Welcome to your next survey platform Open-source, privacy-focused, and built for modern teams
When traditional tools like Qualtrics feel heavy, costly, or restrictive, open-source platforms offer the freedom and flexibility to grow on your own terms. Whether you're seeking better data privacy, full control of your infrastructure, or a budget-friendly solution, these alternatives deliver powerful features without vendor lock-in.
Formbricks
*Formbricks is a modern, privacy-first experience management suite**, purpose-built to give teams full control over their feedback systems. Unlike closed-source tools, it’s fully open source and can be self-hosted, letting you stay in control of your data and compliance from day one.
It goes beyond traditional survey tools. Formbricks allows teams to launch feedback at key moments in the user journey, whether during onboarding, post-feature usage, or even right before churn. Surveys can be embedded directly in products, sent via email, or shared with a link, all without writing a single line of code. Developers appreciate its extensibility and React integration, while product teams benefit from no-code customization and instant access to user insights.
What sets Formbricks apart is its deep respect for user privacy, its compliance with frameworks like GDPR by default, and its commitment to open development. You can deploy it in the cloud at formbricks.com or self-host to gain full ownership over infrastructure and data.
With powerful segmentation, moment-based targeting, and a clear focus on actionable insights, Formbricks is more than a Qualtrics alternative, it's a feedback engine designed for teams who want to move fast without sacrificing control.
Formbricks proves that asking the right questions at the right time doesn’t require enterprise contracts or trade-offs on privacy. It just requires the right tool, and full ownership of your feedback stack.
Limesurvey
LimeSurvey offers a robust and mature alternative for organizations that prioritize survey depth and methodological flexibility. As one of the longest-standing open-source survey platforms, it is known for supporting complex question logic, multilingual surveys, and a broad set of research features suitable for academic, nonprofit, and enterprise use cases.
LimeSurvey gives you the freedom to create detailed surveys with advanced branching, conditionals, and custom validation, all through a browser-based interface. It supports dozens of question types and integrates well into a wide range of workflows, whether you’re conducting large-scale studies or collecting simple internal feedback.
What makes LimeSurvey compelling is its balance between structure and flexibility. It is highly customizable, can be fully self-hosted, and is backed by a global community of contributors and users. Organizations can scale from basic forms to full research instruments, all while keeping complete control over data privacy and server infrastructure.
If you're looking for a more traditional survey engine with academic-grade reliability, LimeSurvey is a trusted and proven choice, especially for teams that need depth and compliance without enterprise pricing.
Together, Formbricks and LimeSurvey demonstrate that survey excellence doesn’t require compromise. Open-source platforms are redefining what’s possible, with more freedom, more privacy, and fewer barriers to insight.