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Culture Amp vs Productive

Culture Amp logo

Culture Amp

HR & Recruiting

Build a better workplace with employee experience data

From
On request
Rated
-
Productive logo

Productive

Professional Services

Run projects, budgets and resources in one place

From
On request
Rated
-

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Culture Amp no price is published, and cost depends on employee count, product chosen and service tier; Productive essential plan is capped at 5 account-level custom fields and 1 CRM pipeline versus 15 fields and 3 pipelines on Professional

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Culture Amp and Productive actually diverge.

Attributes where Culture Amp and Productive differ
AttributeCulture AmpProductive
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsWeb, Ios, Android, ApiWeb
CategoryHR & RecruitingProfessional Services
Founded2009Unknown

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Culture Amp

  • Employee engagement surveys
  • Pulse surveys
  • Performance management
  • Goal tracking
  • 360-degree feedback
  • Analytics & insights
  • Action planning
  • Manager effectiveness

Only in Productive

Nothing recorded that Culture Amp does not also cover.

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Culture Amp

  • Employee engagement surveys and analysisnot Productive
  • Performance reviews and development planning across an organisationnot Productive

Productive

No use cases recorded yet. See the Productive review.

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Culture Amp

  • No price is published, and cost depends on employee count, product chosen and service tier
  • All products are billed annually
  • Support level is banded by organisation size, with additional support starting at 200 employees and enterprise treatment at 1,000, so smaller customers get less for the same product

Productive

  • Essential plan is capped at 5 account-level custom fields and 1 CRM pipeline versus 15 fields and 3 pipelines on Professional
  • Ultimate tier for complex organizations is quote-only, listed as Let's talk with no published price

Pricing, plan by plan

Culture Amp

On request
  • Engage$undefined/month
    • Engagement surveys
    • Pulse surveys
    • Action planning
  • Perform$undefined/month
    • Goal tracking
    • Performance reviews
    • 1-on-1 meetings
  • Develop$undefined/month
    • Skills development
    • Career paths
    • Learning integrations

Productive

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Productive review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Culture Amp if

  • You need employee engagement surveys.
  • You work on Web, Ios, Android, Api.
  • You also want pulse surveys.

Choose Productive if

Nothing in the data separates Productive from Culture Amp on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Questions people ask

Is Culture Amp or Productive better?
Neither clearly leads. Culture Amp starts at On request and Productive at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Culture Amp or Productive?
Culture Amp starts at On request and Productive at On request.
Does Culture Amp or Productive run on more platforms?
Culture Amp runs on Web, Ios, Android, Api. Productive runs on Web.
What is Culture Amp best used for?
Culture Amp is most often used for employee engagement surveys and analysis, performance reviews and development planning across an organisation. Of those, employee engagement surveys and analysis and performance reviews and development planning across an organisation are not what Productive is typically brought in for.
What can Culture Amp do that Productive cannot?
Culture Amp covers Employee engagement surveys, Pulse surveys, Performance management, Goal tracking.

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