The Formbricks Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Formbricks in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Formbricks
The Insider’s Guide
Open-source survey platform for links, websites and apps
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among form and survey tools, read from Formbricks’s own pages.
Made by Formbricks GmbH · checked Oct 6, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Formbricks’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Formbricks’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.4
GPA, above 6 of the 30 other form and survey tools we grade
Formbricks is an open-source survey and experience management platform. Surveys can be shared as a link, shown to targeted visitors on a website, embedded in an email or triggered inside a web or mobile app. It runs as a cloud service hosted in Frankfurt, Germany, or self-hosted for free under the AGPLv3 license, with a paid Enterprise license for extra self-hosting features.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Formbricks, taken from its own pages and our grades.
Self-hosting is free but means a Docker install, and SSO and team roles there need an Enterprise license with no public price.
- 1
Best for open-source surveys inside your own product
Formbricks is an open-source survey tool that can show surveys inside your website or app to chosen groups of visitors.
- 2
Paid plans start at $74 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $74 per month, billed annually ($89 billed monthly).
- 3
There is a free plan
Hobby cloud plan: 1 workspace and 250 responses a month, with all question types, conditional logic and API access. The self-hosted Community Edition is free with unlimited surveys and responses.
- 4
It runs on Web
Web.
- 5
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.
- 6
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.
- 7
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.
- 8
A 2.4 GPA, above 6 of 30
That is against the other form and survey tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
Keep it
To replace Formbricks you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
Formbricks at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $74 per month, billed annually ($89 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 15-day free trial of the paid cloud plans
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Formbricks GmbH
- Category
- Forms & Surveys
- Our grade
- 2.4 GPA, fair
The report card
Best for open-source surveys inside your own product
Formbricks is an open-source survey tool that can show surveys inside your website or app to chosen groups of visitors. The Hobby cloud plan stops at 250 responses a month and 1 workspace, the next step is Pro at $74 a month billed yearly, and overage is charged per response. Self-hosting is free but means a Docker install, and SSO and team roles there need an Enterprise license with no public price.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | D | $74 a month billed yearly is exactly where this category's dearest tenth begins, three times the $24 middle, and it buys 2,000 responses. Hiding the branding, the integrations and the mobile SDKs all start there, and going over your limit is charged per response. |
| Free plan and trial | B | Two free routes. The Hobby cloud plan has all question types, logic and API access but stops at 250 responses a month and 1 workspace. The self-hosted Community Edition is unlimited and free under AGPLv3, if you run the server yourself. |
| Features | B | It covers the survey job end to end: by link, on a website, in an email or triggered inside a web or native mobile app, with all question types, conditional logic, hidden fields, recall, partial responses and segments from Pro. |
| Ease of use | C | No store rating on record, and there's real setup either way: in-app surveys mean installing an SDK and defining attributes and segments, and hosting it yourself means a Docker install. |
| Platforms and integrations | B | Web with full API access even on the free plan, plus Slack, Zapier, Notion, Google Sheets and Airtable, and iOS and Android SDKs from Pro. No app of its own, though. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Formbricks is for
- Fits if you're a product team asking questions inside your own website or app
- Works for organizations that want to self-host an open-source survey tool, or keep cloud data in Frankfurt
Who it is not for
- Tight if you stay on Hobby: 250 responses a month and 1 workspace
- Pricey if you outgrow that, since the next cloud step is $74 a month billed yearly ($89 monthly), and overage is charged per response
- Watch out: hiding the branding, the integrations, custom webhooks and the mobile SDKs all start at Pro
- Not for you if you self-host and need SSO, team roles or multi-language surveys, which take an Enterprise license with no public price
- Skip it if you want a quick contact form: in-app surveys need an SDK installed, and self-hosting means running Docker
Good to know
Good for
- 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
Worth knowing
- 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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$74
A month to start. There is a free plan too
Formbricks has a free plan. Paid plans start at $74 per month, billed annually ($89 billed monthly).
Hiding the branding, the integrations and the mobile SDKs all start there, and going over your limit is charged per response.
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 Edition
Custom
Self-hosting license key that adds team roles, contact segments, multi-language surveys, SAML and OIDC SSO, 2FA and support SLAs.
The free plan
Hobby cloud plan: 1 workspace and 250 responses a month, with all question types, conditional logic and API access. The self-hosted Community Edition is free with unlimited surveys and responses.
Trying it first
15-day free trial of the paid cloud plans
Read from formbricks.com on Oct 6, 2026.
Ways to pay less
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.
Stated on formbricks.comEducation
Discount for students and teachers
The pricing FAQ says students and teachers can get a discount by emailing the company. No percentage is published.
Stated on formbricks.comNonprofit
Discount for NGOs
The pricing FAQ says NGOs can get a discount by emailing the company. No percentage is published.
Stated on formbricks.com
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
Open-source survey platform for links, websites and apps. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: open source, self-hostable, public API, AI features, templates, workflow automation, surveys.
Web with full API access even on the free plan, plus Slack, Zapier, Notion, Google Sheets and Airtable, and iOS and Android SDKs from Pro.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Slack
- Zapier
- Notion
- n8n
- Make
- Google Sheets
- Airtable
Formbricks is made by Formbricks GmbH.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
6/30
Other form and survey tools it is graded above
Formbricks's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 30 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 12.
It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 21 of 30) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $74 a month, against a middle price of $21 for the category: 28 of the 30 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 31 form and survey tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Formbricks’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 30
- BFree plan and trialAbove 21 of 30
- BFeaturesAbove 9 of 30
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 30
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 4 of 30
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 31 form and survey tools. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Formbricks is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
Keep it
To replace Formbricks you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 12 of the 30 other form and survey tools grade higher. It costs $888 a year. Formbricks is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself.
What you could make
- Surveys and templates: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Formbricks’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.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
LimeSurvey, Typeform, SurveySparrow, OpnForm and HeyForm
The 5 tools Formbricks is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.4GPA
LimeSurvey
Free plan · from $39/mo
Open-source survey tool, hosted in the cloud or self-hosted.
- Formbricks also covers workflow automation.
- LimeSurvey also covers forms and reports.
- 2.4GPA
Typeform
Free plan · from $28/mo
Form, survey and quiz builder with logic, AI and video questions.
- Formbricks is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Typeform also covers forms and reports.
- 2.4GPA
SurveySparrow
Free plan · from $19/mo
Chat-style survey and customer feedback platform with AI analysis.
- Only SurveySparrow lists iOS and Android apps.
- Formbricks is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- SurveySparrow also covers forms and reports.
- 2.8GPA
OpnForm
Free plan · from $25/mo
Open-source form builder with unlimited submissions.
- Formbricks also covers workflow automation.
- OpnForm also covers forms.
- 2.8GPA
HeyForm
Free plan · from $15/mo
Open-source builder for conversational forms and surveys.
- Formbricks also covers workflow automation.
- HeyForm also covers no-code and forms.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
16
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Formbricks free?
Formbricks has a free plan. Hobby cloud plan: 1 workspace and 250 responses a month, with all question types, conditional logic and API access.
How much does Formbricks cost?
Formbricks lists 5 plans. Hobby: $0.
What platforms does Formbricks work on?
Formbricks is available on Web.
Does Formbricks offer any discounts?
Formbricks publicly lists the following: 2 months free with annual billing; Discount for students and teachers; Discount for NGOs.
Does Formbricks have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Formbricks is listed for Web.
Does Formbricks have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Formbricks is listed for Web.
Is Formbricks open source?
Yes. Formbricks is open source, according to its own site.
Does Formbricks have an API?
Yes. Formbricks offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does Formbricks integrate with?
Formbricks's listing names Slack, Zapier, Notion, n8n, Make, Google Sheets and Airtable.
Does Formbricks have a student discount?
Discount for students and teachers. The pricing FAQ says students and teachers can get a discount by emailing the company.
Does Formbricks have a free trial?
Yes. 15-day free trial of the paid cloud plans.
Who makes Formbricks?
Formbricks is made by Formbricks GmbH.
What are the alternatives to Formbricks?
The closest alternatives to Formbricks in our directory are LimeSurvey, Typeform, SurveySparrow, OpnForm and HeyForm.
How does Formbricks compare with other form and survey tools?
Formbricks's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 30 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 12.
Is Formbricks good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Formbricks D for value for money. Its paid plans start at $74 a month, against a middle price of $21 for the category: 28 of the 30 others that charge start lower.
Could I make my own version of Formbricks?
To replace Formbricks you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Formbricks’s own pages on Oct 6, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 10, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Formbricks's own pages on 6 October 2026. Also tested with a demo account on 2026-08-03.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Formbricks GmbH. Prices change, so check formbricks.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
3,189
tools graded
94
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Formbricks, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/formbricks
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
Scan for the live page
Prices and grades as they are today
Quoting this guide?
Please name ToolGPA and link to the live page, so readers can check the figures for themselves:
ToolGPA, "Formbricks: The Insider's Guide", checked Oct 6, 2026. https://toolgpa.com/tools/formbricks
Know someone choosing between form and survey tools?
Send them this guide: toolgpa.com/tools/formbricks/guide
ToolGPA elsewhere: youtube.com/@toolgpa
See our other guides
The best-graded form and survey tools after Formbricks, each with an Insider's Guide of its own.
- Forms & Surveys Insider's GuideEvery one of the 31 form and survey tools we grade, compared
- Google Forms Insider's GuideForm, survey and quiz builder that comes with a Google Account3.2 GPA
- Jotform Insider's GuideNo-code form builder with payments, e-signatures and workflows3.0 GPA
- Fillout Insider's GuideForm builder with unlimited seats, payments and scheduling2.8 GPA
Choosing software? Every tool graded, every price dated.
Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Formbricks’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Formbricks is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Formbricks GmbH. Prices and plans change: check formbricks.com before you buy.