SurveyMonkey alternatives
The short answer: If SurveyMonkey's free plan is too tight, Tally and Google Forms let you run full surveys without paying. Enform fits when the answers are mostly written and you need them read and counted. Jotform and SurveySparrow cover bigger feature sets. If you need SurveyMonkey's paid respondent panel, there's no like-for-like swap here.
SurveyMonkey is a mature platform with a 1,800+ question bank, benchmarks and a paid respondent panel. Its free Basic plan allows unlimited surveys but up to 10 questions each, and the AI that groups written answers starts on the Advantage plan.
The options
Ordered by fit for people leaving SurveyMonkey over cost or free-plan limits: a free plan you can run a real survey on, then help reading answers, then bigger platforms.
Checked on against each tool's own pricing and help pages, linked under each tool. Enform is our product.
- TallyUnlimited forms and submissions on the free plan under fair use, with conditional logic.Open-ended replies: Its MCP server lets an outside AI assistant read responses, free on all plans.Watch out for: No question bank or benchmarks.Sources: Tally pricing, Tally fair use, Tally MCP server
- Google FormsIncluded with a Google account, with answers in Google Sheets. Good for straightforward surveys.Open-ended replies: Gemini summaries of written answers need an eligible paid Workspace or Google AI plan.Watch out for: Plain design, and branching only from multiple-choice and dropdown questions.Sources: Google Forms, Gemini in Google Forms
- EnformDescribe what you want to ask and Enform writes the survey. It reads the replies, counts what people said and drafts slides for the team.Open-ended replies: This is the main job. Enform reads the replies and counts what people said, and every count opens the replies behind it. How many replies it reads depends on your plan.Watch out for: No payments inside forms, no HIPAA option and no paid panel of respondents, so you bring your own people. Fewer integrations than Typeform or Jotform. The AI writes the first draft of your questions, so read the wording before you share the link. No benchmarks or question bank.Sources: Enform plans
- Jotform20,000+ templates, payments and a free AI form generator. Free Starter allows 5 forms and 100 submissions a month.Open-ended replies: An AI Data Assistant summarizes submissions; Jotform's pages don't say which plans include it.Watch out for: Bronze is $39/month billed monthly.Sources: Jotform pricing
- SurveySparrowSends surveys over email, SMS, WhatsApp and more. Basic is $19/month billed yearly or $39 billed quarterly.Open-ended replies: Its CX suite for NPS and CSAT programs is on the Enterprise plan.Watch out for: The free plan's limits are stated inconsistently on its pricing page, so check before you rely on them.Sources: SurveySparrow pricing
FAQ
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