Compare/Head to head

Firstup vs Workvivo

Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.

Starting price

Firstup

Sales-quoted

Enterprise communications across email, app, and workplace tools. Pricing is sales-quoted.

Where Firstup fits

Enterprise internal comms teams
Companies that must reach desk, email, and frontline in one campaign
Workday or ServiceNow customers
Buyers comparing Firstup to an intranet they already have

Workvivo

Sales-quoted Free trial

Employee experience intranet (now under Zoom). Pricing is sales-quoted.

Where Workvivo fits

Companies replacing email-blast intranet
Frontline and deskless comms
Orgs already on Zoom
HR and IC teams that want a feed plus spaces

At a glance

Detail	Firstup	Workvivo
Starting price	Sales-quoted	Sales-quoted
Free tier	–No	–No
Free trial	Not on record	Yes
MCP server	–No	–No
Public API	–No	–No
Listed under	Employee advocacy, Internal communications	Internal communications
Capterra	Not enough reviews	4.7 from 136 reviews

Where they pull apart

Firstup

Stands out: Orchestration of comms across channels, not another intranet CMS. Workday and ServiceNow sit on the integrations story.

Watch out: Quote-only enterprise comms. A 50-person company does not need Firstup.

Not the right fit for

SMBs
Teams that only need Slack announcements
Buyers who need a public per-user price

Workvivo

Stands out: A social intranet with a news feed employees will actually open, now sitting in the Zoom estate for companies already standardised there.

Watch out: Quote-only. Zoom ownership is a procurement fact: you may be buying inside a Zoom conversation, not from a standalone intranet vendor.

Not the right fit for

SMBs that wanted Slack plus a Google Site
Buyers who need a public per-user price
IT teams standardised on SharePoint/Viva and unwilling to add a feed

Pros and cons

Firstup

Multi-channel comms orchestration rather than a single intranet page
Workday and ServiceNow named
Built for enterprises that already have an intranet and still miss people

Quote-only
Wrong size for SMB
Not a full intranet replacement by itself

Workvivo

Feed-style intranet people open
Zoom-owned, useful if that is already the comms spine
HRIS connectors including BambooHR and Gusto

Sales-quoted only
Another destination besides Slack/Teams if you are not careful
Not an HRIS

What each one costs

Firstup

Sales-quoted

Sales-quoted. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 4 Nov 2026

Workvivo

Sales-quoted

Sales-quoted. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 4 Nov 2026

Common questions

Can you try Firstup or Workvivo for free?

Neither carries a free tier on our listing. Workvivo offers a free trial.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 4 Nov 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?