SurveyMonkey vs Formstack: research tool or workflow suite?
These two aim at different jobs. SurveyMonkey is the research specialist, with deep survey logic, cross tabs, benchmarks, and a panel you can buy responses from. Formstack is a workflow platform where forms feed document generation, e signatures, and governed back office process. SurveyMonkey edges our overall score for survey work; Formstack earns its place when the form is one step in a larger document workflow.
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How they score
Scores are our editorial assessment against the VettedSaaS rubric · not vendor supplied.
Feature by feature
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Pricing, side by side
Entry paid tier, billed annuallyPricing as of June 2026. SurveyMonkey has a limited free plan; Advantage and Premier are individual plans billed annually at about $39 and $139 per month, the monthly only Standard plan is $99 per month, and Team plans start near $30 per user per month with a 3 user minimum, plus per response overage fees. Formstack has no permanent free plan, only a 14 day trial; its Forms plan is about $83 per month and the Suite about $250 per month when billed annually, with add ons that raise the total. Check the vendor for current pricing.