Forms and surveys decision
LimeSurvey Cloud
A capable developer can build a useful hosted-survey replacement, but reproducing the full hosted product experience (managed SLA, partner services, integrations, polished UI) is larger and would take more work than a narrow self-hosted workflow.
Visit website↗No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Create surveys, publish them, collect responses, view/export results.
What it still won’t have
- Hosted SLA, uptime guarantees and managed scaling
- Managed security patching, backups, and automated upgrades
- Vendor support and partner services bundled with the cloud product
- Prebuilt integrations and account management in the hosted offering
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
LimeSurvey Cloud does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a self-hosted survey service using PostgreSQL, a Node.js/Express backend, React for the survey editor/renderer, and Docker for deployment. In scope: user auth (email/password), a survey JSON schema editor with question types (text, multiple choice, file upload), public survey rendering and response submission endpoints, storing responses in Postgres, CSV export API, basic results page with summary charts, Docker Compose deployment, TLS via Let's Encrypt, and automated daily DB backups. Out of scope: enterprise SSO, multi-tenant billing, advanced analytics, and marketplace integrations. Include input validation, error handling, and unit/integration tests for API endpoints and core editor/save/submit flows.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score56
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time — so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
