1up vs Inventive

Find out how 1up compares to clunky RFP Management Tools

	1up	Inventive
1-liner	Automate RFPs, questionnaires, and sales questions	Manage RFP response library
Free Trial	Yes, 14-day free trial for all users.	No
Self Service	Yes, 1up is fully self-service	No, Inventive requires a sales-assisted setup that can take several days
Pricing	1up starts at $250 / month for the Starter Plan with unlimited answers.	Priced higher with discounted plans available for multi-year contracts
Setup time	Minutes	Days/Weeks
Answer Generation	Unlimited	Unlimited
Easy Knowledge Base Setup	Connect documents, URLs, and previously completed RFPs. 1up also automatically ingests your website URLs.	Requires users to manually highlight Q&A during import. Does not crawl web URLs automatically. Users must setup the library with the help of Inventive
Automated Questionnaire Answering	Yes, 1up automates Questionnaires in Excel, Word, and PDF format	Inventive requires manual column mapping, highlighting, and setup before generating answers.
Automated Knowledge Base Maintenance	1up integrates with sources like Google Drive, Confluence, and Notion, and automatically updates your knowledge sources continually within seconds. Conflicting answers are de-duplicated automatically.	Inventive requires manual user oversight to approve knowledge updates and conflicting answers.
3rd Party Chat Integrations	Add 1up to Slack, MS Teams, and Google Chat to enable fast answers to any question	❌ Inventive does not have a public integration with Slack, MS Teams, or Google Chat.
Easy to use UI	Lightweight interface with minimal setup time. 1up is designed to be fully self-service and easy to use.	Complex, confusing interface with manual oversight when uploading and answering questionnaires.
Automate Web-based Questionnaires	Answer web portal based questionnaire with 1up's RFP Browser Extension	❌ No, Inventive does not have a browser extension
Live Chat Support	Yes, live chat support powered by humans.	❌ No live chat support (email only).
Trust Center	1up provides a customizable Trust Hub that Sales, Security, and IT teams can use.	Inventive does not provide a Trust Center or similar features.