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OrgOrg vs Bonusly · Peer recognition with points and a rewards catalog
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.
Bonusly is recognition with a budget: every person gets points each month to give. The points buy gift cards, donations, and swag from a catalog of more than 1,200 rewards. OrgOrg's Thanks app is recognition without a budget, inside a suite that is free for up to 5 people. This page lays out the honest tradeoffs.
When OrgOrg is the right pick
Teams that want kudos to be public, easy, and part of the record, without points to fund or a catalog to manage. OrgOrg's Thanks posts to Slack and lands on the recipient's profile beside feedback and 360 results. It is the right pick when recognition should be part of the suite that also holds the directory, feedback, and go links.
When Bonusly is the right pick
Companies that want rewards behind the recognition: a monthly points allowance per person, a catalog in more than 200 countries, nominations and spot bonuses, and analytics on who recognizes whom. Bonusly is the safe pick when the program has a rewards budget and HR wants the reports.
Where OrgOrg wins
- No points budget and no catalog fees: kudos cost nothing to give, and the suite is free for up to five people.
- Kudos post to Slack and accumulate on the recipient's profile beside peer feedback, 360 results, and survey responses, so recognition becomes performance data.
- Gratitude messages collected for an occasion, such as a birthday or a farewell, from the whole team.
- Continuous feedback, 360 cycles, calibration, engagement surveys, goals, and 1:1s in the same app as the kudos.
- The directory, the org chart, go links, on-call, and 20 or more other apps for one flat price.
Where Bonusly wins
- A rewards catalog of more than 1,200 items in more than 200 countries: gift cards, experiences, cash, charitable giving, swag, and custom rewards.
- A monthly points allowance per person that refreshes and expires, which keeps giving regular.
- Nominations, awards, incentives, and spot bonuses on the Organization plan.
- Automated celebrations for birthdays, work anniversaries, and new hires on the Team plan and up.
- Analytics with recognition patterns, collaboration maps, and leaderboards, plus HRIS syncs, SCIM, and SAML on the Organization plan.
Feature comparison
12 of 14 rows link to Bonusly'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 | Bonusly |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every app, up to 5 people | Free: up to 8 users, with the catalogSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Peer recognition | yes, public thanks with no points | yes, with pointsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| A monthly points allowance per person | no points | yes: the allowance refreshes each month and expiresSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| A rewards catalog | no | yes: more than 1,200 rewards in more than 200 countries, paid at face value plus a feeSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Slack and Microsoft Teams | Slack yes, Teams no | yes, every planSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Automated celebrations (birthdays, anniversaries, new hires) | partial: gratitude messages collected for an occasion, started by a person | yes, on Team and OrganizationSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Company values on each recognition | no | yes, through hashtagsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Analytics and reports | partial: each kudos is on the profile and in the feedback record | manager alerts on Team; a full dashboard with collaboration maps and leaderboards on OrganizationSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Nominations, awards, incentives, and spot bonuses | no | yes, OrganizationSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| 1:1s, pulse checks, and performance recaps | yes: 1:1s, pulse and engagement surveys, 360 cycles, and calibration | yes: 1:1s with goals on Free, pulse checks and recaps on TeamSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Recognition on the person's profile beside feedback and reviews | yes | noUnverified |
| HRIS integrations, SCIM, and SAML | partial: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Gusto, Rippling; SAML | yes: BambooHR, Workday, and SCIM on Team; SAML on OrganizationSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Data export and API | yes: a public API and an MCP server | yes: CSV exports of recognition and users; an API with personal access tokensSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Bundled with the directory, go links, on-call, screen recorder… | yes | noUnverified |
- Free plan: Bonusly's Team plan is $3 per user a month, or $5 with the Bizy AI assistant, billed yearly at $30 or $50 a user. Organization is custom. Rewards are paid at face value on top of the subscription.
- A rewards catalog: Bonusly bills rewards apart from the subscription: a pay-as-you-go card carries an 8% fee, a prepaid card 5%, and ACH no fee from $2,500.
OrgOrg pricing
Included in the flat-priced suite. Free for teams of up to five, then $10 per member per month, with no rewards budget.
Bonusly pricing
Per user: free for up to 8 users, then Team at $3 per user a month, or $5 with Bizy, and Organization by quote. Rewards cost face value plus a card fee on top.
Bonusly plans, as its pricing page lists them
Read on 2026-10-31 at Bonusly'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, up to 8 users | Recognition with points, the catalog, Slack and Teams, 1:1s with goals. No Bizy. |
| Team | $3 per user a month, or $5 with Bizy; $30 or $50 a user billed yearly | Celebrations, HRIS integrations and SCIM, pulse checks, performance recaps, manager alerts, the API. |
| Organization | Custom | Nominations and awards, incentives and spot bonuses, company-wide analytics, SAML SSO, a dedicated CSM. |
| Rewards | Face value, plus 8% on a pay-as-you-go card, 5% on a prepaid card, no fee by ACH from $2,500 | Billed apart from the subscription when people redeem. |
Bizy, the AI assistant, is $2 per user a month on its own. New signups get a 30-day trial of the Team plan, and a team of 8 or fewer keeps the Free plan after it. The pricing page states that its prices apply to new customers.
How to move from Bonusly to OrgOrg
A move from Bonusly is a move of the habit, not the points. Decide what happens to the unredeemed balance, announce the date, and run the first kudos in Slack before the Bonusly plan ends.
- Close the points. Export the recognition activity and the users as CSV from Bonusly. Set a last day to redeem, and tell people the balance expires after it. Bonusly's allowance expires each month anyway, so the sum is small.
- Set up the org. Connect Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Gusto, or Rippling, and the directory and the org chart fill themselves. Each person's profile is where the kudos will land.
- Install the Slack app. Kudos post to Slack as the OrgOrg bot or on behalf of the sender, so the public thank-you keeps its place in the channel where the team already reads.
- Replace the celebrations. Bonusly posts birthdays and anniversaries by itself. In OrgOrg, a person starts a gratitude collection for an occasion and the team adds its messages. Put the dates on the team calendar.
- Give the first kudos, then let the plan lapse. Announce the switch, send the first thanks in Slack, and watch it land on the profile. Let the Bonusly subscription end at its term, and keep the CSV export as the record of the old program.
The verdict
Bonusly is the better pick when the program has a rewards budget and HR wants nominations, spot bonuses, collaboration maps, and a catalog in 200 countries. OrgOrg is the better pick when the thank-you is the point: public in Slack, on the profile beside feedback and reviews, with no points to fund. The suite is free for up to five people and $10 per member a month after that.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Bonusly free?
- Yes, for up to 8 users. Bonusly's Free plan includes recognition with points, the rewards catalog, and the Slack and Teams integrations; the rewards themselves cost face value when people redeem. Past 8 users, the Team plan is $3 per user a month, or $5 with the Bizy assistant. OrgOrg is free for teams of up to 5 people, with every app included.
- Is there a free Bonusly alternative without a rewards budget?
- OrgOrg's Thanks app is public peer recognition with no points and no catalog: kudos post to Slack and land on the recipient's profile beside feedback and 360 results. It is free for teams of up to 5 people, with the directory, feedback, surveys, goals, and go links in the same suite.
- How much does Bonusly cost in total?
- The subscription is $3 or $5 per user a month on the Team plan, billed yearly. On top of it, the company funds the points. Bonusly bills rewards at face value plus 8% on a pay-as-you-go card, 5% on a prepaid card, or no fee by ACH from $2,500. A 50-person team that gives $20 of points a person a month spends $12,000 a year on rewards before the subscription.
- Does OrgOrg have a rewards catalog?
- No. OrgOrg's recognition carries no points and buys nothing. A company that wants gift cards and donations behind each thank-you should pick Bonusly or another points program. A company that wants the thank-you itself, public and on the record, gets it from OrgOrg at no cost per kudos.
- Does recognition in OrgOrg feed performance reviews?
- Yes. Every kudos lands on the recipient's profile alongside peer feedback, 360 results, and engagement responses. When review season comes, the record of recognition is already there, next to the rest of the signal, instead of in a separate program's export.
- Can I move my Bonusly history to OrgOrg?
- The recognition activity and the users export from Bonusly as CSV. OrgOrg does not import them: the old program stays a document you keep, and the first kudos in Slack starts the new record on each person's profile.