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LimeSurvey pricing
LimeSurvey publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, LimeSurvey pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, with paid cloud hosting
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
LimeSurvey plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Edition (self-hosted) | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| LimeSurvey Cloud | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Community Edition (self-hosted)
FreeThe entry tier. It covers free under the gnu general public licence, no response limits imposed by the vendor, hosting, patching, backups and upgrades are your responsibility, community forum support only.
LimeSurvey Cloud
On requestOver Community Edition (self-hosted), this tier adds:
- Hosted on servers in Germany
- Tiered on responses and storage per period rather than per user
- Higher tiers add branding removal, more storage and support
- Response allowance is the limit that usually forces an upgrade
Where LimeSurvey stops being free
Community Edition (self-hosted), Free
- Free under the GNU General Public Licence
- No response limits imposed by the vendor
- Hosting, patching, backups and upgrades are your responsibility
- Community forum support only
No paid tier on record
LimeSurvey lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full LimeSurvey feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Self-hosted deployment
- Question type depth
- Expression manager
- Quotas and screening
- Multilingual surveys
- Participant management
People bring LimeSurvey in for a university study whose ethics approval requires participant data to stay on institutional servers, a public body procuring survey software under european data protection rules, a market research agency running multilingual instruments with quotas and screening logic, a team that needs complex matrix and ranking questions consumer form builders do not support. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to LimeSurvey are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Surveys
Too few surveys tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LimeSurvey (this page) | Free | Open source, with paid cloud hosting | - | |
| KoboToolbox | Free, then $21/month | Per month by submission count | - | vs LimeSurvey |
| QuestionPro | Free | Per user per month | - | vs LimeSurvey |
| Medallia | On request | quote | - | vs LimeSurvey |
| Device Magic | On request | quote | - | vs LimeSurvey |
| SurveyCTO | Free, then $225/month | Per month by submission volume | - | vs LimeSurvey |
| Qualtrics CoreXM | On request | quote | - | vs LimeSurvey |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the LimeSurvey badges page.
Before you pay for LimeSurvey
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
LimeSurvey runs on web, self-hosted, and is published by LimeSurvey GmbH of Hamburg, Germany. The full record is on the LimeSurvey review, and the rest of the category is under best surveys tools.
LimeSurvey pricing questions
- How much does LimeSurvey cost?
- LimeSurvey publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community Edition (self-hosted) up to On request for LimeSurvey Cloud. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does LimeSurvey have a free plan?
- Yes. The Community Edition (self-hosted) tier costs nothing and covers free under the gnu general public licence, no response limits imposed by the vendor, hosting, patching, backups and upgrades are your responsibility.
- What is the difference between Community Edition (self-hosted) and LimeSurvey Cloud on LimeSurvey?
- LimeSurvey Cloud costs On request against Free, and adds hosted on servers in germany, tiered on responses and storage per period rather than per user, higher tiers add branding removal, more storage and support, response allowance is the limit that usually forces an upgrade.
- Which surveys tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 surveys tools listed alongside LimeSurvey have a free tier: KoboToolbox, QuestionPro, SurveyCTO, Sogolytics.
- What am I actually paying for with LimeSurvey?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a university study whose ethics approval requires participant data to stay on institutional servers, a public body procuring survey software under european data protection rules, a market research agency running multilingual instruments with quotas and screening logic.
- Does LimeSurvey charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these LimeSurvey prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare LimeSurvey against before paying?
- The closest surveys tools in this directory are KoboToolbox, QuestionPro, Medallia, Device Magic. Each has a side-by-side comparison with LimeSurvey covering price, platforms and features.