# StrawPoll review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Free online poll maker with a meeting scheduler Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. StrawPoll is a web tool for making polls that people vote on through a link or an embed. Polls and votes are unlimited on the free plan, which shows ads to participants. Paid plans remove ads, add larger email and embed quotas, and add branding and workspace options. A meeting scheduler and a poll API are also offered. - **Category:** Forms & Surveys - **Made by:** StrawPoll - **Website:** https://strawpoll.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if voters mustn't see ads, because free polls show them. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, StrawPoll has a free plan, and paid plans start at $4 per month, billed annually ($48 a year). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free: unlimited polls and votes with ads, 10 ad-free votes a month, 50 email invites and 1,000 embed views a month. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Unlimited polls and votes with ads, 10 ad-free votes a month, close dates, permissions and webhooks. | | Basic | $4 per month, billed annually ($48 a year) | No ads for you, 500 ad-free votes and 500 email invites a month, custom poll links. Page shows $96 crossed out. | | Pro | $14 per month, billed annually ($168 a year) | 5,000 ad-free votes a month, 3 shared seats, no StrawPoll branding, themes, CAPTCHA. Page shows $336 crossed out. | | Business | $26 per month, billed annually ($312 a year) | 50,000 ad-free votes a month, 10 seats, custom logo and CSS. Page shows $624 crossed out. | Read from https://strawpoll.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with StrawPoll before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **One-time purchase instead of a subscription** (Other savings): The pricing page offers one-time payments for a chosen number of months: $8, $28 or $52 a month for Basic, Pro or Business. Source: https://strawpoll.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Unlimited polls and votes:** The free plan has no cap on polls or participants; participants see ads, and 1,000 participants is the limit for unlimited votes per user. - **Poll controls:** Close dates, custom limits per option, email notifications, a permissions system and webhooks are on the free plan. - **Email invites and embeds:** Monthly quotas for email invitations and embedded poll views rise from 50 and 1,000 on Free to 50,000 and 100,000 on Business. - **Branding options:** Pro removes StrawPoll branding and adds custom themes; Business adds a custom header logo and custom CSS. - **Meeting scheduler and Poll API:** The site links a meeting scheduler for finding a time and a Poll API for creating polls from code. ## Good for - Quick polls shared in chats, classrooms or communities - Groups that need a free tool with no vote limit - Teams that want ad-free polls without a large subscription ## Worth knowing - Free polls show ads to participants, and only 10 votes a month are ad-free. - Paid plans are also sold as one-time purchases for a chosen number of months at $8 (Basic), $28 (Pro) or $52 (Business) per month. - StrawPoll branding is removed only on Pro and Business. - A banner on the pricing page says a new StrawPoll is coming soon. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. StrawPoll makes polls people vote on through a link or an embed, with unlimited polls and votes free. But free polls show ads to voters, only 10 votes a month are ad-free, and its branding stays until Pro. - **Value for money: A.** $4 a month billed yearly, under 60% of the forms category's cheapest quarter ($7.42). Pro is $14 a month. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Unlimited polls and votes free, with ads, and 1,000 embed views a month. One person can live on it, though only 10 votes a month are ad-free. - **Features: C.** Polls with close dates, permissions, email invites, embeds and a poll API. It does polls fully, but polls only, a smaller job than a form builder. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You still build each poll yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only on the listing, with an API and webhooks but no integrations named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from StrawPoll's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among form and survey tools - StrawPoll's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 116 of the 148 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 131 of 148) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $4 a month, against a middle price of $20 for the category: 3 of the 114 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/forms ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of StrawPoll you could make: surveys and forms. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 116 of the 148 other form and survey tools we grade. It costs $48 a year. - You could make: Surveys and forms: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Surveys, Forms, Public API ## Alternatives - [Google Forms](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-forms): Form, survey and quiz builder that comes with a Google Account. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/google-forms-vs-strawpoll) - [PollUnit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pollunit): Online polls, surveys and contests with a free tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pollunit-vs-strawpoll) - [Simply Voting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/simply-voting): Online election and ballot voting for member organizations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/simply-voting-vs-strawpoll) - [Opinion Stage](https://toolgpa.com/tools/opinion-stage): Quiz, poll, survey and form maker for lead capture. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/opinion-stage-vs-strawpoll) - [Typeform](https://toolgpa.com/tools/typeform): Form, survey and quiz builder with logic, AI and video questions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/strawpoll-vs-typeform) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://strawpoll.com/pricing/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/strawpoll Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).