SurveyMonkey

Overview

SurveyMonkey is for research, not for forms. That decides whether it is overpriced: for a lead-capture form it is the wrong tool and Tally or Fillout will do it for a fraction, but for an employee engagement survey, a customer satisfaction program, or market research with thousands of responses, the analysis layer is the product. The September 2026 "Today's SurveyMonkey" release added a conversational AI builder that writes the survey from a description and an HRIS integration with Workday and BambooHR, on top of the Claude connector (May 2026), the ChatGPT plugin (August 2026), and the Analyze with AI and thematic analysis features on the team plans that turn open-text answers into themes without a research assistant. Pricing is published and has a shape: individual plans are cheap on annual billing (Advantage at $39 a month, billed as $468 a year) and expensive month-to-month (Standard at $149), responses are capped per plan with $0.15 for each extra one, and team plans are per user on annual terms. G2 rates it 4.4 across more than twenty thousand reviews. Buy SurveyMonkey if you run surveys for a living or at least quarterly and need the responses analyzed. Buy Typeform if you want conversational lead forms, Jotform if you need payments and PDFs, or Tally if you need a free form today.

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