Formbricks vs LimeSurvey

Formbricks

• Product teams running surveys inside a website or app
• Organizations that want to self-host an open-source survey tool
• Teams that need survey data hosted in the EU

LimeSurvey

• Academic and market researchers who export to SPSS, R or Stata
• Organizations that must keep survey data on their own servers
• Multilingual surveys run across several countries

Formbricks

• The free Hobby plan allows 250 responses a month and 1 workspace; Pro allows 2,000 responses and Scale 5,000.
• Responses beyond a paid plan's monthly limit are charged per response as overage.
• Hiding Formbricks branding, integrations, custom webhooks and the mobile SDKs start at Pro on the cloud.
• Self-hosted team roles, SSO and multi-language surveys need an Enterprise license, which has no published price.

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.

Formbricks

Link, website and in-app surveys

Share a survey by link, show it to chosen visitors on a website, embed it in an email or trigger it inside a web app or a native mobile app.

Logic, hidden fields and recall

Every cloud plan includes all question types, conditional logic, hidden fields, partial responses, recall of earlier answers and file uploads.

Targeting and segments

From Pro, respondents can be identified and grouped into segments by custom attributes, so a survey only appears to the people it is meant for.

Self-hosting

The Community Edition installs with Docker and is free to use, including commercially, under AGPLv3. Enterprise features need a license key.

API, SDKs and integrations

Full API access with an MCP server is on the free cloud plan. Pro adds all integrations, custom webhooks and the iOS and Android SDKs.

Workflows and quotas

The Scale plan adds workflows, quota management and teams with access roles. AI translations are included from Pro.

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.

Formbricks

• Hobby$0

  Cloud plan with 1 workspace and 250 responses a month, link and in-product surveys, all question types, conditional logic and full API access.

• Community Edition$0

  Self-hosted and open source under AGPLv3: unlimited surveys and responses, custom styling, webhooks, SDKs and integrations such as Slack and Zapier.

• Pro$74

  per month, billed annually ($89 billed monthly)

  3 workspaces and 2,000 responses a month, with unlimited seats, branding hidden, contact segments, all integrations and the mobile SDKs.

• Scale$325

  per month, billed annually ($390 billed monthly)

  5 workspaces and 5,000 responses a month, plus teams and access roles, quota management and workflows.

• Enterprise EditionCustom

  Self-hosting license key that adds team roles, contact segments, multi-language surveys, SAML and OIDC SSO, 2FA and support SLAs.

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.

Formbricks

• Annual discount

  2 months free with annual billing

  Billed annually, Pro is $74 instead of $89 per month and Scale $325 instead of $390, which the pricing page describes as getting 2 months free.

• Education

  Discount for students and teachers

  The pricing FAQ says students and teachers can get a discount by emailing the company. No percentage is published.

• Nonprofit

  Discount for NGOs

  The pricing FAQ says NGOs can get a discount by emailing the company. No percentage is published.

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.