How is this surveys ranking decided?

Mechanically. The 20 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.

Is this list re-ordered for remote teams?

No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the remote teams framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Remote teams pay per person and add people unevenly, which makes the billing model the first thing to check here rather than the headline price.

How much does surveys software cost?

Across the 20 surveys tools listed here, paid plans start between $15 and $225 a month, with a median entry price of $29. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $630 a month (SurveyCTO). 13 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.

What is the cheapest surveys software?

4 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Fillout has the lowest published entry price at $15 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, 13 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 4 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. 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.

What features should surveys software have?

Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are analytics (2 of 16 tools that publish plan detail), price not published (2) and priority support (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced analysis tools or custom domains and form redirects, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.

How is surveys software usually billed?

quote (5), freemium (2), Per user per month (2), Free tier, paid for branding and team features (1), plus 10 less common arrangements, counted across the 20 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. 14 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.

What does surveys software actually cover?

The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are surveys (9), forms (5), customer-experience (4), feedback (4), gdpr (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under surveys may overlap on very little.

How many pricing tiers do surveys tools offer?

18 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 3.5 tiers. 10 of 20 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?

20 approved surveys listings appear on this page, including Alchemer, Device Magic, Fillout, Formstack. 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 for Remote Teams in 2026

20 approved surveys listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Remote teams pay per person and add people unevenly, which makes the billing model the first thing to check here rather than the headline price.

Tools ranked: 20
Entry price range: $15-$225
Publish a $0 plan: 13 of 20

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; 20 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 Device Magic
#2
Device Magic
Offline mobile forms for field crews, quote-only with a three user minimum, now under GoCanvas
- 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
2 tiers
Tags
Mobile Forms, offline, field service, inspections
Device Magic breakdown Compare with Fillout
#3
Fillout
Form builder that reads and writes records in Airtable, Notion, HubSpot and Salesforce, with unlimited seats on every plan including the free one
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $15 a month.
- 6 published tiers, topping out at $250 plus a tier sold by quote.
Billing
Per month by response count
Published tiers
6 tiers
Tags
Form Builder, surveys, Airtable, No-Code
Fillout breakdown Compare with Formstack
#4
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
#5
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 Google Forms
#6
Google Forms
Survey tool bundled with Google Workspace that cannot be disabled separately from Drive and Docs
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
Billing
Included with Google Workspace, not sold separately
Published tiers
4 tiers
Tags
surveys, forms, google-workspace, Bundled
Google Forms breakdown Compare with Jotform
#7
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 KoboToolbox
#8
KoboToolbox
Offline-first data collection for humanitarian, development and research field work
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $21 a month.
- 5 published tiers, topping out at $129 plus a tier sold by quote.
Billing
Per month by submission count
Published tiers
5 tiers
Tags
data-collection, Humanitarian, offline, Odk
KoboToolbox breakdown Compare with LimeSurvey
#9
LimeSurvey
Open source survey software you can self-host, with German-hosted cloud as the alternative
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
Billing
Open source, with paid cloud hosting
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
Open Source, Survey Research, Self-Hosted, gdpr
LimeSurvey breakdown Compare with Medallia
#10
Medallia
Enterprise experience management platform for customer, employee and contact centre feedback
- 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
Tags
customer-experience, employee-experience, contact-center, Enterprise
Medallia breakdown Compare with Microsoft Forms
#11
Microsoft Forms
Survey tool bundled into Microsoft 365 with no standalone price, where the real constraints are tenant policy, residency and admin visibility
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
Billing
Included with Microsoft 365, not sold separately
Published tiers
4 tiers
Tags
surveys, forms, microsoft-365, Bundled
Microsoft Forms breakdown Compare with Paperform
#12
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 Qualtrics CoreXM
#13
Qualtrics CoreXM
Enterprise survey and market research platform, priced by seat and response volume through negotiated contracts
- 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
Tags
Survey Software, market-research, customer-feedback, Text Analytics
Qualtrics CoreXM breakdown Compare with QuestionPro
#14
QuestionPro
Survey and experience management platform with a permanently free tier capped at 200 responses
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $83 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $99 plus a tier sold by quote.
Billing
Per user per month
Published tiers
4 tiers
Tags
surveys, customer-experience, market-research, nps
QuestionPro breakdown Compare with Sogolytics
#15
Sogolytics
Value-priced survey and experience management platform, rebranded from SoGoSurvey in 2021
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $39 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $49.
Billing
Per user per month
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
Survey Software, customer-experience, Employee Engagement, feedback
Sogolytics breakdown Compare with SurveyCTO
#16
SurveyCTO
Offline field survey platform priced by submissions rather than seats, built for research data quality
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $225 a month.
- 5 published tiers, topping out at $630 plus a tier sold by quote.
Billing
Per month by submission volume
Published tiers
5 tiers
Tags
Field Research, Offline Data Collection, Odk, Impact Evaluation
SurveyCTO breakdown Compare with SurveyLegend
#17
SurveyLegend
Swedish survey tool hosted only in Frankfurt, where response limits are counted per survey and export is capped below what you can collect
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $15 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $65.
Billing
Per month by responses per survey
Published tiers
4 tiers
Tags
surveys, gdpr, Eu Hosting, Sweden
SurveyLegend breakdown Compare with Tally
#18
Tally
Form builder with unlimited forms and responses on the free plan, edited like a text document
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $29 a month.
Billing
Free tier, paid for branding and team features
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
forms, free-tier, No-Code, gdpr
Tally breakdown Compare with Zoho Survey
#19
Zoho Survey
Survey tool with a choice of data centre region, bundled into the wider Zoho suite
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
Billing
Free tier, then per user per month
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
surveys, Data Residency, zoho-ecosystem, feedback
Zoho Survey breakdown Compare with Zonka Feedback
#20
Zonka Feedback
Multi-channel CX feedback platform with quoted pricing based on response volume and AI data credits
- 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
2 tiers
Tags
customer-experience, surveys, feedback, nps
Zonka Feedback breakdown

What surveys software costs

Counted from the published pricing of the 20 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: $15Fillout
Median entry price: $29across 9 priced
Dearest entry price: $225SurveyCTO
Publish a $0 plan: 13of 20

Paid surveys plans in this set start anywhere from $15 a month for Fillout to $225 for SurveyCTO. The median entry price across the 9 tools that publish one is $29, 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 SurveyCTO's at $630 a month, 2.8× 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.

13 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 4 of those charge nothing at all.

14 of 20 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.

Fillout pricing SurveyCTO pricing SurveyCTO plans

How these vendors bill

The billing model each of the 20 surveys listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.

quote: 5
freemium: 2
Per user per month: 2
Free tier, paid for branding and team features: 1
Free tier, then per user per month: 1
Included with Google Workspace, not sold separately: 1
Included with Microsoft 365, not sold separately: 1
Open source, with paid cloud hosting: 1
Per month by response count: 1
Per month by responses per survey: 1
Per month by submission count: 1
Per month by submission volume: 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, 14 of 20 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.

What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for

Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 16 surveys tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.

Named most often

Analytics , 2 of 16
Price not published , 2 of 16
Priority support , 2 of 16
Removable branding , 2 of 16
Unlimited forms and submissions , 2 of 16

Named by fewer

Nothing else is named by more than one vendor, beyond the list on the left, no two of these tools describe their tiers the same way.

Named by exactly one vendor: Advanced analysis tools, Custom domains and form redirects, Free forever, Multilingual surveys, SAML SSO, Unlimited forms and seats. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.

What “Surveys” covers in practice

The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.

surveys9
forms5
customer-experience4
feedback4
gdpr3
Bundled2
data-collection2
market-research2
No-Code2
nps2
Odk2
offline2

Carried by a single tool: academic, customer-feedback, Employee Engagement, field service, Impact Evaluation, Mobile Forms, Self-Hosted, Text Analytics. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.

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

13 of 20 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 analytics, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.

Read the spread before you read the features

$15 to $225 is a $210 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 $225 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

10 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 3.5 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, analytics, price not published, priority support, 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 14 billing models: quote on 5 listings, freemium on 2, and 12 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 20 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.
Is this list re-ordered for remote teams?: No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the remote teams framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Remote teams pay per person and add people unevenly, which makes the billing model the first thing to check here rather than the headline price.
How much does surveys software cost?: Across the 20 surveys tools listed here, paid plans start between $15 and $225 a month, with a median entry price of $29. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $630 a month (SurveyCTO). 13 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
What is the cheapest surveys software?: 4 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Fillout has the lowest published entry price at $15 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, 13 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 4 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. 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.
What features should surveys software have?: Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are analytics (2 of 16 tools that publish plan detail), price not published (2) and priority support (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced analysis tools or custom domains and form redirects, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
How is surveys software usually billed?: quote (5), freemium (2), Per user per month (2), Free tier, paid for branding and team features (1), plus 10 less common arrangements, counted across the 20 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. 14 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
What does surveys software actually cover?: The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are surveys (9), forms (5), customer-experience (4), feedback (4), gdpr (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under surveys may overlap on very little.
How many pricing tiers do surveys tools offer?: 18 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 3.5 tiers. 10 of 20 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?: 20 approved surveys listings appear on this page, including Alchemer, Device Magic, Fillout, Formstack. 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

Device Magic

Fillout

Formstack

GetFeedback

Google Forms

Jotform

KoboToolbox

LimeSurvey

Medallia

Microsoft Forms

Paperform

Qualtrics CoreXM

QuestionPro

Sogolytics

SurveyCTO

SurveyLegend

Tally

Zoho Survey

Zonka Feedback