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The free Culture Amp alternative
OrgOrg vs Culture Amp · Employee experience platform
Free for teams of up to 5. Every app, no feature gates, no credit card. Past 5 people, Pro is $10 per member per month.
Culture Amp is the heavyweight in employee experience: engagement surveys against a benchmark of more than a billion answers, performance reviews, development plans, and an AI coach. It is priced by quote on a yearly contract. OrgOrg gives the same core workflows in a suite that is free for up to 5 people. This page lays out the honest tradeoffs.
When OrgOrg is the right pick
Smaller and mid-sized teams where managers and ICs need the tool to be useful every day, not only at survey time. OrgOrg's directory, go links, and new tab page keep the tool open, and the survey, the feedback, and the kudos live in the same place. It is the right pick when a flat price for every app beats a quote.
When Culture Amp is the right pick
Companies where People Ops drives the buy and survey rigor, benchmarking, and people science are the criteria. Culture Amp is the safe pick when a People Analytics role will use the data and the company is past a few hundred employees. A consulting practice behind the vendor is part of the buy.
Where OrgOrg wins
- Continuous feedback, 360 cycles, calibration, engagement surveys, recognition, goals, and 1:1s, plus the directory, groups, go links, and on-call, for one price.
- Free for up to five people, then $10 per member a month, with a price on the page. Culture Amp prices by quote, by employee count, product, and service tier.
- A first 360 cycle in under an hour, and an engagement survey from a ready question set with confidential responses and a release date.
- Calibration with Live Rank, which shows halo, anchoring, and recency bias as managers rank.
- AI writing help and summaries with the model you choose, under your own contract with the provider.
Where Culture Amp wins
- The largest benchmark set in the category: 1.61 billion questions answered, 74 million surveys, and more than 8,900 organizations, grouped by industry and region.
- A survey science practice: pulse, eNPS, onboarding, and exit surveys, with AI comment summaries and sentiment.
- Performance reviews with built-in calibration, 180 and 360 feedback, goals, 1:1s, and development plans in Perform.
- An AI Coach for managers in Engage and Perform, and an MCP connection for Claude and ChatGPT.
- Slack and Microsoft Teams, SAML SSO, and HRIS syncs from Workday, BambooHR, and Gusto on every plan.
Feature comparison
13 of 14 rows link to Culture Amp's own pricing or documentation, each read on or after 2026-10-31. The rest are marked unverified: we could not find the claim stated on their site.
| Feature | OrgOrg | Culture Amp |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every app, up to 5 people | No free plan; price on requestSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Engagement surveys with industry benchmarks | no benchmarks | yes: benchmarks over more than a billion survey responsesSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Pulse, eNPS, onboarding, and exit surveys | yes | yes, EngageSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Performance reviews and calibration | yes: Live Rank shows halo, anchoring, and recency bias as they happen | yes, Perform, with built-in calibrationsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| 360 feedback | yes: self, peer, manager, and upward stages | yes: 180 and 360 feedbackSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Goals and OKRs | yes | yes: goals aligned to company objectivesSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| 1:1s | yes: recurring 1:1s from the calendar with shared agendas, talking points, and notes | yes, PerformSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Development plans and career paths | no | yes, Develop inside PerformSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Recognition | yes: kudos land on the profile beside feedback and 360 results | yes: Shoutouts, in Slack and TeamsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| AI | yes: writing help and summaries with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, under your contract | yes: AI Coach, comment summaries, sentiment, an MCP connectionSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| People directory and org chart | yes: a live org chart, profiles, and groups by rule | partial: an org structure mirrored from HRIS demographicsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Integrations with Slack, Teams, and HRIS vendors | partial: Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Gusto, Rippling, GitHub | yes: Slack and Teams, HRIS syncs from Workday, BambooHR, and Gusto, SAML SSOSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Data export and API | yes: a public API and an MCP server | partial: survey and performance exports, no bulk export of an account; an API with gapsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Go links, new tab page, groups by rule, on-call, screen recorder | yes | noUnverified |
- Free plan: Culture Amp publishes no price. It states that the price follows the employee count, the product, and the service tier, and that every product bills yearly. The page shows tiers for under 200, 200 to 999, and 1,000 or more employees.
- Engagement surveys with industry benchmarks: OrgOrg's surveys are private to your org: no cross-customer benchmark set. If scoring against industry peers is your top criterion, Culture Amp is the stronger choice.
- Data export and API: Culture Amp's support states that it does not offer a bulk export of all data on an account. Survey reports export as PDF, XLS, or CSV, performance data as CSV, and the survey API gave way to a Reporting API.
OrgOrg pricing
Included in the flat-priced suite. Free for teams of up to five, then $10 per member per month.
Culture Amp pricing
By quote, on a yearly contract, by employee count, product (Engage, Perform, or the full platform), and service tier, with People Science consulting as an add-on.
Culture Amp plans, as its pricing page lists them
Read on 2026-10-31 at Culture Amp's pricing page. OrgOrg has one price: Free for teams of up to 5. Every app, no feature gates, no credit card. Past 5 people, Pro is $10 per member per month.
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Engage | Request a quote | Engagement, pulse, eNPS, onboarding and exit surveys, benchmarks, AI comment summaries, AI Coach. |
| Perform | Request a quote | Reviews with calibration, 180 and 360 feedback, goals, 1:1s, development plans, Shoutouts, AI Coach. |
| The full platform | Request a quote | Engage and Perform together, with enterprise pricing for 1,000 or more employees. |
| People Science consulting | Add-on | Consulting on the survey program, with extra onboarding for 200 to 999 employees. |
Every plan includes AI Coach, SSO, 1-on-1 templates, Shoutouts, HRIS integrations, and Slack and Teams. Pricing depends on the number of employees, the product, and the service tier, and all products bill yearly. The page shows no trial.
How to move from Culture Amp to OrgOrg
A move from Culture Amp is a move of the people, the survey, and the review cycle. The benchmark stays behind: plan the first OrgOrg survey as a new baseline, and keep Culture Amp read-only until the contract closes.
- Export what exports. From Culture Amp, download each survey report as XLS or CSV, the raw data extract where you are allowed to, the performance cycles as CSV, and the users from Settings. There is no bulk export of an account, so take each report before the access ends.
- Set up the org. Connect Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Gusto, or Rippling, and the directory and the org chart fill themselves. The manager chain drives the 360 stages and who sees survey results.
- Run the baseline survey. Create an engagement survey from the ready set of 19 statements on a seven-point scale, or add the statements you tracked in Culture Amp. Set the open, close, and release dates and the minimum response count, and send it to all employees.
- Recreate the review cycle. Pick 360, manager review, or a custom cycle, set the stage dates, choose a form template, and roster the participants from the org chart. Calibrate with Live Rank before results release.
- Turn on Slack and the kudos. Install the Slack app, so feedback requests, kudos, and survey invitations post where people work. Shoutouts become kudos on the profile. Let the Culture Amp contract lapse at its term.
The verdict
Culture Amp is the better pick for a People team that buys survey science: the benchmark, the people scientists, and the consulting. Its platform is sized for hundreds or thousands of employees on a yearly contract. OrgOrg is the better pick for a team that wants the engagement survey, the feedback, the 360s, the calibration, and the kudos in the same tool as the directory and go links. The price is on the page: free for up to five people, then $10 per member a month.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does Culture Amp cost?
- Culture Amp publishes no price. Its pricing page says the price depends on the number of employees, the product (Engage, Perform, or the full platform), and the service tier, and that every product bills yearly. It shows tiers for under 200, 200 to 999, and 1,000 or more employees. OrgOrg is free for up to 5 people and $10 per member a month after that.
- Does Culture Amp have a free plan or a free trial?
- No. The pricing page offers a quote and a conversation with the sales team, and names no free plan or trial. Its AI features are free for all users at the moment. OrgOrg is free for teams of up to 5 people, with every app included and no trial clock.
- Is there a free Culture Amp alternative?
- OrgOrg's Feedback app is free for teams of up to 5 people: a confidential engagement survey from a ready question set, pulse and eNPS surveys, continuous peer feedback, 360 cycles, calibration, and recognition. Goals, 1:1s, and the directory are in the same suite.
- Does OrgOrg benchmark survey results against other companies?
- No. OrgOrg's surveys are private to your organization, and there is no cross-customer benchmark set. Culture Amp's benchmark covers more than a billion answers across 8,900 organizations. If scoring against industry peers is the top criterion, Culture Amp is the stronger choice.
- Can I export my data from Culture Amp?
- In parts. Culture Amp's support states that it does not offer a bulk export of all data on an account. Survey reports export as PDF, XLS, or CSV, performance data as CSV, and users from Settings. Take each report before the access ends.
- Are survey responses confidential in OrgOrg?
- Yes. OrgOrg stores each answer without the responder's name and shows it as Anonymous. When you create a survey you set a minimum response count (three by default), who can see company results, and who can see text answers. The rules are set before the survey opens and do not move afterwards.