15Five vs. Kudos®

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
15Five
Score 8.9 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
Kudos®
Score 6.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Kudos® is an employee engagement and recognition platform, that harnesses peer-to-peer recognition, casual rewards, values reinforcement, and open communication to help organizations boost employee engagement, reduce turnover, improve culture, and drive productivity and performance.N/A
Pricing
15FiveKudos®
Editions & Modules
Basic
$7
per person/per month
Plus
$14
per person/per month
Performance
Custom Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
15FiveKudos®
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact us for pricing. Kudos® pricing is based on the number of users and the length of the contract. Plans start with a minimum of 500 users.
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Features
15FiveKudos®
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
15Five
8.0
36 Ratings
1% above category average
Kudos®
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.829 Ratings00 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting7.331 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.735 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.427 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.731 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
15Five
8.0
36 Ratings
4% below category average
Kudos®
-
Ratings
Performance plans8.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Plan weighting6.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager note taking8.330 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans8.118 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.530 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow restrictions8.315 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.323 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting8.625 Ratings00 Ratings
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15FiveKudos®
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iSpring Learn
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Score 8.7 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Reviewsnap
Reviewsnap
Score 9.0 out of 10
Bonusly
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Score 8.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment
Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment
Score 9.3 out of 10
Achievers
Achievers
Score 7.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
15FiveKudos®
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(43 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(24 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
15FiveKudos®
Likelihood to Recommend
15Five
15Five has helped me identify what part of my job I need to be dedicating more focus to and has allowed our team to celebrate wins together. Being a remote company, you lose a lot of face-to-face interaction for Slack messages so receiving High Fives in front of everyone on 15Five has been a great way to show appreciation for individuals in front of the entire company.
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Kudos®
Kudos is especially useful and helpful during project deployment where team members can be awarded kudos and appreciation and motivation for their team efforts in meeting milestones and targets. In some instances, the reward types or gifts may seem irrelevant to some departments in certain regions or my company' operations in other parts of the African continent.
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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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Kudos®
  • One of the most useful aspects of this tool is that it allows you to save the profile of each of the employees individually and to be able to track their activities and give them the recognition they deserve.
  • Another useful feature of "kudos is that the system allows you to assign badges to each profile based on their job performance.
  • I also really like that the platform has a dedicated portal for employees. In which they can see their badges, recognitions and awards obtained for their efforts.
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Cons
15Five
  • Could change up some of the required questions needing to be answered, usually, there is at least one at the bottom
  • Maybe allow your supervisor to add tasks to your list just in case you forget
  • Maybe add something fun or interesting to the weekly assignment, like a silly puzzle or game that is work-related even though this might be too much and take too much time for someone to do
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Kudos®
  • Rewards take a long time to be given out, but this I would put on the company's policy.
  • From my own perspective on a mobile phone, it's not so smooth like on desktop, like searching for a colleagues name sometimes is difficult.
  • Sometimes email notifications take too long to come, or they don't even come at all.
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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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Kudos®
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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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Kudos®
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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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Kudos®
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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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Kudos®
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Implementation Rating
15Five
It was very easy and support was super helpful!
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Kudos®
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Alternatives Considered
15Five
I used Achievers a while ago and it was only limited to rewards. 15FIVE really makes a difference, it's real engagement for businesses and provides a lot of structure. I also love what they preach in their social channels as we are constantly learning from their podcasts and blog posts.
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Kudos®
I used to work at a company called Sparc that developed its own in-house platform called Teamphoria. It was great software that coupled a lot of the same features as workday but also with a recognition system. Essentially it allocated certain types of recognition levels per month, 1 platinum, 5 gold, 20 silvers, where each was worth a drawing ticket. At the end of the month, someone would be drawn from that pool based on their received recognition and then receive a gift card. However, some abused this system and devalued its purpose and inflated the meaning behind it. Kudos seems to do a good job by having a direct point/monetization system which isn't up for random chance. This can help even incentivize employees to go above and beyond, getting them to work harder since they are receiving recognition for it.
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Return on Investment
15Five
  • 15Five opened up many discussions for issues/challenges in the workplace that wasn't available in meetings/during projects/in other capacities.
  • 15Five has opened the door to creative ideas that became projects and improvements.
  • 15Five improved culture by allowing team members in other departments see what others are doing/feeling, making us feel as one company
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Kudos®
  • Incentivizes employee to work harder.
  • Helps with thanking our employees for jobs well done without having just a normal "Thank You."
  • Allows the employees to use kudos for company SWAG or items they may need in their lives and it's all possible to get thanks to KUDOS.
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ScreenShots

15Five Screenshots

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Kudos® Screenshots

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