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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Alchemer

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAlchemer (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.

    $55

    per month per user

    SmartSurvey

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AWith the SmartSurvey SaaS platform, users can capture, analyse and report virtually any type of data via an online survey service. SmartSurvey allows users to directly reach the people whose opinions matter the most – clients, partners, patients, students and suppliers. SmartSurvey specialises in providing survey solutions for multinational business and enterprise clients, offering dedicated support and secure data storage on EU based servers. SmartSurvey is used by over 100,000 users,…N/A

    Typeform

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATypeform is online form and survey software, focused on high-quality visuals and user experience. Users can create surveys, registration forms, tests & quizzes, contests, tutorials, shopping carts, and contact forms, without needing to write code. Typeform offers freemium plan pricing. Their basic plan is free for one user; their Pro plan in $35/month for one user (includes logic jump, respondent notifications, calculator, custom thank you screen, hidden fields, payment fields, and 2GB file…

    $30

    *Per Month

    Pricing
    AlchemerSmartSurveyTypeform
    Editions & Modules
    Collaborator
    $55
    per month per user
    Professional
    $165
    per month per use (maximum 3 users)
    Full Access
    $275
    per month per user (maximum 3 users)
    Enterprise and Business
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    Essentials
    $30
    *Per Month
    Professional
    $35
    *Per Month
    Premium
    $59
    *Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing on small team plans.—*For annual contract.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AlchemerSmartSurveyTypeform
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Alchemer and SmartSurvey and Typeform
    Feature
    Alchemer
    8.0
    14 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SmartSurvey
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    Ratings
    Typeform
    8.4
    49 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Survey templates8.013 Ratings00 Ratings7.246 Ratings
    Themes7.014 Ratings00 Ratings8.749 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding9.013 Ratings00 Ratings9.347 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of Alchemer and SmartSurvey and Typeform
    Feature
    Alchemer
    9.3
    15 Ratings
    9% above category average
    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    8.8
    49 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Changes to live survey8.015 Ratings00 Ratings8.244 Ratings
    Question design help10.014 Ratings00 Ratings9.041 Ratings
    Multiple question types10.015 Ratings00 Ratings9.149 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of Alchemer and SmartSurvey and Typeform
    Feature
    Alchemer
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    7% above category average
    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    8.4
    43 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Survey logic flexibility9.015 Ratings00 Ratings8.443 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Alchemer and SmartSurvey and Typeform
    Feature
    Alchemer
    6.6
    15 Ratings
    21% below category average
    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    7.5
    48 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Response tracking7.015 Ratings00 Ratings9.147 Ratings
    Data export6.015 Ratings00 Ratings8.845 Ratings
    Standard reports7.015 Ratings00 Ratings6.343 Ratings
    Custom reports8.014 Ratings00 Ratings5.929 Ratings
    Analytics5.013 Ratings00 Ratings7.641 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Alchemer and SmartSurvey and Typeform
    Feature
    Alchemer
    10.0
    13 Ratings
    15% above category average
    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    8.7
    33 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Access controls10.012 Ratings00 Ratings9.130 Ratings
    Compliance10.012 Ratings00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Survey Distribution
    Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Alchemer and SmartSurvey and Typeform
    Feature
    Alchemer
    10.0
    14 Ratings
    21% above category average
    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    7.2
    26 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Vendor-offered crowdsourcing10.07 Ratings00 Ratings8.79 Ratings
    Respondent restrictions10.014 Ratings00 Ratings5.825 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
    QuestionPro
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
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    7.3
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
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    Usability
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
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    7.4
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    Support Rating
    6.7
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    5.7
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    Typeform is definitely a leader in the online survey space and that's for a reason. Between logic mapping and the ease of use for the end user, it's a solid app. The unfortunate thing, however, is the price tag--particularly considering the protection you receive from bots. Typeform only allows a certain number of responses at certain package levels, ie: the lowest level, you get a very limited number of responses but in order to receive more responses before your survey is locked, you must upgrade. This is what ultimately lead us to cancel with them. When you post a survey on Typeform, that survey is automatically posted publicly on their website--making it widely available to bots. Typeform offers no easy form of protection like a standardized captcha that you can add to the survey in order to filter bots out. Instead, there are several "work arounds" that they advise users to do that have very limited degrees of success. A quick online search shows that Typeform knows this is clearly an issue, yet they have yet to build in a bot-prevention feature. Since their plan prices vary by number of responses, it seems that they have no incentive to limit the amount of bots filling out surveys I believe. Ultimately, we canceled because, although the app is powerful, it just seemed like their business practices were unethical in my opinion.
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    Pros
    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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    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    • The calculator tool allows you to use numerical formulas to create logic within your form for specific behavior.
    • Compatible with modern web browsers for both building a form and publishing, allowing it to work and look good on any device.
    • Integration with products like Zapier allow you to use it as part of a larger automation in your company.
    • Visually pleasing designs with use of themes, images and video to match your branding.
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    Cons
    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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    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    • The pricing structure is a little steep, especially for the Pro+ plan. It would be nice if they had an a la carte option because there are some features we are paying for that we will never use.
    • When creating forms, sometimes the cursor will inexplicably leave the field you are typing in and leave you with incomplete sentences.
    • Even though we are paying for our use, we still have the Typeform branding on our forms, which I think should be removed once you upgrade from the basic plan.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Alchemer
    No answers on this topic
    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    We have had such success with Typeform, and it has been able to exceed our expectations for the range of products it offers
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    Usability
    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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    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    Typeform takes a little bit of getting used to. Compared to Google Forms there are a lot more parts to the software and customizing the form isn't as intuitive. I have also found that embedding it into one smaller section of a webpage seamlessly can be a little tricky. But everything can be figured out eventually and the analytics are very good.
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    Support Rating
    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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    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    I haven't used the support portion of Typeform, as everything was quite easy to use. I have never encountered a situation where I did not know what to do or how to fix something myself. Typeform is very easy to adopt within any organization, no matter if you understand tech or not.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    When looking for a feature rich & flexible / customizable solution, Typeform beats out everyone. However, for specific use cases (like NPS), AskNicely is a clear winner in terms of features, but is much too expensive. Typeform is also fun to use, especially compared to Wufoo which seems so out of date
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    Return on Investment
    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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    SmartSurvey
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    Typeform
    • Typeform has helped guide our Customer Success, Product, and Marketing teams in strategizing how to engage with customers better, and it has also given us a quick and easy way to do so! By collecting feedback and being able to share it across internal teams, we can coordinate our efforts to build our customers a better tool.
    • Typeform has proved to be an elegant solution to one of our earlier vexing problems (previous survey tools that looked annoying, had extremely limited branding options/were not customizable, and didn't integrate well with the rest of our tool set) while not breaking the bank for us - it's a very reasonable price point and does WAY more than the previous tools we were paying just as much for.
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