How much 360 feedback costs for one manager in 2026

Every pricing page for 360 feedback software is written for someone buying on behalf of a company. If you're one manager who wants feedback about your own work, and you're paying with your own card, the published numbers tell you almost nothing — a plan quoted at "$3 per seat" can come out at zero or at several hundred dollars depending on a detail most vendors don't spell out. So here is the same market priced for one person: a single 360 round on yourself, with roughly eight people answering.

Short answer: anywhere from $0 to about $2,500 a year, and the thing that decides where you land isn't the headline price. It's whether the people answering your questions count as billable seats.

The table

Prices verified directly on vendor pricing pages on 21 and 27 August 2026 (see the methodology note at the end). The third column is the one nobody publishes: what one manager actually pays to run one round with about eight respondents.

The per-seat trap

This is the detail that makes published pricing misleading for an individual, and it's worth understanding before you compare anything.

Most tools in this category bill per seat or per employee, because they're designed for a company rolling feedback out across a team. But a 360 needs respondents, and in a seat-based model your respondents are usually seats. So "$3 per seat per month" is not $3 for you — it's you plus the eight people you asked, which is nine seats, which is a different number entirely.

Worse, the vendors frequently don't say. Effy's pricing page states $3/seat/month and a free tier for up to five users, and nowhere clarifies whether someone who only fills in a questionnaire about you counts toward that. That isn't sloppiness aimed at you specifically; it's what happens when a page is written for an HR buyer who was always going to have everyone in the system anyway.

Three consequences for a single manager:

• Per-seat models get worse as your feedback gets better. Asking twelve people instead of six is the right instinct and it raises your bill.
• Free tiers with user caps are tighter than they look. A cap of five people means you, plus four respondents — which is under the threshold where anonymity holds up in most setups.
• Flat and one-time pricing behaves the opposite way. It doesn't care how many people you ask, which is the model that suits an individual, and it's rare because individuals aren't the market.

"Free" is four different things

The word is doing a lot of work on this market's landing pages. Four genuinely different offers, and it matters which one you're looking at:

When you shouldn't pay anyone, including us

Being straight about this is the whole point of the page.

• You want one round, once, to see where you stand. Take Spidergap's free assessment or 360Feedbacks' free first evaluation. Both are complete products and both cost nothing. Paying a subscription for a single round is a bad trade.
• Your team is four people or fewer. Effy's free tier covers you, and at that size anonymity is fragile in any tool — worth reading what anonymity can and can't deliver on a small team before you promise it.
• You're comfortable running your own server. Blik360 self-hosted is the whole product for the price of a VPS.
• You have no budget at all. SelfStir is free and has been for years. The interface is dated; the questions and the loop work.
• You mainly want the discipline, not the software. Fifty questions that actually surface something plus a Google Form gets you most of the way. What you lose is the anonymity floor and the analysis, both of which matter more than people expect.

When paying starts to make sense

There's one honest reason to pay in this market, and it isn't features. It's repetition.

Everything free here is built around a single round. One round tells you where you stand; it can't tell you whether the thing you decided to work on actually changed, because that answer only exists in the gap between round one and round four — which is also why the frequency question matters more than the tool question. Free rounds don't accumulate — you can't compare this quarter with a survey you ran in a different tool eighteen months ago.

Which is where the pricing models separate:

• Per-seat annual (Effy, FeedbackPulse) — repetition is fine, but every additional respondent costs, so the price scales with the quality of your sample.
• One-time per evaluation ($59 at 360Feedbacks) — cheapest for round one, and you pay again every time. Four rounds a year for three years is twelve payments.
• Flat annual (Mirorly at $99, Spidergap at $1,099) — the cost of asking more people, and of asking more often, is zero. This suits cadence and is bad value if you only ever do one round.
• Assessment plus a human (Leadership Circle at ~$500, or $3,700 with coaching) — a different purchase entirely. You're buying interpretation, not software, and if what you need is someone to sit with you and make sense of it, that's genuinely worth more than any tool on this page.

Where Mirorly fits

We're in the table above, at $99 a year flat, and the honest reading of our own row is this: for one round, we're the wrong choice, and several free options are better. Flat pricing only pays off if you run rounds on a cadence — quarterly, or after each project — because then the respondents are free, the extra rounds are free, and the comparison across them is the thing you're actually buying. That's the bet we sell, and it's the bet to be sceptical about if you're not sure you'll do this twice.

What you'd be paying for: behavioural question templates rather than a blank form, your own answers set against your team's, an anonymity threshold that holds at ≥2 responses per group, and a breakdown by relationship. What you would not be paying for: an AI-written summary of your feedback, which we deliberately don't build, because averaging away the disagreement destroys the only part worth reading.

Methodology

Prices were read directly from each vendor's own pricing page on 21 and 27 August 2026: Spidergap, Effy AI, FeedbackPulse, Blik360 and 360Feedbacks. Leadership Circle Profile has no public list price — the figures are the assessment's stated retail value and package prices quoted by certified partners, so treat them as a range rather than a rate card. Currency conversions are not applied; prices appear in the currency each vendor quotes.

"One manager, one round" assumes you plus about eight respondents and, where a vendor is ambiguous about whether respondents consume seats, says so rather than guessing.

These numbers go stale. We re-check them quarterly, and the date above is the date to trust. If you find a price that has changed, tell us and we'll correct it.

Common questions

The one-line summary

For one manager running a single 360 on themselves, this market ranges from genuinely free to about $2,500 a year, and the headline prices mislead because most tools bill per seat while your respondents usually are seats — so the practical advice is to take a free complete round from Spidergap or 360Feedbacks if you want to do this once, and only move to a paid flat rate if you intend to do it repeatedly, since repetition and the comparison between rounds is the only thing in this category you genuinely cannot get for nothing.