Seagit Forms vs SurveyMonkey
Seagit Forms is a free SurveyMonkey alternative for people who are collecting answers rather than running research. SurveyMonkey is a survey platform with real analysis behind it — crosstabs, statistical significance, an audience panel — and this page does not pretend otherwise. The difference is what the free plan gives you: here a form has no question limit, exports to CSV, and POSTs every response to your own endpoint.
At a glance
Only things that are stable and checkable. Anything that moves — prices, volume limits — is in the dated table below rather than stated here as though it were permanent.
| Seagit Forms | SurveyMonkey | |
|---|---|---|
| Questions per form on the free plan | No limit — nineteen field types | 10 questions per survey |
| CSV export of responses | Yes, on the free plan | Data exports start on a paid plan |
| Respondent needs an account | No | No |
| Send each submission to your own endpoint | Yes — JSON webhook on the free plan, 5s, no retries | Yes — through their developer API |
| Post submissions into Slack | Yes, on paid plans | Check their integrations directory |
| Post submissions into Discord | Yes, on paid plans | Check their integrations directory |
| Post submissions into Microsoft Teams | Yes, on paid plans — a Workflows webhook | Check their integrations directory |
| Post submissions into Google Chat | Yes, on paid plans | Check their integrations directory |
| Create an Airtable record per response | Yes, on paid plans | Check their integrations directory |
| Create a Notion page per response | Yes, on paid plans | Check their integrations directory |
| Append each response to Google Sheets | Yes, on paid plans | Check their integrations directory |
| Matrix or Likert grid questions | No — one question per statement | Yes, and they are core to the product |
| Skip logic between questions | No | Yes, on paid plans |
| Crosstabs and statistical significance | No — a response grid and CSV | Yes, on their higher plans |
| Buy respondents from a panel | No | Yes — SurveyMonkey Audience |
| Embed that resizes itself | Yes — script loader | Yes |
| Restrict which sites may embed | Yes — frame-ancestors allow-list | Not exposed |
| Price basis | Flat per plan, not per user | Per user, with a 3-user minimum on team plans |
Pricing: Seagit Forms vs SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey pricing below was read from their own pricing page on 2026-09-07. Prices change without notice, so treat this as a snapshot and check their page before deciding.
Seagit Forms
| Plan | Price | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10 forms, 100 responses per form |
| Basic | $20/month | 100 forms, 2000 responses per form |
| Advanced | $40/month | 200 forms, 5000 responses per form, 3 seats |
Response limits are per form for the life of the form, not per month. Webhooks, Telegram delivery, embedding and CSV export are on the free plan; file uploads, password protection, email notifications, your own logo and connected apps (Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets) are on the paid plans.
All Seagit Forms plansSurveyMonkey
| Plan | Price | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | 1 user, unlimited surveys, 10 questions per survey, limited responses per survey |
| Standard Monthly | $129/month billed monthly | 1 user, 1,000 responses per month |
| Advantage Annual | $39/month ($468 billed annually) | 1 user, 15,000 responses per year |
| Premier Annual | $139/month ($1,668 billed annually) | 1 user, 40,000 responses per year |
| Team Advantage | $30/user/month, billed annually | From 3 users, 50,000 responses per year |
| Team Premier | $92/user/month, billed annually | From 3 users, 100,000 responses per year |
SurveyMonkey counts responses per month or per year across the account, and team plans are priced per user with a three-user minimum. Seagit Forms counts responses per form, for the life of the form, and charges one flat price per plan regardless of head count — the columns are not the same unit. Their free plan caps a survey at 10 questions; the response cap on it is described as limited rather than given as a number, so none is quoted here.
SurveyMonkey pricing pageOne price for the whole team: Basic is $20 a month flat, not per person.
Billed annually it is $200 a year — $16.67 a month, 17% less than paying monthly. Advanced is $40 a month, or $33.33 a month billed annually.
Basic covers 3 organizations of 2 seats each — 6 seats, which is up to 4 people once you count that you hold a seat in each organization you own. Advanced raises that to 15 seats across 5 organizations, up to 11 people.
Adding someone does not change the bill: the price is the plan, not the head count. Whether that beats a given rival depends on how they charge for seats — check their pricing page, which every comparison here links to, rather than a claim on this one.
When SurveyMonkey is the better choice
Every comparison should have this section. If it does not, you are reading an advert.
You are running research, not collecting answers
Crosstabs, statistical significance testing, multi-survey analysis and benchmarking are the product. Seagit Forms gives you a response grid and a CSV file and expects you to analyse elsewhere. If the analysis is the job, SurveyMonkey is not merely ahead here — it is a different category of tool, and no comparison table should suggest otherwise.
Your survey needs matrix questions
A Likert grid — several statements sharing one agree-to-disagree scale in a table — is not one of the nineteen field types here. A single rating field or a radio group covers one such item; a full matrix would mean one question per statement, which is worth knowing before you plan a long survey around it.
You need skip logic, or you need to buy respondents
SurveyMonkey routes people past questions that do not apply to them, and SurveyMonkey Audience sells you a sample when you have no list of your own. Seagit Forms shows every field to everyone and gives you a link and an embed. Both of those are hard requirements when you have them, and neither is on any roadmap here.
When Seagit Forms is the better choice
Ten questions is not enough and you are not paying $129 for the eleventh
The free plan here has no question limit at all. It caps volume instead — ten forms holding a hundred responses each — which is a different trade: a long form for a small audience costs nothing, where on a free SurveyMonkey survey the eleventh question is the wall.
You want your own data out, on the free plan
CSV export is free here. On SurveyMonkey, data exports start on a paid plan, which is the single fact that surprises people most about the free tier — you can collect responses and then find that getting them out of the tool costs money.
The submission has to reach your own system
Add a webhook and every response is POSTed to your endpoint as JSON as it arrives, with an optional auth header — on the free plan, with no API tier to buy first. Each destination gets five seconds and one attempt with no retries, and the response is stored here either way.
What SurveyMonkey costs, and why the free plan surprises people
The two largest searches around SurveyMonkey are what it costs and whether it is free, which is unusual — for most tools the alternatives query leads. That is worth reading as a signal: people arrive at the pricing page expecting one number and find a matrix of individual and team plans, monthly and annual, each with a different response allowance.
The free Basic plan is real and it is not time-limited. Its two constraints are a 10-question cap per survey and a response allowance SurveyMonkey describes as limited rather than publishing as a figure. The one that catches people out is neither of those: data export is a paid feature, so a free survey can collect answers that you then cannot take out of the tool in bulk.
Paid pricing splits by whether you are one person or a team, and the individual tiers quote a monthly-looking price that is only available if you pay for a year. The dated snapshot above records both figures as SurveyMonkey states them rather than normalising them, because normalising is where comparison tables start to mislead. Check their page before relying on any of it — that is why the date is printed beside the numbers.
Choosing between a survey platform and a form builder
The honest split is not feature-by-feature, it is what you do with the answers. If the deliverable is analysis — a report, a significance test, a tracked metric over time — a survey platform earns its price, and SurveyMonkey is one of the strongest. If the deliverable is the answer itself reaching a system you run, an analysis suite is a cost you are paying and not using.
That is the line this product sits on. A response is stored, exportable as CSV, and POSTed to your endpoint as JSON the moment it arrives; on the paid plans it also lands in Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion or a Google Sheet. What happens after that is your system’s job, which is the trade being made.
Sizing matters too, and it is the quickest way to rule this out. A hundred responses per form is a lot for a signup sheet, a bug report or an internal request, and it is not enough for a customer survey mailed to a list of thousands. If your answer is the second one, SurveyMonkey’s per-year response allowances are the relevant column, not this page.
Moving from SurveyMonkey
Export before you downgrade, not after
SurveyMonkey’s own pricing page states that turning off auto-renew downgrades you to the free plan at the end of the billing cycle, and that responses above the free plan’s limit are affected when that happens. Since data export is itself a paid feature, the order matters: export everything while the paid plan is still live. Doing it the other way round is the one genuinely costly mistake available on this migration.
Matrix questions have to be flattened
Every row of a Likert grid becomes its own question here. A ten-statement matrix becomes ten rating fields, which reads longer and collects the same data. Do that deliberately rather than discovering it half way through rebuilding, and consider whether the wizard-step layout puts each group on its own page.
What to check before you switch
Whether anyone downstream depends on SurveyMonkey’s analysis rather than the raw responses; whether the survey uses skip logic, which does not exist here; whether you distribute by SurveyMonkey’s email invitations rather than a link; and whether a hundred responses per form is enough for the audience you are asking. Those four account for nearly every surprise.
Questions people ask
Is there a free alternative to SurveyMonkey?
Yes. The free plan here builds and collects on up to 10 forms with 100 responses each, with no cap on questions per form, CSV export included, and a JSON webhook that POSTs every response to your own endpoint. Respondents never need an account. What it does not have is survey analysis — no crosstabs, no significance testing — so it is an alternative for collecting answers, not for running research.
Is SurveyMonkey free?
There is a free Basic plan, and its two limits are the ones worth knowing before you build: 10 questions per survey, and a response allowance SurveyMonkey describes as limited rather than publishing as a number. Data export is not included on it. The dated pricing table above records what each paid tier costs and links to their own page, because these figures move and a number nobody re-checks is a false claim in waiting.
What does SurveyMonkey do that Seagit Forms cannot?
Survey analysis — crosstabs, statistical significance, multi-survey comparison — along with matrix and Likert grid questions, skip logic, multilingual surveys, email invitations and an audience panel you can buy respondents from. That is a long list and it is not padding: SurveyMonkey is a research platform. Seagit Forms is a form builder that gets the answers to your systems, and it competes on that rather than on breadth.
Can I export my responses without paying?
Here, yes — CSV export is on the free plan, along with webhooks and embedding. That is the sharpest practical difference between the two free tiers, and it is the one to check against your own use before choosing either.
How many people does a paid plan cover?
Basic is $20 a month flat, or $16.67 a month billed annually, covering 3 organizations of 2 seats — 6 seats, so up to 4 people, because you hold a seat in each organization you own. The price does not change as you add them. SurveyMonkey’s team plans are priced per user with a three-user minimum, so the two scale differently; their own pricing page is linked above.
Checked against the shipped product on 28 August 2026. The Seagit Forms limits quoted above — the five-second webhook timeout, the absence of retries, the 200 KB ceiling on a single file — are the values enforced in the code, not marketing rounding. Anything stated about SurveyMonkey is limited to behaviour they document publicly; their pricing is deliberately not quoted, because a figure correct today becomes a false claim on its own.