)
  • Easy and intuitive survey building.
  • Pretty good out-of-the-box survey analysis.
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Cons
15Five
  • The more business units and teams you adopt consistently using 15five, the more you see the full value.
  • Reporting - it would be helpful to see an entire org chart breakdown of the goals hit/missed at the end of each quarter.
  • Recommendations - focus points/alerts on OKRs that aren't progressing and auto-generated action items you should take would be really useful functionality.
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
  • Duplicate protection needs improvement. Anyone who would like to start a survey and finish at a later time is unable to which limits total survey responses.
  • Password protection option can be a challenge when uploading spreadsheets with pre-populated data.
  • Logic and piping options for questions can be difficult when designing more complicated and in-depth surveys, which requires a lot of testing.
  • Follow-up surveys do not provide an option for survey takers to review their previous survey responses, which may provide less accurate data when comparing individuals across multiple surveys.
  • Would like the option to link surveys together in order to more easily track data from individuals across multiple surveys and save previous survey data.
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Likelihood to Renew
15Five
This program is the absolute best I've ever used in 30 years with organizations. Not only do I enjoy being a user and "filling it out" every week- but I would personally buy it if available for goal tracking in my personal life I love it that much!
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
No answers on this topic
Usability
15Five
It's very simple to use - not overly complicated. You wouldn't need training to use. There are some features I never use because I don't understand -- like one on ones. However we use without and still find a lot of value in it!
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
The feature sets, agility, and flexibility remain approachable and incredibly powerful. Support is also very responsive and top notch. Overall, with a bit of basic foundational skills, there are seemingly an unlimited number of use cases for which Alchemer can be leveraged.
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Support Rating
15Five
15Five support is quick and helpful. We work with other vendors in the people management space and performance tracking/management who offshore their support or force us into long queues to chat for support and it just doesn't support our needs very well. 15Five is responsive and speedy. We constantly evaluate our vendors for their support and have switched vendors in the past in other areas because of limited support capabilities
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
Every once in awhile, it is necessary to solicit support. On those occasions, support is extremely responsive and supportive. It has been my experience that [if] they can't walk you through the desired endpoint, they will take a look at your build and remedy for you.
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Online Training
15Five
Very helpful webinar training. They answer questions, the slides are all very helpful, and they send you the presentation once the webinar is complete so that you can share with your team.
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
15Five
It was very easy and support was super helpful!
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
15Five
Visually 15Five blows Yammer out of the water! Yammer was easy to use as well, but it felt very difficult to get on to and was not single sign-on when we were using it. 15Five allows for easy login with single sing on feature and has less "clicks" to get to where I need to be on the program. I also love the app way more than Yammer!
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
I liked the interface for SurveyGizmo much more than Qualtrics. You knew a question was adjusted in SurveyGizmo and wouldn't change, but with Qualtric's interface, you had to refresh the account several times sometimes to ensure the question would work appropriately. Also, with SG, there were a lot of easier capabilities, such as changing missing values in bulk, required questions in bulk, etc.
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Return on Investment
15Five
  • It holds each employee to a certain standard by having them select their own list
  • Gives them the opportunity to reach their list of goals
  • Being able to accomplish each set goal and/or priority gives a sense of pride in each person's work as they are able to check off what has been done
  • On the negative, it can also show what the employee is not being done and may show poorly if there is a consistent pattern of not completing tasks
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Widgix, dba Alchemer
  • It has always delivered on all our business objectives. I think that the reason why it's a bit [more] expensive than other providers.
  • It has helped us to optimize resources especially man hours involved in survey design.
  • It has been a valuable partner in almost all [of] our uses.
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ScreenShots

15Five Screenshots

Screenshot of Celebrate wins, tout progress, and give good feedback where good feedback is due.Screenshot of 15Five Home DashboardScreenshot of Connect managers with their teams through regular Check-Ins that lead to actionable insights.