Online forms and surveys · Comparison

SurveyMonkey vs Tally

2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.

Side by side

SurveyMonkey vs Tally: value, access facts, plan limits and bottom lines
Metric	SurveyMonkey	Tally
What you're paying for	Easy to adoptSurveys with analysis built in, from a vendor with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and paid plans that keep collecting past their allowance.	Worth the priceUnlimited forms and submissions for free, with payments, uploads, logic and the API, and one flat Pro price for a whole team.
Overall score	4.9	7.1Best
Free option	Free plan	Free plan
Card to start	–Not measured	–Not measured
Getting access	Self-serve	Self-serve
Starter priceCheapest paid plan	$46/mo	$24/mo
Pricing model	Seat + usage	Flat rate
Pricing page	Public prices	Public prices
Billing unit	Per plan (individual) or per user (team, from 3 users) with a response allowance; $0.15 per extra response	Flat per plan; unlimited forms, submissions and team members under fair use
Free option	Free Basic plan: 10 questions and 25 viewable responses per survey, SurveyMonkey footer	Free plan: unlimited forms and submissions under fair use, Tally branding
Reference scenario (1,000 responses/mo, no branding, annual)	$139/mo on Premier Annual ($1,668 a year), computed	$24.17/mo on Pro ($290 a year, shown as $24/mo), computed
Month-to-month price	Standard Monthly $99 only; Advantage and Premier are sold annually	$29 on Pro ($29 / $89 for Pro and Business)
At the response limit	Paid plans keep collecting; each extra response is billed at $0.15	No plan cap; sustained use over 50,000 submissions a month leads to a custom plan
Branding removed	Premier ($139/mo billed annually), Team Premier and Enterprise; Standard and Advantage show a subtle footer	Pro ($24/mo billed yearly) and up
Payments and file uploads	Advantage and up; payments through Stripe or PayPal	Every plan; Stripe with no Tally fee; 10 MB per file on Free
SOC 2 / ISO 27001	SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 listed in the Trust Center	Both listed as in progress on the roadmap
HIPAA BAA	Enterprise add-on, through sales	Not offered
EU data hosting	Enterprise only	All form data stored in Europe, every plan
SSO	SAML on Enterprise	Not listed
Response export	CSV, XLS, PPT or PDF from Standard; SPSS from Advantage; none on Basic	CSV download and the API on every plan
Bottom line	From its public pages, SurveyMonkey is a survey tool with analysis built in, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and published overage. Removing its branding costs $1,668 a year on Premier, and SSO, HIPAA, EU hosting and API apps sit on Enterprise.	From its public pages, Tally gives the most for free: unlimited forms and submissions with logic, payments, uploads and the API, and Pro adds a whole team for $290 a year. Its security certifications are still in progress, and HIPAA and SSO are not offered.

Evidence: SurveyMonkey: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Tally: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.

When to pick each

In the words of each review, with the date its facts were checked.

From our SurveyMonkey review
Checked Oct 16, 2026
Pick SurveyMonkey when
Your security review asks for SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 today.
Pick Tally when
You want unlimited free responses and no branding for $290 a year, with data stored in Europe.

Entry price

Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.

SurveyMonkey
Advantage Annual
$46/mo
$552 billed annually. 1 user, 15,000 responses a year
- Accept payments (Stripe or PayPal)
- File upload questions
- Piping, randomization and quotas
- SPSS export
TallyLowest price
Pro
$24/mo
$290 billed yearly; $29 month to month. Unlimited team members
- Remove Tally branding
- Custom domains
- Partial submissions and drop-off analytics
- Uploads of any size

Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: SurveyMonkey 2026-10-16, Tally 2026-10-16.

Which one fits

If you need to start today without a sales call: TallySelf-serve sign-up; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (7.1/10).
Lowest starter price: Tally$24/mo for the Pro (billed yearly) plan.
Highest overall score: Tally7.1/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.

Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score

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