Thisys™ vs SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey is a long-established survey tool, with a long list of plans for individuals and teams. Thisys takes a different line: AI on every plan, a one-click Decision Report, and an allowance counted in answers, so you pay for what people actually answer.
Checked 17 October 2026. Every SurveyMonkey fact below comes from SurveyMonkey's own public pages, linked beside it with the date we read it. Plans and prices change, and can differ by country, so check their page before you decide.
Answers and responses are different units
Thisys counts answers: one answer is one person answering one question, so a short poll uses less of your allowance than a long survey. The other tools on these pages count responses or submissions: one person completing a form, however many questions it has. The two are not the same unit, so wherever we set a Thisys allowance beside theirs we convert it first, at a 10-question survey where every question is answered. A longer survey would fit fewer responses into the same Thisys allowance, and a shorter one more.
Side by side
The free plan
Thisys
US$0, free forever with no card. 1,000 answers a month — about 100 complete responses to a 10-question survey. Unlimited surveys and questions, all nineteen question types, skip logic, and CSV, Excel and SPSS export. Free surveys carry the Thisys mark.
SurveyMonkey
Basic is free for one user: unlimited surveys and up to 10 questions per survey. Its page says responses are limited per survey, without giving the number.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026Paid plans and what they include
Thisys
Pro, US$19 a month: 50,000 answers a month — about 5,000 complete responses to a 10-question survey. Business, US$99 a month: 250,000 answers a month — about 25,000 complete responses to a 10-question survey. Enterprise is priced per client. Prices are in US dollars and exclude taxes; customers in Australia are billed in Australian dollars.
SurveyMonkey
Individual plans, one user each: Standard Monthly, $149 a month billed monthly, 1,000 responses a month. Advantage Annual, $468 billed yearly (shown as $39 a month), 15,000 responses a year. Premier Annual, $1,668 billed yearly (shown as $139 a month), 40,000 responses a year. The page shows "$" without naming a currency.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026Taking the maker's branding off
Thisys
From Pro (US$19 a month): the Thisys mark comes off every respondent page and public results page, with your logo in its place.
SurveyMonkey
White-label branding is listed on Premier Annual ($1,668 billed yearly) and on Team Premier.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026; surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026Working as a team
Thisys
On Business, one price of US$99 a month, not charged per seat: a team workspace of up to 10 people, you included, with Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles. Joining a team costs the member nothing.
SurveyMonkey
Team plans are priced per user, at least three users, billed yearly: Team Advantage $30 a user a month with 50,000 responses a year, Team Premier $92 a user a month with 100,000 responses a year. Enterprise is quoted, from five users.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026AI
Thisys
On every plan, Free included, metered by credits: 40 in the first 30 days on Free, then 10 a month; 400 a month on Pro and 2,000 on Business. Drafting a survey, theming open-text answers, asking your data a question, and a one-click Decision Report. A survey's responses are read by AI only once you switch analysis on for it.
SurveyMonkey
Build with AI is listed on the free Basic plan; Analyze with AI and Thematic Analysis are listed from Advantage Annual and on Team Advantage.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026; surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026Reaching the limit
Thisys
You are emailed at 50%, 80%, 90% and 100% of your monthly answer allowance, and collection carries on into a grace band past it (10% on Free, 20% on Pro, 25% on Business) before it pauses. Extra answers can be bought at any time without changing plan.
SurveyMonkey
Each response over a paid plan's allowance is charged at $0.15.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026; surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026A worked example: 1,000 complete responses a month to a 10-question survey
The cheapest plan on each side that covers it, from each company's own pricing page. On Thisys that volume is 10,000 answers.
Thisys
Pro, US$19 a month: it includes 50,000 answers a month, and 1,000 responses to a 10-question survey use 10,000.
Source: our pricing pageSurveyMonkey
Advantage Annual, $468 billed yearly (shown as $39 a month): 15,000 responses a year.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026SurveyMonkey's page showed "$" without naming the currency; Thisys prices are in US dollars before tax.
Where SurveyMonkey is stronger
Said plainly, because a comparison that only flatters one side is no use to you.
Enterprise offers single sign-on (SSO) and a choice of a US, Canadian or EU data centre.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026Thisys offers Google and Microsoft sign-in on every plan; SAML or OIDC single sign-on to your own identity provider is not built yet.
Advantage Annual lists accepting payments in a survey.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026Thisys surveys do not take payments.
Team Premier lists phone support.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026Its research page describes a panel of 335M+ people in 130+ countries for reaching new audiences, and 200+ integrations.
Source: surveymonkey.com/roles/research, checked 17 October 2026Thisys connects through webhooks, Slack, Microsoft Teams and a REST API, from Business. Native spreadsheet connectors are not built yet, and the Salesforce and HubSpot connectors are not switched on yet.
Where Thisys stands out
You pay for answers, not forms
Metering the answer means a two-question poll uses a fifth as much of your allowance as a ten-question survey. For US$19 a month, Pro includes 50,000 answers a month — about 5,000 complete responses to a 10-question survey.
One price for the whole team
Business is US$99 a month for a workspace of up to 10 people, not a price per seat.
A Decision Report in one click
A verdict, ranked findings, the answers that move your score and recommended actions, built from your responses. The findings are calculated from the data, and an AI sentence that contradicts them is left out rather than shown.
AI on every plan, Free included
Describe a survey in plain English and get a complete draft; theme the open-text answers (up to 200 a question) with representative quotes; put a question to your data and get an answer drawn from it. AI output comes with a notice saying what to check.
Privacy tools built in
Consent notices with a timestamped record and retention windows that purge on schedule (from Pro), and a scanner that finds Tax File Numbers, Medicare and card numbers in responses, checksum-checked so an unlabelled number that fails the check is not reported as one.
SurveyMonkey's plans, as their page listed them
The plans that bear on this comparison; SurveyMonkey's page may list others.
Basic
Free. Responses limited per survey (number not published).
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026Standard Monthly
$149 a month, billed monthly. 1,000 responses a month.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026Advantage Annual
$468 billed yearly (shown as $39 a month). 15,000 responses a year.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026Premier Annual
$1,668 billed yearly (shown as $139 a month). 40,000 responses a year.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual, checked 17 October 2026Team Advantage
$30 a user a month, at least 3 users ($90 a month), billed yearly. 50,000 responses a year.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026Team Premier
$92 a user a month, at least 3 users ($276 a month), billed yearly. 100,000 responses a year.
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026Enterprise
Price on request. Custom (quoted).
Source: surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams, checked 17 October 2026
Launch offer: take 50% off your first 3 months of Pro or Business by entering the code THISYSLAUNCH at checkout. It is for first-time customers on a monthly plan, for the first 100 paying accounts, and ends on 30 November 2026 (Australian Eastern time) or when the 100 are used, whichever comes first. After the 3 months your plan renews at its normal monthly price (Pro US$19, Business US$99, plus GST where it applies) unless you cancel first, which you can do at any time from your account.
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Sources and reference dates
Each page below was read on the date shown. Figures are quoted as the page showed them, in our words, with its own currency marker; we have not converted currencies or added tax.
- https://www.surveymonkey.com/pricing/individual/, read 17 October 2026
- https://www.surveymonkey.com/pricing/teams/, read 17 October 2026
- https://www.surveymonkey.com/roles/research/, read 17 October 2026
- Thisys facts: our pricing and features pages, current as you read this.
Thisys is the subject of Australian trade mark application 2693330 (classes 9 and 42). SurveyMonkey, Typeform, Qualtrics, Tally and Jotform are trade marks of their respective owners and are used here only to identify their products. Thisys is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them.
Their facts were read from their own public pages between 17 and 21 October 2026, and each is linked with the date it was read. Prices and plans change, may be shown differently in your country or currency, and may exclude tax, so check the company's own page before you buy. This comparison is general information, not advice.
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