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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Lighthouse Studio

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASawtooth Software headquartered in Provo offers the Lighthouse Studio survey research tool as an advanced platform for Conjoint Analysis and MaxDiff. With it, users can create balanced experimental designs hand-in-hand with traditional survey questions.N/A

    Typeform

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ATypeform is online form and survey software, focused on high-quality visuals and user experience. Users can create surveys, registration forms, tests & quizzes, contests, tutorials, shopping carts, and contact forms, without needing to write code. Typeform offers freemium plan pricing. Their basic plan is free for one user; their Pro plan in $35/month for one user (includes logic jump, respondent notifications, calculator, custom thank you screen, hidden fields, payment fields, and 2GB file…

    $30

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    Pricing
    Lighthouse StudioTypeform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $30
    *Per Month
    Professional
    $35
    *Per Month
    Premium
    $59
    *Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Lighthouse StudioTypeform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—*For annual contract.
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    Community Pulse
    Lighthouse StudioTypeform
    Considered Both Products
    Sawtooth Software
    No answer on this topic
    Typeform
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Lighthouse StudioTypeform
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and Typeform
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Typeform
    7.7
    46 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Themes6.01 Ratings8.546 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding7.01 Ratings9.244 Ratings
    Survey templates00 Ratings5.544 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and Typeform
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Typeform
    9.3
    46 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Changes to live survey8.01 Ratings10.041 Ratings
    Question design help9.01 Ratings8.039 Ratings
    Multiple question types10.01 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and Typeform
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Typeform
    9.3
    40 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Survey logic flexibility10.01 Ratings9.340 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and Typeform
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Typeform
    8.4
    45 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Response tracking6.01 Ratings9.844 Ratings
    Data export4.01 Ratings9.842 Ratings
    Standard reports5.01 Ratings9.540 Ratings
    Analytics9.01 Ratings7.538 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings5.527 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and Typeform
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Typeform
    9.6
    31 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Access controls10.01 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Compliance10.01 Ratings9.225 Ratings
    Survey Distribution
    Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio and Typeform
    Feature
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Typeform
    8.3
    24 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Respondent restrictions10.01 Ratings8.023 Ratings
    Vendor-offered crowdsourcing00 Ratings8.79 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Lighthouse StudioTypeform
    Small Businesses
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qualaroo
    Score6.1 out of 10
    Qualaroo
    Score6.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    QuestionPro
    Score10 out of 10
    QuestionPro
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Lighthouse StudioTypeform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (46 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.7
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Lighthouse StudioTypeform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sawtooth Software
    Anyone wanting to design and analyze advanced studies, particularly those that incorporate discrete choice modeling (such as MaxDiff and / or Conjoint) should be using Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. The capabilities and flexibility offered by this platform for these choices is far beyond any other platform I am aware of. It is less appropriate where you need the survey tool to 'play well with others.' Two examples: 1) pulling in live data streams so they can be cleaned and visualized. 2) Integrating into any service where an API call is appropriate such as adding / removing people from a mailing list, incentive management tool, or qualitative community tool.
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    Typeform
    Typeform is definitely a leader in the online survey space and that's for a reason. Between logic mapping and the ease of use for the end user, it's a solid app. The unfortunate thing, however, is the price tag--particularly considering the protection you receive from bots. Typeform only allows a certain number of responses at certain package levels, ie: the lowest level, you get a very limited number of responses but in order to receive more responses before your survey is locked, you must upgrade. This is what ultimately lead us to cancel with them. When you post a survey on Typeform, that survey is automatically posted publicly on their website--making it widely available to bots. Typeform offers no easy form of protection like a standardized captcha that you can add to the survey in order to filter bots out. Instead, there are several "work arounds" that they advise users to do that have very limited degrees of success. A quick online search shows that Typeform knows this is clearly an issue, yet they have yet to build in a bot-prevention feature. Since their plan prices vary by number of responses, it seems that they have no incentive to limit the amount of bots filling out surveys I believe. Ultimately, we canceled because, although the app is powerful, it just seemed like their business practices were unethical in my opinion.
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    Pros
    Sawtooth Software
    • Powerful programming capabilities
    • Advanced analysis
    • Fantastic customer and technical support
    • Good documentation
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    Typeform
    • The calculator tool allows you to use numerical formulas to create logic within your form for specific behavior.
    • Compatible with modern web browsers for both building a form and publishing, allowing it to work and look good on any device.
    • Integration with products like Zapier allow you to use it as part of a larger automation in your company.
    • Visually pleasing designs with use of themes, images and video to match your branding.
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    Cons
    Sawtooth Software
    • They could focus on integrating API type functionality
    • I would love if the data came out labeled
    • I am not a fan of the 'limited' time a study can stay up. This causes issues with longitudinal studies.
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    Typeform
    • The pricing structure is a little steep, especially for the Pro+ plan. It would be nice if they had an a la carte option because there are some features we are paying for that we will never use.
    • When creating forms, sometimes the cursor will inexplicably leave the field you are typing in and leave you with incomplete sentences.
    • Even though we are paying for our use, we still have the Typeform branding on our forms, which I think should be removed once you upgrade from the basic plan.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Sawtooth Software
    No answers on this topic
    Typeform
    We have had such success with Typeform, and it has been able to exceed our expectations for the range of products it offers
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    Usability
    Sawtooth Software
    It is incredibly powerful, very rhobust and has fantastic support. The only reasons I'm not giving it a higher rating are 1) There is a very steep learning curve when it comes to designing more complex studies. 2) It is difficult to get Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio to 'talk' to other systems as the Perl upon which it is built is not really designed to work with API calls, etc.
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    Typeform
    Typeform takes a little bit of getting used to. Compared to Google Forms there are a lot more parts to the software and customizing the form isn't as intuitive. I have also found that embedding it into one smaller section of a webpage seamlessly can be a little tricky. But everything can be figured out eventually and the analytics are very good.
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    Support Rating
    Sawtooth Software
    I cannot explain how great the support team is. They are prompt and very thorough in their responses.
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    Typeform
    I haven't used the support portion of Typeform, as everything was quite easy to use. I have never encountered a situation where I did not know what to do or how to fix something myself. Typeform is very easy to adopt within any organization, no matter if you understand tech or not.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sawtooth Software
    While QuestioPro has the capability to build surveys and even do some advanced analysis, it is less powerful (and less intuitive) than Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. It cannot handle studies with the complexity we are used to designing. The CMNTY Platform was initially sold to us as a combined Quant / Qual platform, but we found very quickly that the quant side of it is extremely limited.
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    Typeform
    When looking for a feature rich & flexible / customizable solution, Typeform beats out everyone. However, for specific use cases (like NPS), AskNicely is a clear winner in terms of features, but is much too expensive. Typeform is also fun to use, especially compared to Wufoo which seems so out of date
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    Return on Investment
    Sawtooth Software
    • Our business is survey data so we rely heavily on sawtooth
    • The advanced design and analytics are incredibly useful
    • Negative - I wish it would work natively with API calls
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    Typeform
    • Typeform has helped guide our Customer Success, Product, and Marketing teams in strategizing how to engage with customers better, and it has also given us a quick and easy way to do so! By collecting feedback and being able to share it across internal teams, we can coordinate our efforts to build our customers a better tool.
    • Typeform has proved to be an elegant solution to one of our earlier vexing problems (previous survey tools that looked annoying, had extremely limited branding options/were not customizable, and didn't integrate well with the rest of our tool set) while not breaking the bank for us - it's a very reasonable price point and does WAY more than the previous tools we were paying just as much for.
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