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AI CRM suite

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Survey and feedback platform

Comparison

Keep SurveyMonkey, Add a Sales CRM: HelloGrowthCRM vs SurveyMonkey

Last verified against SurveyMonkey's own pricing and product pages.

Quick verdict

Should you switch from SurveyMonkey to HelloGrowthCRM?

Switch if survey responses should turn into leads, calls, follow-up and tickets on the customer record.Stay with SurveyMonkey if your work is survey research: question banks, benchmarks, AI analysis of results and panels.Price: HelloGrowthCRM $12/user/mo (Growth) vs SurveyMonkey Team Advantage $30/user/mo, billed annually, 3 users minimum (checked 2026-10-29).

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How to Choose Between SurveyMonkey and HelloGrowthCRMA five-step check that works for any CRM shortlist.
  1. Step 1

    List must-haves

    Pipeline, WhatsApp, calling, reports

  2. Step 2

    Price your team

    Cost per user at your real team size

  3. Step 3

    Trial with real leads

    A week of genuine follow-up

  4. Step 4

    Check the extras

    AI, automation and integrations you need

  5. Step 5

    Plan the move

    Export, import and go live

HelloGrowthCRM's free plan lets you run step 3 on real leads before paying.

Who should choose which

Choose HelloGrowthCRM if:

Small businesses that use surveys to find and keep customers: a lead form that needs a follow-up call, a poor rating that should trigger a conversation, a support ticket that needs an owner. HelloGrowthCRM puts the pipeline, dialer, shared inbox, email sequences and help desk on one record, for $12 per user per month.

Choose SurveyMonkey if:

Researchers, marketers and HR teams who need serious survey tooling: a large question bank, skip logic and quotas, benchmarks, kiosk mode, AI analysis and sentiment, and Enterprise controls such as SSO, SCIM and HIPAA in the US. HelloGrowthCRM is not HIPAA compliant and is not a survey research platform.

What SurveyMonkey is, and where a CRM fits

SurveyMonkey is a survey and feedback platform. Teams build surveys from templates and a question bank, send them by link, email, website popup or kiosk, and analyse the results with dashboards, benchmarks and AI analysis. Individual plans are billed per account, Team plans per user, and Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, HIPAA and CRM integrations (checked 2026-10-29).

HelloGrowthCRM is an AI CRM suite. Leads arrive from forms, chat, calls and email, including SurveyMonkey responses once it is connected. Reps call from the browser, follow up with sequences and track deals; support tickets and the customer portal sit on the same record.

The tables on this page show both columns as of 2026-10-29. "Not listed" means SurveyMonkey's own pages do not list the capability, and a plan name means it starts on that plan.

To decide, look at what happens after a survey closes. If a person has to read the results and decide who to call, a CRM next to SurveyMonkey turns that into a list someone works.

The 10 differences that decide it

What buyers comparing SurveyMonkey ask about most. Each SurveyMonkey cell links to SurveyMonkey's own page.

What you needWhy it mattersHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Deal pipeline boardEvery open deal, its stage and its value on one screen. Included (Growth plan) Not availableSource, checked 2026-10-29
Call leads from the CRMReps dial in one click and every call lands on the lead's timeline. Included (Growth plan) Not availableSource, checked 2026-10-29
Automatic follow-up emailsLeads get chased on schedule and the sequence stops when they reply. Included (Growth plan) Not availableSource, checked 2026-10-29
One shared inboxThe whole team sees every conversation, so nothing waits on one person. Included (Growth plan) Not availableSource, checked 2026-10-29
Support ticketsCustomer issues get an owner, a status and a history. Included (Growth plan) Not availableSource, checked 2026-10-29
Quotes from the dealPricing goes out in minutes, without copying data into another tool. Included (Growth plan) Not availableSource, checked 2026-10-29
Web formsEvery form submission arrives as a lead with an owner. Included (Growth plan)IncludedSource, checked 2026-10-29
NPS surveysYou learn who would recommend you, and who needs a call.Not availableIncludedSource, checked 2026-10-29
Email open and click trackingYou see who opened a message before you follow up.Coming soonAdvantage, Premier, Team AdvantageSource, checked 2026-10-29
HIPAA complianceProtected health information needs a vendor that signs a BAA.Not availableEnterprise and aboveSource, checked 2026-10-29

What HelloGrowthCRM includes for teams comparing SurveyMonkey

Included in Growth. Each card says what the feature does not do yet.

  • Landing pages and forms

    Build landing pages and forms whose submissions become leads with an owner and a follow-up task.

  • Task boards

    Table, kanban, calendar, Gantt and analytics views with subtasks, dependencies, several assignees and time tracking.

    Limit: No voice notes on tasks yet.

  • Email sequences

    Multi-step follow-up that stops when the lead replies, triggered by stage changes.

  • Scheduler and booking pages

    Branded booking pages with one-to-one, round-robin and collective meeting types, routing forms and reminders.

    Limit: Two-way free/busy sync with outside calendars is not confirmed yet.

  • Customer portal

    A passwordless portal where customers pay invoices, accept quotes, raise tickets and see bookings.

    Limit: There is no vendor or supplier portal.

  • Team inbox

    Email, SMS, chat, social and WhatsApp conversations in one inbox, with assignment, snooze and mentions.

    Limit: AI autopilot drafts and sends on email only.

  • Report builder

    About 24 lead and pipeline reports by stage, source, rep, team and channel, saved and exported.

    Limit: Scheduled, emailed reports are coming soon.

  • Quotes, proposals and invoices

    Quotes built from the deal, turned into invoices, plus recurring invoices and AI-drafted proposals.

    Limit: Card payments run through a payment provider you connect.

What it costs for 5, 10 and 25 users

Year-one cost at list price: HelloGrowthCRM Growth at $12 per user per month, and SurveyMonkey Team Advantage at $30 per user per month (billed annually, 3 users minimum, from SurveyMonkey's pricing page, checked 2026-10-29).

Team sizeHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey Team Advantage
5 users$720$1,800
10 users$1,440$3,600
25 users$3,600$9,000

SurveyMonkey Team Premier is $92 per user per month billed annually; individual plans are priced per account, from Standard at $300 a year, and extra responses cost $0.15 each in the US (surveymonkey.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-29). Teams that keep SurveyMonkey for research and add HelloGrowthCRM for customers pay for both.

Try your own team size

Users:

SurveyMonkey Team Advantage

$3,600 in year one

$30 per user per month, billed annually, 3 users minimum.

HelloGrowthCRM Growth

$1,440 in year one

$12 per user per month.

SurveyMonkey price from its pricing page, checked 2026-10-29. Taxes, usage charges and add-ons are not included on either side.

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Why teams look past SurveyMonkey

Teams add a CRM next to SurveyMonkey for three reasons.

The first is what happens after the answer. SurveyMonkey's pricing and product pages list no pipeline, dialer or shared inbox (checked 2026-10-29), so a respondent who wants a call becomes a row in an export. In HelloGrowthCRM the response arrives as a lead with an owner.

The second is CRM sync. SurveyMonkey lists its Salesforce integration on Enterprise (SurveyMonkey pricing, checked 2026-10-29). HelloGrowthCRM connects to SurveyMonkey with an access token in Growth.

The third is the customer record. HelloGrowthCRM keeps tickets, calls, emails and deals on the same customer, so an unhappy respondent gets a call from someone who can see the history.

Where SurveyMonkey is stronger

  • Survey design depth: a large question bank, templates, skip logic, quotas, kiosk mode and benchmarks.
  • AI analysis of results, with sentiment and thematic analysis.
  • Tracking of survey invitation emails; email open and click tracking is coming soon in HelloGrowthCRM.
  • HIPAA on Enterprise in the US; HelloGrowthCRM is not HIPAA compliant.

Full capability comparison

48 capabilities in 12 groups. Open a group to see every row.

Records and pipeline (7)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Contact and lead records Included (Growth plan) Not available
Company and account records Included (Growth plan) Not available
Activity timeline Included (Growth plan) Not available
Lead assignment and routing rules Included (Growth plan) Not available
Customizable pipeline stages Included (Growth plan) Not available
Multi-language interface Included (Growth plan)Included
White-label branding Included (Growth plan)Premier, Team Premier, Enterprise
Lead capture (3)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Embeddable web lead form Included (Growth plan)Included
Landing page builder Included (Growth plan) Not available
Event and exhibition lead capture Included (Growth plan)Limited
Calling and messaging (7)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Shared team inbox Included (Growth plan) Not available
Bulk SMS Included (Growth plan) Separate product
Email sequences Included (Growth plan) Not available
Email open and click trackingComing soonAdvantage, Premier, Team Advantage
Click-to-call dialer Included (Growth plan) Not available
Power dialer Included (Growth plan) Not available
Website live chat Included (Growth plan) Not available
AI (6)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
AI assistant chat over CRM data Included (Growth plan)Advantage, Premier, Team Advantage
AI lead scoring Included (Growth plan) Not available
AI call summaries Included (Growth plan) Not available
AI outbound voice agent Included (Growth plan) Not available
AI inbound call answering Included (Growth plan) Not available
MCP server Included (Growth plan)Included
Automation (3)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Visual workflow automation Included (Growth plan) Not available
ZapierVia integrationVia integration
Public REST API Included (Growth plan)Included
Sales execution (3)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Kanban deal board Included (Growth plan) Not available
Pipeline forecasting Included (Growth plan) Not available
Meeting booking pages Included (Growth plan) Not available
Quotes, invoices and payments (4)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Quotes Included (Growth plan) Not available
Proposals Included (Growth plan) Not available
Invoicing Included (Growth plan) Not available
Online card paymentsVia integrationLimited
Tasks and operations (1)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Task boards (kanban) Included (Growth plan) Not available
Support and customer success (4)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Customer portal Included (Growth plan) Not available
Support ticketing Included (Growth plan) Not available
Knowledge base Included (Growth plan) Not available
NPS surveysNot availableIncluded
Marketing (1)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Email marketing campaigns Included (Growth plan) Not available
Reporting (4)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Standard dashboards Included (Growth plan)Included
Report builder Included (Growth plan) Not available
BI tool connectionVia integrationEnterprise and above
Data export Included (Growth plan)Included
Security and admin (5)
CapabilityHelloGrowthCRMSurveyMonkey
Roles and permissions Included (Growth plan)Enterprise and above
Audit log Included (Growth plan)Enterprise and above
Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC) Included (Growth plan)Enterprise and above
HIPAA complianceNot availableEnterprise and above
GDPR and CCPA tooling Included (Growth plan)Included
Sources for the SurveyMonkey column (48)

Each SurveyMonkey cell is checked against SurveyMonkey's own documentation or pricing page. A cell that has not been re-checked within 120 days is removed from the table rather than shown out of date.

Switch from SurveyMonkey in 4 steps

  1. Export your contacts and past respondents to CSV.
  2. Import them into HelloGrowthCRM and map each column on the import screen.
  3. Connect SurveyMonkey in HelloGrowthCRM's integrations settings so new responses arrive as leads.
  4. Keep SurveyMonkey for surveys and run both for a week before you route survey leads to the CRM.

Your data

Your surveys and results stay in SurveyMonkey; respondents come into HelloGrowthCRM as leads through the connection or a CSV import.

Contract

Nothing to cancel: SurveyMonkey stays on its own plan, and HelloGrowthCRM is $12 per user per month on the Growth plan.

Learning curve

A guided setup wizard creates the pipeline, stages and fields; you can keep your current stage names.

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Verdict

SurveyMonkey is a survey and feedback platform; HelloGrowthCRM is an AI CRM suite. Choose SurveyMonkey for survey design, question banks, benchmarks, AI analysis of results and market research panels. Add HelloGrowthCRM, on the Growth plan, when the people who answer your surveys are also leads and customers who need calls, follow-up, quotes and support. HelloGrowthCRM connects to SurveyMonkey, so the two work side by side.

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  • AES-256 at rest · TLS 1.3 in transit
  • SSO and 2FA support
  • Full audit log on all user actions
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  • Email + chat support on Growth
  • Dedicated specialist on Growth Engine+
  • 90-day post-onboarding check-in included
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