Snap Surveys vs SurveyMonkey (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Snap Surveys if

• Fits if you want the vendor's team to build your surveys and reports
• Works for one person running a small survey on the free plan

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you want email invitations, as Starter has none
• Pricey if you need offline surveys, quotas or shared projects, which are Elite at £95 a user
• Not for you if you need an API or SSO, as both are Ultra
• Watch out: prices are in pounds and no dollar price was found

Pick SurveyMonkey if

• Fits if you run customer, employee or market research and need statistics on the answers
• Works for a one-off project on the month-to-month Standard plan, at $149 for the month

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you only need a simple form, at $39 a month billed annually ($468) for the cheapest yearly plan
• Pricey if you want crosstabs, advanced logic or multilingual surveys, since all wait for Premier at $139 a month
• Tight if you stay free: 10 questions per survey, and the number of viewable responses is only shown after sign-up
• Watch out: paid plans cap responses (1,000 a month on Standard, 15,000 a year on Advantage) and charge $0.15 for each extra
• Skip it if you're a team of two, as Team plans need 3 users, and Salesforce, Power BI, Tableau and SSO need Enterprise at 5 or more

Snap Surveys

• Prices are shown in pounds sterling; no dollar price was found.
• The free Starter plan allows 200 responses and no email invitations.
• Advanced is priced for 1 user; Elite starts at 1 user and is priced per user.
• Offline surveys, quotas, AI text summary and shared projects need Elite; SSO and API need Ultra.

SurveyMonkey

• The free Basic plan allows 10 questions per survey and shows only a limited number of responses per survey.
• Standard Monthly is the only plan billed month to month; the Advantage, Premier and Team plans are billed annually.
• Team plans need at least 3 users. SSO and the Salesforce, Marketo, Power BI and Tableau integrations are Enterprise-only, and Enterprise needs 5 or more users and a demo.
• Paid plans cap responses (1,000 a month on Standard, 15,000 a year on Advantage) and charge $0.15 per extra response.

Snap Surveys

AI survey creator

Describes or pastes existing questions and builds a structured survey.

AI text summary

Condenses open-ended answers into a summary; listed from Elite up.

Managed implementation

Advanced to Ultra include Snap's team building a set number of surveys and dashboards, with branding and user training.

Offline and kiosk surveys

Elite adds offline surveys and kiosk mode.

Screen-outs, quotas and piping

Research features such as screen-outs, quotas, pre-populated answers and tabbed questionnaires start on Elite.

Security and accessibility

The pricing page lists ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, MFA, encryption at rest, and WCAG and Section 508 compliance.

SurveyMonkey

Build with AI

Type a prompt that describes the goals of a survey and SurveyMonkey generates a draft to edit and customize. It is listed on the free Basic plan.

Logic and survey controls

Skip logic starts on Standard Monthly. Advanced logic, block randomization and multilingual surveys are reserved for the Premier tiers.

Analyze with AI and Thematic Analysis

Ask a question to get AI-generated charts and insight summaries, and have open-ended answers grouped into themes. Both start on the Advantage tier.

Statistical analysis

Statistical significance and multi-survey analysis come with the Advantage tier, and crosstabs with Premier.

Team seats and shared assets

Team plans share brand assets and set user roles and permissions. Full Access seats create and send surveys; Analyst seats view, comment on and analyze shared ones.

Mobile apps

Free iOS and Android apps create, send and analyze surveys, with push notifications. The separate SurveyMonkey Anywhere app adds kiosk mode, plus an Offline Mode on Enterprise plans.

Snap Surveys

• Starter$0

  1 user, 200 responses, unlimited surveys, AI survey creation and a reporting dashboard; email invitations not included.

• Advanced£30

  per month for 1 user, billed annually (£360 a year)

  50,000 responses and 100,000 email invites, with Snap's team building up to 3 basic surveys and dashboards and training the user.

• Elite£95

  per user / month, billed annually (£1,140 a year)

  150,000 responses and 250,000 invites, offline and kiosk mode, AI text summary, quotas and shared projects, with up to 5 advanced surveys built by Snap.

• UltraCustom

  Custom users, responses and invites, plus SSO, API, white labeling and a customer success manager. Sold through sales.

SurveyMonkey

• Basic$0

  1 user, unlimited surveys, 10 questions per survey and a limited number of responses per survey, with Build with AI.

• Standard Monthly$149

  per month, billed monthly

  Unlimited questions and 1,000 responses per month, with skip logic, custom design, email invitations and data exports.

• Advantage Annual$39

  per month, billed annually ($468)

  15,000 responses per year, plus payments, statistical significance, multi-survey analysis, Analyze with AI and Thematic Analysis.

• Premier Annual$139

  per month, billed annually ($1,668)

  40,000 responses per year, plus white label branding, advanced logic, multilingual surveys, crosstabs and phone support.

• Team Advantage$30

  per user / month, billed annually, 3-user minimum

  50,000 responses per year, shared brand assets, user roles and account permissions, and the Advantage analysis tools.

• Team Premier$92

  per user / month, billed annually, 3-user minimum

  100,000 responses per year, plus white label branding, advanced logic, multilingual surveys, crosstabs and phone support.

Snap Surveys

No public discounts listed.

SurveyMonkey

• Education

  Reduced pricing for students and educators

  Students and educators on a free plan in the US and UK can upgrade at reduced prices from a link on the pricing page. Discounts are granted at SurveyMonkey's discretion for one-year periods.

• Nonprofit

  Discounts for eligible nonprofits

  Nonprofits on a free plan can submit a discount application. Discounts are discretionary, run for one year and cannot be added to an existing paid account.

• By country

  Lower price shown to buyers in India

  On October 9, 2026 the pricing page read from India showed Advantage Annual at ₹1,999 a month (₹23,988 billed annually); read from the United States the same day it showed $39 a month ($468).