LimeSurvey vs QuestionPro

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

QuestionPro

• Market researchers who need conjoint, MaxDiff or an audience panel
• Nonprofits, which can get a nonprofit license at no cost
• Field teams collecting survey responses without a connection

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.

QuestionPro

• The free Essentials plan covers 1 user and 200 responses per survey.
• Paid plans are priced per user and billed annually; the pricing page shows no monthly option.
• Team Edition needs at least 5 users, and the Research Suite at least 10, with pricing on request.
• The customer experience and employee experience products are sold separately, with pricing 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.

QuestionPro

Survey builder with logic

Build surveys from 30 to 52 question types depending on the plan, with branching, piping, randomization and skip logic, and apply your own branding from the Advanced plan.

QuestionPro AI

A Survey Agent drafts a full survey, with questions, scales and logic, from a description. Smart Dashboards build a dashboard and an insight summary from the responses.

Reports and research methods

Reports include real-time shareable dashboards, and data exports to Excel, SPSS and CSV. Conjoint, MaxDiff and A/B testing are part of the Research Suite.

Offline survey app

The iOS and Android app collects responses without an internet connection and stores them on the device until they can be synced.

Multilingual surveys

Field the same survey in more than 100 languages, so respondents in each market can answer in their own language.

Integrations and API

Connect to Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Google Sheets, Tableau and Power BI, or build on Zapier, webhooks and the QuestionPro API.

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.

QuestionPro

• Essentials$0

  1 user, 200 responses per survey and 30 question types, with basic surveys, logic, integrations and analysis.

• Advanced$99

  per user / month, billed annually

  1 user, 25,000 responses per year and 38 question types, with standard surveys, logic, integrations and analysis, plus branding.

• Team Edition$83

  per user / month, billed annually, 5-user minimum

  100,000 responses per year, 46 question types, collaboration, regional data centers and a dedicated account manager.

• Research SuiteCustom

  10 or more users with custom response pricing, 52 question types, and communities, audience and qualitative tools.

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.

QuestionPro

• Nonprofit

  Free Nonprofit license

  Nonprofits can get the Nonprofit license, listed at $1,188 per year, for free in return for a backlink on their website. It covers one user and up to 10,000 responses.

• Education

  Discounted academic licenses

  Universities and colleges can buy a Survey & Analytics license at what QuestionPro calls a highly discounted price through its academic sales team. No figure is published.