Forms & Surveys

Our top three form and survey tools

The first two are close. Google Forms comes first: it is free with a Google Account, charts the answers as they arrive and can turn a form into a quiz with answer keys. Tally's free plan does more with the form itself, adding payments, signatures and calculations, but it shows Tally branding and keeps team collaboration for Pro. LimeSurvey is third for survey research and for answers kept on your own servers. Fillout narrowly missed: its free plan allows unlimited seats but stops at 1,000 responses a month. Jotform adds approval workflows and phone apps, but its free plan stops at 5 forms.

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   First: Google Forms

   Free plan · from $7/mo

   For: Most people

   Google Forms builds forms, surveys and quizzes in a browser, shares them by link, email or embed, and charts the answers as they arrive or stores them in a linked Google Sheet. It is free with a personal Google Account. Questions can branch on earlier answers, and a form can become a quiz with point values and answer keys. Know the limits: no dedicated mobile app is listed, file upload questions require respondents to sign in to a Google Account, and there is no standalone paid plan. The business version comes inside Google Workspace, from $7 per user a month with a 1-year commitment, and drafting a form with Gemini needs Business Standard or higher or a Google AI plan.

   Google Forms pricing and details
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   Second: Tally

   Free plan · from $24/mo

   For: Anyone who wants a fuller form builder without paying

   Tally works like a text document: you type questions onto a page and insert input blocks. Its free plan allows unlimited forms and submissions within a fair use policy, with conditional logic and file uploads, and it adds payments, signatures and calculations, which Google Forms' listing does not have. Submissions can be sent on to Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable or Slack. It is second because the free plan shows Tally branding on forms: removing it, custom domains and team collaboration all need Pro at $24 a month, billed yearly. Free file uploads stop at 10 MB per file, and sustained volumes around 50,000 submissions a month lead to a custom plan.

   Tally pricing and details
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   Third: LimeSurvey

   Free plan · from $39/mo

   For: Researchers, and anyone who must keep answers on their own server

   LimeSurvey is an open-source survey tool. Its free Community Edition installs on your own server, so response data stays on infrastructure you control, and the hosted LimeSurvey Cloud has a free plan. Surveys can use skip logic, branching, quotas and randomization, run in several languages, and export to SPSS, R and Stata. It is third because it is built for surveys more than everyday forms and asks more of you: the free edition has to be installed and run on a server, the free cloud plan has limits on responses and administrators that the pricing page does not state, and hosted prices vary by country: a June 2026 copy of the US page lists Basic at $39 a month for 1,000 responses.

   LimeSurvey pricing and details

Ranked on Oct 5, 2026 from what each listing shows and what people say about the tool, not from our own testing. How we rank