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Formbricks

Top pick

Self-hosted surveys built for privacy-first teams.

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sovereignty

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.

OPEN SOURCEOpen core (AGPL-3.0 core; enterprise features commercially licensed)SELF-HOSTLOCAL-FIRST
LicenseOpen core (AGPL-3.0 core; enterprise features commercially licensed)
PricingFree and open source to self-host. Paid cloud and enterprise tiers.
Open sourceYes
Self-hostableYes
Local-first dataYes

What it does well

  • +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

Where it falls short

  • −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

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