# 1up vs Responsive (RFPio)

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Find out how 1up compares to legacy RFP Project Management Tools.

| Feature                                               | 1up                                           | Responsive                                              |
|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
| **1-liner**                                         | Automate RFPs and questionnaire responses     | Proposal and RFP response management.                   |
| **Free Trial**                                      | ✅ Yes, 14-day free trial for all users.     | ❌ No, there is no free trial offered by Responsive.    |
| **Self Service**                                    | ✅ Yes, 1up is fully self-service             | ❌ No, Responsive sales team is involved in all PoV deployments. |
| **Pricing**                                         | 📅 1up starts at $250 / month for the Starter Plan with **unlimited answers**. | 🤑 You must contact Responsive directly, speak with a sales person, and jump through several hoops before learning pricing. Annual Plans only.|
| **Setup time**                                      | ⚡ Minutes                                    | ❗Days/Weeks                                            |
| **Easy Knowledge Base Setup**                       | 😀 Connect documents, URLs, and previously completed RFPs to be up and running in minutes. | 😔 Requires you to set up a Q&A library using a rigid document structure. |
| **Automated Knowledge Base Maintenance**            | 😀 1up integrates with sources like Google Drive, Confluence, and Notion, and updates your knowledge database continually anytime the sources of truth are updated. | 😔 Requires you to manually review and update your Q&A library. |
| **3rd Party Chat Integrations**                     | ✅ Connect 1up to Slack, MS Teams, and Google Chat to enable fast answers to any sales question. | ❌ Integrates with CRM tools but lacks Chat Integrations for live Q&A. |
| **Easy to use UI**                                  | 🏃 Lightweight interface with minimal setup time. 1up is extremely easy to navigate and get used to. | 😕 Complex UI with numerous project management features. Requires a time–consuming learning curve. |
| **Automate Web-based Questionnaires**                | 💻 The 1up Browser Extension automates answers in any web portal based questionnaire. | ❌ No, questionnaires must be uploaded manually.       |
| **Live Chat Support**                               | 🙋‍♀️ Yes, with a real human                     | ⌛ No, requires opening a ticket system and responds during business hours. |
| **Time to Complete a 500-Row Questionnaire**       | ⚡ Minutes                                    | ❗Hours/Days                                           |

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## Frequently Asked Questions

### Why did users choose 1up over Responsive?
1up is designed to **automate RFPs and questionnaires end-to-end**, while Responsive is a **legacy RFP project management tool**. Responsive focuses on managing workflows and projects; 1up focuses on **actually answering questions faster** with AI-driven automation.

### How does setup and usability compare between 1up and Responsive?
1up is **fully self-service** and can be live in minutes by connecting documents, URLs, and prior RFPs. Responsive requires **sales-assisted PoV deployments**, rigid knowledge base structures, and extensive onboarding, often taking days or weeks before teams see value.

### Does Responsive offer a customer-facing Answer Hub like 1up?
No. **Responsive does not offer a customer-facing Answer Hub or Trust Center at all.** 1up provides a shareable **Answer Hub** that Sales, Security, and IT teams can use externally to handle security questions, FAQs, and repeat requests - dramatically reducing one-off RFPs and follow-ups.

### Which platform completes large questionnaires faster?
1up completes large questionnaires - such as **500-row RFPs - in minutes**, including Excel, Word, PDF, and web portals via its browser extension. Responsive requires manual uploads and project-based workflows, which commonly turn the same work into **hours or days**.

## Why Teams Prefer 1up

- **95%** Faster questionnaire completion. WalkMe and JumpCloud slashed response time after implementing 1up.
- **2x** Questionnaire at-bats more than doubled after automating the process with 1up.
- **Global** Automation across multiple languages for sales teams and customers worldwide.

### How JumpCloud Doubled Sales Questionnaire Completion with 1up
JumpCloud is now seeing a 95% completion rate of their sales questionnaires through automation with 1up - more than double what it was.

### How WalkMe® Reduced RFP Response Time by up to 90%
By centralizing the WalkMe knowledge base and automating RFP management, 1up created space for sales reps, sales engineers, and account executives to spend their time on customer-facing tasks, like conversations, context, and collaborations.

## The Answer Engine for Sales Teams