Short answer: The best pulse survey software asks a few questions on a schedule, takes the answer inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, keeps it anonymous, and trends the score by team, and Matter does all four at a published price with coin rewards for completion.
Polly and Geekbot run the cheapest recurring question in chat but are poll tools, and Culture Amp, Qualtrics, and Workday Peakon are the quote-priced enterprise suites.
Pulse survey software sends short, recurring employee surveys (usually one to ten questions, weekly, biweekly or monthly) and turns the answers into a trend line by team, including an employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS).
The difference from an annual engagement survey is frequency and length: a pulse asks a few questions often enough that a three-point move in October means something.
In 2026 the better tools deliver the questions where people already work (Slack, Microsoft Teams, email or a mobile link), run anonymous by default, chart results for managers rather than only HR, and sometimes attach a small reward to completion.
This page is for HR, People Ops and team leads comparing pulse survey tools, from a free poll bot to an enterprise listening suite. We ranked 11 platforms on cadence, delivery channel, anonymity, trending and readable pricing.
Every price is the vendor’s own wording, verified in September 2026; ratings are from G2; response-rate figures are Matter’s published data. We build Matter, so it appears first with that disclosure, and we say where a competitor is the better buy.
Our sibling roundup of employee survey software covers the longer annual and lifecycle surveys this page leaves out.
Last verified September 2026.
The short version
The best pulse survey software asks a few questions on a schedule, takes the answer inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, keeps it anonymous, and trends the score by team so a manager can act.
For self-serve small and mid-size teams, Matter does all four at a published price and adds coin rewards for completion. Polly and Geekbot are the cheapest way to run a recurring question in chat, with free plans, but they are poll tools rather than listening programs.
Workleap Officevibe and Lattice fit HR teams at 50 to 500 people who want a weekly pulse inside a people platform. Culture Amp, Qualtrics Employee Experience and Workday Peakon Employee Voice are the enterprise listening suites, quote-priced and deeper on driver analysis.
Microsoft 365 estates should price Viva Glint with Viva Pulse first, and CultureMonkey is the pick when most of the workforce has no desk.
Quick comparison
| Platform | Works in | Starting price | Free plan or trial | G2 rating | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matter | Slack, Teams (native), email | Basic $1 per user/month, billed annually; Surveys add-on $2 per user/month | Free plan; 14-day free trial | See entry 1 | Chat-native pulse with rewards |
| Workleap Officevibe | Web; Slack and Teams DMs | From $4,999 USD per year | None printed | 4.3 (1,090) | Weekly pulse, HR suite |
| Lattice | Web; Slack (answered); Teams (notified) | Engagement $4 seat/month; $4,000 annual minimum | None printed | 4.6 (4,123) | Pulse beside performance data |
| Culture Amp | Web; Slack and Teams notifications | Quote-based, billed annually | None printed | 4.5 (1,613) | Enterprise benchmarks |
| Workday Peakon Employee Voice | Web; Teams (answered); Slack (notified) | Quote-based | None | 4.6 (117) | Workday estates |
| Qualtrics Employee Experience | Web; Slack and Teams (add-ons) | Quote-only, by employee count | None printed | 4.4 (463) | People analytics next to CX data |
| Microsoft Viva Glint (with Viva Pulse) | Teams, web, email link; no Slack | $2.00 user/month, paid yearly, 50-seat minimum | Viva Pulse trial of 30 days | 4.6 (42) | Microsoft 365 enterprises |
| TINYpulse by WebMD Health Services | Slack and Teams (bot), web | Not published; demo only | None | 4.4 (214) | One-question weekly pulse |
| Polly | Slack and Teams | Slack Basic $19/mo, billed $228 annually | Free plans on Slack and Teams | 4.6 (94) | Quick recurring polls in chat |
| Geekbot | Slack and Teams | $1 per unique respondent, per month | Free up to 10 users; trial of 30 days | 4.6 (164) | Standup teams adding a pulse |
| CultureMonkey | Web; Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, SMS, QR, kiosk | Quote-based | None printed | 4.7 (67) | Frontline and deskless reach |
Pricing verified September 2026 against each vendor’s pricing page; ratings from G2 as of September 2026. We do not print our own G2 score without a fresh fetch.
How we evaluated pulse survey software
We build Matter, which runs pulse and eNPS surveys native to Slack and Microsoft Teams, so read our entry with that in mind.
For every other platform we reviewed the vendor’s pricing page, product pages and help documentation, plus named G2 reviews; most we have not used hands-on, so we rely on what each vendor publishes.
We scored five things: the cadence engine (scheduling, reminders, repeated questions so results trend, eNPS); the delivery channel (answered inside Slack or Teams, or through a link); anonymity, both the default and whether a minimum group size is printed; manager follow-through (do team leads see their own results); and pricing you can read without a sales call.
Pricing verified September 2026 on each vendor’s pricing page; ratings from G2 as of September 2026.
Our own data set the bar for response speed. In The Recognition Habit, Matter’s 2026 Benchmark Report, over half of pulse responses arrive within the first hour and 87.5% within a day, coin rewards roughly double completion (39.6% vs 19.6%, survey-weighted across 84,000+ pulse surveys), and 98.2% of pulse surveys run anonymous.
The same report finds that almost half of teams (46%) send their first recognition within 15 minutes of setup, 1 in 3 within 5 minutes, and the figures are identical on Slack and Teams. Full reports are on our research page.
What to look for in pulse survey software
- A cadence you can sustain. Weekly, biweekly or monthly, with reminders and the same core questions repeated so the score becomes a line; our pulse survey guide covers questions and rhythm. The tool has to run it without HR pressing send.
- Where people will actually use it (Slack, Teams, email, mobile, a portal). A pulse answered in chat gets answered; one behind a login gets skipped by week three. Six tools below take the answer in the chat app; the rest deliver a link and collect it elsewhere, and the entries say which.
- Anonymity and the threshold. Anonymous should be the default. Ask the minimum group size before a team’s score is shown: no vendor page we fetched prints one.
- eNPS and trending by team. The point of asking 26 times a year is the trend. Check that pulse and eNPS scores build a time series per team, and what a free tier keeps (Polly’s free Slack plan keeps 45 days of history).
- Response speed. A pulse that takes a week to collect is a monthly survey in disguise; ask what share of responses land in the first day.
- Manager follow-through. Do team leads see their own results and suggested actions, or does everything route through HR? Suites build the manager view in; poll tools leave follow-up to whoever reads the channel.
- Pricing you can read. Six of the 11 platforms below publish a price; five are quote-gated, and two of those sell chat delivery as a paid add-on.
The best pulse survey software in 2026
1. Matter
We build Matter, so weigh this accordingly. Matter is recognition, rewards and employee surveys in one app native to Slack and Microsoft Teams: no separate login, about two minutes to set up, user management synced from the chat platform.
Pulse and eNPS surveys live in the Surveys add-on, delivered in Slack, Teams and email, with optional coin rewards for completion; templates are on Matter’s pulse surveys page. Feedback Friday™ (US Patent 12,199,935) prompts the team weekly; give-coins reset weekly, earned coins never expire.
Standout strength: Response speed. The pulse is answered where the team already talks, runs anonymous, and a coin reward for completion is built in; 98% of teams attach coin rewards on custom surveys. Recognition and employee listening share one app.
Watch out for: Surveys are a paid add-on, not part of the Free plan, and dedicated listening suites go deeper on analytics: for driver analysis and benchmarks across hundreds of managers, Culture Amp, Qualtrics or Peakon is the better tool, and Lattice wins if the pulse must sit beside performance data.
HRIS sync is Enterprise-only (250+ HRIS integrations available; no HRIS project is required because user management syncs from Slack or Teams). Matter’s G2 reviews give the unfiltered view.
Pricing: Free plan for unlimited users. Basic is $1 per user/month, billed annually; Pro is $3 per user/month, billed annually; the Surveys add-on is $2 per user/month, billed annually, on Basic or Pro (Pro + Surveys totals $5). 14-day free trial, no credit card; Matter hasn’t raised prices in 8 years. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Slack and Microsoft Teams natively; surveys also deliver by email.
Best for: Small and mid-size teams that want a weekly pulse answered in Slack or Teams, with eNPS trending and recognition in one app, at a published price.
2. Workleap Officevibe
Workleap Officevibe (formerly Officevibe) is the weekly pulse product inside the Workleap suite alongside Performance and Compensation. Team members receive a weekly Pulse Survey through Slack, and Teams carries the same notifications and reminders as direct messages, with feedback and 1-on-1 prompts alongside; it is a listening-led suite bought by HR at mid-size companies.
Standout strength: The weekly pulse arrives as a Slack or Teams direct message from a suite that also gives managers team health reports, feedback and 1-on-1 agendas.
Watch out for: Pricing is now a Workleap bundle rather than a per-user price, and the vendor pages describe surveys delivered through Slack and Teams without stating that answers are submitted there, so ask. G2 reviewer Duncan J. (September 2025) says urgent support tickets ‘can take up to three days to be resolved’ (G2, 4.3 across 1,090 reviews).
Pricing: Standard ‘Starting at $4,999 USD’ billed annually; Pro ‘Starting at $11,999 USD’ billed annually; Enterprise custom for organizations with 250+ employees. No free plan or trial printed. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Web; Slack and Microsoft Teams deliver the weekly pulse by direct message.
Best for: HR-owned pulse programs at 50 to 500 people that want manager reports and 1-on-1s in one suite.
3. Lattice
Lattice is a people platform (performance, goals, 1:1s) whose Engagement product covers pulse, eNPS, onboarding and exit surveys with AI analysis and trends. Pulse surveys are answered inside the Lattice app home in Slack: open Apps, pick Lattice, select an option and click Submit; on Teams the integration is notifications plus feedback.
Standout strength: A pulse answered inside Slack, with the score next to performance reviews and 1:1 notes, at a published $4 seat/month for Engagement.
Watch out for: Lattice’s pricing page states ‘The minimum annual agreement is $4,000’, which prices small teams above what the seat rate implies, and the Teams integration delivers notifications rather than the survey itself (G2, 4.6 across 4,123 reviews).
Pricing: Engagement ‘$4 seat/month’ billed annually, sold on its own or with Foundations at ‘$13 seat/month’; Enterprise custom; minimum annual agreement $4,000. No free plan; no trial printed. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Web; pulse answered in Slack; notifications in Microsoft Teams.
Best for: Mid-size companies that want the pulse tied to performance and 1:1s and can clear the $4,000 minimum.
4. Culture Amp
Culture Amp is an enterprise engagement and performance suite with benchmarks and driver analysis, the tool large HR teams mean by ‘listening program’. Its Slack and Teams apps carry survey invitations, reminders and announcements; the survey itself is completed in the Culture Amp platform.
Standout strength: Depth. Engagement and effectiveness surveys, benchmarks and performance cycles in one platform; G2 reviewer Ryan H. (August 2026) has used it at several organizations over a decade and calls the support ‘incredibly helpful’.
Watch out for: Surveys are answered in the platform rather than in chat, pricing prints no figures, and G2 reviewer Bryan M. (March 2026) says ‘It sometimes felt like there was way too much to fill out, and a lot of it ended up being skipped or never used’ (G2, 4.5 across 1,613 reviews).
Pricing: Quote-based; ‘Pricing depends on the number of employees, product chosen, and service tier’ and all products are billed annually. No free plan; no trial printed. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Web; Slack and Microsoft Teams carry invitations and reminders.
Best for: Organizations of several hundred to many thousands that want benchmarks and driver analysis.
5. Workday Peakon Employee Voice
Peakon, now Workday Peakon Employee Voice, is a continuous-listening platform sold inside the Workday estate. Its Teams app lets employees open and complete their survey directly within Teams, while the Slack integration sends survey and reminder notifications and daily suggestion summaries to managers.
Standout strength: Frequent surveys completed inside Teams, with manager suggestion summaries pushed to Slack; G2 reviewer Cesar Y. (December 2025) likes ‘collecting employee feedback in real time through the frequency of surveys’.
Watch out for: Pricing is quote-only through Workday sales with no trial, the Slack app is a notification channel rather than an in-Slack survey, and G2 reviewer Peter E. (October 2020) found a bespoke survey ‘very difficult without going into a much higher tier that we didn’t need’ (G2, 4.6 across 117 reviews).
Pricing: Quote-based via Workday sales; no prices printed, no free plan, no trial. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Web; surveys completed inside Microsoft Teams; Slack and email notifications.
Best for: Large organizations, especially Workday HCM customers, that want enterprise listening with a Teams-native answer.
6. Qualtrics Employee Experience (People Engage)
Qualtrics sells employee listening as People Engage (formerly EmployeeXM), whose terms permit unlimited engagement or pulse surveys per annual subscription. A Slack add-on lets teams distribute and take surveys in any Slack channel; the Teams add-on sends a personalized link by direct message that opens in a browser tab.
Standout strength: Unlimited pulse and engagement surveys on one annual subscription, and industry benchmarks that G2 reviewer Kaela A. (November 2024) calls ‘extremely helpful’.
Watch out for: Pricing is by employee count with no published figures, Slack and Teams distribution are each ‘an add-on feature not included in the standard Qualtrics license’, and G2 reviewer Duke K. (April 2026) says ‘It is really difficult to get accurate employer data into the platform’ (G2, 4.4 across 463 reviews).
Pricing: People Engage ‘Based on employee count’, quote-only; Slack and Microsoft Teams delivery are paid add-ons. No free plan; no trial printed. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Web; Slack (taken in-channel, add-on); Microsoft Teams (link by DM, add-on); mobile dashboard app for admins.
Best for: Enterprises with a people-analytics function that want employee and customer data on one platform.
7. Microsoft Viva Glint (with Viva Pulse)
Microsoft Viva Glint is Microsoft’s engagement survey product, added to a Microsoft 365 enterprise subscription through a Microsoft representative. The Teams app carries invites, reminders and results notifications; the survey opens from a link.
Viva Pulse, in the same plan family, lets managers send short templated pulses answered in Teams or on the web, with results confidential to the requesting manager.
Standout strength: The cheapest published engagement-survey price on this list, ‘$2.00 user/month, paid yearly’, inside a tenant IT already administers, plus manager-run pulses with a people-science question library in Viva Pulse.
Watch out for: Microsoft’s page states ‘a 50-seat license minimum to use Viva Glint’, and the Glint survey opens from a link rather than being answered in Teams.
Viva Pulse is not in base Microsoft 365, is scoped to a manager’s team rather than an org-wide trend, and has no rewards; there is no Slack option (G2, 4.6 across 42 reviews).
Pricing: Viva Glint ‘$2.00 user/month, paid yearly’ with a 50-seat minimum; Viva Pulse comes with the Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback plan at ‘$6.00 user/month, paid yearly’ or Viva Suite at ‘$12.00 user/month, paid yearly’, and a Viva Glint license also unlocks it. Viva Pulse has an admin-led trial of 30 days for 25 users. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Microsoft Teams (Glint notifications; Viva Pulse answered in Teams), web, email link. No Slack.
Best for: Microsoft 365 enterprises that want an HR-run engagement program plus manager pulses without adding a vendor.
8. TINYpulse by WebMD Health Services
TINYpulse made the one-question weekly pulse a category and is still sold, now as TINYpulse by WebMD Health Services after a spell as Limeade Listening. Its bot lets people respond to surveys directly in Slack and in Teams, and Cheers, wins and suggestions stream to channels.
Standout strength: The original lightweight cadence, answered in the chat app by a bot; G2 reviewer Tina H. (May 2022) describes ‘weekly “pulse” one question check-ins’.
Watch out for: Two ownership changes and two renames since 2020, no public pricing, and Slack is described as an add-on that may not be in every subscription.
G2 reviewer Eniko S. (December 2021) reports ‘By clicking on the survey response we are taken to login and then one has to answer the survey again’; both named reviews predate the 2024 rebrand (G2, 4.4 across 214 reviews).
Pricing: Not published; demo request only. No free plan or trial. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Slack and Microsoft Teams (answered via the bot); web.
Best for: Organizations already buying WebMD Health Services well-being programs that want a pulse from the same vendor.
9. Polly
Polly is a polling and survey app for Slack and Microsoft Teams: type /polly in a Slack channel or @polly in Teams, and the team answers in one click in the channel, chat or meeting. A pulse on Polly is a recurring poll an author keeps on a rhythm rather than an HR program.
Standout strength: The lowest-friction answer on the list, free to start with unlimited responses and participants on Slack; G2 reviewer Christy H. (April 2026) calls it ‘Easy to set up and easy to use’.
Watch out for: Paid plans are per author license billed annually, the free Teams plan has no anonymous responses, DM delivery, reminders or scheduling, and G2 reviewer Alex P. (April 2026) says ‘The pricing practices are genuinely misleading, and that’s not a word I use lightly’ (G2, 4.6 across 94 reviews).
Pricing: Polly prices Slack and Microsoft Teams on separate pages. On Slack there is a free plan; Basic is $19/mo, billed $228 annually for 1 license; Pro is $29/mo, billed $348 annually for 1 license; Team is $249/mo for 5 users, billed annually.
On Teams there is a free plan and Pro at $19/mo, billed $228 annually. Licensing is per author rather than per respondent, so cost tracks how many people build polls, not how many answer them. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Best for: Teams that want a quick recurring question in chat without an HR suite.
10. Geekbot
Geekbot is an async standup bot for Slack and Microsoft Teams that also runs polls and surveys: the bot asks, the team answers in chat, and results post to a channel, with an anonymous option and formats from yes/no to 1 to 5 scales.
Standout strength: Surveys asked and answered by a bot inside Slack or Teams; teams of up to 10 get unlimited standups, polls and surveys free.
Watch out for: It is a standup bot first, polls and surveys are billed separately per unique respondent on top of standup pricing, and G2 reviewer Christie M. (July 2023) says ‘It’s not very customizable’ (G2, 4.6 across 164 reviews).
Pricing: Starter free for teams of up to 10 users; Polls and Surveys ‘$1 per unique respondent, per month’ with a lower annual rate; Enterprise ‘Contact us’. Free trial of 30 days. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Best for: Engineering and product teams running async standups that want a pulse in the same bot.
11. CultureMonkey
CultureMonkey is an employee listening platform built to reach a whole workforce: surveys go out by email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, SMS, QR codes and kiosk mode. In Slack and Teams a bot delivers invites and reminders by direct message; the answer is collected in CultureMonkey.
Standout strength: Channel reach for frontline and deskless staff. G2 reviewer Heather K. (March 2026) says ‘It’s easy to get to frontline employees using mobile access and QR codes’ (G2, 4.7 across 67 reviews).
Watch out for: Pricing is quote-only with no self-serve path, Slack and Teams are delivery routes to a link rather than in-chat answering, and the Teams bot needs the tenant master administrator plus up to 24 hours to install; a verified reviewer in aviation (March 2026) wanted to ‘range the data for a window of time’.
Pricing: Quote-based; tiers described by company size (under 200, 200 to 999, 1,000+ employees) with no figures printed. No free plan; no trial printed. Verified September 2026.
Works in: Web; Slack and Microsoft Teams (bot DM to a link); email, WhatsApp, SMS, QR and kiosk.
Best for: Mid-size to enterprise HR teams with frontline or multilingual workforces that need every delivery channel.
What pulse survey software costs in 2026
Pulse survey pricing follows five models, and the meter matters more than the headline number. Per user, published: Matter’s Surveys add-on at $2 per user/month, billed annually, on top of Basic at $1 per user/month, billed annually; Lattice Engagement at ‘$4 seat/month’; Viva Glint at ‘$2.00 user/month, paid yearly’.
Per author license: Polly charges the poll creator, not the people who answer, so a Slack Basic license is ‘billed $228 annually for 1 license’ regardless of team size. Per respondent: Geekbot’s surveys cost ‘$1 per unique respondent, per month’, which grows with every team in the rotation.
Annual bundle: Workleap’s Standard plan starts at $4,999 USD a year with no per-user figure. Quote-gated: Culture Amp, Workday Peakon, Qualtrics, TINYpulse and CultureMonkey publish no price.
Minimums and add-ons change the real cost. Lattice’s minimum annual agreement is $4,000, so a 40-person team pays the minimum, not 40 times $4. Viva Glint requires a 50-seat minimum, and Viva Pulse only comes with the ‘$6.00 user/month, paid yearly’ plan or higher.
Qualtrics sells Slack and Teams delivery as add-ons outside the standard license, and TINYpulse treats Slack the same way. Rewards are funded separately: on Matter they are billed only when an admin approves a redemption.
Arithmetic from the published rates for a 100-person team on annual billing: Matter Basic plus the Surveys add-on is $3,600 a year; Lattice Engagement is $4,800; Viva Glint alone is $2,400, or $7,200 with Viva Pulse; Geekbot’s survey meter is $1,200 at the monthly rate; Workleap starts at $4,999 USD.
The quote-gated suites will not land in this range; their buyers pay for benchmarks and driver analysis.
What is free: Polly’s free plans, Geekbot’s Starter plan for up to 10 users, and Matter’s Free plan for unlimited users, which covers kudos and Feedback Friday rather than surveys. Full detail is on Matter’s pricing page; the 14-day free trial means the first pulse can run before a purchase order exists.
How to choose pulse survey software for your company size
Under 50 people. You need a question that gets answered, not a listening program. Polly or Geekbot runs a recurring question in Slack or Teams for free; for anonymity, eNPS trending and a reward for completion at a published price, Matter’s Basic plan with the Surveys add-on is the next step.
Lattice’s $4,000 minimum and Workleap’s $4,999 USD floor are hard to justify at this size.
50 to 500 people. Matter is the lowest published price with the pulse answered in chat and recognition in the same app. Lattice is the better pick if pulse scores need to sit beside performance reviews, and Workleap Officevibe if you want manager reports and 1-on-1 agendas from an HR-owned suite.
Microsoft 365 companies should price Viva Glint with Viva Pulse first. Matter is not the right answer if you need driver analysis across dozens of managers or industry benchmarks; that is suite territory. For chat-specific detail, see Slack survey apps and Microsoft Teams apps for pulse surveys.
500 and up. Culture Amp, Qualtrics Employee Experience and Workday Peakon Employee Voice are built for this scale and its procurement process; Peakon is the natural pick for Workday HCM customers, Qualtrics for companies already running it for CX. CultureMonkey wins when much of the workforce has no desk or company email.
Matter still fits large companies that live in Slack or Teams and want a fast, rewarded pulse alongside recognition, but if your HR and People Ops team is staffing a people-analytics function, buy the suite.
Frequently asked questions about pulse survey software
What is pulse survey software?
Pulse survey software is a tool that sends short employee surveys on a recurring schedule, usually one to ten questions weekly, biweekly or monthly, and trends the results over time by team.
Most tools include an eNPS question, anonymous responses, reminders and a manager dashboard; the best deliver the questions inside Slack, Microsoft Teams or email so nobody has to log in.
What is the difference between a pulse survey and an employee engagement survey?
A pulse survey is short and frequent: a handful of questions every week or month, repeated so scores form a trend. An employee engagement survey is long and rare: typically 30 to 60 questions once or twice a year, covering every driver at once and benchmarked against other companies.
Pulse tools such as Matter, Polly and TINYpulse are built around the cadence; suites such as Culture Amp, Qualtrics and Workday Peakon run both.
How often should you run a pulse survey?
Weekly or biweekly for one or two questions, monthly for five to ten. The test is whether managers act on the last result before the next arrives; if not, you are surveying too often, and if scores never move, too rarely.
Keep the core questions identical across cycles and rotate one topical question. On Matter, over half of pulse responses arrive within the first hour, which is what makes a weekly rhythm practical.
Is there free pulse survey software?
Yes, with limits. Polly has free plans for Slack and Microsoft Teams, with unlimited responses and participants on Slack, though history is capped and the free Teams plan lacks anonymous responses and scheduling. Geekbot’s Starter plan is free for teams of up to 10 users.
Matter’s Free plan for unlimited users covers kudos and Feedback Friday; pulse surveys need the Surveys add-on, and every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Viva Pulse offers an admin-led trial of 30 days for 25 users.
How much does pulse survey software cost?
Published prices in September 2026 run from Viva Glint at $2.00 user/month, paid yearly (50-seat minimum) and Matter at $1 per user/month, billed annually, plus the $2 per user/month Surveys add-on, to Lattice Engagement at $4 seat/month with a $4,000 annual minimum.
Polly charges per author license ($228 a year for one Slack Basic license), Geekbot $1 per unique respondent, per month, and Workleap starts at $4,999 USD a year. Culture Amp, Qualtrics, Workday Peakon, TINYpulse and CultureMonkey are quote-only.
Are pulse surveys really anonymous?
Usually, if the tool defaults to anonymous and the reporting threshold is sensible. Anonymity has two parts: whether the response is stored without the respondent’s identity, and the minimum responses before a team’s result is shown, which is what protects a five-person team.
None of the vendor pages we fetched prints a minimum group size, so ask in the demo. On Matter, 98.2% of pulse surveys run anonymous; Polly’s free Teams plan has no anonymous responses, and Viva Pulse keeps results confidential to the requesting manager.
The bottom line
A pulse survey earns its place when the question is short, the answer is easy, and the score moves someone to act before the next one lands.
For most small and mid-size teams that means a tool that lives in Slack or Teams at a price you can read; for large organizations, a suite with analytics to match.
If your team already works in chat, Matter installs in about two minutes, runs the first pulse on a 14-day free trial, and keeps recognition and listening in one place.
