# SurveyHero review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Online survey builder with unlimited responses on every plan Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. SurveyHero is an online survey tool where every plan, including the free one, allows unlimited surveys, questions and responses. Paid plans lift the 30-day limit on each survey and add branding, logic, reporting and integration features. The pricing page says its data centers are in the EU and that the service is GDPR and nFADP compliant. - **Category:** Forms & Surveys - **Made by:** SurveyHero - **Website:** https://www.surveyhero.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you're staying free: each survey closes 30 days after its first response. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, SurveyHero has a free plan, and paid plans start at $25 per month, billed annually ($35 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Basic plan: unlimited surveys, questions and responses for 1 user, but each survey stays open only 30 days. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $0 | 1 user, unlimited surveys, questions and responses, with each survey open for 30 days. | | Professional | $25 per month, billed annually ($35 billed monthly) | 1 user, no time limit on surveys, all question types, your own logo and colors, anonymous surveys, filtering and export. | | Business | $45 per month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | 3 users, branching logic, multilingual surveys, branding removal, redirection, API integration and priority support. | | Enterprise | $125 per month, billed annually ($255 billed monthly) | 5 users, white label with your own domain, custom CSS and JavaScript, custom reports and top-level support. | Read from https://www.surveyhero.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SurveyHero before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Free student accounts, 50% off for educators** (Education): Students get a free account with full access, and educators, faculty and researchers get 50% off a paid plan. Source: https://www.surveyhero.com/pricing - **50% off yearly plans for nonprofits** (Nonprofit): The pricing FAQ gives nonprofit organizations 50% off all yearly plans. Source: https://www.surveyhero.com/pricing ## Key features - **Unlimited responses:** Every plan allows unlimited surveys, questions and responses; the free plan limits how long each survey stays open. - **Question types and templates:** A survey editor with many question types, templates, side-by-side questions and print-ready PDF export of the questionnaire. - **Skip and display logic:** Branching is part of Business and above, along with multilingual surveys and Google Translate. - **Reports and exports:** Real-time results with automatic charts, filtering and export to Excel or CSV compatible with SPSS. - **Sharing and invitations:** Share by link, QR code or embed, use a WordPress plugin, and send email invitations and reminders. - **API and webhooks:** A developer API and webhooks are listed under integrations on the higher plans. ## Good for - Researchers and small teams that need many responses without a response cap - Surveys that must keep data in EU data centers ## Worth knowing - On the free Basic plan each survey stays open for 30 days after its first response. - Branching logic, branding removal and API integration start at Business, $45 per month billed annually. - White labeling and custom domains are Enterprise only. - The plans include one to five user accounts, so extra seats mean moving up a tier. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. SurveyHero builds online surveys with unlimited questions and responses on every plan, including the free one. But each free survey closes after 30 days, branching logic needs Business at $45 a month, and the plans come with one to five users. - **Value for money: C.** Professional is $25 a month billed annually ($35 monthly) for 1 user, between the cheaper quarter ($12.50) and the dearer quarter ($34) of form tools. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The free Basic plan has unlimited surveys, questions and responses, but each survey stays open only 30 days after its first response. - **Features: C.** Question types, templates, reports, exports, sharing, API and webhooks. But branching logic and branding removal start at Business, $45 a month. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It's a web app where you build each survey and its logic. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it has WordPress, Google Analytics and webhooks, plus an API on Business. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SurveyHero's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among form and survey tools - SurveyHero's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 13 of the 60 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 60) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $25 a month, against a middle price of $19.50 for the category: 32 of the 51 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 15 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? **Your call.** A form at its plainest is questions, a button and a table of answers. You could make the core of SurveyHero for yourself: surveys, forms and templates. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $300 a year. - You could make: Surveys, forms and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Google Analytics and Webhooks among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Google Analytics, Webhooks **Tags:** Surveys, Forms, Public API, Templates ## Alternatives - [SurveyMonkey](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surveymonkey): Online survey and form platform with built-in analysis tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/surveyhero-vs-surveymonkey) - [LimeSurvey](https://toolgpa.com/tools/limesurvey): Open-source survey tool, hosted in the cloud or self-hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/limesurvey-vs-surveyhero) - [Surveyplanet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surveyplanet): Survey maker with unlimited free surveys and responses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/surveyhero-vs-surveyplanet) - [QuestionPro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/questionpro): Survey and market research platform with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/questionpro-vs-surveyhero) - [Alchemer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/alchemer): Survey platform with advanced logic and market research questions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/alchemer-vs-surveyhero) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.surveyhero.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/surveyhero Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).