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Self-host SurveyMonkey
Online surveys ·
Category: forms, surveys & marketing
SurveyMonkey is the dominant hosted survey platform — branched questionnaires, response collection, charts, integrations. The self-hostable replacements all do question types + response collection + reports; what they don't replicate is SurveyMonkey's panel marketplace (paid respondent panels for research).
SurveyMonkey pricing anchor: Team Advantage $25/user/mo; Premier $75/user/mo; Enterprise custom (annual).
- GitHub
- ★ 3.59k · last commit 3d ago · 126 open issues
- License
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GPL-2.0 Community Edition is GPL-2.0; Professional / Enterprise add hosted features under commercial terms.
- Setup time
- 20min docker-compose (PHP + MariaDB)
- Monthly cost
- $5-10/mo VPS.
Migration sketch. Pull `martialblog/limesurvey` and a MariaDB instance. SurveyMonkey survey export (Settings → Export survey design → PDF or DOC) is human-readable, not machine-importable — recreate the questionnaire in LimeSurvey's structure (Survey → Add question groups → Add questions). For responses, SurveyMonkey export → CSV → LimeSurvey's response import (import .vvexport file format after column rename).
Good fit forAcademic researchers, government, and orgs that need offline-capable surveys (LimeSurvey supports printed-to-paper surveys with OCR-back-in).
Weak atUI feels academic-2010; modern competitors look more polished.
- GitHub
- ★ 12.2k · last commit 2d ago · 214 open issues
- License
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AGPL-3.0 - Setup time
- 20min docker-compose (Next.js + Postgres)
- Monthly cost
- $10/mo VPS.
Migration sketch. Pull `formbricks/formbricks:latest` with the official compose at formbricks.com/docs/self-hosting. Build surveys in Formbricks' modern editor; embed in a website (link or iframe), email, or in-app. Logic jumps and conditional questions are first-class. SurveyMonkey response CSVs import via the API for backfill.
Good fit forSaaS teams running in-app micro-surveys (NPS, feature feedback) where embed quality matters more than 100-question instruments.
Weak atLong-form research instruments aren't the focus — LimeSurvey covers that better.
- GitHub
- ★ 2.89k · last commit 19mo ago · 56 open issues
- License
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GPL-3.0 - Setup time
- 15min docker-compose (Node + MongoDB)
- Monthly cost
- $5-10/mo VPS.
Migration sketch. Pull `ohmyform/api` and `ohmyform/ui` plus `mongo:6` via the official compose. OhMyForm is a community fork of TellForm with a cleaner UI — single-page forms, conditional logic, embeddable. Import SurveyMonkey responses via CSV for archival; recreate the questionnaire structure in the editor.
Good fit forPrivacy-first orgs that want a simple, GDPR-compatible survey tool with a forever-free self-host option.
Weak atSmaller community than LimeSurvey/Formbricks; release cadence is slower.
In a terminal? npx os-alt surveymonkey prints this table —
how the CLI works →