AwardKit vs KumulAwards

AwardKit manages award programs, recognition initiatives, and judged competitions, from collecting entries through judging and publishing results. Organizers can build forms with conditional questions, autosave, save-and-resume, and image, PDF, and video uploads. Judges score through personalized links without accounts, using configurable weighted criteria on any device. Programs can use judge-only scoring, audience voting, or both. AwardKit calculates scores and supports winner assignment, public results, and CSV exports with rankings and judge feedback. Entry fees use Stripe Connect, with funds paid directly to the organization’s Stripe account and no AwardKit commission. The web service states that traffic uses HTTPS/TLS, data is encrypted at rest, passwords are hashed, and two-factor authentication is available. Card entry happens through Stripe-hosted Checkout; AwardKit says it does not see or store full card numbers. A free plan and free trial are available. The paid AwardKit plan is $1,995 a year, billed annually, with unlimited programs, entries, judges, audience voters, and team members. Organizations with 500 or more entries are invited to contact AwardKit.

KumulAwards is a web platform for running award programs through branded portals. It covers entries, judging, shortlisting, winner selection, and reporting. Entrants choose configurable categories, fill required fields, upload documents or images, and receive submission confirmations. Judges receive assigned entries and criteria, save draft scores, and may need to add comments. Committee administrators review submissions, monitor judging, shortlist and rank entries, select winners, and produce reports. Client portals can display configured logos and colours on a KumulAwards subdomain or an optional client-owned domain. Access protection combines Cloudflare Access, signed-token validation, program-membership checks, and role authorisation. Developer and platform-support functions require MFA and shorter sessions. Client data, resources, and configuration are designed to remain separate from unrelated tenants. Sensitive operations such as access decisions, role changes, deployments, and backups can be recorded for review. Support covers configuration, access, deployment, backups, and onboarding. Pricing is on request, with demonstrations offered.