{"industry":{"id":"e1a1da3c-52a8-4e99-88ad-d08ef17d7c3f","slug":"hr-technology","label":"HR Technology","description":"ATS, HRIS, payroll, and workforce management"},"topic":{"slug":"employee-experience-engagement","label":"Employee Experience & Engagement","description":"Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Employee Feedback, Pulse Surveys, Employee Recognition, Workplace Culture","schemaKind":null},"answer":{"id":"89db7a32-8ccd-44cb-96e8-6ed581f9114e","slug":"how-much-does-employee-engagement-software-cost","question":"How much does employee engagement software cost, and is there a free or cheap option for small teams?","answerMarkdown":"Employee engagement software publishes at $2 to $5 per employee per month for a single engagement or survey module, with Microsoft listing Viva Glint at $2.00 per user per month paid yearly and Lattice listing Engagement at $4 per seat per month.[4][3] Below roughly 80 people the annual minimum decides the bill rather than the seat rate, since Lattice states a $4,000 minimum annual agreement, which makes a 25 person deployment about $13.33 per employee per month.[3] Culture Amp and Qualtrics publish no rates and quote on employee count, and completed contract data puts the median annual Culture Amp deal at $21,800 across 503 purchases, with a low end of $7,798.[1][2][5] A free route is the honest answer for many teams under about 50 people, because Microsoft Forms and Google Forms ship inside suites already costing $7.00 per user per month, Polly's free Slack plan covers 25 responses a month, and Formbricks allows 250 free responses a month.[10][11][8][12] Free costs you analyst time, and it cannot buy benchmarking against outside data or an enforced anonymity threshold at small headcounts.[14][13]","answerText":"Employee engagement software publishes at $2 to $5 per employee per month for a single engagement or survey module, with Microsoft listing Viva Glint at $2.00 per user per month paid yearly and Lattice listing Engagement at $4 per seat per month.[4][3] Below roughly 80 people the annual minimum decides the bill rather than the seat rate, since Lattice states a $4,000 minimum annual agreement, which makes a 25 person deployment about $13.33 per employee per month.[3] Culture Amp and Qualtrics publish no rates and quote on employee count, and completed contract data puts the median annual Culture Amp deal at $21,800 across 503 purchases, with a low end of $7,798.[1][2][5] A free route is the honest answer for many teams under about 50 people, because Microsoft Forms and Google Forms ship inside suites already costing $7.00 per user per month, Polly's free Slack plan covers 25 responses a month, and Formbricks allows 250 free responses a month.[10][11][8][12] Free costs you analyst time, and it cannot buy benchmarking against outside data or an enforced anonymity threshold at small headcounts.[14][13]","answerHtml":"

Employee engagement software publishes at $2 to $5 per employee per month for a single engagement or survey module, with Microsoft listing Viva Glint at $2.00 per user per month paid yearly and Lattice listing Engagement at $4 per seat per month.[4][3] Below roughly 80 people the annual minimum decides the bill rather than the seat rate, since Lattice states a $4,000 minimum annual agreement, which makes a 25 person deployment about $13.33 per employee per month.[3] Culture Amp and Qualtrics publish no rates and quote on employee count, and completed contract data puts the median annual Culture Amp deal at $21,800 across 503 purchases, with a low end of $7,798.[1][2][5] A free route is the honest answer for many teams under about 50 people, because Microsoft Forms and Google Forms ship inside suites already costing $7.00 per user per month, Polly's free Slack plan covers 25 responses a month, and Formbricks allows 250 free responses a month.[10][11][8][12] Free costs you analyst time, and it cannot buy benchmarking against outside data or an enforced anonymity threshold at small headcounts.[14][13]

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Engagement software costs $2 to $5 per employee per month as a single module, and roughly $8,000 to $30,000 a year as a full platform that quotes rather than publishes. Microsoft lists Viva Glint at $2.00 per user per month on an annual commitment, and Lattice lists Engagement at $4 per seat per month.[4][3] Culture Amp publishes no rate and states that pricing depends on employee count, product, and service tier with everything billed annually, and Qualtrics prices People Engage on employee count without publishing figures either.[1][2] For quote only vendors the closest substitute for a list price is completed contract data: Vendr records a median annual Culture Amp deal of $21,800 across 503 purchases, ranging from $7,798 to $58,068, last updated February 2026.[5]

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Three structural details decide which side of that gap you land on.

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The annual minimum usually beats the seat rate

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Lattice states that the minimum annual agreement is $4,000, so a 25 person company buying Engagement at $4 per seat pays $4,000 instead of the $1,200 the seat arithmetic implies.[3] Vendors that quote behave the same way without publishing it, because a sales cycle creates a floor below which a deal is not worth signing.

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Engagement is sold as a module, not as a product

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Microsoft sells Viva Glint standalone at $2.00 per user per month, inside a $6.00 Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback plan that adds Viva Insights and Viva Pulse, or inside the $12.00 Viva Suite.[4] Lattice prices Engagement apart from Performance, and Culture Amp splits its catalog into Engage, Perform, and an optional Develop add on.[3][1] Two quotes become comparable only once you know which modules each one includes.

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Headcount decides which vendors will sell to you

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Culture Amp segments customers into organizations under 200 employees, 200 to 999, and 1,000 or more, with service tiers that differ across those bands.[1] Under about 50 employees several well known platforms are priced at a minimum that costs more than the problem, which is why the free routes below are a serious answer.

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Every figure below was read on the vendor's live pricing page on July 20, 2026, except the WorkTango row.

\n","outroMarkdown":"Vendor pages and independent trackers do not always agree. One review updated June 26, 2026 lists Lattice at $15 per user per month with the same $4,000 minimum, which reads as a bundled multi module rate rather than the $4 per seat Engagement module Lattice publishes.[6][3]","outroHtml":"

Vendor pages and independent trackers do not always agree. One review updated June 26, 2026 lists Lattice at $15 per user per month with the same $4,000 minimum, which reads as a bundled multi module rate rather than the $4 per seat Engagement module Lattice publishes.[6][3]

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Four pricing models are in circulation, and a small team is usually exposed to all of them at once: a per employee rate, a per response meter, an annual minimum, and a reward budget outside the subscription.

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Per employee per month, billed annually

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The standard model charges for every employee in the directory rather than for the people who answer. Viva Glint at $2.00 per user per month and Lattice Engagement at $4 per seat per month both require an annual commitment.[4][3] Culture Amp states that all of its products are billed annually.[1]

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Per response, which is how general survey tools meter

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Survey platforms charge for volume instead of for people. SurveyMonkey's free Basic plan allows unlimited surveys and questions but shows only 25 responses per survey, Team Advantage runs $30 per user per month annually with a three user minimum and 50,000 responses a year, and responses past an allowance cost $0.15 each.[7] At 40 people running one quarterly survey, volume rarely binds; at 400 people running monthly pulses, volume becomes the whole bill.

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Annual minimums and seat floors

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Minimums are what make small deployments expensive per head. Lattice publishes a $4,000 minimum annual agreement.[3] SurveyMonkey team plans start at three users and its Enterprise tier at five, so a two person people team pays for spare seats.[7] Polly sells its Team plan at $249 a month for five users billed annually.[8] None of those floors shrink as your headcount does.

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Reward budgets sit outside the subscription

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Recognition products bill the platform and the rewards on separate lines. Bonusly charges $3 per user per month for its Team plan and states that reward spending is separate from subscription costs.[9] A $10 monthly allowance across 60 people comes to $7,200 a year on top of a $2,160 subscription, so reading only the software line understates the program by more than four times.

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Six routes cost nothing or close to it, and the right one depends on where your team already works.

\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{"rows":[{"cells":["Microsoft Forms plus Excel","In Microsoft 365 Business Basic, $7.00 per user [10]","Highest","No benchmarks or anonymity controls"]},{"cells":["Google Forms plus Sheets","In Workspace Business Starter, $7.00 per user [11]","Highest","No benchmarks or anonymity controls"]},{"cells":["Free tier of a survey tool","$0 on SurveyMonkey Basic, 25 responses per survey [7]","Moderate","Overage at $0.15 per response [7]"]},{"cells":["Slack or Teams pulse app","$0 on Polly, 25 responses a month [8]","Low","45 day history, anonymity costs $29 [8]"]},{"cells":["Module you already own","$2.00 per user for Viva Glint, $4 per seat for Lattice [4][3]","Low","Lattice's $4,000 minimum applies [3]"]},{"cells":["Open source, self hosted","$0 license on Formbricks, 250 free cloud responses [12]","Moderate to high","Patching and access control are yours"]}],"columns":["Route","Cash cost","Effort","Where it breaks"]},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":40},{"id":"dac2ff2e-53fa-4065-a5ec-6b6912a0be19","sectionKey":"free_routes_detail","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How does each free or near free route actually work?","introMarkdown":"### The forms tool inside the suite you already pay for\n\nMicrosoft Forms is included across the Microsoft 365 business plans, starting with Business Basic at $7.00 per user per month annually.[10] Google Forms appears as the survey builder in the paid Google Workspace plans, starting at $7.00 per user per month.[11] Incremental cash cost is zero. Budget four to six hours to build and pilot the first questionnaire, then four to eight hours per cycle to clean responses and read comments, since none of that is automated.\n\n### A free tier of a general survey tool\n\nSurveyMonkey's Basic plan allows unlimited surveys and questions but shows only 25 responses per survey, which fits a team of 25 exactly once.[7] Formbricks gives 250 responses a month free with full API access.[12] These tiers add branching logic and automatic charts that a spreadsheet lacks, in exchange for a ceiling you meet the first time you survey twice in one month.\n\n### A pulse app that lives in Slack or Teams\n\nPolly runs surveys inside chat, with a free plan covering 25 responses a month and 45 days of history, Basic at $19 a month for 500 responses, and Pro at $29 a month for 1,000 responses, three creator licenses, and anonymity options.[8] Response rates tend to run higher in chat because nobody has to open a separate tool, though anonymity sits on the $29 tier, which matters when unattributed answers are the point.\n\n### The module bundled into software you already buy\n\nA Microsoft tenant can add Viva Glint at $2.00 per user per month instead of buying a separate platform, and Viva Pulse arrives in the same $6.00 plan.[4] A company already running Lattice can add Engagement at $4 per seat per month, subject to the $4,000 annual minimum on the account.[3] Many HRIS products include an eNPS question set in their upper tiers, so audit existing contracts first.\n\n### Open source and self hosted\n\nFormbricks publishes a self hosting path alongside its cloud plans, so license cost is zero and running cost becomes hosting plus administration time.[12] Self hosting also keeps responses on infrastructure you control, which usually shortens a security review, though upgrades and backups become internal work.\n\n### A recognition tool's free tier\n\nBonusly is free for up to eight users and $3 per user per month on its Team plan, with rewards billed separately.[9] An independent review updated June 26, 2026 also lists Pebb as free with a $4 per user per month tier.[6] Recognition activity is a weaker signal than a survey, since participation is voluntary and skews toward people already engaged.","introHtml":"

The forms tool inside the suite you already pay for

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Microsoft Forms is included across the Microsoft 365 business plans, starting with Business Basic at $7.00 per user per month annually.[10] Google Forms appears as the survey builder in the paid Google Workspace plans, starting at $7.00 per user per month.[11] Incremental cash cost is zero. Budget four to six hours to build and pilot the first questionnaire, then four to eight hours per cycle to clean responses and read comments, since none of that is automated.

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A free tier of a general survey tool

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SurveyMonkey's Basic plan allows unlimited surveys and questions but shows only 25 responses per survey, which fits a team of 25 exactly once.[7] Formbricks gives 250 responses a month free with full API access.[12] These tiers add branching logic and automatic charts that a spreadsheet lacks, in exchange for a ceiling you meet the first time you survey twice in one month.

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A pulse app that lives in Slack or Teams

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Polly runs surveys inside chat, with a free plan covering 25 responses a month and 45 days of history, Basic at $19 a month for 500 responses, and Pro at $29 a month for 1,000 responses, three creator licenses, and anonymity options.[8] Response rates tend to run higher in chat because nobody has to open a separate tool, though anonymity sits on the $29 tier, which matters when unattributed answers are the point.

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The module bundled into software you already buy

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A Microsoft tenant can add Viva Glint at $2.00 per user per month instead of buying a separate platform, and Viva Pulse arrives in the same $6.00 plan.[4] A company already running Lattice can add Engagement at $4 per seat per month, subject to the $4,000 annual minimum on the account.[3] Many HRIS products include an eNPS question set in their upper tiers, so audit existing contracts first.

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Open source and self hosted

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Formbricks publishes a self hosting path alongside its cloud plans, so license cost is zero and running cost becomes hosting plus administration time.[12] Self hosting also keeps responses on infrastructure you control, which usually shortens a security review, though upgrades and backups become internal work.

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A recognition tool's free tier

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Bonusly is free for up to eight users and $3 per user per month on its Team plan, with rewards billed separately.[9] An independent review updated June 26, 2026 also lists Pebb as free with a $4 per user per month tier.[6] Recognition activity is a weaker signal than a survey, since participation is voluntary and skews toward people already engaged.

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25 employees

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The free route costs nothing beyond the $7.00 per user per month suite you already hold, and either Polly's free plan or SurveyMonkey Basic covers a quarterly pulse at this size.[10][11][8][7] The cheapest paid module is Viva Glint at roughly $600 a year.[4] Lattice Engagement calculates to $1,200 but bills $4,000 because of the minimum, about $13.33 per employee per month.[3]

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60 employees

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Viva Glint runs about $1,440 a year, and Lattice Engagement calculates to $2,880 while still billing at the $4,000 minimum.[4][3] SurveyMonkey Team Advantage at its three seat minimum is $1,080 a year no matter how many people you survey.[7] The low end of recorded Culture Amp contracts is $7,798 and WorkTango runs about $8,000, so a dedicated platform lands near five times the cost of a module.[5][6]

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200 employees

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Viva Glint runs about $4,800 a year and the full Viva Suite about $28,800.[4] Lattice Engagement is about $9,600, clear of the minimum.[3] Culture Amp's median recorded contract is $21,800.[5] This is where a platform earns its price, because cutting results by team for twenty managers every quarter costs more analyst time than the software costs money.[14][13]

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Four capabilities stay out of reach on a free stack, and each is a legitimate reason to pay.

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Benchmark your scores against outside data

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Culture Amp reports more than 8,900 organizations surveyed, 74.15 million surveys completed, and 1.61 billion questions answered, and it sells benchmarks cut by industry, region, and company size.[14] A favorable score of 72 percent means very little without a comparison set.

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Guarantee anonymity at small headcounts

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Paid platforms enforce a reporting group minimum and add protection against indirect identification. Culture Amp documents three settings for this, from no protection to a strong setting that hides the next smallest group when a filtered group falls below the minimum, with examples run at a minimum of five responses.[13] A form with a required department field and six people in finance identifies individuals by inference.

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Keep item level history over years

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Polly's free plan retains 45 days of results history, and SurveyMonkey's free plan shows only 25 responses per survey, so your longitudinal record is whatever somebody remembered to export.[8][7] Engagement work depends on trend lines across four to eight quarters, and one missed export breaks the series.

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Route results and suggested actions to managers

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Paid platforms give each manager a private view of their own team plus prompts for what to do next. On a free stack, one person assembles every manager report by hand, which is workable at three managers and unworkable at twenty.

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Six line items sit outside the per employee rate and tend to surface after a contract is signed.

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One cost never appears on an invoice: the hours a person spends running the program. Eight to twelve hours per survey cycle, at any realistic loaded rate, frequently exceeds the annual cost of a $2 per user per month module.

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