Google Forms vs Microsoft Forms
Google Forms or Microsoft Forms? Here is how they compare on price, free plan, platforms and the jobs each does best, from each vendor's own pages.
| Compared on | Visit | Visit |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
| Made by | Google LLC | Microsoft Corporation |
Choose Google Forms if…
- The job is quick surveys, quizzes and sign-up forms at no cost.
- The job is teams that already keep their data in Google Sheets and Google Workspace.
Choose Microsoft Forms if…
- Price matters: its cheapest paid plan is $5.40/user/mo against $7/user/mo.
- The job is quick polls and surveys inside Teams and Outlook.
- The job is classroom quizzes for schools on Office 365 Education.
Still weighing it up?
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What Google Forms does
- Multiple question types arranged with drag-and-drop, plus premade survey and questionnaire templates
- Logic that shows relevant questions based on previous answers, and quizzes that test knowledge
- Automatic real-time charts of responses and raw-data export to Google Sheets
- Gemini "Help me create a form" builds a form from a prompt, or from Docs, Sheets, Slides and PDF files (eligible Workspace or Google AI plan)
- Gemini summaries of open-text answers, plus actionable insights for forms with at least 12 responses and 3 questions (eligible plan)
- Share by email, link or social media, or embed on a website; collaborators edit and analyze results together
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
What Microsoft Forms does
- Surveys, quizzes and polls with branching questions, answered from almost any web browser or mobile device
- Real-time charts, automatically generated reports and export to Excel for analysis or grading
- Copilot drafts a form from a prompt, suggests refinements, drafts invitations and summarizes results with actionable insights (Copilot license)
- Share by short URL, QR code, Outlook, Teams or an embedded link
- Forms and polls inside Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, Sway and SharePoint
- Quizzes with videos in questions and an option to block internet access during a quiz
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
Questions
Is Google Forms or Microsoft Forms cheaper?
On published entry prices, Microsoft Forms is cheaper: $7/user/mo billed annually (Business Starter) for Google Forms against $5.40/user/mo billed annually (Microsoft 365 Business Basic (no Teams)) for Microsoft Forms. What each plan includes differs, so compare the limits too.
Do Google Forms and Microsoft Forms have free plans?
Both do. Google Forms: 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. Microsoft Forms: 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.