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Google Forms vs Tally

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 21 October 2026.

Compared on
Google Forms

Free plan · from $7/user/mo

Tally

Free plan · from $24.17/mo

What it isGoogle's form and quiz builder, free with a Google Account, with responses that flow into Google SheetsDoc-style form builder with unlimited free forms and submissions, logic, payments and Notion integration
Free planFree 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.Unlimited forms and submissions within the fair use policy (examples of extensive use: 50,000 submissions a month, 100 GB of uploads a month); payments, signatures, file uploads up to 10 MB per file, conditional logic and calculations, Tally AI, integrations; Tally branding
Cheapest paid plan$7/user/mo billed annually (Business Starter)Google Forms pricing$24.17/mo billed annually (Pro)Tally 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.$29 a month or $290 a year (2 months free), excluding VAT; unlimited team members; removes Tally branding and the 10 MB file size limit.
Free trial14-day free trial of Google Workspace for new customers, for up to 10 users; billing details needed, charged only after the trialNone stated
PlatformsWebWeb, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNative integrations including Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Make and n8n, plus 2,000+ web apps through Zapier
Open sourceNoNo
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
  • Collecting unlimited responses on a free plan
  • Notion users who want submissions sent to Notion
  • Startups and creators taking payments or sign-ups without a paid form tool
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
  • Branding removal, custom domains, team workspaces, partial submissions and drop-off analytics need Pro
  • File uploads are capped at 10 MB per file on the free plan
  • Usage beyond the fair use policy, for example 50,000 submissions a month for several months, moves to a custom plan billed quarterly
Made byGoogle LLCTally BV

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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