Google Forms vs Microsoft Forms

Written head to head: Google Forms vs Microsoft Forms, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Google Forms Free plan · from $7/user/mo VisitRemove	Microsoft Forms Free plan · from $5.40/user/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Google's form and quiz builder, free with a Google Account, with responses that flow into Google Sheets	Microsoft's survey, quiz and poll builder, free with a Microsoft account and included in Microsoft 365
Free plan	Free with a personal Google Account. Google's pages read do not state a form or response limit; files count toward the 15 GB of storage free Google Drive users get. Gemini features need an eligible paid plan.	With a free Microsoft account (Hotmail, Live or Outlook.com): up to 400 forms or quizzes plus 400 polls, up to 200 questions per form, and up to 200 responses per form
Cheapest paid plan	$7/user/mo billed annually (Business Starter)Google Forms pricing	$5.40/user/mo billed annually (Microsoft 365 Business Basic (no Teams))Microsoft Forms pricing
What it covers	$8.40 per user a month on the Flexible Plan (no commitment) or $7 per user a month on the Annual Plan ($84 per user a year). Starter, Standard and Plus can be bought for up to 300 users.	$5.40 per user a month paid yearly, annual subscription that auto-renews; $7.00 with Teams. Includes Forms, Bookings and Planner, web and mobile Office apps and custom business email, for up to 300 users. Work accounts can collect up to 5,000,000 responses per form.
Free trial	14-day free trial of Google Workspace for new customers, for up to 10 users; billing details needed, charged only after the trial	One month free of Microsoft 365 Personal, Family or Premium, and of Microsoft 365 Business Standard
Platforms	Web	Web
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Quick surveys, quizzes and sign-up forms at no cost Teams that already keep their data in Google Sheets and Google Workspace Classroom quizzes and internal feedback forms	Quick polls and surveys inside Teams and Outlook Classroom quizzes for schools on Office 365 Education Internal staff surveys in organizations already on Microsoft 365
Watch out for	Its pages do not describe collecting payments in a form Gemini form creation and response summaries need an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan Gemini summaries need 3 to 200 responses, skip quiz responses and are not saved	A free personal Microsoft account caps each form at 200 responses (1,000 on a paid personal subscription) Copilot in Forms needs a Microsoft 365 account and a Copilot license; the Copilot chat pane is limited to commercial Copilot-licensed users Its pages do not describe collecting payments in a form
Made by	Google LLC	Microsoft Corporation

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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