Forms and surveys decision
LogicForm
A technically capable developer can build a useful, lower-polish replacement (forms, logic, OpenAI analysis) in a few hundred hours, but matching the full hosted product (collaboration polish, analytics UX, and operational polish) is larger work — consider self-hosting LimeSurvey/SurveyJS for closer parity or pay $9.99/mo for the managed convenience.
Visit website↗$9.99/mo
$120/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off110 h to build
$50/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 6 seats.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All LogicForm alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Create surveys with pages/questions and skip-logic, collect responses via shareable links or embedded surveys, run AI analysis over long text answers, and export responses.
What it still won’t have
- Polished UI/UX and product polish
- Built-in branding, custom domain handling, and hosted telemetry
- Guaranteed uptime, support, and SLAs
- Any proprietary operational optimizations or scale infrastructure
- Enterprise billing, discounts, and marketplace exposure
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 6 seats.
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-hostable survey builder using Next.js + React for the frontend, Node.js/Express for the API, and Postgres for storage. Implement: 1) a page/question editor with conditional skip-logic persisted as JSON; 2) a public survey renderer and embeddable iframe endpoint; 3) response storage and CSV export; 4) an AI analysis worker that batches long-text answers to the OpenAI API and stores generated insights; 5) basic real-time collaboration (presence and simple locking) via WebSocket or Firebase; 6) auth (email) and account-level settings. Out of scope: full WYSIWYG drag-and-drop layout editor, enterprise billing, advanced clickmap heatmaps, and multi-tenant billing integration. Provide error handling, retries for API calls, input validation, unit and integration tests, and Docker-based deployment scripts.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 4 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score63
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 →Cited sources · 4
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productLogicForm - A Free Typeform & SurveyMonkey Alternative
- official pricingPricing - LogicForm | Free Survey Builder with AI Analysis
- open sourceLimeSurvey/LimeSurvey
- open sourcedidi/xiaoju-survey
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
