SurveyMonkey Pricing 2026: Plans, Real Costs & a Cheaper Alternative

SurveyMonkey Basic Plan (Free): What You Actually Get

The SurveyMonkey Basic plan is free forever and needs no credit card. You get 1 user, unlimited surveys, 10 questions per survey, and a limited number of responses you can read on each survey. That response limit is what stops most people first - and SurveyMonkey no longer tells you what it is until you sign up.

You get: basic question types, AI survey building, sharing by link or social media, embedding on your site, and live results.

You do not get: skip logic, custom design, email invites or data exports. All four start on paid plans.

How many free responses do you actually get? SurveyMonkey used to say 25 per survey. It no longer publishes the number. Its pricing page now says only "Limited responses per survey" and asks you to sign up to see your limit. Its help pages are just as vague: you can view "a set number of responses per survey according to your plan." Most guides still quote 25, so plan for roughly that - then check your own account.

One more thing to know: if you cancel a paid plan later and drop back to Basic, any responses above the free limit that are older than 365 days get deleted.

Compared to FormNX: the FormNX free plan has no response limit at all. Collect 25, 2,500 or 25,000 responses and you can read every one, without paying. You also keep conditional logic, NPS and live analytics for free - three things SurveyMonkey charges for. See the full comparison.

SurveyMonkey Standard Monthly Plan

Standard Monthly is the only SurveyMonkey plan you can pay for month by month. It costs $99/mo and gives you 1 user, unlimited surveys, unlimited questions and 1,000 responses per month. You also unlock what the free plan holds back: more question types, custom design, skip logic, email invites and data exports.

Here is the catch. The annual Advantage plan costs $46/mo for a similar set of features. So not committing to a full year more than doubles your monthly bill.

SurveyMonkey itself says Basic or Standard Monthly is the right pick if you only plan to send one survey. That is fair advice. But if you collect responses every month, you are paying a large premium just to stay flexible.

Compared to FormNX: FormNX is $15/mo month to month - the same freedom to cancel any time, for less than a sixth of SurveyMonkey's $99. And FormNX does not cap your responses at 1,000 a month, or any other number.

SurveyMonkey Advantage & Premier Plans (Annual)

These are SurveyMonkey's two annual plans for one person. Advantage is the cheapest way in at $46/mo billed annually ($552 a year) and includes 15,000 responses per year. Premier costs $139/mo billed annually ($1,668 a year) and includes 40,000 responses per year. Both give you unlimited surveys and unlimited questions.

Advantage adds premium themes, more logic options, payment collection, statistical significance testing and AI-assisted analysis.

Premier adds white-label branding, redirects after someone finishes a survey, advanced logic, question randomising, multilingual surveys and phone support.

Watch the yearly counter. Your responses are counted per year, not per month, so one survey that does better than expected can eat months of your quota at once. Go over it and you pay for each extra response. Both plans are also one seat only - the moment a colleague needs access, you move to a team plan and its 3-person minimum.

Compared to FormNX: FormNX costs $12/mo billed annually - $144 a year. That is $408 a year less than Advantage, SurveyMonkey's cheapest annual plan, and you get unlimited responses instead of 15,000, plus 5 team members instead of one.

SurveyMonkey Team Plans & Enterprise Pricing

SurveyMonkey team plans charge per person and require at least 3 people. Team Advantage is $30 per user per month billed annually and shares 50,000 responses a year. Team Premier is $92 per user per month billed annually and shares 100,000 responses a year. Enterprise is quote-only and removes the response limits.

The 3-person minimum catches small teams out. If two of you need access, you still pay for three. At Team Advantage rates that is $1,080 a year before you collect a single response. What you do get for it is real: one bill, user roles and permissions, and shared surveys across the account.

Enterprise has no public price. It adds SSO, tighter security and governance controls, HIPAA-enabled features, a dedicated success manager and unlimited responses, and is aimed at teams of 5 or more. SurveyMonkey also sells a separate FLEX plan for teams that mostly need analysis tools and higher response volumes. It is quoted separately from the plans above.

Compared to FormNX: FormNX has no seat minimum and no per-user fee. Every plan includes up to 5 team members in a workspace, starting at $12/mo billed annually - $144 a year against SurveyMonkey's $1,080 floor. Need more people? You add workspaces, not per-seat charges or response top-ups.

SurveyMonkey Nonprofit & Education Pricing

SurveyMonkey does offer lower prices to some nonprofits, charities, students and educators - but it does not publish the discount. Its Discounts page tells you to log in, open Plans and Pricing, and scroll down to see what you qualify for.

Two rules catch people out. First, the discount only applies when you upgrade from a free plan - you cannot add it to a subscription you already pay for. Second, the student and educator rate is limited by country. SurveyMonkey names the US and UK; everywhere else is told to get in touch.

FormNX nonprofit pricing: registered nonprofits get 50% off every FormNX plan. That takes the entry plan to about $6/mo billed annually - and it already includes unlimited surveys, unlimited responses and up to 5 team members, so there is no response limit to work around on top of the discount. To claim it, contact FormNX support with your organization's details and the team will apply it to your account.

SurveyMonkey Audience Pricing

SurveyMonkey Audience is a separate product you buy on top of your plan. It finds you survey respondents from SurveyMonkey's global panel, and those Audience responses are sold separately from the responses included in your plan. So an Audience project always costs extra, whatever you already pay.

You get a quote per project. The price depends on how many completed responses you need and how specific your audience is - narrowing by country, age, gender, income or job status shrinks the pool and pushes the price per response up. Survey design and analysis features are included in the project price, and each project allows up to 50 questions.

This is the line item people miss when they compare SurveyMonkey to cheaper tools. If you need people to answer your survey, you are buying a panel - and no form builder, FormNX included, sells that. But if you already have customers, members or a mailing list to survey, you are paying for something you will never use.