# CultureMonkey review (2026): is it worth it? > Employee engagement surveys with people-science support Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. CultureMonkey is an employee engagement survey platform with templates, anonymous feedback, manager dashboards and action plans. Surveys reach people by email, Slack, Teams, SMS, WhatsApp, QR code or kiosk. Pricing is a written quote based on how many employees are surveyed. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** CultureMonkey - **Website:** https://www.culturemonkey.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a price, as the page gives a custom quote only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing CultureMonkey's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Survey templates:** 100+ survey templates, including annual engagement, pulse, lifecycle and candidate experience surveys. - **Anonymous feedback:** Responses are aggregated so individuals are not identified. - **Many channels:** Send surveys by email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, WhatsApp, QR code or kiosk, in 100+ languages. - **Manager dashboards:** Role-based views show managers only their own team's results. - **HRMS sync and SSO:** Syncs from systems including Workday, SuccessFactors, BambooHR and Keka, and supports SAML sign-in. - **People Science Plus:** A paid add-on with driver analysis, predictive insights and board-ready reports. ## Good for - HR teams running annual and pulse engagement surveys - Companies with frontline staff who have no work email ## Worth knowing - Pricing is a custom quote based on employee count and support level; no figures are published. - People Science Plus is the only paid add-on named; implementation, HRMS sync and SSO are included. - Survey and feedback only, with no HR records, payroll or time off. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. CultureMonkey runs engagement surveys with people-science support, priced as a custom quote by headcount and support level. No figures are published. It's surveys and feedback only, with no HR records, payroll or time off. - **Value for money: C.** Pricing is a custom quote by employee count and support level, with no figures, so C. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial is listed. You start with a demo request. - **Features: C.** Surveys and feedback, with implementation, HRMS sync and SSO included. A smaller job than an HR suite, so C. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you'd set it up with your own people data first, so it's an ordinary C. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with eight listed integrations. No mobile app named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from CultureMonkey's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - CultureMonkey's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 22 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 33. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 34 of 101) 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.** To replace CultureMonkey you would be making the WhatsApp Business API, which Meta opens only through approved partners. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 46 of the 101 other HR software grade higher. - You could make: Surveys and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: The WhatsApp Business API, which Meta opens only through approved partners. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle HCM among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on and roles and permissions. 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, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, UKG, ADP, BambooHR, Slack, Microsoft Teams **Tags:** Surveys, Dashboards, Reports, AI features, WhatsApp messaging ## Alternatives - [TINYpulse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tinypulse): Employee feedback surveys, now part of WebMD Health Services. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-monkey-vs-tinypulse) - [Quantum Workplace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quantum-workplace): Engagement, performance, development and recognition suite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-monkey-vs-quantum-workplace) - [Perceptyx](https://toolgpa.com/tools/perceptyx): Enterprise employee listening and engagement survey platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-monkey-vs-perceptyx) - [Culture Amp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/culture-amp): Engagement surveys, performance reviews and development together. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-amp-vs-culture-monkey) - [Peoplebox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peoplebox): OKRs, performance reviews and compensation, with per-module pricing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/culture-monkey-vs-peoplebox) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.culturemonkey.io/pricing/ - https://www.culturemonkey.io/integrations/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/culture-monkey Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).