The best alternative to SurveyMonkey
Let's be upfront: SurveyMonkey is a survey research tool, not a general-purpose form builder. If that's exactly what you need, keep using it. If what you're after is contact, registration or application forms, keep reading.
Forms, not market research
Why switch to anota
If your team needs to collect contacts, sign-ups or applications — not run a statistical study — anota is the more natural tool for that, and it costs less for a comparable response volume.
- Built for everyday forms — contact, registration, event sign-ups, applications — not for designing research questionnaires.
- $27/mo ($24/mo billed annually) for 25 forms and 1,000 submissions, versus $35/mo for SurveyMonkey Standard Monthly's 1,000 responses and a single user.
- No research features you'll never touch — you don't need to learn statistical significance testing or crosstabs to publish a contact form.
- 25 active forms included on the Bronze plan, so you can keep each process — contact, support, sign-ups — on its own form.
- Straightforward setup: build the form, share it, collect the responses. No learning curve from a platform built for market researchers.
SurveyMonkey $35/mo · 1,000 responses · 1 user
anota $27/mo · 25 forms · 1,000 submissions
Verdict Cheaper for forms, not for research
SurveyMonkey Statistical significance & crosstabs
SurveyMonkey Industry benchmarking
SurveyMonkey 335M+ person external panel
What SurveyMonkey still does better
- Statistical significance testing and crosstabs — SurveyMonkey includes serious statistical analysis built for researchers. anota doesn't offer any analysis tooling like this.
- Industry benchmarking — SurveyMonkey lets you compare your results against industry data. anota has no equivalent feature.
- SurveyMonkey Audience — paid access to a third-party panel of 335M+ people to get responses from outside your own audience. anota doesn't offer anything like this, and we're not building it.
- If your work depends on academic-grade statistical rigor or a third-party respondent panel, SurveyMonkey is the right tool for that — not us.
SurveyMonkey prices per their public pricing page as of July 13, 2026. SurveyMonkey is a trademark of its respective owner, which is not affiliated with anota.
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