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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drupal

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ADrupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A

    SurveyMonkey

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASurveyMonkey provides free, customizable surveys, and a suite of paid, back-end programs that include data analysis, sample selection, bias elimination, and data representation tools. SurveyMonkey also offers large-scale, enterprise options for companies interested in data analysis, brand management, and consumer focused marketing.

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    DrupalSurveyMonkey
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Team Advantage
    $25
    per month (billed annually) per user (starting at 3 users)
    Team Premier
    $75
    per month (billed annually) per user (starting at 3 users)
    Standard Monthly
    $99
    per month
    Individual Plan - Advantage Annual
    $468
    per year
    Individual Plan - Premier Annual
    $1,428
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DrupalSurveyMonkey
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DrupalSurveyMonkey
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
    No answer on this topic
    SurveyMonkey, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    79%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    81%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    DrupalSurveyMonkey
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    8.3
    74 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SurveyMonkey
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    7.8
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    SurveyMonkey
    -
    Ratings
    API7.364 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.5
    78 Ratings
    19% below category average
    SurveyMonkey
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    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor6.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.275 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.078 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates5.677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes5.568 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design6.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow6.776 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.6
    77 Ratings
    13% below category average
    SurveyMonkey
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy6.971 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support6.472 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions6.670 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.869 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    SurveyMonkey
    7.2
    76 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Survey templates00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
    Themes00 Ratings7.367 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding00 Ratings6.367 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    SurveyMonkey
    7.6
    78 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Changes to live survey00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Question design help00 Ratings6.872 Ratings
    Multiple question types00 Ratings9.078 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    SurveyMonkey
    7.3
    72 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Survey logic flexibility00 Ratings7.372 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    SurveyMonkey
    7.1
    78 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Response tracking00 Ratings7.577 Ratings
    Data export00 Ratings6.374 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.077 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.864 Ratings
    Analytics00 Ratings7.065 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    SurveyMonkey
    8.3
    67 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Access controls00 Ratings8.067 Ratings
    Compliance00 Ratings8.558 Ratings
    Survey Distribution
    Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Drupal and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    SurveyMonkey
    7.5
    48 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Vendor-offered crowdsourcing00 Ratings7.332 Ratings
    Respondent restrictions00 Ratings7.846 Ratings
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    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DrupalSurveyMonkey
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (87 ratings)
    8.7
    (111 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (20 ratings)
    9.0
    (41 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.4
    (35 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DrupalSurveyMonkey
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    If you want to set up a basic Not For Profit (NFP) Membership system and content base, Word Press is easier than Drupal. However, if you have specific needs that require a fair bit of customisation then Drupal is the best CRM available. If the webmaster is confident with PHP and SQL, Drupal allows a lot of creativity.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    SurveyMonkey is well suited for external, professional, client-facing forms and complex question types. I've tried generating forms on HubSpot, and it's not nearly as intuitive or clean-looking, and not all question types are supported (e.g. Likert scales). For quick, internal forms that don't need to be as pretty or professional, I find that Google Forms is the quickest and easiest to pull together, especially since it has a single, universal respondent link. If I wanted to embed a link in a mass email, SurveyMonkey doesn't allow multiple respondents to use the same link on my plan.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Drag and drop functionality is easy to use
    • Easy to switch between straight text and HTML content
    • Ability to easily have multiple environments so that pages can be built in b/c-stage before they are approved and published
    • Solid user experience where it's clear how to navigate the platform
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    • Keeps identifiable information anonymous.
    • Being able to close the survey at a set time without having to remember to do so.
    • Takes the guess work out of response collecting.
    • Makes it easy to categorize responses within the same survey. Being able to add tags to open-ended questions makes it easy for us to identify patterns in responses.
    • An array of survey options and questions.
    • An all around great product that meets multiple needs.
    • Can have multiple collectors for the same survey to included manual input.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • This is not an easy CMS to work with if you don't have a good understanding of website development. It isn't "plug-and-play" like Wordpress or Shopify.
    • Over time, doing major updates to the system can be taxing, especially if you aren't well-versed enough in doing system updates in line with your "child" theme and code.
    • The CMS can become somewhat cumbersome with server resources if not carefully optimized while you build and customize it to your liking.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    • I would like to have more customizable options for branding it to our hospital colors. Some survey options allow you to enter html color codes. SurveyMonkey allows you to change colors and you have to pick from selected options.
    • Embedding the surveys into a webpage, like WordPress is not as seamless as other services.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    Compared to other competitors in the market (including a few I've used internally), if you're looking for a survey application, this one does the job and it's quite inexpensive too. Considering the fact that it comes with a handy mobile application too (on iOS and Android), you also get flexibility thrown in the deal too.
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    Usability
    Open Source
    As a team, we found Drupal to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing our development team to go to great lengths to develop desired functionalities. It can be used as a solution for all types of web projects. It comes with a robust admin interface that provides greater flexibility once the user gets acquainted with the system.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    It does everything a survey software should do, and it does it very well. I can't speak for how well it would work for a business that was surveying tens of thousands of people - but for a small business of 50 employees with a couple of thousand clients, it does everything it needs to do.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
    Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required. For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Open Source
    Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    I've never had to contact the SurveyMonkey customer care team directly, but they have a pretty good library of help articles on their website. Everything from designing and executing your survey to account and billing questions. I never had a need for further support from Survey Monkey.
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    In-Person Training
    Open Source
    I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Open Source
    The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    Implementation not required.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, Drupal can be an amazing asset to have at hand.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    SurveyMonkey is easier to customize and provides much more in depth analytics. SurveyMonkey also provides better templates providing us with a better presentation to our employees. SurveyMonkey also comes with a more trustworthy platform that ensures confidentiality, which is incredibly important to our employees and means we're getting more reliable results from the surveys.
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    Scalability
    Open Source
    Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Given the endless possibilities that Drupal can have, we tend to have great support going on when we get a website launched
    • It has become much much faster and easier for us to launch a new project due to reusability
    • Configuration management in Drupal helps greatly with CI/CD, saves us costs
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    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    • The speed at which we can develop, program, execute and generate actual usable results provides significant value, particularly when we need fresh numbers to illustrate a point.
    • The fact that we can execute a research project so quickly means that new research is always a primary option when we're developing campaigns. That's a huge value proposition.
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