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Microsoft Forms pricing
Microsoft Forms publishes 4 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 31 August 2026, Microsoft Forms pricing is free across 4 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
- Included with Microsoft 365, not sold separately
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Microsoft Forms 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free consumer Microsoft account | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Paid consumer Microsoft account | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
| Microsoft 365 work or school licence | On request | 5 | Priced on request |
| Government GCC High and DoD | On request | 3 | 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.
Free consumer Microsoft account
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 200 responses per form, 400 forms per account, including the recycle bin, 200 questions per form, no file upload questions, no collaboration features.
Paid consumer Microsoft account
On requestOver Free consumer Microsoft account, this tier adds:
- Included in the subscription price, not sold separately
- 1,000 responses per form
- 400 forms per account
Microsoft 365 work or school licence
On requestOver Paid consumer Microsoft account, this tier adds:
- 5,000,000 responses per form
- Included in Business Basic, Standard, Premium, Office 365 E1, E3, E5 and Microsoft 365 F3
- Not included in Microsoft 365 F1
- File upload questions and up to 100 co-authors
Government GCC High and DoD
On requestOver Microsoft 365 work or school licence, this tier adds:
- 50,000 responses per form
- No email notification, video insert, Bing image search or phishing protection
Where Microsoft Forms stops being free
Free consumer Microsoft account, Free
- 200 responses per form
- 400 forms per account, including the recycle bin
- 200 questions per form
- No file upload questions
- No collaboration features
No paid tier on record
Microsoft Forms lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Microsoft Forms 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
- Bundled licensing
- Very high response ceiling
- File upload questions
- Co-authoring
- eDiscovery coverage
- Surveys Agent in Copilot
People bring Microsoft Forms in for internal surveys and quizzes inside an organisation that already pays for microsoft 365 and does not want a second vendor contract, education settings where quizzes need automatic grading and results in excel without procurement approval, quick polls inside microsoft teams where the response data should stay in the same tenant as everything else, any case where the deciding factor is that no purchase order is required. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Microsoft Forms 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Forms (this page) | Free | Included with Microsoft 365, not sold separately | - | |
| KoboToolbox | Free, then $21/month | Per month by submission count | - | vs Microsoft Forms |
| QuestionPro | Free | Per user per month | - | vs Microsoft Forms |
| Medallia | On request | quote | - | vs Microsoft Forms |
| Device Magic | On request | quote | - | vs Microsoft Forms |
| SurveyCTO | Free, then $225/month | Per month by submission volume | - | vs Microsoft Forms |
| Qualtrics CoreXM | On request | quote | - | vs Microsoft Forms |
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 Microsoft Forms badges page.
Before you pay for Microsoft Forms
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: 4 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.
Microsoft Forms runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington, United States. The full record is on the Microsoft Forms review, and the rest of the category is under best surveys tools.
Microsoft Forms pricing questions
- How much does Microsoft Forms cost?
- Microsoft Forms publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free consumer Microsoft account up to On request for Government GCC High and DoD. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Microsoft Forms have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free consumer Microsoft account tier costs nothing and covers 200 responses per form, 400 forms per account, including the recycle bin, 200 questions per form.
- What is the difference between Free consumer Microsoft account and Paid consumer Microsoft account on Microsoft Forms?
- Paid consumer Microsoft account costs On request against Free, and adds included in the subscription price, not sold separately, 1,000 responses per form, 400 forms per account.
- Which surveys tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 surveys tools listed alongside Microsoft Forms have a free tier: KoboToolbox, QuestionPro, SurveyCTO, Sogolytics.
- What am I actually paying for with Microsoft Forms?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for internal surveys and quizzes inside an organisation that already pays for microsoft 365 and does not want a second vendor contract, education settings where quizzes need automatic grading and results in excel without procurement approval, quick polls inside microsoft teams where the response data should stay in the same tenant as everything else.
- Does Microsoft Forms charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Microsoft Forms 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 Microsoft Forms against before paying?
- The closest surveys tools in this directory are KoboToolbox, QuestionPro, Medallia, Device Magic. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Microsoft Forms covering price, platforms and features.