eSurveysPro vs LimeSurvey (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, we pick LimeSurvey: it is third in our ranking of form and survey tools, and they share a 2.4 GPA.
Checked Oct 9, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
eSurveysPro grades higher on value for money. LimeSurvey grades higher on features. They get the same grade on the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
eSurveysPro
Online survey tool with a free account and yearly plans
LimeSurvey
Open-source survey tool, hosted in the cloud or self-hosted
Which one is for you
Pick eSurveysPro if
- Fits if you want a survey with no response cap and no cost
- Works for small polls that go out by email
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you invite by email: 1,000, 2,000 or 5,000 a month depending on the plan
- Watch out: removing branding, changing the look and filtering reports need Premium at $200 a year
- Not for you if you need hidden fields, several users or multi-language surveys, all Corporate at $400 a year
- Too light for anything that must connect to other software, as no integrations are listed
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
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAeSurveysProFair | 2.4GPALimeSurveyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BBasic is $100 a year, about $8.33 a month, which sits at the edge of the cheapest quarter of forms tools. The free account has no response cap. | CBasic is about $39 a month billed monthly for 1 admin and 1,000 responses, which is right at the top of this category's middle band. Expert works out at $36 a month paid yearly. Checkout is always in euros, and the price shown varies by country. |
| Free plan and trial | BThe free account has unlimited surveys, questions and responses, a logo upload and standard reports. One person could live on that. Email invitations, branding removal and report filtering are the paid parts. | BTwo free routes and one is unlimited: the cloud free plan locks no features, though the pricing page won't state its caps and going over locks you out until the month ends, and the Community Edition is free to run on your own server. |
| Features | CEditor, polls, email invitations and reports. The listing shows no integrations, no mobile apps, and hidden fields and multiple users only on Corporate. | BThe whole survey job, nothing in the listing missing: matrices, rankings, sliders, uploads and equations, with skip logic, branching, piping, quotas and randomization, one survey in several languages, bulk invitations, and exports to SPSS, R, Stata and Excel. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You build each survey yourself in the editor. | CNo store rating on record, and this is a tool you learn: quotas, piping and branching to set up, participant lists to manage, and the free edition installs on a server you run yourself. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, and the pricing page lists no integrations or apps. | CWeb only, and barely connected. The listing names two integrations, Google Analytics and Google Translate, neither of which sends your answers anywhere. The public API is the only way out. |
| Best for | free surveys with unlimited responses | research surveys you can host yourself |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: eSurveysPro and LimeSurvey. How we grade
Price against what you get
eSurveysPro starts at $8.33 a month when paid by the year and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. LimeSurvey starts at $39 a month and scores 2.3.
LimeSurvey scores higher, and starts $30.67 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other form and survey tools on the chart, 23 score higher than eSurveysPro for less, and 29 score higher than LimeSurvey for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- LimeSurvey is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- LimeSurvey also covers templates.
At a glance
| eSurveysPro | LimeSurvey | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $100 per year for 1,000 email invitations a month | $39 per month, billed monthly (charged in EUR, about €34) |
| Free plan | Free account: unlimited surveys, questions and responses, 14 question types, logo upload and standard reports. | Free cloud plan with no locked features but limits on responses, upload storage and administrators; the pricing page does not state the limits. The self-hosted Community Edition is free. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Outside Software SRL | LimeSurvey GmbH |
| Price read from | esurveyspro.com | web.archive.org (not the vendor's own page) |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 |
Worth knowing
eSurveysPro
- Email invitations are capped at 1,000, 2,000 or 5,000 a month depending on the plan.
- Branding removal, look and feel and report filtering need Premium or higher.
- Multiple users, multi-language surveys and hidden fields are Corporate features.
- The pricing page lists no integrations or mobile apps.
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.
Key features
eSurveysPro
- Survey editor
- Browser editor with 19 question types listed on the site and control over the flow of a survey.
- Email invitations
- A mailing system sends and tracks invitations, with monthly limits that depend on the plan.
- Reports
- Live results with summaries, drill-down to a specific answer, and export for Excel or SPSS.
- Polls
- One-question polls can be embedded in a website.
- Mobile layout
- Surveys are optimized automatically for phones and tablets.
- Dedicated accounts
- Enterprise and Dedicated accounts add multi-user roles, custom domains and white-label surveys, priced on request.
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.
Plans
eSurveysPro
Free$0
Unlimited surveys, questions and responses with 14 question types and professional reports.
Basic$100
per year for 1,000 email invitations a month
Mailing list management, data export, print reports to PDF and priority email support.
Premium$200
per year for 2,000 email invitations a month
Removes eSurveysPro branding and adds custom look and feel, report filtering, text validation and advanced reports. $40 a month is also listed.
Corporate$400
per year for 5,000 email invitations a month
Adds multi-language surveys, folders, advanced matrix questions, hidden fields and multiple users. $60 a month is also listed.
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.
Ways to pay less
eSurveysPro
No public discounts listed.
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.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, eSurveysPro or LimeSurvey?
As of Nov 13, 2026, eSurveysPro is cheaper to start with: $8.33 a month when paid by the year, against $39 a month for LimeSurvey. eSurveysPro starts at $100 per year for 1,000 email invitations a month, and LimeSurvey starts at $39 per month, billed monthly (charged in EUR, about €34).
Which has a free plan, eSurveysPro or LimeSurvey?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both eSurveysPro and LimeSurvey have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.