# Alchemer vs SurveyMonkey (slim)

> SurveyMonkey scores 55.3 (C) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Alchemer leads on maintenance & community. Both do forms create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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SurveyMonkey scores 55.3 (C) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Alchemer leads on maintenance & community. Both do forms create.

- Alchemer: E 41.4, rank #798 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alchemer.min.md
- SurveyMonkey: C 55.3, rank #594 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surveymonkey.min.md
- Alchemer, good for A company already on an Alchemer Business Platform contract that wants an agent to build surveys, load contacts, send campaigns and export responses. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 45 against 36.
- SurveyMonkey, good for Teams already on SurveyMonkey who want an assistant to draft surveys, create a web link and summarise results through the MCP server, and Enterprise customers who export responses or receive webhooks through the REST API. Ahead on Reliability, 67 against 35; Agent ergonomics, 64 against 47; Security & auth, 62 against 44; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Transparency & trust, 70 against 61.

| Category | Alchemer | SurveyMonkey |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 45 | 47 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 47 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 45 | 36 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Alchemer | SurveyMonkey |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Alchemer LLC | SurveyMonkey Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.alchemer.com/v5` | `https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Alchemer Software as a Service Agreement | Proprietary service under SurveyMonkey's terms of use, API developer terms and connector terms |
| Tools exposed | none | 20 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-08-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-14 | 2025-11-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-23 | 2026-05-01 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |