Culture Amp is an enterprise employee-experience suite spanning engagement, performance and development. Trivo does one small thing well: a fast check-in for a single engineering team. Here's an honest comparison.
Trivo is for
A team-level check-in a team leader runs themselves — three numbers, anonymous comments, split detection and an AI summary to take into the sync.
Culture Amp is for
An enterprise platform for HR and People Science: engagement surveys with deep benchmarking, performance reviews, 360s and development, across the whole company.
Side by side
| Trivo | Culture Amp | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | check Team health before your sync | check Company-wide employee experience |
| What people answer | check 3 sliders + 3 open questions (~2 min) | check Research-backed surveys, many questions |
| Built for | check Engineering teams | check HR, People Science, leadership |
| Disagreement | check Split detection flags divergence | check Segmentation & heatmaps |
| AI summary | check AI Insight Report per check-in | check Analytics, benchmarks & insights |
| Performance reviews / 360s | remove Stays a check-in | check |
| Industry benchmarking | remove | check |
| Slack / Microsoft Teams | remove Email links, no chat integration | check |
| Pricing model | check Flat per team (from €29) | check Per employee / seat (enterprise) |
Culture Amp is a capable, broader platform — this page compares it with Trivo on the narrow job Trivo is built for. Competitor capabilities described in general terms; check their site for current details.
Where Trivo wins
Three numbers, not forty questions — morale, quality and flow on a 1–9 scale, answered in a couple of minutes so people actually finish.
Built for the team, not the org chart — it runs before your team's sync and hands the team leader concrete, right-sized next steps.
Split detection — it flags when a team's answers pull apart instead of burying the disagreement inside a single average.
An AI Insight Report for every check-in — executive summary, the themes in the comments, and next steps, rewritten as responses come in.
Flat pricing, per team — from €29 a team, not a per-seat bill that climbs every time you hire.
Written feedback goes to the team leader only — company admins see the report, never the raw comments.
Being honest
Trivo does one small thing well. If any of these describe you, Culture Amp is the better call.
You're an enterprise measuring engagement across thousands of employees and want benchmarking against other companies.
You need performance reviews, 360-degree feedback and development plans in the same platform as your surveys.
You have a dedicated People/HR team to run survey programmes and act on org-wide analytics.
You need enterprise integrations (HRIS, SSO, Slack/Teams) — Trivo is email-only and scoped to a team.
Why per-seat pricing doesn't scale
Typical per-seat tool
~€600+ / month
80 users × ~€8/user/month, and it climbs every time you hire.
Trivo — Department plan
€79 / month
Up to 5 teams, 20 members each — flat, whether you're at 40 people or 100.
See the full lineup on the pricing page →
Questions
For a full enterprise employee-experience suite — engagement benchmarking plus performance and development — Culture Amp is in a different weight class. Trivo is the alternative when a single engineering team just wants a fast, honest read before the sync without an HR programme behind it.
No, and deliberately. Trivo stays a lightweight team check-in on morale, quality and flow. It doesn't do reviews, 360s, OKRs or development plans — so there's nothing that feels like a performance tool attached to it.
Trivo is a flat monthly price per team, starting at €29 — not a per-employee enterprise contract. There's a free tier to prove the value on one team first.
Free to start on one team. No 40-question survey, no per-seat bill.
Start for free