LimeSurvey vs Quallie

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.

Quallie is a web-based qualitative research platform for market and academic researchers. It supports online discussion boards, research blogs, video focus groups, questionnaires, live text chats, and bulletin boards. Its browser-based video and text focus groups need no installation; video sessions include a client observation room and automatic recordings. Research blogs allow participants to post and comment asynchronously, with no limit on the number of tasks within a project. Questionnaire results can be exported in XLSX format for Excel. The respondent interface supports 21 listed languages, while administrator and moderator interfaces are in English. Quallie says it is created and hosted in the EU by VeroMotion, based in Prague. Its data protection document describes encryption at rest and in transit, hashed passwords, and role-based access controls. Text-based modules are included in the project fee, but video focus groups use prepaid credits. Onboarding and support are free; optional project setup help costs €45 per hour. Support is available Monday through Friday, 09:00–18:00 CET.