Delighted alternatives after the shutdown.

Delighted was fully terminated on June 30, 2026, after Qualtrics wound it down. If your NPS or CSAT program lived there, you need a new home, and ideally one that keeps Delighted's famous simplicity without keeping its famous shallowness.

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The 5 best Delighted alternatives in 2026

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1. Diaform, best for scores with reasons

Diaform runs NPS and CSAT the way Delighted did, one link, minutes to set up, then adds what it never had: an AI conversation after every score, by voice or text, with summaries, sentiment, and Slack alerts. From $49/mo with a 14-day free trial.

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2. Survicate, closest like-for-like NPS/CSAT

Multi-channel NPS, CSAT, and CES with strong integrations, from $89/mo with response-based tiers. The most direct feature match for a Delighted-style program, surveys remain static, though.

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3. Qualtrics XM, the official migration path

Where Qualtrics wants Delighted customers to land. Genuinely powerful for enterprise CX programs; genuinely oversized for a team that ran one NPS survey. Decide by program scale, not by default.

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4. SurveyMonkey, best general-purpose fallback

From around $25/user/mo. Broad survey tooling with NPS templates, a safe, familiar choice if your program spans more than CX scores and depth isn't the priority.

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5. Tally, best free option

Free for unlimited forms and responses (Pro ~$29/mo). No NPS-specific tooling, you assemble the question and math yourself, but for a scrappy program it removes cost entirely.

What Delighted refugees are weighing

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The default path is a category jump

Qualtrics XM is an enterprise CX platform with implementation weight and pricing to match. Teams that chose Delighted for its simplicity rarely wanted that trade.

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NPS history is at risk

Years of trend data matter for benchmarks. Post-termination retention follows regulation, not your convenience, recovering exports is the urgent task if it isn't already done.

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Simple always meant shallow

Delighted's one-question elegance collected clean scores and almost no reasons. Whatever you migrate to, replicating that limitation is a missed opportunity.

What to look for in a Delighted replacement

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Setup measured in minutes

Delighted's bar was an afternoon to a working NPS program. Any worthy successor must match that, no implementation project, no consultant.

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The standard metrics, unchanged

Keep NPS and CSAT wording and scales identical so your historical benchmarks stay comparable across the migration.

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Reasons attached to every score

The upgrade Delighted never shipped: a real follow-up conversation after the score, tuned to what each customer says, instead of an empty comment box.

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Delivery wherever customers are

Email, link, embed, QR, Delighted's distribution simplicity, one link that works everywhere, is the right pattern to keep.

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Alerts, not just dashboards

A detractor from a key account should ping Slack with the summarized reason immediately, the loop Delighted left to manual dashboard checks.

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Priced like a tool, not a suite

Delighted users were paying tool prices for tool value. The replacement shortlist below spans genuinely free to enterprise, size accordingly.

Delighted vs. Diaform

Delighted (shut down June 2026)

  • Terminated, migration is mandatory
  • One question, one mostly-empty comment box
  • Scores without reasons
  • Text-only responses
  • Data recovery now runs through Qualtrics support

Diaform

  • Actively developed, setup in an afternoon
  • The score plus a probed conversation about why
  • Every score arrives with its summarized reason
  • Voice or text, in 30+ languages
  • Your data exportable anytime via CSV and webhooks

Frequently asked questions.

The practical details behind setting up, running, and scaling this kind of research with Diaform.

Yes. Qualtrics ended new annual contracts on July 1, 2025, ran monthly subscriptions through May 31, 2026, and fully terminated the platform on June 30, 2026. The product no longer accepts responses.

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