10 Best Fillout Alternatives in 2026 (Free & Paid)

Fillout has earned its reputation. Unlimited seats on every plan—including free—is the friendliest collaboration policy in the category. The free plan’s unlimited forms with 1,000 responses/month is among the strongest available. The editor is clean, the conditional logic handles complex branching well, and the tier ladder is legible. For teams building forms together, it’s a genuinely excellent default.

So this page isn’t about escaping a bad product. It’s about the four numbers that push specific buyers elsewhere. Branding removal starts at $480/year (Pro). A custom domain waits for Business—$900/year, the same tier that finally lifts the response caps. Below that, every plan meters responses: 1,000/month free, 2,000 on Starter, 5,000 on Pro. And payments, e-signatures, and HIPAA compliance aren’t part of Fillout’s advertised feature set—verify each before assuming otherwise.

If any of those four is your situation, here’s the honest map of the 10 strongest alternatives—evaluated on metering, branding economics, collaboration policies, and the capabilities Fillout leaves out—with real numbers throughout.

Because every alternative below is priced against them: Free — $0: unlimited forms, 1,000 responses/month, unlimited seats, all the basics. Starter — $15/mo ($180/yr): 2,000 responses/mo, custom endings, redirect on completion, login forms. Pro — $40/mo ($480/yr): 5,000 responses/mo, remove all branding, custom fonts and favicon, custom CSS, custom share links. Business — $75/mo ($900/yr): unlimited responses, form analytics, custom domain, partial submissions, custom code, pre-fetch data, priority support. Seats never meter—on any plan. Responses meter until Business; branding, CSS, domain, analytics, and partial submissions arrive tier by tier.

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Best for: Fillout’s modern experience with no response meters—and the full branding bundle for $299/year.

Formware’s free plan includes unlimited forms, unlimited questions, and unlimited responses (subject to fair use)—no 1,000/month cap, no 5,000/month Pro ceiling—with the conversational one-question-at-a-time experience as the default, full design customization (colors, fonts, themes, backgrounds, GIFs) from day one, and 2,000+ templates. Hidden fields, recall information, webhooks, file uploads, WhatsApp sharing, and website embedding are included at $0. Pro costs $29.99/month or $299/year and bundles branding removal, your own custom domain, custom logo and favicon, partial submissions, custom redirects, respondent emails, and no file-size limits—with unlimited team members and role-based access, matching Fillout’s signature unlimited-seats policy at a fraction of the bundle price.

The math against Fillout: branding plus a custom domain costs $480 + $900 = $1,380 across two Fillout tiers (arriving at different times); Formware Pro delivers both, plus partial submissions, redirects, and unlimited members, for $299 in one step. And the response meter that fills at 1,000/month on Fillout free simply doesn’t exist here.

Pros

• No response meters on any plan—unlimited everything on free
• Full branding + custom domain bundle at $299/year, one tier
• Unlimited team members with role-based access—Fillout’s seats policy, matched
• Hidden fields, recall, webhooks, and WhatsApp sharing included on free

Cons

• No custom CSS (Fillout Pro offers it from $40/mo)
• No native payment collection—redirects to external payment pages instead
• No login-gated forms, custom code, or pre-fetch data
• Formware branding remains on the free plan

Pricing: Free (unlimited*); Pro at $29.99/mo or $299/yr.

Why choose Formware over Fillout? Same modern ethos, different economics: $299/year buys what Fillout spreads across $1,380 and two tiers—and the free plan never counts a response. You trade CSS, login-gating, and custom code for unmetered usage and a bigger bundle.

Best for: Matching Fillout’s unlimited free core while adding the two features Fillout doesn’t advertise: in-form payments and e-signatures.

Tally is the closest philosophical sibling on this list: unlimited forms and unlimited submissions on a genuinely free plan—no response meter anywhere—plus conditional logic, payment collection, file uploads, and e-signatures included at $0. Editing is Notion-style blocks. Pro ($29/month or $290/year) removes branding, adds a custom domain and custom CSS, unlocks team collaboration, and includes partial submissions—a fuller bundle than Fillout Pro’s, for $190/year less.

Pros

• Unlimited forms and submissions on free—no response meter, like Fillout’s core minus the cap
• Payments and e-signatures on free—both absent from Fillout’s advertised lineup
• Pro’s $290/year bundle (branding, domain, CSS, collaboration, partials) beats Fillout Pro’s $480
• Fastest form authoring in the category

Cons

• Single-page forms only—no conversational flow
• Collaboration requires Pro; Fillout’s unlimited seats start at $0
• Free plan is single-user; design customization waits for Pro

Pricing: Free; Pro $29/mo or $290/yr; Business $89/mo.

Why choose Tally over Fillout? If your forms take money or signatures, Tally covers both at $0—capabilities Fillout doesn’t advertise—and its Pro bundle undercuts Fillout’s by $190/year.

Full breakdowns: Tally vs. Fillout · Formware vs. Tally

Best for: The most refined one-question-at-a-time experience—when completions are worth money.

Fillout builds clean, functional forms; Typeform builds cinematic ones. One question at a time, 3,000+ templates, logic jumps, drop-off analytics (Business and up), and 120+ native integrations—the category’s experience benchmark, and the reason form completion rates became a marketing topic. The trade is the meter: 10 responses/month free, 100/month at $336/year, branding removal at $672/year with a subdomain, and no partial submissions on any plan.

Pros

• The most polished respondent experience in the category
• 3,000+ templates and 120+ native integrations
• Drop-off analytics from Business; HIPAA-capable options on higher tiers

Cons

• Meters responses harder than Fillout at every comparable tier
• Branding at $672/year lands on a Typeform subdomain
• No partial submissions; seats cap at 1–5—Fillout’s unlimited seats win outright

Pricing: Free (10 responses/mo); Basic $28/mo; Plus $56/mo; Business $91/mo; Growth Flow $266/mo (annual billing).

Why choose Typeform over Fillout? When the form’s completion rate has a dollar value and your volume is modest, Typeform’s experience is worth its meter. Above ~100 responses/month, the math flips back toward Fillout.

Full breakdowns: Typeform vs. Fillout · Formware vs. Typeform

Best for: Forms that need to do something—payments, approvals, signatures, compliance—on reachable plans.

Where Fillout keeps the surface area small, Jotform stacks it high: thousands of templates, more widgets and integrations than almost anything in the category, mature payment support, approval workflows, and HIPAA compliance features on Gold ($99/month). Card Forms mimic a conversational flow. The free plan allows 5 active forms and 100 submissions/month (extras archive, not delete); Bronze starts from $19/month with 25 forms and 1,000 submissions/month.

Pros

• Enormous template and widget ecosystem
• Payments, approvals, and signatures throughout
• HIPAA features at $99/month—covering a requirement Fillout doesn’t address
• Archiving softens the active-form cap

Cons

• Meters twice: active forms and monthly submissions—strictness Fillout’s single meter avoids
• Strict branding and limits on free
• The interface can feel crowded next to Fillout’s minimalism

Pricing: Free (5 forms, 100/mo); Bronze from $19/mo; Silver from $39/mo; Gold from $99/mo; Enterprise custom.

Why choose Jotform over Fillout? When the form is a business process—taking payments, routing approvals, satisfying HIPAA—Jotform’s breadth covers jobs Fillout’s lean core doesn’t attempt.

Full breakdowns: Fillout vs. Jotform · Formware vs. Jotform

Best for: Order forms, registrations, and structured data with native payments and e-signatures.

Cognito Forms is the data-collection specialist: native payment processing from its free plan, electronic signatures from Pro ($19/mo billed annually), and genuinely deep structured-data tools—repeating sections, table fields, and lookup fields for line-item orders, guest lists, and multi-record entry. Save & Resume lets respondents draft and return. Its free plan is the strict one here—100 entries/month—but Pro’s 2,000 entries at $19/month is the cheapest paid tier on this list, and Team ($39/mo annually) adds workflow approvals. HIPAA compliance arrives on Enterprise ($129/mo billed annually) with SSO and folder permissions.

Pros

• Native payment collection from the free plan
• E-signatures from Pro; repeating sections and table fields for structured data
• HIPAA compliance on Enterprise—with workflow approvals from Team
• Save & Resume drafts from Pro

Cons

• The strictest free meter on this list: 100 entries/month
• No custom domain at any tier—forms live on cognitoforms.com
• No conversational flow; seats meter by tier (+$5/user)

Pricing: Free (100 entries/mo); Pro $19/mo ($24 monthly); Team $39/mo ($49 monthly); Enterprise $129/mo ($174 monthly)—annual billing.

Why choose Cognito Forms over Fillout? When your forms collect money, signatures, or line-item data, Cognito’s structured-data depth and payments-from-free cover capabilities Fillout doesn’t advertise—accepting a stricter free meter as the price.

Full breakdown: Formware vs. Cognito Forms

Best for: Internal surveys and signups where the budget is zero.

Google Forms removes every meter Fillout has: unlimited forms, unlimited questions, unlimited responses, free, with native real-time Google Sheets sync, unlimited co-editors, and free auto-graded quizzes. What it gives away is everything Fillout sells: design, branding, domains, logic depth, and analytics. Forms live on Google URLs, permanently, looking like every other Google Form.

Pros

• Genuinely free with zero limits—no response meter, no form counter
• Native real-time Sheets sync and unlimited collaborators
• Free quiz auto-grading

Cons

• No branding or custom domain at any price
• Basic logic; no payments, attribution, or analytics
• Every form looks like every other Google Form

Pricing: Free. (Businesses get it via Google Workspace, ~$7–$22/user/mo, which adds no form features.)

Why choose Google Forms over Fillout? For internal collection, it’s Fillout’s job with no meter and no invoice—the floor no other tool beats.

Full breakdowns: Fillout vs. Google Forms · Formware vs. Google Forms

Best for: Internal surveys and quizzes inside Microsoft organizations.

Microsoft Forms comes bundled with Microsoft 365 (and free Microsoft accounts), collects unlimited responses with no caps, auto-grades quizzes for free, and flows natively into Excel, Teams, and SharePoint—with Microsoft’s compliance infrastructure (HIPAA, GDPR, WCAG 2.1) attached and Copilot AI on paid plans. Like Fillout, it’s unmetered at the core; unlike Fillout, it’s unbrandable at any tier—forms live on forms.office.com with Microsoft’s branding.

Pros

• Unlimited responses, included with software you may already pay for
• HIPAA compliance via Microsoft 365—regulatory cover without an enterprise quote
• Free auto-graded quizzes; native Excel and Teams workflows

Cons

• No custom branding or domain at any tier, ever
• No hidden fields, attribution, or lead-gen tooling
• Minimal design control

Pricing: Free with a Microsoft account; full features via Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Why choose Microsoft Forms over Fillout? Inside a Microsoft organization, it’s free, compliant, and already procured. For customer-facing forms, the Microsoft branding disqualifies it.

Full breakdowns: Fillout vs. Microsoft Forms · Formware vs. Microsoft Forms

Best for: Order forms and booking pages where the words around the questions do the selling.

Paperform builds forms that read like documents—headings, paragraphs, and images flowing around embedded question fields—stronger than Fillout for explaining an offer and closing in one page. Payments and appointment scheduling are built in, with their own quota accounting. Essentials ($24/mo billed annually) includes 1,200 submissions/year; Pro ($49/mo) raises that to 12,000/year and unlocks branding removal, custom HTML/CSS, and webhooks—with custom domains costing +$20/month; Business ($99/mo) includes a domain, SSO, and 120,000 submissions/year.

Pros

• The strongest “forms as content” format in the category
• Payments and appointment scheduling built in
• Custom CSS and HTML at Pro

Cons

• Annual submission quotas (no monthly reset) plus separate payment/appointment quotas—metering on top of metering
• The domain surcharge makes full branding cost $828/year
• Free plan is tiny: 30 submissions/month

Pricing: Free (30/mo); Essentials $24/mo; Pro $49/mo (+$20/mo/domain); Business $99/mo (annual billing).

Why choose Paperform over Fillout? When the form needs to sell—describe the service, show the product, take the booking—Paperform’s pages persuade where Fillout’s clean forms simply collect.

Full breakdowns: Fillout vs. Paperform · Formware vs. Paperform

Best for: Measured, statistically sound surveys—benchmarks, significance testing, and deep reporting.

Fillout’s form analytics arrive at Business; SurveyMonkey’s research machinery is a different class entirely: statistical significance testing, crosstabs, A/B question testing, benchmark data, an expert question bank, and AI thematic analysis. Advantage ($39/mo billed annually) includes 15,000 responses/year with the toolset; Premier ($139/mo) adds white-labeling. The free plan caps surveys at 10 questions, and Standard—the entry paid plan—costs $129/month billed monthly only, more per year than Advantage for fewer responses.

Pros

• Industry-leading analysis: significance testing, crosstabs, benchmarks
• Expert question bank and A/B testing
• AI thematic analysis of open-text responses

Cons

• Confusing ladder; response accounting switches between monthly and annual
• Free plan capped at 10 questions per survey
• White-labeling at $1,668/year; team plans priced per user

Pricing: Basic free (10 questions/survey); Advantage $39/mo; Premier $139/mo; Team plans from $30/user/mo (annual billing).

Why choose SurveyMonkey over Fillout? When the deliverable is defensible research, Fillout’s Business-tier analytics don’t analyze—and SurveyMonkey does. For collection, Fillout’s plans are friendlier.

Full breakdowns: Fillout vs. SurveyMonkey · Formware vs. SurveyMonkey

Best for: Regulated organizations that need submissions to trigger documents, signatures, and approvals.

Formstack is the enterprise end of this list: submissions that route through approvals, auto-generate PDF and Word documents, and collect e-signatures, with HIPAA available as an add-on and deep Salesforce integration. There’s no free plan: Forms starts at $83/month billed annually ($99 monthly); the Suite with document generation and e-signatures runs $250/month billed annually. It’s the step beyond Fillout’s scope entirely—relevant when a form is the first step of an auditable paper trail.

Pros

• Workflow automation: approvals, routing, and document generation
• HIPAA and compliance options for regulated industries
• Native Salesforce integration

Cons

• No free plan and an expensive entry price
• Document and e-signature features require the Suite tier
• Overkill for the simple forms Fillout does beautifully

Pricing: Forms $83/mo (billed annually); Suite $250/mo (billed annually); Salesforce and Enterprise custom.

Why choose Formstack over Fillout? When a submission must become a signed, routed, auditable document, Fillout’s clean forms can’t follow—and Formstack is built for exactly that.

Full breakdowns: Fillout vs. Formstack · Formware vs. Formstack

The right answer depends on what pushed you away from Fillout:

• Response caps the problem? Formware and Tally remove the meter entirely on free; Google and Microsoft Forms are unlimited too. Fillout’s own caps only vanish at Business ($900/year).
• Branding and domain economics the problem? Formware ($299/yr) and Tally ($290/yr) bundle branding removal with a custom domain in one tier—Fillout needs $1,380 across Pro and Business for the same job.
• Payments the job? Tally and Cognito Forms take payments from their free plans; Jotform and Paperform sell mature commerce layers. Fillout’s payment support isn’t detailed in its plan materials—verify before relying on it.
• E-signatures or HIPAA the job? Cognito Forms (signatures from Pro, HIPAA on Enterprise), Jotform (HIPAA at $99/month), Tally (signatures on free), or Formstack (enterprise compliance and document generation).
• Teams the priority? Stay—Fillout’s unlimited seats on every plan remain the category’s best collaboration policy. Formware Pro matches the unlimited-members policy at $299/year if you also need its bundle.
• A more polished respondent experience? Typeform—if your volume fits its meter.
• Research the deliverable? SurveyMonkey—Fillout’s analytics stop at form metrics.
• Workflow automation and documents? Formstack—the enterprise step beyond Fillout’s scope.
• Budget is zero, full stop? Tally’s free plan (with payments and signatures) or Google/Microsoft Forms.
• Nothing is actually wrong? Stay with Fillout. Its free plan, seat policy, and logic are genuinely best-in-class—this page exists for the buyers whose specific requirement lands in one of Fillout’s gaps.

Four factors separate the alternatives that hold up from the ones that merely look cheaper:

1. What you’d lose by leaving. Fillout’s unlimited seats are the category’s best collaboration policy—Formware Pro matches it ($299/year); Tally gates collaboration at Pro ($290/year); most others charge per seat. And its free plan (unlimited forms, 1,000/month) beats most alternatives’ free tiers. Name what you’re keeping before you switch.
2. The meter type, not just the price. Fillout counts responses monthly (until Business). Formware and Tally count nothing; Google and Microsoft count nothing; Cognito counts entries monthly; Paperform counts annually with payment quotas on top. Match the meter to your growth curve—1,000/month feels generous until a campaign works.
3. The bundle, not the badge. Compare branding + domain + partial submissions as one package: Formware $299, Tally $290, Fillout $1,380 (two tiers), Typeform $672 (subdomain only). The cheapest branding tier is rarely the cheapest branding outcome.
4. Capabilities Fillout doesn’t advertise. Payments, e-signatures, and HIPAA aren’t in Fillout’s published lineup—verify anything critical directly with Fillout before assuming it’s absent, and before assuming an alternative covers it. Where it is absent, Cognito, Jotform, Tally, and Paperform each cover a different slice.

For unlimited usage, Formware (unlimited forms, questions, and responses on free, with hidden fields, webhooks, recall, and WhatsApp included) and Tally (unlimited forms and submissions on free, with logic, payments, uploads, and signatures) both remove Fillout’s 1,000-response monthly cap. Both trade you their branding for free and remove it for around $290–$299/year. Google Forms and Microsoft Forms remain the zero-cost fallbacks. Fillout’s own free plan stays the best team option—unlimited seats included.

Yes—Formware Pro includes unlimited team members with role-based access (Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer) and multiple workspaces, at $299/year. The difference in tier placement: Fillout’s unlimited seats start on its free plan, while Formware’s unlimited members arrive with Pro (its free plan is single-user). Tally Pro’s $290/year also adds collaboration, making all three comparable on team economics once paid.

Tally and Cognito Forms both support payment collection from their free plans; Jotform offers mature payment support across its paid plans with Card Forms for a conversational checkout; Paperform builds full order-style pages with payments and its own quota system. Formware doesn’t process payments—it redirects respondents to your payment or booking page, which covers simpler checkout flows. Fillout’s own payment support isn’t detailed in its plan materials—verify directly before deciding on that basis.

Comparing full bundles: Tally Pro at $290/year (branding, custom domain, CSS, collaboration, partial submissions) and Formware Pro at $299/year (branding, custom domain, logo, favicon, partial submissions, redirects, unlimited members) are the cheapest complete answers. Fillout requires Pro ($480) for branding and Business ($900) for the domain—$1,380 total, at different tiers. Typeform’s $672/year buys branding with a subdomain only; Paperform’s adds a $20/month surcharge to Pro ($828/year total).

Fillout itself includes them at Business ($900/year). Formware Pro ($299/year) and Tally Pro ($290/year) both include them at a lower total cost. Typeform doesn’t offer partial submissions on any plan; Cognito Forms offers respondent-initiated Save & Resume (Pro and up) rather than automatic capture. (Formware’s partial submissions are currently best used for review, export, and manual follow-up rather than as automation triggers.)

Jotform offers HIPAA compliance features on its Gold plan ($99/month)—among the most accessible paths in the category. Cognito Forms provides HIPAA compliance on Enterprise ($129/month billed annually) with SSO. Microsoft Forms bundles HIPAA coverage into Microsoft 365 if your organization is already there. Formstack handles compliance for enterprise workflows as an add-on. Fillout, Formware, Tally, and Typeform don’t advertise HIPAA compliance—verify directly before committing regulated data to any of them.

Yes—for a specific profile. If you’re a team building logic-heavy forms together, Fillout’s unlimited seats, generous free plan, clean editor, and strong branching are genuinely best-in-class, and its Business tier adds analytics, unlimited responses, and a domain for $900/year. The math stops working when responses would cost less elsewhere (unlimited at $0 on Formware/Tally), when branding plus a domain needs to cost less than $1,380, or when the form needs payments, signatures, or HIPAA it doesn’t advertise. Match the tool to the gap.

Import support varies by vendor, and complex logic frequently breaks during migration—expect to rebuild and re-test branching in whichever tool you choose. Fillout’s clean form structure usually maps well to other builders’ question lists, so migrations from Fillout tend to be smoother than most. Before committing, rebuild your most logic-heavy form in the new tool as a test; that 30-minute exercise predicts the migration better than any feature list.

Every tool here has a full head-to-head comparison on this site, built from vendors’ published plan and pricing documentation, with the specific numbers linked from each entry. We’ve prioritized what actually changes buying decisions in real usage: metering structure, the true cost of branding and domains, seat policies, and the capabilities each tool adds or omits—rather than feature-list length. Pricing was verified at the time of writing and changes often; check each vendor’s site before purchasing.

Pricing and plan details were verified at the time of writing and may change. Check each vendor’s site for current pricing. Where a capability isn’t detailed in a vendor’s plan materials (including Fillout’s payment support), this page notes it rather than asserting presence or absence.