Pollfish vs. SurveyMonkey

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pollfish
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Pollfish is a survey platform that aims to provide reliable consumer data quickly. It is designed for businesses of any size, including market research agencies, marketing departments, advertising agencies, product development teams, and consulting firms. The platform offers features such as fast surveys and advanced filtering options, to empower businesses to make informed decisions based on high-quality results.
$0.95
per response
SurveyMonkey
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
SurveyMonkey 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.
$25
per month (billed annually) per user (starting at 3 users)
Pricing
PollfishSurveyMonkey
Editions & Modules
DIY Platform
Starting at $0.95
per response
Full Service Projects
Projects start at $5,000
per project
Enterprise
Packages starting at $10,000
per year annual commitment
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
PollfishSurveyMonkey
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
PollfishSurveyMonkey
Considered Both Products
Pollfish
Chose Pollfish
Alchemer is a more robust survey development tool but does not have its own audience that we can field the surveys to. Reporting is more customizable in Alchemer as well. Pollfish is a specific tool for a specific job, ALchemer is more versatile.
Chose Pollfish
Pollfish is simple to use platform and everyone knows about this platform. It has pay as you go model which is very beneficial than any subscription.
Chose Pollfish
Pollfish was more suited for my needs to design surveys for strangers to use and get paid responses. It was definitely newer, and while it had some glitches and shortcomings, it had a better UX than some of the others.
Chose Pollfish
Much better and deeper functionality, easier to use as well.
Chose Pollfish
Pollfish is one of the most cost-effective options I have worked with and ir works really well for DIY research. While it doesn’t offer a self-serve portal for some of the more advanced audience builds, their pre-set targeting filters are highly detailed and usually give me …
Chose Pollfish
Pollfish is significantly more powerful and produces much better analytics than these alternatives. The AI interview function is also a significant edge over the competition.
Chose Pollfish
We use Alchemer on a daily basis, as it is integrated with our product.
But Pollfish allows easier survey setup (e.g., options like "None of the above" or "Other" can be added in a second by ticking the box, and they are always at the same place).
We are using Pollfish for …
Chose Pollfish
Overall I would place Pollfish in second place from the list I presented in terms of survey capabilities. My list would go Qualtrics, Pollfish, Lyssna, and then SurveyMonkey. We ultimately went with Pollfish because we felt like it offered most of the main capabilities that …
Chose Pollfish
Surveymonkey was a bit more pricey for what we wanted to do with our survey. From what I remember, they charged more to target the audience that we wanted so we decided to go with Pollfish for the survey we sent out.
Chose Pollfish
I have used Typeform for running some internal surveys as well as client-specific surveys, but the major problem that I had with Typeform is the logic setting of the survey; sometimes it gets very difficult for me to understand how a particular logic flows. Also, logo …
Chose Pollfish
Being able to customise the questions is very handy, even after launching the survey I was able to edit the questions easily. Also, being able to monitor the live results is something that you cannot experience with Platform One. I didn't have to wait until the survey finishes …
Chose Pollfish
have used typeform in the past - i think pollfish provides better funcitonality, deeper audience pool.
Chose Pollfish
Easy to use, excellent customer service, decent templates
Chose Pollfish
Pollfish provides quicker, less expensive results, but is not as customizable. Pollfish is great for a general population survey but Alchemer has advantages if a database of potential respondents exists.
Chose Pollfish
It's felt as though it's a step above Survey Monkey. While Survey Monkey also has a trusted and easy to use platform, we felt that Pollfish had a better sourcing system for respondent pools. Attest is also a great platform but is built more squarely as a brand & marketing …
Chose Pollfish
I've not used any other tools like Pollfish, but I have worked with survey firms, and being able to control this process yourself makes things so much more efficient.
Chose Pollfish
Pollfish was perfect for our CPG brand because we could narrow our respondent pool to very specific retailers and purchasing behaviors. Was also very affordable and fast.
Chose Pollfish
They do not provide a panel but their self assessment tool is amazing. However, we now have created our own AI tool which is more effective. It would be great to have an integration key to allow AI to analyze live studies.
Chose Pollfish
We selected Pollfish because it was more user friendly, cost effective, and advanced in its capabilities.
Chose Pollfish
Started using when google surveys were deprectaed
Chose Pollfish
Again, at the level I view it at, it outshines the competition. Perfect blend of smart functionality, low price, human support, templates and methodology/QNR build options and templates that you don't always get from other options that may outshine Pollfish in one or more areas …
Chose Pollfish
Pollfish is the most cost effective and the quickest survey platform. However there are questions when it comes to the actual reliability of the results that are retrieved from Pollfish surveys. However, its speed makes it tough to use other platforms, even at a potential …
SurveyMonkey
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey has a visualisation, and for Google Survey, you have to download your data the some other program, like Looker. But Google Survey is fully connectable to Google Sheets, and Survey Monkey doesn't allow you to download your database, especially if it is free text …
Chose SurveyMonkey
Building forms on SurveyMonkey is much easier and prettier than it is with HubSpot CRM, although I love that form responses map to our contact properties in HubSpot. Google Forms is less professional and clean looking and feeling than SurveyMonkey. I wouldn't want to put a …
Chose SurveyMonkey
I think we were looking for a survey products, so when I think about survey products; SurveyMonkey is the only solution
Chose SurveyMonkey
Outside of creating our own surveys, no other tools have been used outside of SurveyMonkey. I have heard of a few others but would not be able to provide an honest opinion due to my lack of experience working with them.
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey is way better than jotform for surveys, simply because it is a dedicated survey software, whereas Jotform is more general form builder. If a business's sole purpose is to send a survey out and view responses, SurveyMonkey is better than Jotform in every category.
Chose SurveyMonkey
As [I] mentioned in the previous comments, [I believe] there is no comparison. [In my opinion,] SurveyMonkey is a market lagger.
Chose SurveyMonkey
The tool is free, but we selected SurveyMonkey because we were able to easily pull the data and do the analysis.
Chose SurveyMonkey
I have only used this software and have not used others.
Chose SurveyMonkey
In terms of creating surveys and analyzing their results, the main competitor we use is Qualtrics. I think Qualtrics has better features, a more professional environment, and more robust tools. This can also be negative as it can be overwhelming for untrained users. I have …
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey has the most options in terms of available question formats, analysis and participant tracking, and customizability. Google Forms is a more basic interface with fewer options for tracking and analysis, and Typeform is better in terms of design and branding options …
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey offers a better end user and survey building experience. The tools to easily create a fun and engaging survey are easily accessible, easy to understand, and easy to use. You could go as far as to say that a monkey could figure out how to use SurveyMonkey.
Chose SurveyMonkey
I've only built my own in Access, SharePoint, and HTML. I don't like any of them. Plus, anything internal like SharePoint is going to have a network user/time stamp, and that wont increase participation at all.
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey is the least used between Wufoo, Titan Forms, and Google Forms. It is a solid program, however, for our uses the other programs provide additional features such as syncing to our CRM database, accepting Stripe payments, or automatically syncing with my already …
Chose SurveyMonkey
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 …
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey has more analytic data options than what I found using Google Forms. Otherwise, if you use the Google Suite of products you may find it easier to just use Google Forms. When it comes to our website forms we have switched to JotForm as it has a better display on our …
Chose SurveyMonkey
It's probably above Google Surveys and below the other two. I didn't select SurveyMonkey, the company already had it and I made the decision to get an additional license for my work.
Chose SurveyMonkey
In my opinion, SurveyMonkey is the gold standard. Google Forms and Google Surveys, while being able to connect easily to other Google tools, are not as adept or intuitive as SurveyMonkey is. Google is trying to be all things for all people, and while it does a lot of those …
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey has more than 150 survey templates to choose from that are expert-written ranging from market research product survey, customer satisfaction survey templates, 360-degree employee evaluation, product testing, website feedback and so much more. It has more …
Chose SurveyMonkey
I have used Qualtrics as well. I would say Qualtrics is a more of a higher end survey solution but if your needs are basic survey monkey is probably the better value and easier to get started.
Chose SurveyMonkey
While Google Forms is free, the ability to design and customize forms/surveys would prove to be beneficial to the end user. Google Forms is very limited to multiple editors while SurveyMonkey provides viewing, editing, and commenting to editors. Additionally, the access to 200 …
Chose SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey has more professional features, templates and theme options than Google Surveys
Chose SurveyMonkey
From my experience, I honestly think most of these tools are interchangeable, they have very similar functionality and can meet the same needs. I think there are more custom features that help all these tools differentiate themselves, however, my experience with them has been …
Features
PollfishSurveyMonkey
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
Pollfish
7.6
Ratings
5% below category average
SurveyMonkey
7.2
Ratings
11% below category average
Survey templates8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Themes6.50 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Custom logo/branding8.10 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
Pollfish
8.5
Ratings
0% below category average
SurveyMonkey
7.6
Ratings
11% below category average
Changes to live survey7.40 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Question design help8.50 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Multiple question types9.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
Pollfish
8.5
Ratings
2% above category average
SurveyMonkey
7.3
Ratings
13% below category average
Survey logic flexibility8.50 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Pollfish
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
SurveyMonkey
7.1
Ratings
13% below category average
Response tracking8.90 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Data export8.40 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Standard reports8.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Custom reports7.50 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Analytics8.30 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
Pollfish
8.9
Ratings
3% above category average
SurveyMonkey
8.3
Ratings
4% below category average
Access controls8.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Compliance00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
Pollfish
9.1
Ratings
12% above category average
SurveyMonkey
7.5
Ratings
7% below category average
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing9.50 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Respondent restrictions8.70 Ratings7.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
PollfishSurveyMonkey
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PollfishSurveyMonkey
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend Pollifish if a colleague wanted to know one or two simple things about a consumer (or potential consumer) and did not have the resources or time to do focus groups, as the number of questions is adequate to ask about various topics.I would also recommend it for someone who wanted to test a creative piece in front of a specific audience, such as the last case in which I used it
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SurveyMonkey is best suited for you if you find that you are creating multiple survey regularly. It offers a variety of questions and options and is a well-rounded surveying tool. It is not best if you do not create surveys often, typically use the same survey, or looking for software to create quizzes or assessments. Also, if you are easily overwhelmed by too many options, this may not be the tool for you.
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Pros
  • Pollfish is very intuitive to use. If you understand how survey questions and answer options are structured, building the surveys themselves is pretty simple.
  • When you do run into problems, the customer service through the chat agent on the site is second to none. They are always very responsive and have answered any question I've ever had very quickly and very clearly.
  • Pollfish automatically can break you data down into several interesting subcategories. But it's also very easy to break your pool down into one that's very custom, and that's something that other survey companies charge quite a bit for.
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  • SurveyMonkey templates have made it very user-friendly. It is very efficient to create a survey.
  • I love that they have multiple ways to answer questions. For example, short answer, paragraph, and radio buttons to name a few.
  • The surveys are very easy to share. You can import a large list of email addresses or free type just a few.
  • I like that you can test the survey before sending it out live. I send it to myself to verify how it will look and feel to the end-user.
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Cons
  • Prohibiting participants who don't fit your requirements. I've seen times where someone will literally say in a free responses question that they marked an answer, got rejected from a study, then opened the link again and selected a new answer to be able to participate.
  • An easy way to remove participants who are "bad responses" and have the results view upload seamlessly.
  • Maybe an AI function that helps you remove bias from quesitons.
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  • Recognizing that there are more limitations when it comes to a mobile interface vs. a desktop interface, I would love to see more profound levels of programming functionality on the mobile side.
  • It would be helpful to have better access to greater levels of third-party results analysis, particularly as it relates to open-ended questions and answers.
  • As an admin, it would be very cool if SurveyMonkey were able to use AI to match the survey we're building (questions, topics, target respondents, etc.) to existing results that might negate the need to ask certain questions in our surveys.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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
For what it is and what it offers, I think it is very user friendly, intuitive and reactive. As long as you don't treat it as a powerful full service research tool and look at it more as the scrappy DIY option, it will actually exceed expectations.
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SurveyMonkey should suffice for most simple use cases to collect responses or feedback from clients. The templates that they offer are helpful as well as the guidance on question formulation. If you just need a stand alone software to distribute and collect surveys, then SurveyMonkey will meet your needs.
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Performance
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still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
I haven’t used the support function yet, but I have had colleagues that have and the issues they’ve faced have been resolved super quickly. They also have said the support people they have come in contact with have been extremely friendly. Those two things are what made me choose my rating
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
Implementation not required.
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Alternatives Considered
Pollfish was more suited for my needs to design surveys for strangers to use and get paid responses. It was definitely newer, and while it had some glitches and shortcomings, it had a better UX than some of the others.
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Building forms on SurveyMonkey is much easier and prettier than it is with HubSpot CRM, although I love that form responses map to our contact properties in HubSpot. Google Forms is less professional and clean looking and feeling than SurveyMonkey. I wouldn't want to put a Google form in front of a client or important stakeholder. But Google Forms is very quick and easy to pull together with a single, universal, short, sharable respondent link which is great for answers you need know. Plus the data integration/export to sheets is seamless and easy.
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Return on Investment
  • Has definitely helped with the speed at which we turn around research projects due to how quickly we get results back.
  • Has enabled us to survey respondents from around the world to get a better sense of the global consumer perspective of our products.
  • Insights builder has given us fantastic in-depth results analysis and stat testing capabilities that were not previously available.
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  • It helped to determine if our business was going to switch to a new payroll software based on the employee feedback of whether one of its main features would actually be wanted or not.
  • It helps to improve individual instructor's classes based on survey feedback from our clients.
  • It helped us to gauge the interest in whether or not a pool of people wanted to become instructors.
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ScreenShots

Pollfish Screenshots

Screenshot of an executive ready report generated with AI Reports, with comprehensive AI survey analysis. The engine reads questionnaire context, runs statistical tests, and codes open-ended responses to draft a polished, evidence-based report.