Google Forms vs Tally vs Jotform

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

Compared on	Google Forms Free plan · from $7/user/mo VisitRemove	Tally Free plan · from $24.17/mo VisitRemove	Jotform Free plan · from $34/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Google's form and quiz builder, free with a Google Account, with responses that flow into Google Sheets	Doc-style form builder with unlimited free forms and submissions, logic, payments and Notion integration	Form builder with payments through 40+ gateways, AI form generation and 100 free submissions a month
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.	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	Starter: 5 active forms, 100 submissions a month, 10,000 form views a month, 100 MB upload space, 500 stored submissions, 10 payment submissions and 10 signed documents a month, 100 fields per form, 5 AI Agents with 100 conversations a month; Jotform branding
Cheapest paid plan	$7/user/mo billed annually (Business Starter)Google Forms pricing	$24.17/mo billed annually (Pro)Tally pricing	$34/mo billed annually (Bronze)Jotform 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.	Single user; $408 billed yearly; 25 forms, 1,000 submissions a month, 100,000 form views, 100 payment submissions and 100 signed documents a month, 1 GB uploads; branding removable. Charged in EUR in Europe.
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	None stated	None stated
Platforms	Web	Web, API	Web, iOS, Android
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Native integrations including Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Make and n8n, plus 2,000+ web apps through Zapier	200+ integrations, including Zapier, Google Sheets, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe and PayPal
Open source	No	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	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	Collecting payments, orders and donations through a form Healthcare intake forms that need HIPAA features Field data collection on phones and tablets, including offline
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	Starter allows 5 active forms and 100 submissions a month, with Jotform branding Bronze, Silver and Gold are single-user plans; multi-user accounts need Enterprise HIPAA features need Gold or Enterprise
Made by	Google LLC	Tally BV	Jotform Inc.

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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