Typeform → Formbricks
What it saves, what actually moves, what you rebuild — and the thing that catches people.
What it costs, and what it saves
Typeform bills per response — Plus is about $50/month for 1,000. Formbricks self-hosted has no response limit at all, which removes the entire cost mechanic.
Moves cleanly
Nothing automatically. Forms are quick to recreate.
You rebuild
Forms, logic and any integrations.
What Typeform costs you today
The free tier allows ten responses a month, which is a demo rather than a plan. Basic runs around $25/month for 100 responses, Plus about $50 for 1,000, and Business roughly $83 for 10,000. Extra responses are charged on top. The mechanic to understand is that you are billed for success: a survey that works costs more than one nobody answers, and a viral form can produce an invoice nobody approved. Figures checked 2026-08-07.
What actually holds you in
Low, and this is the good news. Responses export to CSV and the forms themselves are simple structures that rebuild quickly. What you lose is embedded links: a Typeform URL in a published email, a printed QR code or a partner's website keeps pointing at Typeform, so the migration work is chasing down where the form was shared rather than moving the form. Anything mid-campaign is best left to finish rather than moved.
What you are moving to
Formbricks is an open survey and experience platform designed to be self-hosted: link surveys, in-app surveys triggered by user behaviour, and website surveys, with responses resting on your own infrastructure. That last point is the reason to choose it — for GDPR-sensitive work, form responses never leaving your servers turns a compliance conversation into a non-event. Around 12.7k stars, actively developed, with a paid cloud for teams who would rather not host. The licence is an open core with some enterprise features commercially licensed, so check which side of the line the feature you need falls on.
Free and open source to self-host. Paid cloud and enterprise tiers.
Formbricks strengths
- Responses never leave your infrastructure — the compliance answer
- In-app and website surveys, not just link forms
- No per-response pricing; a successful survey costs nothing extra
- Modern interface and active development
What you give up
- Some enterprise features are commercially licensed
- You now run a service, with the upgrades and backups that implies
- Smaller integration catalogue than Typeform
- Conversational polish is close but not identical
The migration, step by step
- 1Export existing responses from Typeform as CSV before anything else — this is your historical data and it does not come back
- 2Deploy Formbricks with docker compose and Postgres
- 3Recreate forms, which is faster than it sounds
- 4Set up webhooks or integrations for where responses need to land
- 5Redirect Typeform links rather than deleting them, since they are embedded in places you have forgotten
The gotcha
Typeform's conversational format measurably lifts completion on long forms. Formbricks is capable but presents differently, and a drop in completion rate can cost more than the subscription saved. Measure it on a live form before switching everything.
When to stay on Typeform
Completion rate on long forms is commercially important — that is what Typeform is actually selling.
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Figures verified 2026-08-07 against vendor pricing pages. Prices change and migrations differ by estate — treat the cost delta as a starting model, not a quote. Rankings and recommendations here are merit-only; affiliate income never changes a verdict. See our methodology.