12 Best Tally.so Alternatives in 2026 (Prices Compared)

The best Tally.so alternatives in 2026 are tinyform, Youform and Fillout if you want a free plan as generous as Tally's, Typeform for one-question-at-a-time forms, Jotform or Cognito Forms for business workflows with payments, and Google Forms or Microsoft Forms if your team already works in those suites.

I checked every price and limit below on the vendor's own pages on 26 September 2026. One disclosure first: we make tinyform, one of the twelve. Its limits are in plain view below, and where Tally is the better pick, this post says so.

What does Tally do well, and where does it fall short?

Tally's free plan is the one every alternative gets measured against. You get unlimited forms and submissions under a fair use policy that only asks questions past roughly 50,000 submissions a month.

What Tally does well:

• Unlimited forms and submissions on the free plan, within fair use.
• Payments, signatures, file uploads, conditional logic and calculations are all free.
• No cut of your payments. Its help centre says it does "not add any extra fees on top of Stripe's pricing", on every plan.
• Native Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier and Make integrations, also free.

Where Tally falls short:

• Team collaboration, removing Tally's branding, custom domains, partial submissions, drop-off analytics and version history all need Tally Pro, at $29 a month or $24 a month billed yearly.
• Email verification and data retention controls need Business, at $89 a month or $74 billed yearly.
• Free file uploads stop at 10 MB per file, and payments run through Stripe only.

So people rarely leave Tally because it's expensive. They leave because the one feature they need sits behind Pro, or because they want a different kind of form altogether.

How do the 12 Tally alternatives compare?

The table shows the free plan, the cheapest paid plan, and whether the tool adds its own fee to your payments. The ratings are Capterra scores, read on the same day. G2 blocked automated checks, so I couldn't use it.

"Paid from" is the cheapest paid plan, per month, billed yearly. "Payment fee" is a fee the tool adds on top of Stripe's or PayPal's own. "Not stated" means the vendor's pages don't say either way, and "Not listed" means tinyform has no Capterra listing to rate. Each tool's section below has the rest of its free plan.

How did we compare these Tally alternatives?

I opened each pricing page in a 1280×800 browser window on 26 September 2026 and took the screenshots in this post that day, so what you see is what the vendor showed. Limits come from the vendor's pricing and help pages, never from an older review. Where two of a vendor's own pages disagreed, I used its current pricing page and said so.

The list runs in order of how close each free plan comes to Tally's. It isn't a ranking of quality. Formstack sits last because it has no free plan, not because it's a weak product.

What are the best Tally alternatives in 2026?

1. tinyform

Best for: teams who want Tally's way of building forms without paying for teamwork.

tinyform works the way Tally does: you write a form like a document, and each question you type becomes a field. The difference is where the paywall sits. Pro costs the same $29 a month as Tally Pro, but tinyform's free plan already includes several things Tally keeps for Pro: unlimited team members, a per-question drop-off funnel in Insights, version history and partial submissions. Pro adds exactly two things: removing the "Made with tinyform" badge and serving forms on your own domain.

• Free plan: unlimited forms and submissions under fair use (50,000 submissions a month, 500 GB of stored files), with forms shown in 54 languages.
• Paid: Pro at $29 a month, or $290 a year. See tinyform pricing.
• Watch out for: fewer native integrations than Tally. Submissions leave by webhook, REST API or email, and Google Sheets and Zapier aren't built in yet. There's no import from Tally, and payments run through Stripe only.

2. Youform

Best for: unlimited free responses when you can live with the badge.

Youform's free plan matches Tally's headline promise: unlimited forms and unlimited responses under fair use, with uploads up to 10 MB a file. It also keeps integrations free: its pricing page lists Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier and webhooks on the free plan. The branding can't be removed on free, though, and payments only switch on from Pro.

• Free plan: unlimited forms and responses (fair use), 10 MB per file, Google Sheets and Zapier included, badge stays.
• Paid: Pro at $20 a month billed yearly or $29 monthly, with 3 members. Business at $60 billed yearly or $89 monthly, with 5 members and $10 per extra seat. See Youform's pricing.
• Watch out for: there are no payments on the free plan, and each plan caps its members.

3. Fillout

Best for: teams who need many seats on a free plan.

Fillout's free plan caps responses at 1,000 a month but leaves forms and seats unlimited, which suits a team that shares one workspace. Its payments page promises "0% added fees" on Stripe, the free plan included.

• Free plan: 1,000 responses a month, unlimited forms and seats, 20 MB uploads, badge shown.
• Paid, billed yearly: Starter at $15 a month ($180 a year), Pro at $40 and Business at $75. See Fillout's pricing.
• Watch out for: custom domains and partial submissions only arrive on Business, and removing the badge needs Pro.

4. Google Forms

Best for: quick surveys for people who already live in Google's apps.

Google Forms costs nothing with a Google account, and answers can go straight into a Google Sheet. It's the easiest tool on this list to hand to a colleague, because they already know it.

• Free plan: free with a Google account, and included in Google Workspace.
• Watch out for: there are no payments, and design options are thin next to Tally. A respondent has to sign in to a Google account to answer a file-upload question, and the files land in the owner's Drive.

5. Microsoft Forms

Best for: internal surveys and quizzes in a Microsoft 365 organisation.

Microsoft Forms is free with a Microsoft account and has branching and an Excel export. The limits depend on the account. Microsoft's limits page allows 400 forms and 200 questions per form. A form takes 200 responses on a free personal account, 1,000 on a paid personal one and up to 5,000,000 on a work or school account.

• Free plan: free with a Microsoft account, within the limits above.
• Watch out for: there are no payments, and 200 responses per form runs out quickly for anything public.

6. forms.app

Best for: starting from a template, with more than 5,000 to choose from.

forms.app's free plan is narrow on forms but open on answers: 5 forms, unlimited responses, and conditional logic included. It takes Stripe and PayPal, and the company says it doesn't take a fee on payments, the free plan included.

• Free plan: 5 forms, unlimited responses, 10 MB of storage, forms.app branding.
• Paid, billed yearly: Basic at $19 a month, Pro at $29 and Premium at $59. Monthly, the same plans are $29, $39 and $79. The pricing page was running a promotion when I checked, so see forms.app pricing for today's figures.
• Watch out for: 5 forms on free is the tightest cap in the top half of this list.

7. Cognito Forms

Best for: forms that take payments on a paid plan.

Cognito Forms gives unlimited forms on every plan, free included, but meters entries: 100 a month on free. The catch is the payment fee. Cognito adds 2% per transaction on the free Individual plan and 1% on Pro, and nothing from Team up.

• Free plan: unlimited forms, 100 entries a month, 100 MB, 1 user, branding shown.
• Paid, billed yearly: Pro at $19 a month (2 users), Team at $39 (5 users) and Enterprise at $129 (20 users). See Cognito Forms pricing.
• Watch out for: the 2% fee on free makes it a poor pick for selling anything before you upgrade.

8. Jotform

Best for: larger organisations, including those that need HIPAA on the Gold plan.

Jotform has the biggest review base here, and a deep feature set to match. Its free Starter plan is small, though: 5 forms, 100 submissions a month and 10 payment submissions a month. Jotform's support team has said it charges no transaction fees on payments.

• Free plan: 5 forms, 100 submissions a month, 100 MB, branding shown.
• Paid, billed yearly: Bronze at $34 a month (25 forms, 1,000 submissions), Silver at $39 (50 forms, 2,500) and Gold at $99 (100 forms, 10,000, HIPAA). See Jotform pricing.
• Watch out for: forms are counted on every plan, so a busy team pays for volume.

9. 123FormBuilder

Best for: taking payments through a gateway other than Stripe.

123FormBuilder supports more than 15 payment gateways, including PayPal, Stripe, Square and Authorize.Net. The free Basic plan is tight, with 10 fields per form, no file storage and no payments.

• Free plan: 5 forms, 100 submissions a month, 10 fields per form.
• Paid, billed yearly: Gold at $18.50 a month, Platinum at $24.50 and Diamond at $49.50. Monthly, the same plans are $37, $49 and $99. Enterprise starts at $225. See 123FormBuilder's plans.
• Watch out for: extra user licences are sold separately, and its FAQ page still describes an older free plan than the current plans page does.

10. Paperform

Best for: forms that read like a landing page, taking payment by Stripe, Square, Braintree or PayPal.

Paperform lets you lay out a form like a web page, and it takes more payment providers than Tally does, with no transaction fee of its own. The free plan is a trial in all but name: 30 submissions a month, and the branding can't be removed.

• Free plan: 30 submissions a month, 100 MB, payments allowed, branding stays.
• Paid, billed yearly: Pro at $49 a month and Business at $124. Monthly, they are $59 and $149, with a 7-day trial. See Paperform pricing.
• Watch out for: its paid plans cost about twice Tally Pro's.

11. Typeform

Best for: conversational, one-question-at-a-time forms.

Typeform is the tool Tally was built as a free answer to, and it is still the reference for forms shown one question at a time. Every plan counts responses: 100 a month on Basic, 1,000 on Plus and 10,000 on Business.

• Paid, billed yearly: Basic at $28 a month (1 seat), Plus at $56 (3 seats) and Business at $91 (5 seats). Monthly, the same plans are $39, $79 and $129. See Typeform pricing.
• Watch out for: payments, branding removal and partial responses only start at Plus, so Tally's free features cost $56 a month or more here.

12. Formstack

Best for: regulated teams that need HIPAA and sit inside a larger document workflow.

Formstack is a different class of product: no free plan, a 14-day trial with no card, and a price to match. It suits an organisation that wants forms, documents and signatures under one contract.

• Paid, billed yearly: Forms at $83 a month (1 builder, 25 forms, 1,000 submissions per form, 2 GB) and Suite at $250. Monthly, they are $99 and $299. See Formstack pricing.
• Watch out for: HIPAA is an add-on on the Forms plan, and at 1 builder it's priced for a department, not a freelancer.

Which Tally alternative should you choose?

Pick by the one thing that pushed you off Tally:

• You need teammates, analytics or version history without paying: tinyform, where all three are free.
• You need Notion, Airtable or Google Sheets built in today: stay on Tally, whose native integrations are free, or try Youform, whose free plan includes Google Sheets, Slack and Zapier.
• You want the lowest paid price: Fillout Starter at $15 a month, then 123FormBuilder Gold at $18.50, then Cognito Forms Pro and forms.app Basic at $19, all billed yearly.
• You take payments through PayPal, Square or another gateway: Paperform, 123FormBuilder or forms.app.
• You want one question at a time: Typeform.
• Your team works in Google or Microsoft 365: Google Forms or Microsoft Forms, as long as you don't need payments.
• You handle health data: Jotform Gold, or Formstack with its HIPAA add-on.

If you're weighing tinyform against Tally in particular, tinyform vs Tally goes through them feature by feature.

Frequently asked questions

Is Tally.so free?

Yes. Tally's free plan has unlimited forms and submissions within its fair use policy, plus payments, file uploads, logic and integrations. Pro costs $29 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly, and adds branding removal, custom domains, team collaboration and partial submissions.

Does Tally charge a fee on payments?

No. Tally says it adds no fee on top of Stripe's own, on the free plan and on paid plans alike. Cognito Forms is the one tool in this comparison whose pricing page lists a fee of its own: 2% on its free plan and 1% on Pro.

What is the best free alternative to Tally?

tinyform, Youform and Fillout come closest. tinyform and Youform both allow unlimited forms and submissions under fair use. Fillout allows 1,000 responses a month with unlimited seats. tinyform also gives away team members, drop-off analytics and version history, which Tally keeps for Pro.

Which Tally alternative is cheapest for a small business?

On a paid plan, Fillout Starter at $15 a month billed yearly is the cheapest here. If the free plan covers you, tinyform and Youform cost nothing for unlimited submissions, and tinyform Pro matches Tally Pro at $29 a month.

Why switch from Tally if it's free?

Usually because one needed feature sits behind Pro: teammates, a custom domain, partial submissions or analytics. Sometimes it's a different form style altogether, such as Typeform's one question at a time, or a payment gateway other than Stripe.

Can I move my forms from Tally to tinyform?

Not automatically yet. tinyform has no import today, so each form is rebuilt by hand, which is quick for short forms because the editor works the way Tally's does. You can also start from one of the form templates instead of an empty page.