# Culture Amp review (2026): is it worth it? > Engagement surveys, performance reviews and development together Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Culture Amp is an employee-experience platform with an Engage module for surveys and a Perform module for reviews, 1-on-1s, goals and development plans. An AI Coach is built into both. Pricing is quote-based and depends on employee count, the modules chosen and the service tier. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Culture Amp - **Website:** https://www.cultureamp.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a price before a sales call, as none is published. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing Culture Amp's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Engagement surveys:** Ready-to-use surveys, pulse surveys, onboarding and offboarding surveys, AI comment summaries, benchmarking and action plans. - **Performance reviews and calibration:** Review cycles with calibration, continuous feedback, goal management and performance insights in the Perform module. - **1-on-1s and development:** 1-on-1 conversations with templates, employee development plans and a skills coach, which the pricing FAQ says are included for every customer. - **AI Coach:** An assistant built into Engage and Perform that surfaces themes in results and suggests next steps and action plans. - **People Science Consulting:** An add-on to Engage and Perform with advisory work from the vendor's people scientists, quoted separately. ## Good for - HR teams that lead with engagement surveys and want benchmarks - Companies from under 200 to over 1,000 staff, which have different service tiers - Teams that want reviews and surveys in one vendor ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; the pricing page leads to a quote form, so the cost is unknown until you ask. - The pricing FAQ says all products are billed annually. - It does not cover payroll or core employee records; it is a survey and performance product. - Onboarding and support depth depends on the service tier, which follows company size. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Culture Amp runs engagement surveys, performance reviews, calibration and 1-on-1s, plus a coaching service from its own people-science team. No price is published and everything is billed annually. It isn't payroll or employee records, so it only does half of what people mean by HR software. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published; the pricing page leads to a quote form, and all products are billed annually. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial is on record in the listing or on its pricing page. - **Features: C.** Engagement surveys, reviews, calibration, 1-on-1s, development and an AI coach. It does no payroll or employee records. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Survey programs and review cycles have to be designed before they run, and support depth follows company size. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with an integrations page (5 on record). These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Culture Amp's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Culture Amp's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 13 of the 63 other HR software we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 22 of 63) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Culture Amp you could make: surveys, goals and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 34 of the 63 other HR software grade higher. - You could make: Surveys, goals and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Workday, BambooHR and Gusto among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: People on the other end: coaches. No app builder makes those. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Workday, BambooHR, Gusto, Slack, Microsoft Teams **Tags:** Surveys, Goals, AI features, Reports ## Alternatives - [Lattice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lattice): Performance reviews, goals and engagement surveys for HR teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-amp-vs-lattice) - [15Five](https://toolgpa.com/tools/15five): Performance reviews, 1-on-1s, OKRs and engagement surveys. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/15five-vs-culture-amp) - [Leapsome](https://toolgpa.com/tools/leapsome): HR platform with reviews, OKRs, surveys, learning and pay modules. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-amp-vs-leapsome) - [Small Improvements](https://toolgpa.com/tools/small-improvements): Performance reviews, 360 feedback, 1:1s and pulse surveys. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-amp-vs-small-improvements) - [Betterworks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/betterworks): Performance management, goals and OKRs, and talent intelligence. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/betterworks-vs-culture-amp) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.cultureamp.com/platform/plans-and-pricing - https://www.cultureamp.com/platform/integrations Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/culture-amp Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).