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The free Culture Amp alternative
OrgOrg vs Culture Amp · Employee experience platform
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.
Culture Amp is the heavyweight in employee experience: engagement surveys, performance reviews, learning, and a deep benchmark dataset. OrgOrg offers the same core workflows plus directory + everyday operational tools, with a different go-to-market.
When OrgOrg is the right pick
Smaller and mid-market teams (10-500) where ICs and managers (not HR Analytics) need the tool to be useful day-to-day, not just at survey time. OrgOrg's directory + go links keep the tool open continuously instead of just during review cycles.
When Culture Amp is the right pick
Companies (typically 500+ employees) where People Ops drives the buy and engagement-survey rigor, benchmarking, and analyst dashboards are the top criteria. Best when you have a dedicated People Analytics role to make use of the data.
Where OrgOrg wins
- Performance + directory + go links + smart groups + on-call all in one. Culture Amp covers engagement + performance + learning + recognition, but no operational tools (directory-as-intranet, go links, on-call).
- Time-to-first-value: hours not weeks; no required onboarding services.
- Linear per-seat pricing without large enterprise minimums.
- Built-in 1:1 + Google Calendar bidirectional sync: notes/agenda/action items live in both places.
Where Culture Amp wins
- Largest engagement-survey benchmark dataset in the category: scores against industry peers.
- Built-in learning module with manager and IC pathways.
- Mature change-management consulting practice.
- Strong international presence and multilingual support.
Feature comparison
1 of 12 rows link to Culture Amp's own pricing or documentation, each read on or after 2026-09-22. The rest are marked unverified: we could not find the claim stated on their site.
| Feature | OrgOrg | Culture Amp |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every app, up to 5 people | No free plan; price on requestSource, checked 2026-09-22 |
| Engagement surveys with industry benchmarks | no | yes (best-in-class)Unverified |
| Performance reviews | yes | yesUnverified |
| Goals / OKRs | yes | yesUnverified |
| 1:1s | yes | yesUnverified |
| Learning paths | no | yesUnverified |
| Directory / org chart | yes | limitedUnverified |
| Go links | yes | noUnverified |
| Smart groups | yes | noUnverified |
| On-call rotations | yes | noUnverified |
| Browser new-tab page | yes | noUnverified |
| Recognition | yes | yesUnverified |
- Free plan: Culture Amp publishes no price. It states that the price follows the employee count, the product, and the service tier, and that every product bills annually.
- Engagement surveys with industry benchmarks: OrgOrg surveys are private to your org: no cross-customer benchmark data.
- Recognition: Culture Amp has "Shoutouts": peer-to-peer recognition with custom keywords, value tags, native Slack and Teams integration, and a manager view of received praise. OrgOrg's Thanks lives on each person's public profile alongside feedback and trading-card history, not in a separate HR-app surface.
OrgOrg pricing
Self-serve per-seat pricing, monthly or annual.
Culture Amp pricing
Enterprise-style: minimums, multi-year terms, separate Engage / Perform / Develop modules.