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Formbricks

Formbricks is an open source survey and experience management platform you can self-host — a Typeform and Qualtrics alternative for building link, website, in-app, and email surveys with full ownership of your response data.

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What is Formbricks?

Formbricks is an open source survey and experience management platform for collecting feedback across the user journey. You build link, website, in-app, and email surveys in a no-code editor, then run them on Formbricks Cloud or self-host the whole thing with Docker and keep every response on your own infrastructure.

What is Formbricks best for?

Product, research, and growth teams that want to trigger targeted in-app or website surveys — NPS, CSAT, onboarding, churn — without shipping response data to a third party. It fits well when data ownership, GDPR residency, or unlimited self-hosted responses matter more than a fully hands-off SaaS.

What can Formbricks do?

  • Run link, website, in-app, and email surveys from one platform
  • Build surveys in a no-code editor with 20+ question types (NPS, CES, CSAT, open text, multi-choice) plus conditional logic and skip branching
  • Target surveys to specific users and events with the JavaScript SDK — no code changes to re-target
  • Identify respondents, segment audiences, and manage contacts
  • Integrate with Slack, Notion, Zapier, n8n, and webhooks
  • Self-host with Docker and PostgreSQL for unlimited responses and full data ownership

Is Formbricks free?

Yes — the Formbricks core is free and open source under the AGPLv3 license, and self-hosting is free for unlimited responses (you only pay for your own server). Formbricks Cloud has a free Hobby tier (250 responses/month); paid Cloud plans start at $74/month (Pro) and $325/month (Scale). Some advanced team and governance features live in a separately licensed Enterprise Edition.

Where does Formbricks fall short?

  • It’s AGPLv3, a strong copyleft license. Self-hosting and internal use are fine, but building a modified hosted service on top of it carries source-sharing obligations worth reviewing.
  • Not every feature is in the open source core — some team, governance, and enterprise capabilities sit behind a separate Enterprise license key.
  • Self-hosting in production means running and maintaining PostgreSQL, the app containers, and your own upgrades, which is more work than a hosted SaaS.

What does Formbricks replace?

Formbricks is a self-hosted alternative to Typeform and Qualtrics. It covers the same survey-and-feedback job — link forms, in-app prompts, NPS and CSAT tracking — but you own the data and aren’t billed per response when you self-host.

FAQ

Is Formbricks open source? Yes. The Formbricks core is licensed under AGPLv3 and the code is public on GitHub. A separate Enterprise Edition adds extra features under its own commercial license.

Can I self-host Formbricks for free? Yes. Self-hosting with Docker is free and gives you unlimited responses; you only pay for the server it runs on. Formbricks Cloud is the paid, managed option.

Is Formbricks a good Typeform alternative? For teams that value self-hosting and data ownership, yes — it offers in-app surveys, more on the free plan, and no per-response fees when self-hosted. If you want zero infrastructure, hosted Typeform is simpler to start.

What do I need to run Formbricks? A server with Docker and a PostgreSQL database. The stack is built on Next.js, React, and Prisma (TypeScript), and the official Docker setup wires up the database and mail for you.