How is this surveys ranking decided?

Mechanically. The 9 approved surveys listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.

How much does surveys software cost?

Across the 9 surveys tools listed here, paid plans start between $10 and $59 a month, with a median entry price of $24. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $259 a month (Gravity Forms). 4 of 9 also publish a $0 plan.

What is the cheapest surveys software?

Among the ones that charge, Retool has the lowest published entry price at $10 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.

Is there free surveys software?

Yes, 4 of 9 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. Each of those also sells paid tiers above the free plan. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.

How is surveys software usually billed?

freemium (3), subscription (3), quote (1), Tiered annual subscription published on the vendor site (1), plus 1 less common arrangements, counted across the 9 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 3 of 9 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.

How many pricing tiers do surveys tools offer?

6 of 9 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 4 tiers. 5 of 9 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.

How many surveys tools are listed on Softwr?

9 approved surveys listings appear on this page, including Alchemer, Cognito Forms, Formstack, GetFeedback. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/surveys, which ranks the same set by published rating.

Surveys · ranked shortlist

Best Surveys software in 2026

9 approved surveys listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed.

Tools ranked: 9
Entry price range: $10-$59
Publish a $0 plan: 4 of 9

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.

Where the ratings come from

No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.

What the pool is

Approved surveys listings, capped at 20 per page; 9 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the surveys category page.

The ranking

Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.

#1
Alchemer
Highest rated here
Survey and feedback platform for research teams
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
Tiered annual subscription published on the vendor site
Tags
surveys, research, feedback, forms
Alchemer breakdown Compare with Cognito Forms
#2
Cognito Forms
Powerful forms made easy
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $24 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $174.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
4 tiers
Cognito Forms breakdown Compare with Formstack
#3
Formstack
Form builder with document generation and e-signature
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
Tiered monthly subscription published on the vendor site; HIPAA-capable plans priced separately
Tags
forms, surveys, Document Generation, e-signature
Formstack breakdown Compare with GetFeedback
#4
GetFeedback
Customer and employee feedback platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
Billing
quote
Published tiers
1 tier
GetFeedback breakdown Compare with Gravity Forms
#5
Gravity Forms
The most trusted WordPress forms plugin
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $59 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $259.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
3 tiers
Gravity Forms breakdown Compare with Jotform
#6
Jotform
Powerful forms get more done
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $39 a month.
- 5 published tiers, topping out at $129 plus a tier sold by quote.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
5 tiers
Jotform breakdown Compare with Paperform
#7
Paperform
Forms that feel like you
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $24 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $99.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
4 tiers
Paperform breakdown Compare with Retool
#8
Retool
The rapid internal tool platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $10 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $50 plus a tier sold by quote.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
4 tiers
Tags
integration, low-code, internal-tools, API
Retool breakdown Compare with Wufoo
#9
Wufoo
Build online forms in minutes
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
freemium
Wufoo breakdown

What surveys software costs

Counted from the published pricing of the 9 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.

Cheapest paid plan: $10Retool
Median entry price: $24across 5 priced
Dearest entry price: $59Gravity Forms
Publish a $0 plan: 4of 9

Paid surveys plans in this set start anywhere from $10 a month for Retool to $59 for Gravity Forms. The median entry price across the 5 tools that publish one is $24, half of them start below that figure and half above it.

Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Gravity Forms's at $259 a month, 4.4× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.

4 of 9 publish a $0 plan, and every one of those also sells a paid tier above it. 1 tool has no free tier of any kind.

3 of 9 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.

Retool pricing Gravity Forms pricing Gravity Forms plans

How these vendors bill

The billing model each of the 9 surveys listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.

freemium: 3
subscription: 3
quote: 1
Tiered annual subscription published on the vendor site: 1
Tiered monthly subscription published on the vendor site; HIPAA-capable plans priced separately: 1

Separately, 3 of 9 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.

How to choose between them

Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.

Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them

4 of 9 surveys tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with hipaa compliance, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.

Read the spread before you read the features

$10 to $59 is a $49 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $59 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.

Check which tier you actually land on

5 of 9 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 4 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, hipaa compliance, removable branding, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.

The billing model matters more than the headline number

This category splits across 5 billing models: freemium on 3 listings, subscription on 3, and 3 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.

Compare surveys tools directly

Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.

Go straight to the numbers

Build your own comparison See the shortlist instead

Questions people ask about surveys software

Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.

How is this surveys ranking decided?: Mechanically. The 9 approved surveys listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
How much does surveys software cost?: Across the 9 surveys tools listed here, paid plans start between $10 and $59 a month, with a median entry price of $24. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $259 a month (Gravity Forms). 4 of 9 also publish a $0 plan.
What is the cheapest surveys software?: Among the ones that charge, Retool has the lowest published entry price at $10 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
Is there free surveys software?: Yes, 4 of 9 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. Each of those also sells paid tiers above the free plan. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
How is surveys software usually billed?: freemium (3), subscription (3), quote (1), Tiered annual subscription published on the vendor site (1), plus 1 less common arrangements, counted across the 9 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 3 of 9 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
How many pricing tiers do surveys tools offer?: 6 of 9 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 4 tiers. 5 of 9 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
How many surveys tools are listed on Softwr?: 9 approved surveys listings appear on this page, including Alchemer, Cognito Forms, Formstack, GetFeedback. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/surveys, which ranks the same set by published rating.

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Neighbouring categories

Adjacent in the same taxonomy, not a ranking.

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Where the ratings come from

What the pool is

The ranking

Alchemer

Cognito Forms

Formstack

GetFeedback

Gravity Forms

Jotform

Paperform

Retool

Wufoo