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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Lighthouse Studio

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASawtooth Software headquartered in Provo offers the Lighthouse Studio survey research tool as an advanced platform for Conjoint Analysis and MaxDiff. With it, users can create balanced experimental designs hand-in-hand with traditional survey questions.N/A

    SurveyMonkey

    Score8.2 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
    Lighthouse StudioSurveyMonkey
    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
    Lighthouse StudioSurveyMonkey
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Lighthouse StudioSurveyMonkey
    Considered Both Products
    Sawtooth Software
    No answer on this topic
    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    81%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    Lighthouse StudioSurveyMonkey
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    21% below category average
    SurveyMonkey
    7.2
    76 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Themes6.01 Ratings7.367 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding7.01 Ratings6.367 Ratings
    Survey templates00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SurveyMonkey
    7.6
    78 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Changes to live survey8.01 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Question design help9.01 Ratings6.872 Ratings
    Multiple question types10.01 Ratings9.078 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    SurveyMonkey
    7.3
    72 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Survey logic flexibility10.01 Ratings7.372 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    30% below category average
    SurveyMonkey
    7.1
    78 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Response tracking6.01 Ratings7.577 Ratings
    Data export4.01 Ratings6.374 Ratings
    Standard reports5.01 Ratings8.077 Ratings
    Analytics9.01 Ratings7.065 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.864 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    SurveyMonkey
    8.3
    67 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Access controls10.01 Ratings8.067 Ratings
    Compliance10.01 Ratings8.558 Ratings
    Survey Distribution
    Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and SurveyMonkey
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    21% above category average
    SurveyMonkey
    7.5
    48 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Respondent restrictions10.01 Ratings7.846 Ratings
    Vendor-offered crowdsourcing00 Ratings7.332 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Jotform
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    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Lighthouse StudioSurveyMonkey
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (111 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (41 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (35 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Lighthouse StudioSurveyMonkey
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sawtooth Software
    Anyone wanting to design and analyze advanced studies, particularly those that incorporate discrete choice modeling (such as MaxDiff and / or Conjoint) should be using Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. The capabilities and flexibility offered by this platform for these choices is far beyond any other platform I am aware of. It is less appropriate where you need the survey tool to 'play well with others.' Two examples: 1) pulling in live data streams so they can be cleaned and visualized. 2) Integrating into any service where an API call is appropriate such as adding / removing people from a mailing list, incentive management tool, or qualitative community tool.
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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
    Sawtooth Software
    • Powerful programming capabilities
    • Advanced analysis
    • Fantastic customer and technical support
    • Good documentation
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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
    Sawtooth Software
    • They could focus on integrating API type functionality
    • I would love if the data came out labeled
    • I am not a fan of the 'limited' time a study can stay up. This causes issues with longitudinal studies.
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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
    Sawtooth Software
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Sawtooth Software
    It is incredibly powerful, very rhobust and has fantastic support. The only reasons I'm not giving it a higher rating are 1) There is a very steep learning curve when it comes to designing more complex studies. 2) It is difficult to get Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio to 'talk' to other systems as the Perl upon which it is built is not really designed to work with API calls, etc.
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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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    Performance
    Sawtooth Software
    No answers on this topic
    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc.
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    Support Rating
    Sawtooth Software
    I cannot explain how great the support team is. They are prompt and very thorough in their responses.
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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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    Implementation Rating
    Sawtooth Software
    No answers on this topic
    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    Implementation not required.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sawtooth Software
    While QuestioPro has the capability to build surveys and even do some advanced analysis, it is less powerful (and less intuitive) than Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. It cannot handle studies with the complexity we are used to designing. The CMNTY Platform was initially sold to us as a combined Quant / Qual platform, but we found very quickly that the quant side of it is extremely limited.
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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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    Return on Investment
    Sawtooth Software
    • Our business is survey data so we rely heavily on sawtooth
    • The advanced design and analytics are incredibly useful
    • Negative - I wish it would work natively with API calls
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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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