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QuestionPro vs Umami

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QuestionPro

Surveys

Survey and experience management platform with a permanently free tier capped at 200 responses

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
Full reviewWebsite
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Umami

Marketing

Open source, cookie-free web analytics you can self-host for the cost of a database

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: QuestionPro team Edition has a five-seat minimum, so a small team that only needs two or three licences still pays for five.; Umami there is no cohort analysis, retention curve, session replay or multi-touch attribution, so a marketing team that needs to justify channel spend will still buy a second tool and Umami becomes a supplementary dashboard.
  • They diverge on capability: QuestionPro covers Survey builder, Umami covers Cookie-free tracking.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which QuestionPro and Umami actually diverge.

Attributes where QuestionPro and Umami differ
AttributeQuestionProUmami
Pricing modelPer user per monthPer month by event count
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, Linux
CategorySurveysMarketing

Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in QuestionPro

  • Survey builder
  • QuestionPro CX
  • QuestionPro Workforce
  • Research Suite
  • Offline data collection
  • White label reporting

Only in Umami

  • Cookie-free tracking
  • Self-hosting
  • Small tracking script
  • Custom events
  • Funnels and goals
  • Multi-site and teams
  • Public dashboards
  • API access

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

QuestionPro

  • A researcher or student who needs unlimited surveys but stays under 200 responses and wants to pay nothingnot Umami
  • A single analyst who needs advanced logic and unlimited responses and can justify one Advanced seatnot Umami
  • A CX team that wants closed-loop case management bundled with survey distributionnot Umami
  • A market research agency needing MaxDiff and conjoint analysis that SurveyMonkey does not offernot Umami

Umami

  • A developer who wants traffic numbers on a personal or client site without adding a consent bannernot QuestionPro
  • An organisation whose legal or procurement team has ruled out sending visitor data to a US advertising companynot QuestionPro
  • A high-traffic site where hosted analytics priced by pageview band has become expensive and self-hosting removes the ceiling entirelynot QuestionPro
  • A team that wants analytics data in a database they already control so they can query and join it themselvesnot QuestionPro

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

QuestionPro

  • Team Edition has a five-seat minimum, so a small team that only needs two or three licences still pays for five.
  • CX, Workforce and Research Suite are effectively separate products with their own pricing and onboarding, not tiers of the same subscription, which complicates a multi-department rollout.
  • The free Essentials plan caps at 200 responses per survey, which a single moderately popular customer survey can exceed in days.
  • The interface is denser than Typeform or SurveyMonkey, and teams that want a fast, visually simple survey builder often find QuestionPro slower to set up.
  • Enterprise CX and Research Suite pricing is never published, so budgeting for a programme rollout requires a sales conversation before any commitment is possible.

Umami

  • There is no cohort analysis, retention curve, session replay or multi-touch attribution, so a marketing team that needs to justify channel spend will still buy a second tool and Umami becomes a supplementary dashboard.
  • Self-hosting is only free in licence terms; you own the database, the upgrades, the backups and the query performance at scale, and a busy site's events table grows quickly enough to need real attention.
  • Because it stores no persistent identifier, it cannot follow a user across devices or sessions in any meaningful way, which makes returning-visitor and lifetime-value questions unanswerable by design rather than by omission.
  • Cloud overage is billed per event beyond the plan allowance, so a traffic spike or a badly instrumented custom event can produce a bill materially above the $20 or $200 headline before anyone notices.
  • It is maintained by a small team, so the pace of new capability is modest and enterprise expectations such as SSO, granular role permissions and formal support agreements are limited compared with commercial analytics vendors.

Pricing, plan by plan

QuestionPro

Free
  • EssentialsFree
    • 1 user
    • 200 responses per survey
    • Unlimited surveys and questions
  • Advanced$99/month
    • 1 user
    • Unlimited responses
    • Advanced logic and reporting
  • Team Edition$83/month
    • Minimum 5 users, billed per seat
    • Collaboration and role permissions
    • Advanced analysis tools
  • CX, Workforce, Research Suite$undefined/year
    • Sold as separate products with separate quotes
    • Volume and module dependent

Umami

Free
  • Self-hostedFree
    • MIT licensed, no licence fee
    • No event limit imposed by the software
    • Unlimited websites and users
  • Cloud HobbyFree
    • Up to 100,000 events per month
    • 3 websites
    • 6 months data retention
  • Cloud Pro$20/month
    • Up to 1,000,000 events per month
    • Unlimited websites
    • Unlimited team members
  • Cloud Business$200/month
    • Up to 10,000,000 events per month
    • All Pro features
    • Higher volume overage rate

Which should you pick?

Choose QuestionPro if

  • You need survey builder.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want questionpro cx.
QuestionPro review

Choose Umami if

  • You need cookie-free tracking.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Web, Linux.
  • You also want self-hosting.
Umami review

Questions people ask

Is QuestionPro or Umami better?
Neither clearly leads. QuestionPro starts at Free and Umami at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, QuestionPro or Umami?
QuestionPro starts at Free and Umami at Free.
Does QuestionPro or Umami run on more platforms?
QuestionPro runs on Web, iOS, Android. Umami runs on Web, Linux.
Can I use QuestionPro for free?
Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is QuestionPro best used for?
QuestionPro is most often used for a researcher or student who needs unlimited surveys but stays under 200 responses and wants to pay nothing, a single analyst who needs advanced logic and unlimited responses and can justify one advanced seat, a cx team that wants closed-loop case management bundled with survey distribution, a market research agency needing maxdiff and conjoint analysis that surveymonkey does not offer. Of those, a researcher or student who needs unlimited surveys but stays under 200 responses and wants to pay nothing and a single analyst who needs advanced logic and unlimited responses and can justify one advanced seat are not what Umami is typically brought in for.
What can QuestionPro do that Umami cannot?
QuestionPro covers Survey builder, QuestionPro CX, QuestionPro Workforce, Research Suite. Umami covers Cookie-free tracking, Self-hosting, Small tracking script, Custom events.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

QuestionPro: Is the free plan actually usable long-term?

Yes. Essentials has no time limit, but it caps at 200 responses per survey and one user, which rules it out for anything with meaningful reach.

Umami: Is Umami really free?

Self-hosted, yes; it is MIT licensed with no event cap. You pay for the server and database. Umami Cloud has a free tier at 100,000 events a month and paid tiers from $20.

QuestionPro: Is QuestionPro CX the same product as the survey builder?

No. CX is a separate product built for closed-loop customer experience programmes, priced and sold on its own.

Umami: Do I need a cookie consent banner?

For Umami analytics specifically, generally no, because it sets no cookies and stores no personal data. Other tags on your site may still require one.

QuestionPro: Does Team Edition have a minimum seat count?

Yes, five seats at roughly $83 per user per month billed annually, so the minimum monthly spend is around $415.

Umami: Can it replace Google Analytics?

For traffic, referrers and event counts, yes. For attribution modelling, audiences and advertising integration, no.

Umami: What does it need to run?

A container and a PostgreSQL or MySQL database. Most people deploy it on infrastructure they already pay for.

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