Comparison · Employee engagement
InviziPoll vs Culture Amp
Culture Amp runs a whole engagement program on your HR data, and it's upfront that its standard surveys are confidential, not anonymous: every answer is linked to an employee record, and reporting rules hide it. That's fine for most questions. It isn't for the few where people stay quiet unless they're sure nobody can trace them. That's what InviziPoll is for, and you can run it alongside.
Just checking whether Culture Amp is anonymous? Read the short answer
Keep Culture Amp for your engagement program. Use InviziPoll for the questions a confidential survey won't get honest answers to: harassment, trust in leadership, a reorg, why people leave.
- Culture Amp's standard surveys link each answer to an employee record and hide it behind reporting rules. InviziPoll never has the link.
- Culture Amp's anonymous mode drops preloaded demographics, participation tracking and reminders. InviziPoll's only mode keeps personal links and breakdowns.
- Culture Amp is quoted per employee and billed annually. InviziPoll is $49 a month per workspace, with a free trial and no sales call.
Two products, two buyers
The overlap is real, but the default assumptions are different. Start here before scanning the feature table.
Best for
InviziPoll
People teams who already have an engagement platform and need somewhere safe for the sensitive questions, and smaller companies who want anonymous pulses and exit feedback without an annual per-employee contract.
Best for
Culture Amp
People teams running a full engagement program on HR data: lifecycle surveys, driver analysis, benchmarks, action planning and manager coaching, where linking answers to employee records is part of the value.
Side-by-side, dimension by dimension
Competitor facts checked 2026-09-30 against 7 linked sources.
InviziPollBest for Anonymity boundaryAnswers are encrypted on each person's own device before they're sent. We store no name, email, IP address or time next to an answer, so there's no link to find, for us, for you, or for anyone who gets into either.
Standard surveys link each response to an employee record. Reporting rules keep names out of results, and Culture Amp can read the underlying data.
There's only one mode. Personal one-use links and breakdowns from your contact list both work, and neither is stored with an answer.
Unattributed surveys use a shared link and self-reported demographics, with no participation tracking, reminders or save-and-return.
Nothing shows until the poll's minimum group size has answered, a number you choose that's never below three. While it's open, the first results appear three answers past that number, then new answers arrive in random groups of three to five. A few answers are always held in reserve until the poll closes, so no one's answer can be picked out.
A reporting group minimum, five by default, applies to groups and combinations of groups, with a separate minimum for comments. Settings lock at launch.
Read word for word, shuffled and undated. Anyone who'd rather not be read can send just the topics they pick instead. There's no extract with a name in it, because there's no name to put in one.
Shown to report viewers once the comment minimum is met. An optional raw extract can include email or employee ID with the comments.
Breakdowns by department, location or tenure, from your contact list or a demographic question, appear once the poll closes, for groups of five or more (or your minimum group size, if that's higher). One that could be worked out by subtraction is left out.
Rich filtering by any HR attribute, for groups above the reporting minimum.
Start a trial, paste a list of emails or share a link, and send. The sample poll shows you real results in about two minutes.
An employee data import or HRIS integration, then survey design. Quote first.
Anonymous polls, pulse series, exit pools, a two-way anonymous speak-up inbox, and results you can publish for anyone to check.
Benchmarks, driver analysis, action planning, performance and development in one platform.
One login across a workspace per client, each owned by the client with its own key. Your firm's name sits beside the client's on the ballot, and nobody, you included, can tie an answer to a person.
Consultants can join Culture Amp's channel programme to refer, co-sell or resell it. How a consultant works inside a client's account isn't published.
Culture Amp capabilities vary by plan and configuration. Confirm specifics against their current documentation.
Is Culture Amp anonymous?
Its standard surveys aren't, and Culture Amp says so: they're confidential, with each response linked to an employee so results can be filtered by your HR data, and a reporting group minimum (five by default) hiding small groups. An admin can also switch on a raw data extract with email or employee ID before launch, and participants are told if they do. Culture Amp does offer unattributed surveys, which it calls anonymous, but they lose preloaded demographics, participation tracking and reminders, and it describes them as not the norm. InviziPoll has one mode, and in it nobody, us included, can tie an answer to a person.
Which one should you pick?
If both tools could technically run your poll, let the default assumption decide.
Choose InviziPoll when
- The question is one people won't answer honestly in a survey that knows who they are.
- You want to run a pulse or exit survey this week, without a data import or an annual contract.
- You need to be able to tell your team, and show them, that nobody can trace an answer.
Keep Culture Amp when
- You're running a full engagement program with benchmarks, driver analysis and action planning.
- Answers need to follow people over time and across your HR data.
- Confidential reporting rules are enough for the questions you're asking.
How each vendor thinks about cost
InviziPoll
Pro is $49 a month per workspace: send each poll to up to 2,000 people, with five admins. Business is $249 a month ($199 billed annually) and adds SSO, SCIM provisioning and SIEM webhooks. You pay per workspace, not per employee. Every new workspace gets 14 days free with no credit card, and Enterprise is quoted.
See plansCULTURE AMP
Not published. Culture Amp quotes on the number of employees, the products and the service tier, and bills every product annually.
Its standard surveys are confidential, in Culture Amp's own words: answers are linked to employee records and hidden by reporting rules. Its unattributed surveys are called anonymous but give up demographics from your HR data, participation tracking and reminders. The full answer is at /blog/is-culture-amp-anonymous.
Yes, and it's how I'd start. Keep Culture Amp for engagement surveys, benchmarks and action planning. Use InviziPoll for the questions where people won't be honest unless they're sure nobody can trace them: harassment, trust in leadership, a reorg, why people are leaving. Pricing is per workspace, so adding it doesn't mean paying for every employee twice.
Copy the questions from your Culture Amp survey and paste them in. On plans with AI authoring, InviziPoll turns the pasted text into a draft poll, questions and options included, and shows you everything it found before anything's saved. Without AI, paste one question per line. Only questions come across: past responses stay where they are, because we can't import answers we'd be able to read. See /docs/docs-importing-questions-from-another-tool.
Send them /trust/anonymity, which says in plain language what we can and can't see, and link it from the invitation. When results are ready you can publish them as a signed summary anyone can check hasn't been edited. And before you send anything, open the sample poll in a new workspace: it takes about two minutes and shows you exactly what an admin sees, which is the same thing you'd be promising your team.
Culture Amp doesn't publish prices; it quotes per employee and bills annually. InviziPoll Pro is $49 a month for the workspace, for polls of up to 2,000 people, and Business is $249 a month ($199 billed annually) with SSO and SCIM. Every workspace starts with 14 days free, no credit card. See /pricing.
Yes. The consultants and agencies licence gives one login across a separate workspace per client, and each workspace belongs to the client from day one, with its own key. The consultant reads the results, written comments included. What nobody can do, the consultant included, is tie an answer to a person, which is what lets a consultant tell a client's staff it's anonymous and mean it. See /for-consultants.
Sources
Last verified 2026-09-30
- Culture Amp: confidentiality protections in reportingsupport.cultureamp.com ↗
- Culture Amp: attributed and unattributed survey formatssupport.cultureamp.com ↗
- Culture Amp: unattributed survey guide for participantssupport.cultureamp.com ↗
- Culture Amp: use demographic data in a survey (reporting minimums)support.cultureamp.com ↗
- Culture Amp: understanding raw data extractssupport.cultureamp.com ↗
- Culture Amp pricingcultureamp.com ↗
- Culture Amp channel partnerscultureamp.com ↗
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