Pulse survey software for shift-based and frontline teams, compared on price per head, free options, survey frequency and reporting that shift leads can use.
A pulse for hourly staff has to fit between tasks: a few questions, answered quickly, with results a shift lead can see. Because headcount is high and turnover frequent, per-user pricing drives the budget more than feature lists do. Ask each vendor how workers without a desk will receive the survey.
Workleap Officevibe prices by the year rather than per user, from $4,999 a year on Standard for organizations of up to 250 employees. 15Five's Engage tier costs $4 per user, but admin controls and analytics are limited on that plan. Above 250 employees, Workleap moves to custom Enterprise pricing, so compare that quote with 15Five Engage at $4 a user, about $14,400 a year for 300 frontline workers.
Enterprise pulse tools price steeply for large frontline headcount. Qualtrics EmployeeXM typically starts around $15,000 a year and reaches six figures at enterprise scale, and Culture Amp's estimated $5 to $9 PEPM for Engage adds up across hundreds of shift workers. Trakstar sells pulse surveys on a custom quote to mid-market firms. Buyers weighing a wider Pulse Survey Software list should budget on total headcount.
Published price means the vendor shows a figure; quote only means it does not. The best-fit and tradeoff lines are each tool's own.
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| Tool | Published price | Best for | Main tradeoff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culture Amp | ~$4,500/yr minimum (est.) | Culture Amp is best for people and culture leaders at companies with 100 to 5,000 employees who want to make employee engagement a measurable, actionable discipline rather than an annual survey exercise. | Culture Amp performance management is competent but not category-leading |
| Officevibe | From $4,999/yr (Standard) | Officevibe is best for people managers, HR generalists, and people operations teams at companies with 50 to 500 employees who want to measure employee engagement continuously without the cost or complexity of enterprise survey platforms. | Officevibe OKR tracking is shallow compared to dedicated goal management platforms |
| Peakon | From ~$20K per year (est.) | Peakon is best for mid-market and enterprise organizations with 500 or more employees that want continuous engagement listening with real-time analytics and attrition prediction, particularly those already using Workday HCM. | Peakon standalone value is diminished without Workday HCM data enrichment |
| Qualtrics | From ~$15,000/yr (est.) | Qualtrics Employee Experience suits enterprises past 1,000 employees that run a dedicated people analytics team and treat engagement measurement as a strategic capability rather than an annual compliance exercise. | Qualtrics pricing is enterprise-only, making it inaccessible for mid-market HR teams |
| Quantum Workplace | quote only | Best for US mid-market and enterprise employers that want engagement, lifecycle and pulse surveys connected to reviews, 1-on-1s, goals and succession planning, and that would rather pay for analyst support than build survey expertise in-house. | $15,000 annual minimum |
| Trakstar | quote only | Trakstar fits HR teams at small and mid-sized companies that want pulse, eNPS, onboarding and exit surveys in the same system as performance reviews and goals, so engagement scores sit next to review data for each department. | Trakstar pricing is quote-only through Mitratech |
| 15Five | $4 per user/mo (Engage) | 15Five is best for people operations leaders and HR managers at companies with 50 to 1,000 employees who want to build a culture of continuous feedback, strengthen manager effectiveness, and run performance reviews without the overhead of enterprise platforms. | 15Five is not an HRIS or payroll tool and does not try to be |
| Betterworks | $8 per user/mo | Betterworks is best for chief people officers, VP of talent management, and HR technology leaders at companies with 500 or more employees who have committed to OKR-driven performance management as an organizational strategy. | Betterworks pricing excludes mid-market and small business buyers |
| Lattice | $4 per seat/mo (Engagement) | People operations leaders at companies with 100 to 5,000 employees get the most from Lattice, especially when they want one system for performance reviews, OKR alignment and compensation management. | Lattice is not an HRIS or payroll platform |
| Leapsome | From ~$3 per user/mo (est.) | People operations leaders, HR business partners, and chief people officers at 100 to 2,000-employee companies get the most from Leapsome when they want to consolidate performance reviews, goal management, engagement surveys, learning, and compensation into a single integrated platform. | Leapsome pricing opacity makes budgeting difficult for procurement teams |
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Less often than the software allows. Culture Amp and Qualtrics reviewers both describe response rates falling when employees are over-surveyed. Decide what leaders will do with each round of results before raising the cadence.
