Checkbox Survey vs LimeSurvey (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Checkbox Survey if

• Fits if your IT team insists on surveys running on your own servers
• Works for small teams sending surveys by email, SMS or WhatsApp

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you need a free plan, because it has only a 14-day trial
• Watch out: the REST API, webhooks and custom subdomain start on Business at $1,800 a year, and SSO is Enterprise only
• Tight if you collect a lot, as plans cap responses at 120,000, 300,000 and 1,000,000 a year
• Pricey if you add users, since extra seats cost extra and Business bills yearly only

Pick LimeSurvey if

• Fits if you're an academic or market researcher who exports to SPSS, R or Stata
• Works for organizations that must keep survey data on their own servers, or run one survey in several languages

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want answers sent on to your other apps, as only Google Analytics and Google Translate are listed, plus the API
• Not for you if you need single sign-on, since SSO, LDAP and SAML are listed under Corporate with no public price
• Tight if you're on the free cloud plan: its limits aren't published, and passing them locks you out for the rest of the month
• Watch out: checkout is always in euros, so the dollar price shown differs by country, and Basic is 1 admin and 1,000 responses a month
• Pricey if you want a white-label domain or custom branding, which start at Expert, billed yearly at about $432

Checkbox Survey

• Plans are limited by responses per year (120,000, 300,000 and 1,000,000) and by user count.
• Business is sold on yearly billing only; additional users are available for a fee.
• The REST API, webhooks and custom subdomain start on Business, and SSO is Enterprise only.
• The Team price is the page's own yearly figure of $83.33 a month; the page's script may round it on screen.

LimeSurvey

• Checkout is always in euros; non-euro prices on the pricing page are shown for orientation only and differ by country.
• Basic covers 1 admin user and 1,000 responses a month; Expert and Business have yearly allowances of 10,000 and 50,000 responses.
• White-label domains and custom branding start at Expert, and SSO, LDAP and SAML are listed under Corporate.
• On the free cloud plan, access is locked until the end of the month once the response limit is exceeded.

Checkbox Survey

Survey builder

All question types, advanced survey logic and custom branding are on every cloud plan, including the smallest.

Email, SMS and WhatsApp invitations

Email invitations come with each plan; SMS and WhatsApp invitations are an add-on from the Business plan.

Reports and dashboards

A standard report with charts is generated for each survey, and dashboards can combine charts from several surveys with filters. Exports go to CSV or SAV.

Flexible hosting

Cloud surveys can be hosted in the US, Canada, Australia or the EU, or the whole product can be installed on-premises.

API and webhooks

The public REST API and webhooks, which connect surveys to CRM and marketing systems, start on the Business plan.

Business plan controls

Business adds custom data retention policies and a custom subdomain, and Enterprise adds SAML SSO, a custom domain and full audit logs.

LimeSurvey

Question types and survey logic

Question types include matrices, rankings, sliders, file uploads and equations, combined with skip logic, branching, piping, quotas and randomization.

Multilingual surveys

Run one survey in several languages. The administration and survey interfaces are available in more than 80 languages, with Google Translate support for quick translation.

Invitations and participants

Send invitation and reminder emails in bulk from editable templates, handle bounces automatically, prevent multiple participation and let participants save and continue later.

Statistics and exports

Quick statistics give a graphical evaluation of results, and data exports to SPSS, R, Stata, CSV, Excel and PDF.

Self-hosted Community Edition

The open-source Community Edition is free to download and install on your own server, so response data stays on infrastructure you control.

Hosting regions and compliance

LimeSurvey Cloud stores data in the location chosen at setup, including Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Australia, and offers a GDPR data processing agreement.

Checkbox Survey

• Solo$20

  per month, 1 user, billed annually ($30 billed monthly)

  120,000 responses a year for individuals and freelancers. All question types, advanced logic, email invitations and custom branding.

• Team$83.33

  per month, 5 users, billed annually ($100 billed monthly)

  300,000 responses a year for up to 5 users, with the same features as Solo.

• Business$1,800

  per year, 5 users, billed annually

  1,000,000 responses a year, 24-hour priority support, public REST API, webhooks and a custom subdomain. Extra users cost more.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited responses, SAML SSO, custom domain, audit logs, a dedicated account manager and custom SLA, BAA or DPA agreements.

• On-PremisesCustom

  Everything in Enterprise, deployed on your own servers, with Active Directory or LDAP sign-in and implementation support.

LimeSurvey

• Community Edition$0

  Open-source edition to download and run on your own server, with response data kept on your own infrastructure.

• Free$0

  LimeSurvey Cloud with no locked features, limited in the number of responses, upload storage and administrators.

• Basic$39

  per month, billed monthly (charged in EUR, about €34)

  1 admin user, 1,000 responses a month and 250 MB of upload storage, with unlimited surveys and questions.

• Expert$36

  per month, billed annually ($432; charged in EUR, about €374)

  3 admin users, 10,000 responses a year and 1 GB of upload storage, plus a white-label domain and custom branding.

• Business$69

  per month, billed annually ($820; charged in EUR, €711)

  5 to 10 admin users, 50,000 responses a year and 3 GB of upload storage, plus 1 alias domain and priority email support.

• CorporateCustom

  Tailored users and responses, SSO, LDAP and SAML, a dedicated server and VIP support.

Checkbox Survey

• Annual discount

  Save up to 33% with annual billing

  The pricing page has an annual toggle labelled as saving up to 33% against monthly billing on Solo and Team.

LimeSurvey

• Education

  50% off for students, 30% for teachers

  Students get 50% off and teachers 30% off after emailing a valid student or faculty ID. Both must agree to use LimeSurvey only for classroom-related work.

• Nonprofit

  30% off for charitable organizations

  Charitable organizations get a 30% discount after sending proof of charity status or charity work. Discounts cannot be applied retroactively.

• By country

  Lower price shown to buyers in India

  The pricing page sets a local price by country. On 9 October 2026 it showed Basic to a reader in India at ₹779 a month (about €7), against $39 (about €34) in a US copy of the page archived in June 2026.