SurveyMonkey vs. Tally

Tally

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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)
Tally	Score 6.2 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	Tally is an online form builder designed to make creating online forms simple and free. No coding required — users simply type questions like they would in a doc to get started. The form editor is designed to accommodate both beginners and experienced users, scaling from simple forms to sophisticated workflows. Key Features: Unlimited forms and submissions Conditional logic and calculations Multi-page and password-protected…	$0 Indefinitely per user

Pricing

SurveyMonkey

Tally

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

Tally Free: $0
Indefinitely per user
Tally Pro: $29
per month per user
Tally Business: $89
per month per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SurveyMonkey	Tally
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Some of Tally's advanced features are available for free without limits. Tally Pro ($29/month) adds team collaboration features, while Tally Business ($89/month) includes enterprise controls like email verification and submissions data retention control.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	SurveyMonkey	Tally
Considered Both Products	SurveyMonkey MA Mohammed Alkayal Project Officer Chose SurveyMonkey I think we were looking for a survey products, so when I think about survey products; SurveyMonkey is the only solution Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? BL Brandon Lai IT Manager 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. Incentivized Helpful? Stefan Achard President and Founder Chose SurveyMonkey As [I] mentioned in the previous comments, [I believe] there is no comparison. [In my opinion,] SurveyMonkey is a market lagger. Incentivized Helpful? CP Curtis Pierre Regional HR Manager Chose SurveyMonkey The tool is free, but we selected SurveyMonkey because we were able to easily pull the data and do the analysis. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SurveyMonkey I have only used this software and have not used others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Bennett Sr. Account Executive - Inbound Team Lead 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Caroline Dobson Human Resources Generalist 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 … Incentivized Helpful? TC Tiffany Consalvo Practice Administrator 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? VC Vasilii Chistyakov Owner Chose SurveyMonkey Compared to Google forms, it is easier to create a beautiful design for a survey form in SurveyMonkey. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Duane Thompson Product Development Lead 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Vinicius Andrade UI/UX Designer Chose SurveyMonkey The level of options compared to Google Forms, and the regionalized prices compared to Typeform. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Emery AIS Director 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SurveyMonkey SurveyMonkey has more professional features, templates and theme options than Google Surveys Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Ira Bornstein, MBA Executive Chose SurveyMonkey I've been using SurveyMonkey for more than 20 years - most of the competitor solutions that I reviewed over 20 years ago don't even exist any longer, or they've been acquired by other firms. SurveyMonkey has stood the test of time, and never given me the need to seek out other … Incentivized Helpful? Betsy Scruggs Research Chose SurveyMonkey I like [SurveryMonkey] better because it is a way easier website to use. Very user friendly. The website is very easy to get all the feedback together in one place. The other website I used had a lot of glitches and was different than survey monkey. That website was too much … Incentivized Helpful? JP Juan Palma Software Development Manager Chose SurveyMonkey We really didn't look at alternatives. The only alternatives we looked at was developing our own surveys, via email and/or baking them directly into our applications, but SurveyMonkey really did all the heavy lifting, so to speak, by providing a one-stop shop for constructing, … Incentivized Helpful?	Tally No answer on this topic

Features

SurveyMonkey

Tally

Survey Format & Appearance

Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
	SurveyMonkey 8.6 Ratings 8% above category average	Tally 7.0 Ratings 13% below category average
Survey templates	9.10 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Themes	6.70 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Custom logo/branding	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Survey Content

Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
	SurveyMonkey 8.6 Ratings 1% above category average	Tally 8.3 Ratings 2% below category average
Changes to live survey	7.40 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Question design help	9.10 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Multiple question types	9.10 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Survey Logic

Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
	SurveyMonkey 8.4 Ratings 2% above category average	Tally 9.0 Ratings 9% above category average
Survey logic flexibility	8.40 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Survey Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	SurveyMonkey 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average	Tally 6.7 Ratings 20% below category average
Response tracking	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data export	10.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Standard reports	10.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Custom reports	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Analytics	9.90 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

Survey Administration & Security

Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
	SurveyMonkey 10.0 Ratings 14% above category average	Tally 8.0 Ratings 8% below category average
Access controls	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Compliance	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Survey Distribution

Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
	SurveyMonkey 9.9 Ratings 19% above category average	Tally - Ratings
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing	9.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Respondent restrictions	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SurveyMonkey	Tally
Small Businesses	Square 9 Softworks Score 9.1 out of 10	Square 9 Softworks Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Qualaroo Score 6.1 out of 10	Qualaroo Score 6.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Verint Voice of the Customer Score 10.0 out of 10	Verint Voice of the Customer Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	SurveyMonkey	Tally
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.9 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SurveyMonkey	Tally
Likelihood to Recommend	SurveyMonkey really excels in the survey design aspect of the surveying process. They have so many different question types that you can use to create your questions. The analytics and reporting are basic but ok for those wanting simple insights into their survey answers. Their free plan should suffice for any business that needs the fundamentals of surveying - i.e. survey builder, sharing, and viewing answers. Incentivized BL Brandon Lai IT Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	SurveyMonkey's survey programming features are extremely intuitive. Someone who has never used it before can, with little direction or training, easily set up a simple - or comprehensive - survey in a matter of minutes. Real-time reporting and analytics tools are extremely helpful to keep everyone involved informed on an ongoing basis. Virtually any kind of question or answer format can be programmed into your SurveyMonkey survey. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	I think it's becoming pushed to the back-burner as more survey sites come out - it needs to come up with something to keep it more relevant as other survey sites are being more widely used. Give more options to customize the look of your survey. Incentivized Amanda Carpenter Administrative Office Technician Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	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. Ben Donkor Social Media & Online Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc. Jeannette Saquet President Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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 Incentivized Betsy Scruggs Research Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Implementation not required. Rachel Biederman Senior Director, Marketing and Communications Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	SurveyMonkey has a positive impact on our organization by allowing us to gain insight to our team through the 360 evaluations. We have had positive ROI from our client polling questions which have directed new products or services that we offer. The analytics were an awesome way to filter and export responses so that our management team could evaluate the information. Incentivized TC Tiffany Consalvo Practice Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
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