13 Best SurveyMonkey Alternatives in 2026 (Free & Paid)

What is SurveyMonkey, and why do people look elsewhere?

SurveyMonkey

One of the best-known online survey platforms, with individual and team plans, AI survey building and a large template library.

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SurveyMonkey is the name most people think of when they need a survey. It is a mature product: 25+ question types, 500+ templates, advanced logic, an AI analysis suite and team plans for larger organisations. The reasons people search for an alternative are almost always about what the free plan leaves out and how the paid plans are structured.

• The free plan is small. The Basic plan caps each survey at 10 questions, shows you a limited number of responses per survey, and sticks to common question types (multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, text box).
• The useful features are paid. Advanced logic and branching, custom branding and themes, the AI Analysis Suite and data exports (CSV, XLS, PDF) are all listed as paid-plan features.
• Response caps on every paid plan. The monthly Standard plan includes 1,000 responses a month; the annual Advantage and Premier plans include 15,000 and 40,000 responses a year. Go over and SurveyMonkey charges per extra response.
• Annual billing and seat minimums. Advantage and Premier are billed annually, and team plans start at 3 users, so a small team pays for a year of seats up front.

How we picked these SurveyMonkey alternatives

We compared each tool on what people leave SurveyMonkey over: how much the free plan really lets you collect, how responses are capped and billed on paid plans, and whether the tool covers your actual job (quick customer feedback, formal research, or surveys inside a product). All prices are USD and were checked on each vendor's own site in September 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a price we say so instead of guessing. Several tools on this list are launched and reviewed by makers on Uneed. Inclusion is editorial. Fast Surveys, ranked first, is a Uneed partner.

Top SurveyMonkey Alternatives

Here are the 13 best alternatives to SurveyMonkey in 2026. You can also browse every survey tool launched on Uneed in our best survey products ranking.

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1. Fast Surveys

An AI survey tool for collecting feedback fast: generate a complete survey from a prompt, share it by link, QR code or 6-digit join code, embed feedback widgets on your website, and let AI summarise the responses.

Where SurveyMonkey is a research suite, Fast Surveys is built for the survey you need live today. The feedback widgets (emoji mood scale, thumbs up/down, 1 to 5 rating, NPS) are the part SurveyMonkey users rarely get without extra tooling.

Pros

• AI creates a complete survey in seconds, and AI summarises the answers
• Website feedback widgets: mood scale, thumbs, 1 to 5 rating, NPS
• Unlimited team members and unlimited surveys, even on the free plan
• Share by link, QR code or 6-digit join code, with lead capture built in

Cons

• Smaller brand and ecosystem than SurveyMonkey
• Free plan capped at 50 responses per survey, with limited question types
• Pro is $29/mo on monthly billing (annual billing saves 35%)

Small teams that want AI-built surveys and on-site feedback widgetsFree: 50 responses/surveyPro: $29/mo

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2. Tally

A document-style form and survey builder: type your questions like a doc, add logic, calculations, file uploads and payments, and connect results to Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable or Zapier.

The strongest answer to "I just want to stop paying": unlimited forms and unlimited submissions on the free plan (within fair use), with conditional logic and payments included instead of gated.

Pros

• Unlimited forms and submissions for free (fair use)
• Conditional logic, calculations, signatures and file uploads on the free plan
• Collect payments without upgrading
• Integrations with Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier and webhooks

Cons

• Removing Tally branding requires Pro ($29/mo)
• Custom domains and team collaboration are Pro features
• A form builder first: no dedicated research or panel features

Free, unlimited forms and surveysFree: unlimited responsesPro: $29/mo

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3. Google Forms

Google's free form and survey builder: multiple question types, logic, quizzes, templates, real-time charts of the answers and a one-click export to Google Sheets.

If you have a Google account you already have it. For internal polls and simple surveys it covers most of what SurveyMonkey Basic does, at no cost.

Pros

• Free with a Google account, included in Google Workspace
• Automated real-time charts of responses
• Raw data exports straight to Google Sheets
• Share with colleagues to build and analyse together

Cons

• Theming is limited to colours, images and fonts
• File upload questions require respondents to sign in to a Google Account
• Forms and responses live in a Google account

Free internal surveysFree with a Google accountIncluded in Workspace

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4. Youform

A conversational, one-question-at-a-time form builder positioned as a free Typeform alternative, with unlimited forms and responses on the free plan.

The Typeform look without the Typeform response caps. Paid plans are about branding, payments and team seats, not about how many answers you are allowed to collect.

Pros

• Unlimited forms and responses for free
• Conditional logic and calculations on the free plan
• Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier and webhook integrations
• Pro drops to $20/mo on annual billing

Cons

• Free plan is a single user account
• Removing branding, Stripe payments and custom domains need Pro ($29/mo)
• File uploads limited to 10MB on the free plan

Typeform-style surveys for freeFree: unlimited responsesPro: $29/mo ($20 yearly)

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5. Jotform

A long-established online form platform covering surveys, order forms, registrations and approvals, with a big template library and tiered plans by forms, submissions and storage.

The pick when your "surveys" are really a mix of forms, registrations and payments. You trade SurveyMonkey's question cap for a submissions cap.

Pros

• Handles far more than surveys: orders, registrations, applications
• Clear tiers by forms, submissions, views and storage
• Annual billing brings Bronze down to $34/mo
• Enterprise plan for multi-user teams

Cons

• Free Starter plan: 5 forms and 100 submissions a month
• Bronze is $39/mo on monthly billing for 1,000 submissions
• More form builder than research tool

All-purpose forms and surveysFree: 100 submissions/moBronze: $39/mo

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6. MakeForms

A form builder for sensitive data: Typeform-style or standard multi-page forms, one-click OTP verification of email and phone fields, a data region per workspace, plus e-signatures, PDF generation and booking pages in the same account.

SurveyMonkey team plans start at 3 users and cap responses. MakeForms Launch includes 3 seats and unlimited submissions, and adds what a survey tool does not: OTP-verified contact fields, a data region per workspace, e-signatures and booking pages. It is a form platform first, not a research suite.

Pros

• Unlimited submissions and form views on every plan
• One-question-at-a-time and standard formats in one builder
• One-click OTP verification of email and phone fields
• HIPAA (BAA on request), SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 listed on its Compliance tab

Cons

• No free plan, only a free trial
• Launch is $79/mo ($65/mo yearly) for 3 seats and 30 forms
• No research or panel features: built for business forms

Compliance-heavy forms and surveysFree trial onlyLaunch: $79/mo

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7. Typeform

The tool that popularised conversational, one-question-at-a-time forms and surveys, with plans ranging from single-seat Basic to Growth and Talent tiers.

Beautiful and respondent-friendly, which lifts completion rates. It is not a way to save money on SurveyMonkey, though: paid plans are capped by responses per month.

Pros

• Polished, conversational respondent experience
• Unlimited typeforms and questions
• Dedicated Talent and Growth plans on top of the core tiers
• Annual billing cuts Basic to $28/mo

Cons

• Free plan has a limited number of responses per month
• Basic is $39/mo on monthly billing for 100 responses a month and 1 seat
• Costs climb quickly with volume ($79/mo for 1,000 responses)

Brand-facing conversational surveysFree: limited responsesBasic: $39/mo

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8. Zoho Survey

Zoho's survey tool, with email, SMS and social distribution, offline response collection, sentiment analysis and integrations across the Zoho suite.

The closest like-for-like SurveyMonkey replacement on this list, and a natural fit if your company already runs on Zoho.

Pros

• Paid plans move to unlimited surveys and questions
• Offline response collection and sentiment analysis
• Integrates with Zoho apps, Slack, Shopify and Zendesk
• White-label surveys and webhooks on Pro

Cons

• Free plan: 3 active surveys, 10 questions and 100 responses per survey
• Logic branching is listed on the Pro plan
• Basic includes 12,000 responses a year

Zoho users and classic survey programsFree: 100 responses/surveyBasic: 12,000 responses/yr

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9. Qualtrics

The enterprise experience-management and research platform used for academic, market and employee research, with a permanent free account for smaller studies.

For serious research this is the upgrade from SurveyMonkey rather than the budget option. The free account alone allows 30 questions per survey where SurveyMonkey Basic stops at 10, and up to 500 responses per survey.

Pros

• Free account: 500 responses per survey, no credit card, no expiry
• Skip, display and branch logic on the free account
• 50+ survey templates
• Research-grade depth when you upgrade

Cons

• Free account limited to 3 active surveys and 8 question types
• Most paid packages are bought in-product or through sales
• Overkill for a quick customer poll

Academic and market researchFree: 500 responses/surveyPaid: in-product or via sales

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10. Formbricks

An open source survey platform for link surveys and in-product surveys, with conditional logic, full API access and a self-hosting option.

The open source answer for product teams: run link surveys and in-app surveys from one tool, on their cloud or on your own servers.

Pros

• Open source, with self-hosting available
• Link surveys and in-product surveys on the free plan
• All question types and conditional logic free
• Pro includes unlimited team seats

Cons

• Free cloud plan: 250 responses a month and 1 workspace
• No team collaboration on the free plan
• Pro jumps to $74/mo

Product teams who want open sourceFree: 250 responses/moPro: $74/mo

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11. BlockSurvey

A privacy-first AI survey platform: design surveys, run conversational interviews and analyse results, with every response end-to-end encrypted.

Built for surveys where respondents need to trust you, such as healthcare, HR or sensitive research. The encryption is the product, not an add-on.

Pros

• End-to-end encrypted responses
• AI survey creation and conversational interviews
• Positions itself for HIPAA-compliant healthcare use
• Annual billing brings Standard to $39/mo

Cons

• Free plan: 10 responses and 3 active surveys
• Standard is $49/mo on monthly billing for 6,000 responses a year
• Response caps on every paid tier

Sensitive and anonymous surveysFree: 10 responsesStandard: $49/mo

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12. Refiner

An in-product survey tool for SaaS and mobile apps: NPS, CSAT and custom surveys shown in-app, as website popups, by email or on hosted survey pages, with user segmentation and AI response tagging.

If your SurveyMonkey account mostly sends NPS emails to customers, Refiner asks the same questions inside your app, targeted at the right users at the right moment.

Pros

• In-app, website, email and hosted survey pages
• Native iOS, Android, React Native and Flutter SDKs
• NPS, CSAT, rating and open-text questions
• User segmentation and AI response tagging

Cons

• Free plan: 25 survey responses a month
• Priced by monthly active users, so costs follow your user base
• Built for software products, not public surveys

SaaS teams running in-app NPSFree: 25 responses/moPriced by active users

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13. SurveyJS

A set of JavaScript libraries for building your own self-hosted form and survey platform: a free MIT-licensed form renderer, plus a white-label survey creator, dashboard and PDF generator.

Not a SaaS at all: you embed it in your own app and keep every response on your own servers. No per-response fees, ever, because there is no hosted service to bill you.

Pros

• Self-hosted: your data stays in your infrastructure
• Form Library is free under the MIT license
• White-label drag-and-drop Survey Creator for your users
• Licenses bought per developer, with a 90-day money-back guarantee

Cons

• Needs developers to integrate
• Survey Creator, Dashboard and PDF Generator need a paid developer license
• Basic license is $589 per developer, $239 to renew yearly

Developers building surveys into their appFree: MIT Form LibraryFrom $589/developer

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SurveyMonkey Alternatives: Pricing Comparison (2026)

Free plan limits and the entry-level paid plan of each tool, USD, verified September 2026. SurveyMonkey is included as the baseline. Its prices vary by region, so we list its plan structure rather than a number.

Refiner prices by monthly active users rather than by response, and Qualtrics sells most of its research packages in-product or through its sales team, so neither has a single list price to show here.

Feature Comparison

Which SurveyMonkey alternative should you pick?

• You want customer feedback without the admin: Fast Surveys writes the survey for you with AI, summarises the answers, and can put a feedback widget (emoji mood scale, thumbs, 1 to 5 rating or NPS) directly on your website.
• You want to stop paying altogether: Tally and Youform both give you unlimited forms and responses for free. Google Forms is free too if you already have a Google account.
• You run an NPS or satisfaction program: Fast Surveys and Refiner both handle NPS-style questions. To turn raw scores into a number first, use our free NPS calculator.
• You do formal research: Qualtrics is the research heavyweight, and its free account allows 30 questions and 500 responses per survey (SurveyMonkey Basic stops at 10 questions). Zoho Survey is the closer like-for-like replacement.
• You want surveys inside your product: Formbricks (open source) and Refiner are built for in-app surveys.
• Privacy is non-negotiable: BlockSurvey keeps every response end-to-end encrypted, and SurveyJS lets you self-host the whole stack.
• Your surveys are really business forms: Jotform handles orders, registrations and approvals, and MakeForms adds HIPAA (BAA on request), a data region per workspace and unlimited submissions on every plan. Comparing the two? See our Jotform alternatives.
• You like conversational, one-question-at-a-time forms:Typeform made the format popular. If its pricing is the problem, see our Typeform alternatives.

How to switch away from SurveyMonkey

There is no universal import between survey tools, but a switch is quick for most small teams:

1. Save your past results first. Download or screenshot the reports you still need before you downgrade or cancel, since what you can access depends on your plan.
2. Rebuild your key surveys. Copy the questions across, or paste them into an AI builder (Fast Surveys, BlockSurvey) and let it draft the survey for you.
3. Recreate logic and branding. Rebuild any skip logic, then apply your colours and logo on the new tool.
4. Update every link. Replace survey links in emails, websites and printed QR codes, and send a test response through each one.
5. Run both in parallel for a cycle. For recurring surveys (NPS, satisfaction), keep the old one open until the new one has collected a full cycle, so your trend line has no gap.

Our verdict: the best SurveyMonkey alternative

For small teams that mostly need customer feedback, Fast Surveys is our pick: AI builds the survey, AI summarises the answers, feedback widgets live on your own site, and every plan includes unlimited team members. If you want free and unlimited above all, Tally is the best no-cost switch. Researchers should look at Qualtrics or Zoho Survey, and product teams at Formbricks or Refiner. SurveyMonkey itself still makes sense if you need its depth and your organisation already pays for a team plan.

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