Crowdsignal review (2026): is the free plan enough?
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Crowdsignal report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for polls and quizzes on a WordPress site
Crowdsignal makes polls, surveys and quizzes, from the people behind WordPress.com. The free plan counts every answer as a signal and stops showing responses after 2,500, and dropping the branding means Business at $45 a month.
Who Crowdsignal is for
- Fits if you run a WordPress site and want a poll inside a post
- Works for one-off quizzes or surveys with small audiences
Who Crowdsignal is not for
- Tight if you run long surveys, because each answer counts as a signal and 2,500 goes fast
- Watch out: over the free limit, extra answers are collected but hidden until you upgrade
- Skip it if you want no branding or your own domain, as both need Business at $45 a month
- Not for you if you need a long list of integrations, as only Sheets and WordPress are named
Why Crowdsignal gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyPremium is $15 a month billed yearly, in the ordinary band for form and survey tools. Business is $45.
- CFree plan and trialFree gives unlimited surveys but only 2,500 signals, with branding and limited export. A five-question survey answered once uses five signals.
- CFeaturesBranching, embedding, email surveys and team workspaces cover the basics. Past 2,500 signals answers are collected but hidden until you pay.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. You build each poll or survey yourself.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with Google Sheets and WordPress named as connections.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Crowdsignal's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Crowdsignal's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 4 of the 60 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 8.
Its paid plans start at $15 a month, against a middle price of $19.50 for the category: 15 of the 51 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 15 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 61 form and survey tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Crowdsignal’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 12 of 60, level with 29
- CFree plan and trialAbove 4 of 60, level with 38
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 60, level with 31
- CEase of useAbove 3 of 60, level with 51
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 60, level with 11
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 53 form and survey tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Crowdsignal, or make your own?
Your call
A form at its plainest is questions, a button and a table of answers.
You could make the core of Crowdsignal for yourself: surveys, forms, templates and reports. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $180 a year.
What you could make
- Surveys, forms, templates and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
What you could not
- It plugs into other products, Google Sheets and WordPress among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Crowdsignal’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Crowdsignal?
Crowdsignal builds polls, surveys, ratings and quizzes that can be shared by link or embedded in a site. It is made by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and also ships as a WordPress plugin. Plans are limited by signals, meaning individual answers, rather than by the number of surveys.
Worth knowing
- A signal is one answer: a five-question survey completed once counts as five signals, so the free 2,500 goes quickly.
- Past 2,500 signals the free plan keeps collecting but hides the extra answers until you upgrade.
- Branding removal, custom domain and the advanced API need Business at $45 a month billed annually.
- Premium and Business are shown with a 40% and 25% discount against their monthly price when billed annually.
Key features
- Polls, surveys and quizzes
- Unlimited questions, surveys, polls, ratings and quizzes on every plan; the free plan stops at 2,500 signals.
- Branching logic
- Premium and above support branching and logic trees so respondents see only the questions that apply.
- Embedding
- Polls and media can be embedded in a website, and the company also offers a WordPress plugin.
- Data sync and export
- Premium connects to Google Sheets and exports responses; Business adds other services and an advanced API.
- Email surveys
- Business can send surveys by email, up to 50,000 a month.
- Team workspace
- The Team plan lets several users edit surveys together and share themes, templates and assets, with a 3-user team limit.
Crowdsignal pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Crowdsignal has a free plan, and paid plans start at $15 per month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $15 per month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- Unlimited questions, surveys, polls and ratings, collecting up to 2,500 signals, with Crowdsignal branding and limited data export.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Unlimited surveys, polls and ratings, up to 2,500 signals, Crowdsignal branding, limited export and 1 MB uploads. |
| Premium | $15per month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly) | Unlimited signals, branching logic, Google Sheets sync, export, priority email support and 5 MB uploads. |
| Business | $45per month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | No Crowdsignal branding, custom CSS and domain, email surveys up to 50k a month, advanced API access. |
| Team | $29per user / month, billed annually | Business features plus shared accounts for up to 3 users, shared themes and templates, and 10 MB uploads. |
Read from crowdsignal.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Crowdsignal before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave with annual billing
The pricing page shows Premium at $15 a month billed annually against $25 monthly, and Business at $45 against $59.
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Common questions
Does Crowdsignal have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Crowdsignal is listed for Web.
Does Crowdsignal have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Crowdsignal is listed for Web.
Is Crowdsignal open source?
Crowdsignal is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Crowdsignal have an API?
Yes. Crowdsignal offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.