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Microsoft Forms vs Jotform

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.

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Microsoft Forms

Free plan · from $5.40/user/mo

Jotform

Free plan · from $34/mo

What it isMicrosoft's survey, quiz and poll builder, free with a Microsoft account and included in Microsoft 365Form builder with payments through 40+ gateways, AI form generation and 100 free submissions a month
Free planWith 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 formStarter: 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$5.40/user/mo billed annually (Microsoft 365 Business Basic (no Teams))Microsoft Forms pricing$34/mo billed annually (Bronze)Jotform pricing
What it covers$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.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 trialOne month free of Microsoft 365 Personal, Family or Premium, and of Microsoft 365 Business StandardNone stated
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not stated200+ integrations, including Zapier, Google Sheets, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe and PayPal
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 byMicrosoft CorporationJotform 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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