FormbricksOpen-source survey and experience-management platform, a self-hostable Qualtrics and Typeform alternative for in-app, website, link, and email surveys.
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Formbricks
Open-source survey and experience-management platform, a self-hostable Qualtrics and Typeform alternative for in-app, website, link, and email surveys.
The easiest open-source survey platform to self-host, with genuinely nice in-app, website, and link surveys that reach product-feedback jobs Typeform and Google Forms cannot. The catch is open-core: the survey editor is fully free under AGPL, but SSO, team roles, multi-language, and removing the branding need a paid Enterprise license key even on your own server.
Great for
Product and growth teams that want in-app and website micro-surveys, NPS, and link forms on their own infrastructure, with data kept in-house for privacy and compliance.
The catch
The free AGPL core covers survey building, but enterprise plumbing (SAML/OIDC SSO, role-based access, contact segmentation, multilingual surveys, de-branding) sits behind a commercial Enterprise license key that ships locked inside the Docker image.
Bottom line
Alive and shipping fast, on the 4.x line with weekly releases from a venture-backed GmbH out of the 2023 GitHub Accelerator, so the bus factor is a company. Small teams that want zero ops land on the free managed cloud instead.
Self-hostYes (Docker + Postgres; minimum 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB SSD)
Managed cloudYes (app.formbricks.com; free plan, paid from $74/mo, Scale $325/mo, Enterprise custom)
LicenseAGPLv3 core; Enterprise Edition modules commercial; JS and mobile SDKs MIT
LanguageTypeScript (Next.js, React, Prisma, Postgres)
Maintained byFormbricks GmbH (venture-backed company, GitHub Accelerator 2023)
Watch out forSSO, team roles, multi-language, and de-branding need a paid Enterprise license key even when self-hosted
In-app / website surveysYes
Link surveysYes
Email surveysYes
No-code survey editorYes
NPS & rating reportingNative NPS support in reporting
User targeting & segmentationContact management and segmentation are Enterprise Edition
Integrations (Slack, Notion, Zapier, n8n)Yes
REST API + JS/mobile SDKsMIT-licensed JS, React Native, iOS, Android SDKs
Webhooks & workflowsYes
Self-host (Docker)Single Docker image + Postgres
Multi-language surveysRequires Enterprise license key
SSO / SAML / OIDCEnterprise Edition; a paid license key enables it even when self-hosted
Team roles & RBACTeam management and role-based access are Enterprise
Remove Formbricks brandingWhite-label / de-branding needs the Enterprise license
What it does
- Builds in-app and website surveys that fire on user actions, so you catch product feedback and NPS at the exact moment inside your own app
- Runs shareable link surveys and email surveys from the same editor, covering the standalone-form job that Typeform and Google Forms handle
- Targets surveys to specific user groups and segments without shipping new application code, driven by attributes and events you send in
- Self-hosts on your own servers with a single Docker image and Postgres, keeping every response on your infrastructure for privacy and compliance
- Connects to Slack, Notion, Zapier, n8n, and more, plus webhooks, a REST API, and JS, React Native, iOS, and Android SDKs to embed and pipe data out
- Pulls responses into a Unify Feedback store with dashboards and Workflows, so the platform reaches beyond a form builder into experience management
What it can’t do
- Give you SSO, SAML, OIDC, team roles, or contact segmentation on the free build; those are Enterprise Edition features that stay locked without a paid license key, even when you host it yourself
- Remove the Formbricks branding or send white-label email follow-ups without the Enterprise license, so the free self-host carries the vendor's name
- Run multi-language surveys on the community edition; multilingual survey support is gated behind the same Enterprise key
- Match the depth of a heavy market-research tool like Qualtrics or LimeSurvey for complex question logic and advanced survey methodology
- Take drive-by community pull requests freely; the team currently facilitates outside code contributions only as an exception, so this is not a hack-on-it-yourself project
- Install and upgrade itself; self-hosting is real Docker, Postgres, backup, and patching work, and the free cloud tier caps monthly responses if you want to skip that
Pros & cons
Pros
- By far the easiest open-source survey tool to stand up, a single Docker image against Postgres, and the team optimizes for that on purpose
- In-app and website surveys reach product-feedback and NPS jobs that link-only tools like Typeform and Google Forms miss
- Self-hosted survey building is full AGPL with no response caps, so your feedback data never leaves your own servers
- Clean, modern editor and respondent experience that practitioners repeatedly call a great UI
- Real integration surface, Slack, Notion, Zapier, n8n, webhooks, a REST API, and web plus mobile SDKs, so responses flow into the rest of your stack
- Ships weekly on the 4.x line, backed by a funded company, so support does not rest on one maintainer
Cons
- Open-core gating is aggressive for self-hosters, SSO, team roles, multi-language, and de-branding all need a paid Enterprise license key baked into the image
- Free managed cloud caps monthly responses, so growing teams get pushed toward the $74/mo plan or higher
- Analytics and reporting are strong but can be fiddlier to configure than lighter form builders
- Not built for deep market-research methodology, so Qualtrics and LimeSurvey users will hit ceilings on advanced logic
- Community code contributions are only accepted as an exception, which limits the usual open-source fork-and-fix loop
- Self-hosting is genuine ops work, hosting, database, backups, upgrades, and security patching all fall on you
2 positive1 mixed
What the community says
We use Formbricks at our agency, as well as for some clients. I preferred it to HeyForm and OpnForm but they're all good options. Formbricks has native NPS support in its reporting which won us over. That and it has a great UI!
I've used both Formbricks and HeyForm. Formbricks has great analytics but was a bit harder to configure. While HeyForm was super easy to set up, it just had simpler analytics. It depends on what you want. If you have time and want surveys go with Formbricks. If you want simple things like RSVPs or polls go with HeyForm.
Worth taking a look at LimeSurvey and OhMyForm too. Although FormBricks is probably one of the best.
7 sourcesWhere this page’s facts came from. Open the receipts.
- 1GitHub - formbricks/formbricks repo
- 2GitHub API - repo metadata (stars, language, activity)
- 3Formbricks LICENSE (AGPLv3 core + Enterprise Edition + MIT SDKs)
- 4Formbricks docs - Open-Source (AGPLv3 core vs Enterprise Edition)
- 5Formbricks docs - Self-hosting overview and Enterprise license key
- 6Formbricks pricing (free plan, paid from $74/mo, Enterprise custom)
- 7Reddit r/selfhosted - Any tips on self-hosting a survey platform?
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Real tutorials and reviews from YouTube, not ours.