Microsoft Forms
The form tool you already own if you run Microsoft 365, with the limits that implies.
Microsoft Forms is the quiet utility bundled into Microsoft 365. If your organisation already pays for Microsoft 365, it is effectively free, it lives next to Teams, Excel and SharePoint, and anyone can build a survey or quiz in minutes. That convenience is the whole pitch. The trade is real: design control is minimal, branching only moves forward to later questions, and the free personal tier caps out at 200 responses for the lifetime of a form. Inside a business or education tenant the response ceiling rises to millions, which removes the worst limit but not the plain look. For internal surveys, quizzes and quick polls it is more than enough. For public facing, branded or payment collecting forms, it is the wrong tool.
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Free if you already pay Microsoft, and limited in all the expected ways.
In its favour
Held against it
Convenient and capped in equal measure
Microsoft Forms scores well on ease of use and value, since it ships with a subscription many teams already hold. Features and logic are the clear weak spot, with limited branching and design, which keeps it best for internal rather than public work.
Scored against the same five weighted criteria we use across form builders. See the rubric →
a Microsoft 365 shop that needs quick internal surveys, quizzes and polls without buying another tool.
building public facing, branded or payment collecting forms that need real design and logic.
What it costs
USD / user / month, billed annuallyPricing as of June 2026. Microsoft Forms is free with a Microsoft account (200 response lifetime cap on a personal free form) and is included in all Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Microsoft 365 Business Basic is about $6 per user per month and Business Standard about $12.50 per user per month, both rising (to about $7 and $14) on July 1, 2026; business and education tenants allow up to 5 million responses per form. Check the vendor for current pricing.