Honestly vs Qualtrics

Honestly is an employee engagement platform for collecting feedback and supporting data-informed decisions about workplace culture. Its survey options include annual, pulse, onboarding, exit, leadership, custom, 360° feedback, and psychological risk assessment surveys. Surveys can run from weekly to annual or as one-off efforts. Teams can review dashboards and AI analysis, create initiatives, and track their progress. Employees can participate through the mobile app, email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, links, or QR codes. Honestly describes more than 100 HR system integrations, with additional data import through connectors, a native REST API, automated SFTP, or Excel. The company says the service is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, and hosted in Germany. Security controls include 2FA, audit logs, 256-bit encryption at rest and in transit, and SSO for enterprise clients. Pricing is per employee with annual billing: Team is €24.00 per employee per year, Business is €30.00 per employee per year, and Enterprise is €42.00 per employee per year.

Qualtrics provides survey tools and an experience-management platform called XM Data & AI, which combines experience data with human context to support decisions and outcomes. Its free Qualtrics Surveys account is for one user and allows three active surveys, 30 questions per survey and 500 total responses. It includes skip, display and branch logic. The Strategic Research plan costs $420.00 per month, billed as $5,040 annually, for 1,000 responses shared across users; it also supports unlimited users and surveys, and includes 23 question types. A 30-day Strategic Research trial provides access to most premium features, with some restrictions; without an upgrade, it downgrades to the free account. Paid plans include more than 20 guided research solutions and advanced analysis such as crosstabs, statistical tools and generative-AI video summaries. Surveys support more than 70 languages, while dashboards support 24. Data exports include CSV, TSV, Excel and SPSS, among other formats. Qualtrics offers API access. Its Strategic Research Custom plan is for enterprise organizations needing higher response volumes, with pricing based on interactions and 5,000 or more responses.