SurveyMonkey API
Survey platform API for creating surveys, collecting responses, and analyzing results. Widely used for market research, employee feedback, customer satisfaction, and academic research.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Survey platform API. OAuth2 with user-level and team-level scopes. Survey responses may contain PII — GDPR scope. HIPAA support on Enterprise plan.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to create and manage traditional surveys at scale, especially for market research, HR feedback, or customer satisfaction measurement in enterprise contexts.
Avoid When
You need conversational forms with better UX, or are on a tight budget for high response volumes.
Use Cases
- • Creating and deploying surveys programmatically for data collection campaigns
- • Retrieving survey responses for analysis in agent workflows
- • Automating CSAT and NPS surveys triggered by business events
- • Building market research automation that collects and analyzes responses
- • Employee feedback collection and HR survey automation
Not For
- • Conversational/interactive forms (Typeform is better for UX)
- • Complex form workflows with file uploads
- • Real-time response processing at very low latency
- • Free high-volume surveys without subscription
Interface
Authentication
OAuth2 required. Access tokens are long-lived (no expiry by default) but can be revoked. Scopes include surveys_read, surveys_write, responses_read, etc. No simple API key option.
Pricing
Free tier is extremely limited (40 responses max). Premium plans are expensive compared to alternatives. Team plans needed for most business use cases. API access on all plans.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ OAuth2 only — no API key option adds complexity for agent setup
- ⚠ Free tier 40-response limit per survey makes it useless for real data collection
- ⚠ API response data does not include question text — requires separate question lookup by ID
- ⚠ Bulk response retrieval is limited to 100 per page — large surveys require many requests
- ⚠ Survey sharing and collector management add complexity to agent deployment flows
- ⚠ Enterprise features (HIPAA compliance, SSO) require Enterprise plan with custom pricing
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.