LimeSurvey vs OpenSurvey

LimeSurvey is a survey creation service available online or as a self-hosted open-source option. It offers more than 30 customizable question types, branching logic, and media support, with surveys shareable through links, QR codes, social media, email, posters, and flyers. Free access includes more than 800 templates. The free plan provides 25 responses per month and one admin user; Basic costs $39 a month and includes unlimited surveys and questions, 1,000 responses per month, and 250 MB of upload storage. Expert costs $432 a year and includes 10,000 responses yearly, three admin users, and 1 GB of storage. LimeSurvey supports more than 80 languages and multilingual surveys, response analytics, API access, and exports to SPSS, R, Stata, CSV, Excel, and PDF. Hosting regions include EU and US options, and the product is available as self-hosted software. The service states GDPR compliance and WCAG 2.2 Level AA alignment; ISO 27001 is in progress. Support ranges from community and email options to priority email and VIP support. LimeSurvey is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

OpenSurvey is an open-source platform for creating surveys, collecting responses, and analyzing results. Its visual builder offers 23+ question types, including short text, ratings, NPS, matrix, ranking, file upload, signature, and location. Survey logic includes conditional skips and branching, nested loops, variables, answer piping, and a debug mode. Real-time analytics and CSV, Excel (XLSX), and JSON exports help users review responses; surveys are mobile responsive and include progress indicators.

The Open Source plan costs nothing and allows unlimited responses, surveys, teams, and workspaces. It can be hosted on the user's infrastructure under AGPL-3.0, with no telemetry or tracking and full API access. OpenSurvey Cloud starts at $29/mo. Cloud Teams includes managed hosting, automatic updates, email support, a 99.9% uptime SLA, and a 10k responses-per-month limit. Cloud features also include global CDN distribution and AI-powered analytics with sentiment analysis and generated insights. The platform describes its design as GDPR compliant; its documentation says row-level security and tenant isolation are enabled by default.