Which alternative is right depends entirely on what you were about to spend that upgrade on. Below is each realistic option and the reader it actually suits, including the case for staying put.

Why people look for a Typeform alternative

  • Response allowances that run out mid-month on a plan you already pay for
  • Logic, integrations, or removal of branding sitting a tier above where you started
  • Per-seat pricing when only one person builds the forms
  • Needing to score a form, not just collect it
  • Wanting the form on your own domain and infrastructure
The shortlist

Each option, and who it suits.

01

Questionful

Best for: Forms that have to be scored, branched, or delivered somewhere

Unlimited responses on every paid plan from €19 a month, branching set per individual answer choice, quiz points with automatic scoring and per-answer feedback that can carry a link or a video, and question types most builders do not have: budget allocator, priority matrix, image hotspot, sketch pad, audio answer. Also exports any form as standalone HTML you host yourself. No public API yet, and no payment collection.

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02

Tally

Best for: A simple form, built in five minutes, on a generous free tier

A document-style editor that is genuinely faster than everything else here for a short form, with a free tier most small projects never outgrow. The trade is depth: no real scoring, and the question set is the standard one.

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03

Fillout

Best for: Forms whose value is where the data lands

A modern builder with a long native-integration list, strong database and spreadsheet destinations, and a public API. Scoring is something you assemble from calculated fields rather than a first-class feature.

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04

Jotform

Best for: Payments, e-signatures, and a template for literally everything

The broadest product in the category: payment fields, huge template library, an API, and a widget for most things. The cost of that breadth is that what you need is often a widget, an add-on, or a tier away, and submissions are allocated per plan.

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05

Google Forms

Best for: An internal form that only has to fill a spreadsheet

Free, no response cap, and already in the account of anyone with a Google login. Section jumps instead of per-answer branching, text-only quiz feedback, and nothing that pushes a response anywhere but a sheet.

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06

SurveyMonkey

Best for: Market research at scale, with panels and real analysis

Cross-tabulation, weighting, significance testing, and a respondent panel you can buy a sample from. Priced accordingly, with the useful logic and integrations concentrated in the upper tiers.

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Descriptions reflect our understanding of publicly available plans at the time of writing and are kept deliberately qualitative, because they change. Every product named is a trademark of its owner; Questionful is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

How to choose

Four questions that settle it.

01

Start from the response volume

If the cap is what pushed you, check whether the alternative caps too. Tally and Questionful's paid plans do not; Jotform, Fillout and SurveyMonkey allocate per tier.

02

Ask whether the form makes a decision

A form that scores, grades, or routes needs branching and points as first-class features. A form that collects and forwards does not, and paying for depth you will not use is how you ended up shopping in the first place.

03

Check the one integration you cannot live without

Everything here does webhooks. Native connectors vary enormously, and "we support Zapier" is not the same as a native integration when volume matters.

04

Do not migrate for polish alone

Typeform's presentation is genuinely good. If polish is the only thing you value, an alternative will feel like a downgrade regardless of the price.

FAQ

Typeform alternatives: common questions.

What is the best Typeform alternative?

There is no single answer. Tally for speed and a generous free tier, Fillout for integrations and an API, Jotform for payments and breadth, Google Forms for free internal forms, SurveyMonkey for research at scale, and Questionful for forms that need scoring, per-answer branching, and unusual question types.

Is there a free Typeform alternative?

Several. Google Forms is free with no response cap, Tally's free tier is generous, and Questionful's free plan gives unlimited forms with 100 responses a month and no card.

Can I import my Typeform forms?

Not into Questionful. There is no form importer. Most people rebuild the form once, which takes minutes, or describe it to the AI generator on a paid plan and edit the draft. Check each alternative individually; importers are rare across the category.

When should I stay on Typeform?

If you build on its public API, depend on its integration directory, or your forms are marketing assets where presentation is the product. Those are real advantages and worth paying for.

Try the one that scores and branches.

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