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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Trakstar Perform

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ATrakstar's Performance Appraisal software helps HR and organization manage feedback, goals and reviews. The user can build customized appraisal forms, set SMART goals, and create flexible workflows to meet the needs of an organization. 360/Multi-rater feedback is an option. Trakstar's implementation is customized, and Trakstar offers a free trial, price quote, or a live demo from a real person.

    $4,370

    per year

    Pricing
    SurveyMonkeyTrakstar Perform
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Trakstar
    $4370.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SurveyMonkeyTrakstar Perform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SurveyMonkeyTrakstar Perform
    Considered Both Products
    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Mitratech
    Chose Trakstar Perform
    Many more features than SurveyMonkey's products for goal tracking and multi-rater feedback.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    79%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    60%
    Would buy again
    3 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    81%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SurveyMonkeyTrakstar Perform
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of SurveyMonkey and Trakstar Perform
    Feature
    SurveyMonkey
    7.2
    76 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Trakstar Perform
    -
    Ratings
    Survey templates8.075 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themes7.367 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding6.367 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of SurveyMonkey and Trakstar Perform
    Feature
    SurveyMonkey
    7.6
    78 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Trakstar Perform
    -
    Ratings
    Changes to live survey7.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Question design help6.872 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple question types9.078 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of SurveyMonkey and Trakstar Perform
    Feature
    SurveyMonkey
    7.3
    72 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Trakstar Perform
    -
    Ratings
    Survey logic flexibility7.372 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of SurveyMonkey and Trakstar Perform
    Feature
    SurveyMonkey
    7.1
    78 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Trakstar Perform
    -
    Ratings
    Response tracking7.577 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data export6.374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.077 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.864 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics7.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of SurveyMonkey and Trakstar Perform
    Feature
    SurveyMonkey
    8.3
    67 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Trakstar Perform
    -
    Ratings
    Access controls8.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance8.558 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Distribution
    Comparison of Survey Distribution features of SurveyMonkey and Trakstar Perform
    Feature
    SurveyMonkey
    7.5
    48 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Trakstar Perform
    -
    Ratings
    Vendor-offered crowdsourcing7.332 Ratings00 Ratings
    Respondent restrictions7.846 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SurveyMonkeyTrakstar Perform
    Small Businesses
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    PerformYard
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    SurveyMonkeyTrakstar Perform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (111 ratings)
    6.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (41 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (35 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SurveyMonkeyTrakstar Perform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Mitratech
    This is a great program if you have locations in different geographical areas. The ability to work with people at different locations is appreciated, and also there can be informal input that is requested, which Promantek can handle as well. I am at a loss to think of an area where this does not work well. There are several of our employees in the manufacturing areas that do not have computer access, and for those individuals, we simply print the review instead of having it online. This works fine but is not the forte of Promantek. However, any system these days that focusses on the online aspects of review writing will experience that as well.
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    Pros
    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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    Mitratech
    • Trakstar sends out a lot of automated reminders to participants, encouraging them to take notes and provide feedback on a regular basis.
    • Trakstar generates analysis (i.e., rater bais) automatically that would otherwise be labor intensive to do manually.
    • Trakstar has a feature that allows administrators to see what each individual employee sees - this is critical in ensuring that the performance review process goes smoothly.
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Mitratech
    • The reporting features are a bit weak. But you can download Excel-ready files to manipulate on your own.
    • The dashboard feature (prior to June 2013) was very nice, but missing in the latest version.
    • Automated reports, quarterly for example, would be nice to send to Senior Leadership (missing in the current version/requires manual input)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Mitratech
    Very simple to use, great support.
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    Usability
    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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    Mitratech
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    Performance
    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc.
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    Mitratech
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Mitratech
    Trakstar has been very responsive to my questions and support has been able to speak with me on the phone as needed. Also, when I told Trakstar that my employees were not delighted by the product, they did a special session with me to diagnose any issues and to make recommendations for how I could improve the tool's usefulness in my job. I appreciated their support here
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    Implementation Rating
    SurveyMonkey, Inc
    Implementation not required.
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    Mitratech
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Mitratech
    I did not make the purchase decision for Trakstar, but at a previous job I used Reflektive. Many of the outcomes of the tool are the same, even if the product interface and language is slightly different
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Mitratech
    • We have had few managers dread the review writing process! Sure, no one enjoys this and we all know that it is time-consuming, but Promantek has allowed less time spent in frustration and more time actually communicating effectively. There are areas where managers can make notes during the entire review process so that when the time to write the review is upon you, it is a much simpler task. This has allowed us to free up the time with managers to a certain degree which is always beneficial.
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