SurveyMonkey vs. Zendesk Sunshine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SurveyMonkey
Score 8.3 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.
$99
per month
Zendesk Sunshine
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Sunshine is the foundation beneath Zendesk that can be used by customers to build their own customer engagement solutions. Sunshine can be configured to meet the user's business needs using its available apps, tools, and pre-built capabilities that fits the user's own systems. Sunshine uses open standards and common languages, so it’s easier to create a support platform from a modified Zendesk, that may better suit the organization's specific needs.N/A
Pricing
SurveyMonkeyZendesk Sunshine
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SurveyMonkeyZendesk Sunshine
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SurveyMonkeyZendesk Sunshine
Features
SurveyMonkeyZendesk Sunshine
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
SurveyMonkey
7.2
76 Ratings
10% below category average
Zendesk Sunshine
-
Ratings
Survey templates8.075 Ratings00 Ratings
Themes7.367 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom logo/branding6.367 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
SurveyMonkey
7.6
78 Ratings
11% below category average
Zendesk Sunshine
-
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 Product A and Product B
SurveyMonkey
7.3
72 Ratings
13% below category average
Zendesk Sunshine
-
Ratings
Survey logic flexibility7.372 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
SurveyMonkey
7.1
78 Ratings
13% below category average
Zendesk Sunshine
-
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 Product A and Product B
SurveyMonkey
8.3
67 Ratings
4% below category average
Zendesk Sunshine
-
Ratings
Access controls8.067 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance8.558 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
SurveyMonkey
7.5
48 Ratings
7% below category average
Zendesk Sunshine
-
Ratings
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing7.332 Ratings00 Ratings
Respondent restrictions7.846 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
SurveyMonkeyZendesk Sunshine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(110 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(26 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(41 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(35 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SurveyMonkeyZendesk Sunshine
Likelihood to Recommend
Momentive (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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Zendesk
For growing technology-based companies, Zendesk Sunshine is the best ally to provide email and chat support. It supports various integrations and can provide exceptional service that is fully customizable for both the customer and the agents using Zendesk. It is not appropriate for small companies, and for companies with a very small customer base, it is a considerable expense after a customer base of at least 10,000 customers.
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Pros
Momentive (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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Zendesk
  • Customization and ability to create customer profiles
  • Easy integration with other tools and rich history of customer actions.
  • Provides a fully intuitive interface
  • Very good ways to analyze
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Cons
Momentive (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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Zendesk
  • There are some glitches when doing upgrades on information or data, sometimes
  • It is difficult to find tickets once they are solved, we could have a tracking of the most recent or solved tickets during the day.
  • The integration or merge with other tickets from the same client is not intuitive at all, there should be an alert that throws a match.
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Likelihood to Renew
Momentive (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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Zendesk
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Usability
Momentive (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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Zendesk
Because it is a tool that we use on a daily basis and has provided confidence for the massive use that is given to it, it has also been the expected product, allowing customization and optimizing processes, saving us a lot of money and time. Definitely, the ability to track customers and the way to automate all customer support processes becomes totally easy and intuitive.
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Performance
Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc.
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Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Momentive (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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Zendesk
Due to the implementation and the few issues that ha In summary, there are few times that we have had to use this functionality, but the help that Zendesk has provided has been of another level, complying with our standards and SLAs so as not to interfere in the operation or processes.ve arisen, it is a platform that provides a fast, intuitive and tailor-made service for each user.
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Implementation Rating
Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
Implementation not required.
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Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Momentive (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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Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Momentive (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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Zendesk
  • Agility and improved response times
  • Improved customer relationship/engagement
  • Integration and tracking capabilities for customer growth phases.
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