Viva Glint review

Viva Glint is Microsoft employee-listening software for HR teams and leaders running enterprise feedback programs. It collects workforce survey feedback and helps users make sense of responses, including large volumes of written comments. It is aimed at understanding employee sentiment and informing follow-up—not simply administering individual performance reviews.

Its Copilot features focus on comment analysis. Users can choose a theme, get a summary of comments related to it, and use suggested questions to explore the topic further. The product blog says Copilot can summarize up to 8,000 comments. Summarizing survey scores is described as a future development, so buyers should not assume that capability is available now.

Viva Glint is sold as a standalone add-on or through broader Viva plans. The listed annual-billing prices start at $2 per user per month for standalone Glint, but that option has a 50-seat minimum. Monthly prices are not published.

The clearest case for Viva Glint is enterprise-scale analysis of open-text survey feedback. Copilot’s stated limit of up to 8,000 comments gives teams a way to summarize substantial comment volumes, rather than reading every response individually. Users can select a theme, review a summary, then use suggested questions to investigate what employees are saying. That combination is more useful for exploring feedback than a summary with no path to follow-up.

The product is built for employee-listening programs, and its placement in Microsoft’s Viva lineup may suit organizations already buying Microsoft services. The pricing page lists three options: standalone Viva Glint at $2 per user per month with annual billing, Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback at $6, and Viva Suite at $12. The latter two plans have no published seat limits in the published pricing information.

Reddit feedback is mixed, but one commenter who stayed with Microsoft said it was easier to get leadership buy-in for a Microsoft product. That is a practical advantage for some buyers, not evidence that Glint will fit every workforce or survey process.

The headline $2 price comes with a 50-seat minimum, so small organizations may pay for more seats than they need. The $6 Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback plan and $12 Viva Suite plan are listed with annual billing; monthly pricing is not published. Seat limits for those plans are also not published, leaving buyers to confirm the commercial details before comparing total cost.

Copilot’s comment summaries have a stated ceiling of 8,000 comments, and the published product information describes survey-score summaries as future development rather than a current feature. Teams that need score interpretation or larger-scale comment processing should verify the current capabilities with Microsoft before committing.

Support is another reason to ask hard questions. In one Reddit thread, a former Glint customer said the migration experience and customer service were poor; another commenter reported long reply times and low support levels. Those are individual reports, not a measure of current service, but they make migration assistance and support terms worth checking. A separate Reddit post describes Microsoft support changing an expected date format in the backend after an upload problem, underscoring the value of validating HR data formats early.

The pricing page lists annual-billing rates of $2 per user per month for Microsoft Viva Glint as a standalone add-on, $6 for Microsoft Viva Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback, and $12 for Microsoft Viva Suite. Monthly prices are not published, so treat these as annual-billing rates, not month-to-month options.

The standalone plan has a 50-seat minimum; at the listed rate, that is $100 per month equivalent, billed annually. Seat limits for the $6 and $12 plans are not published. The listed rates triple from standalone to Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback, then double from that plan to Viva Suite. Those are different bundles, so check which products and seats your organization needs before comparing totals.

No separately priced add-ons are listed in the published pricing information. It also does not publish a free plan or trial. Confirm the annual commitment and any additional licensing terms with Microsoft before switching; the pricing details here do not spell them out.

The published information describes Glint’s employee-listening features, but does not publish migration steps, implementation timelines, or a data-export process. Before moving, ask Microsoft how to transfer historical survey results and comments, what formats are available for export, and whether your existing survey setup can be carried over. Do not assume those details from the product description.

The standalone option has a 50-seat minimum, which may rule it out for smaller teams. Annual-billing prices are listed, but monthly rates are not, so switching also means checking the contract commitment and total seat cost. The published material flags reports of migration-support issues, but gives no specific cases or frequency. That is worth investigating with references from organizations similar to yours; it is not enough to conclude every migration will be difficult.

If you are leaving Glint, get written confirmation of export access, retention timing, and support responsibilities before ending the subscription. Those terms are not published in the published information.