ELEV8 vs Recognize

ELEV8 is a workplace platform for employee engagement, recognition, and rewards, available on Android, iOS, and the web. Employees can recognize peers, celebrate milestones, and receive points, badges, or digital certificates. They can redeem points for branded gift cards, company merchandise, or customized gifts; the rewards store lists over 3,000 branded gift cards. Engagement tools include wellness initiatives, a social wall, mood check-ins, pulse surveys, and analytics. Managers can give awards, and rewards tied to KPIs or KRAs can recognize employees automatically when predefined goals are met. ELEV8 connects with HR management systems, payroll software, and SSO solutions. Its site describes multi-factor authentication, role-based permissions, and audit trails, and states that it is ISO 27001 certified and complies with GDPR and PCI DSS. The free plan supports onboarding for up to five employees and may show advertisements on blank pages. Paid annual plans start at ₹20,000/yr; Bronze supports up to 25 employees, Gold up to 100, and Platinum up to 250. ELEV8 is based in Bengaluru, India, and supports remote and hybrid teams.

Recognize is an employee recognition and rewards platform for office, remote and frontline teams. It supports peer recognition, manager awards, nominations, anniversaries, incentives, surveys and approval workflows, with custom award types and budget controls. Recognition can be delivered through web, mobile and chat channels, with notifications by email, SMS, desktop push or mobile push; notifications can also be disabled. Its rewards catalog includes gift cards, Amazon products, experiences, live events, swag, travel and company-funded rewards. Employee apps for Android and iOS provide recognition feeds, recognition sending and reward redemption. Integrations include Office 365, SharePoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Zapier, Slack, Yammer and Workplace by Facebook. Employee additions and removals can sync using Azure AD, Workday or sFTP data. The OAuth-secured REST API reads and writes recognitions, users, nominations and redemptions, while webhooks provide real-time events. Pricing is available on request; subscriptions are annual and based on organization or active-user count. A free trial is available, but there is no free plan.