The Free SurveyMonkey Alternative That Does Surveys + Forms in One Tool

SurveyMonkey offers a free "Basic" plan, but it is severely capped: 10 questions per survey, 25 responses per survey, only 4 question types (multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, text box), no skip logic, no custom branding, and no exports. Overage on the response cap is billed per response. For any real use case, the free plan runs out within days. FormNX, by comparison, offers a free plan with unlimited forms, unlimited responses, skip logic, calculations, file uploads and a built-in e-signature field.

SurveyMonkey has six plan tiers, set up as a ladder of upgrades. On the individual line: Standard Monthly (monthly-only, the most limited paid plan: no payments, no custom branding), Advantage Annual (annual-only, mid-tier: payments and most analytics start here), Premier Annual (annual-only, top individual tier: the only one with white-label, advanced branching, multilingual, and Crosstabs). On the team line: Team Advantage and Team Premier both require a 3-user minimum and annual-only billing, repeating the same Premier-only gating on the team side. Enterprise is custom-priced with sales-only sign-up. SurveyMonkey IP-geolocalizes pricing, so absolute figures shift by region and over time. Check the SurveyMonkey pricing page for current numbers. FormNX Pro is $19 a month, or $190 billed yearly, with unlimited responses, branding removal and multilingual forms, two features SurveyMonkey keeps for Premier. For current US prices, response limits and every fee, see our SurveyMonkey pricing guide.

The five free SurveyMonkey alternatives worth shortlisting are FormNX, Google Forms, Tally, Microsoft Forms and Jotform. Only three of them are fully uncapped: FormNX, Google Forms and Tally all give unlimited forms and unlimited responses for free, while Microsoft Forms caps a free personal Microsoft account at 200 responses per form and Jotform's free plan allows 5 forms and 100 submissions a month. FormNX is the strongest pick if you need surveys and forms in one tool: its free plan adds file uploads, an e-signature field, spam protection, conditional logic and 1,000+ templates on top of unlimited responses. Google Forms is the simplest if you only need a quick internal survey, and Tally suits people who prefer a writing-style builder. All five go beyond SurveyMonkey's 25-responses-per-survey free cap.

Yes. SurveyMonkey has a free plan called Basic, but it is capped at 10 questions and 25 responses per survey, with only 4 question types (multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, text box), no skip logic, no custom branding and no exports. Overage on the response cap is billed per response. It is best treated as a trial rather than a plan you can run on. If you need a free survey tool with no response limit, FormNX, Google Forms and Tally all give unlimited responses at no cost, and FormNX adds file uploads, an e-signature field and spam protection to its free plan.

Yes, several, and three of them are completely uncapped. FormNX, Google Forms and Tally all give you unlimited surveys and unlimited responses on a permanently free plan, so none of them repeat SurveyMonkey's 25-responses-per-survey limit. Microsoft Forms is free with a personal Microsoft account but stops at 200 responses per form, and Jotform's free plan allows 5 forms and 100 submissions a month. If you want the free plan to handle more than survey answers, such as file uploads, a signed document or spam-filtered lead capture, FormNX is the one of the three built for that, since it is a form builder as well as a survey tool.

They are built for different jobs. SurveyMonkey is the stronger survey and market-research platform. No form builder matches the depth of its Crosstabs, weighted averages, significance testing and sentiment analysis. Jotform is the stronger form builder, with a very large template and widget library, payment fields and approval workflows. On free plans both are tight: SurveyMonkey allows 25 responses per survey, Jotform allows 5 forms and 100 submissions a month. On paid plans Jotform is usually the cheaper of the two, though it stays single-user until Enterprise, while SurveyMonkey's team plans carry a 3-user minimum on annual-only billing. If you need surveys and forms from one tool without either cap, FormNX covers both. See our full Jotform alternative comparison.

Yes: Microsoft Forms, which is included with Microsoft 365 and free with any personal Microsoft account (Outlook, Hotmail or Live). It handles surveys, quizzes and polls and exports straight to Excel, so for internal feedback inside a Microsoft shop it is a reasonable SurveyMonkey substitute. The limits are lower, though: a free personal account is capped at 200 responses per form and a paid personal subscription at 1,000, and the very high ceilings people quote apply only to Education, Microsoft 365 Apps for business and US GCC accounts. It is also built for colleagues rather than customers, so branding, payments and e-signatures are not part of the picture. See our Microsoft Forms alternative comparison for the full breakdown.

For most teams the best free survey tool or platform is the one that does not meter your responses. FormNX, Google Forms and Tally all allow unlimited surveys and unlimited responses on their free plans, where SurveyMonkey stops at 25 responses per survey, Microsoft Forms at 200 per form on a free personal account, and Jotform at 100 submissions a month. Choose Google Forms for the fastest simple survey inside Google Workspace, Tally for a clean writing-style builder, and FormNX when the same tool also has to collect files, signatures and real form submissions as well as survey answers.

SurveyMonkey's pricing reflects its premium positioning as a market-research platform, with analytics features like Crosstabs, weighted averages, multi-survey analysis, sentiment analysis, and statistical significance. The tier structure adds to the cost. Many features that competitors offer at far lower price points (native payments, branding removal, multilingual surveys, advanced branching) are tier-gated on SurveyMonkey to Advantage or Premier tiers. Teams who don't specifically need advanced statistical analysis usually find a dedicated form builder gives them the same survey basics plus payments, e-signatures, and PDF generation at a fraction of the price.

Only on the Premier individual plan and higher (Team Premier on the team line, Enterprise above that). On the Standard Monthly and Advantage Annual plans, the "Powered by SurveyMonkey" footer is still displayed on every survey. White-label, advanced branching, block randomization, multilingual surveys, and Crosstabs are all gated to the Premier tier, so teams who need branded surveys have to jump straight to the top individual tier (or its team-line equivalent with the 3-user minimum). FormNX removes its branding on the entry Pro plan, $19 a month, a fraction of what SurveyMonkey's Premier tier costs.

Yes, via a native "Accept Payments" survey option using Stripe and PayPal, but only on the Advantage Annual plan and above. The cheapest paid plan (Standard Monthly) does not include payments. So a small team that wants monthly billing and payment collection ends up paying for Standard Monthly and bolting on a separate payment tool, or committing to annual billing on Advantage. FormNX takes Stripe payments on the free plan and adds PayPal, Razorpay and Square on Pro, with Stripe and PayPal able to run on the same form.

Not on the main SurveyMonkey survey product. The "Signature" question articles in SurveyMonkey's help center are scoped to SurveyMonkey Apply (their separate grant/scholarship workflow product) and Wufoo (their separate form product). For the main SurveyMonkey survey product, the workaround is the DocuSign field integration, which routes signing through DocuSign externally, which means a separate DocuSign subscription on top of the SurveyMonkey plan. FormNX includes a native e-signature field as a first-class input on every plan, including the free plan, with signatures auto-embedded into any PDF generated from the response.

No. SurveyMonkey's PDF output is limited to: Results Summary PDF, All Individual Responses PDF, and single-response export PDFs. None of these are a drag-and-drop PDF builder for designing branded per-response documents (invoices, contracts, certificates, quotes auto-populated from form fields). For branded automated PDFs from each survey response, SurveyMonkey users typically stitch on third-party tools like Docmosis or Zenphi. FormNX includes a drag-and-drop PDF builder with 100+ ready-to-use templates and dynamic field mapping on every paid plan.

Yes, but only on the Premier individual plan and Team Premier or higher. And the translation workflow is manual: survey creator downloads a CSV or PO file, translates each string by hand, and re-uploads. Only Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian render in right-to-left; other RTL languages are not supported. Adding or deleting a question invalidates the translation file. FormNX includes a multilingual language switcher on every plan, including free, with 90+ supported locales.

There is no fully automated importer yet. But our team will rebuild your existing SurveyMonkey surveys (or forms) for free when you sign up for a paid plan, typically within 24 hours. Send us a screenshot or the SurveyMonkey URL and we handle the rest. Response data exports cleanly from SurveyMonkey via CSV/XLS, so you can keep your historical responses.

For everyday survey reporting, yes. FormNX Pro includes a Response Report with visual pie charts for dropdown, radio, rating, and checkbox fields, CSV/Excel exports, and per-submission analysis. What FormNX does not have: Crosstabs, weighted averages, statistical significance testing, multi-survey comparative analysis, sentiment analysis, or thematic AI analysis. If those are core to your workflow, SurveyMonkey's research-grade analytics suite is the right pick. For most teams running NPS, customer feedback, employee surveys, or simple market research, FormNX's analytics are enough, and you save money while getting the form-builder features SurveyMonkey lacks.

Google Forms is free and unlimited but basic: limited design control, no native payments, no branded per-response PDFs, and shallow logic. SurveyMonkey goes much deeper for market research (Crosstabs, weighted analysis, sentiment) but caps its free plan at 25 responses per survey and tier-gates payments, branding removal, and multilingual surveys. For most teams FormNX sits between the two. It gives unlimited responses on its free plan like Google Forms, plus the survey features, native payments, e-signatures, and branded PDFs that Google Forms lacks. SurveyMonkey keeps payments for its Advantage tier and has no e-signature field or branded PDF builder in its main product.

FormNX is a cheaper SurveyMonkey alternative at every comparable tier. Its free plan gives unlimited responses where SurveyMonkey caps at 25 per survey, and its entry Pro plan, $19 a month or $190 billed yearly, costs less than SurveyMonkey's cheapest paid tier while already including native payments, e-signatures, branding removal, and multilingual surveys. SurveyMonkey keeps payments for its Advantage tier, keeps branding removal and multilingual surveys for Premier, and has no e-signature field in its main product. There are also no 3-user team minimums, so a one- or two-person team never pays for a seat nobody uses.

No. SurveyMonkey has no Products field and no product catalog. Its payment feature is a single Stripe or PayPal charge per survey (a fixed price, a price tied to one question's answers, or an amount the respondent picks from a range), with no product cards, variants, quantities, cart total, tax, shipping or coupons. The FormNX Products field puts a real catalog inside the form: photos, descriptions, options like Size and Color with a price for every combination, a live cart total, tax added on top or already included, shipping with a free-shipping threshold, and discount codes with usage limits and expiry dates. See the order form builder. Available on all FormNX Pro plans.

The SurveyMonkey competitors people compare most, and the tools most similar to SurveyMonkey, are FormNX, Google Forms, Typeform, Jotform, Qualtrics and Microsoft Forms. Qualtrics competes on research depth at an enterprise price. Google Forms and Microsoft Forms cover simple free surveys. Typeform and Jotform are form builders. Most people comparing Survey Monkey alternatives want to get past the 25-response free cap. Of these competitors to Survey Monkey, FormNX is the one that puts surveys and forms in one tool, with unlimited responses on the free plan and Pro at $19 a month.

For deep research analysis such as Crosstabs and significance testing, SurveyMonkey is hard to beat. For most other jobs, FormNX is the better fit among the alternatives to Survey Monkey: unlimited responses on the free plan instead of 25 per survey, conditional logic, file uploads, e-signatures and multilingual forms free, and payments without the Advantage tier. Pro is $19 a month with 5 team members in your workspace, and no 3-user minimum.