# SurveyJS review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open-source JavaScript form library with a paid form builder Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. SurveyJS is a set of JavaScript components that developers embed in their own web apps: a free open-source form library, a drag-and-drop Survey Creator, a results dashboard and a PDF generator. Forms are described as JSON, work with React, Angular, Vue 3 or plain JavaScript, and all data stays on the customer's own servers. Licenses are bought once per developer. - **Category:** Forms & Surveys - **Made by:** SurveyJS - **Website:** https://surveyjs.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a ready-made form page to send out, as there isn't one. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, SurveyJS has a free plan, and paid plans start at $559 once per developer, including updates and support for the first 12 months. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Essential: the open-source Form Library with unlimited forms, submissions and file uploads, no watermarks, and data on your own servers. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essential | $0 | Open-source Form Library for React, Angular, Vue 3 or plain JavaScript, with multi-page forms, quizzes and unlimited forms and submissions. | | Basic | $559 once per developer, first 12 months of updates included | Adds Survey Creator: self-hosted, white-labeled drag-and-drop builder with unlimited creators and a conditional logic GUI. Renewal: $229 per 12 months. | | Pro | $1019 once per developer, first 12 months of updates included | Everything in Basic plus the Dashboard (charts, interactive reports, Excel, CSV and PDF export), PDF Generator and the UI Preset Editor. Renewal: $409 per 12 months. | | Enterprise | Starts at $2259 once per developer; renewal starts at $899 | Developer licenses plus priority support, a technical account manager, priority bug fixes and review sessions. Sold through sales. | Read from https://surveyjs.io/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SurveyJS before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Volume discount on developer licenses** (Other savings): The pricing page says a volume discount of up to 35% applies when purchasing 2 or more licenses of the same product title. Source: https://surveyjs.io/pricing ## Key features - **JSON-driven form library:** Forms are defined as JSON and rendered with native support for React, Angular and Vue 3, or with plain JavaScript. - **Survey Creator:** A self-hosted, white-labeled drag-and-drop builder with a graphical interface for conditional logic and branching, embedded in the buyer's own app. - **Dashboard:** Charts and interactive reports over collected data, with export to Excel, CSV and PDF. - **PDF Generator:** Creates editable PDF forms and exports submissions to PDF, with a company logo in the header or footer. - **Data on your servers:** The vendor says all data stays on the customer's own servers and works with any server and database. - **Quizzes and multi-user filling:** Scored quizzes, multi-page forms and multi-user form filling in the Form Library; multi-user editing is offered to Enterprise customers. ## Good for - Developers who want to embed forms and a form builder in their own app - Teams that need survey data kept on their own servers - Products that need a white-labeled form creator ## Worth knowing - This is a developer toolkit, not a hosted form service: there is no ready-made form-sharing site, so someone has to build and host the app around it. - The Survey Creator, Dashboard and PDF Generator are paid; the free Essential plan covers only the Form Library. - Licenses are per developer, with a volume discount of up to 35% when buying 2 or more of the same product, and renewals are for updates and support only. - A 90-day money-back guarantee applies to developer licenses, which are perpetual. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. SurveyJS is a set of JavaScript parts for putting forms and surveys inside your own web app, and the form library is open source. It is not a form site you can just sign up to: someone has to build and host the app around it, and the drag-and-drop builder starts at $559 once per developer. - **Value for money: D.** The builder (Survey Creator) starts at $559 once per developer with $229 a year to renew updates, and the Dashboard tier is $1,019. The category's one-time middle is $34 and its monthly middle $19.99. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The Form Library is free and open source, with unlimited forms and submissions and no watermark, and data stays on your servers. Anyone who isn't a developer can't use it, and the builder isn't free. - **Features: D.** It is a toolkit, not a form service: no hosted page to share a form from, so it needs an app built around it. The builder, dashboard and PDF generator are all paid. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It is installed with code, for React, Angular, Vue or plain JavaScript, and you host it yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with React, Angular, Vue 3, Bootstrap, Material UI, shadcn/ui and a WordPress plugin. There is no desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SurveyJS'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 - SurveyJS's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 2 of the 148 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 111 of 148) and worst on features (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/forms ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace SurveyJS you would be making a builder that other people can use without writing code. 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: 141 of the 148 other form and survey tools grade higher. It costs $559, paid once. SurveyJS is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could make: Forms and surveys: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: It plugs into other products, React, Angular and Vue 3 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 React, Angular, Vue 3, Bootstrap, Material UI, shadcn/ui, WordPress **Tags:** Forms, Surveys, Open source, Self-hostable, No-code, Public API ## Alternatives - [Form.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/form-io): JSON form and API platform for developers, hosted or self-hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/form-io-vs-surveyjs) - [Formbricks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/formbricks): Open-source survey platform for links, websites and apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formbricks-vs-surveyjs) - [Tripetto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tripetto): Conversational form builder as a cloud studio, WordPress plugin or SDK. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/surveyjs-vs-tripetto) - [SurveyLegend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surveylegend): Online survey, form and poll builder with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/surveyjs-vs-surveylegend) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://surveyjs.io/pricing - https://surveyjs.io Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/surveyjs Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).