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Lightweight hosted forms

Tally

A hosted form builder with a document-like editor, generous free capabilities, integrations, payments, files, and paid branding and organization controls.

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Editorial verdict

Choose Tally when a compact hosted builder and broad free surface fit the workflow, and the team accepts fair-use, hosted-data, branding, and advanced-governance boundaries.123

Best for

  • Fast hosted form publishing
  • Small teams needing logic and integrations
  • Workflows that fit Tally's generous fair-use model
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Not ideal for

  • Deeply custom application interfaces
  • Enterprise survey research programs
  • Teams requiring a fully owned form backend and data plane
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Main trade-off

A generous low-friction builder reduces cost and delivery time while retaining fair-use enforcement, hosted-service dependence, and paid branding or governance boundaries.123

Product boundary

Whether a lightweight hosted builder with broad free capabilities fits better than a response-metered survey suite or developer backend.

Tally owns the hosted form and submission service. Unlimited free forms and submissions remain subject to fair-use policy, file limits, and plan-gated branding and organization features.123

For: Individuals and small teams that want to publish structured forms quickly without building a response system

  • Usage conflicts with fair-use policy
  • Enterprise research and governance become primary
  • The application must own markup and submission processing

Why teams consider Tally

  • Broad free surfaceForms, submissions, logic, uploads, payments, signatures, and common integrations are available within fair use.123
  • Compact authoringA document-like builder supports rapid non-developer form creation.123
  • Simple paid stepsPro and Business add branding, domains, collaboration, analytics, and retention controls.123

Pricing

Free usage permits unlimited forms and submissions within fair use; Pro and Business are flat monthly subscriptions for branding, team, analytics, retention, and advanced organization features.2

Ordinary collection

Free

Verified 2026-07-26: Tally lists unlimited forms and submissions at no charge within its fair-use guidelines.2

Branded team workflow

Pro — $24/month

Verified 2026-07-26: Pro is $24 per month and adds branding removal, custom domains, unlimited collaborators, partial submissions, CSS, analytics, and related controls.2

Organization controls

Business — $74/month

Verified 2026-07-26: Business is $74 per month and adds plan-specific retention and verification controls.2

Free meter
Unlimited forms and submissions within fair use2
File boundary
Free uploads have a per-file limit; Pro expands upload handling2
Data location
Tally states that form data is stored in Europe2
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Tally vs alternatives

Typeform

Choose when
Choose it when guided presentation, branching, sharing, and managed response operations matter.
Avoid when
Avoid it when the form must live deeply inside an application-owned interface.
Compared with Tally
A polished managed experience adds response, branding, and plan constraints.45

Formspree

Choose when
Choose it when the application should own form markup while delegating submission processing.
Avoid when
Avoid it when a no-code builder or fully application-owned backend is required.
Compared with Tally
Frontend control remains high while submissions and workflow depend on a hosted backend.678

Resources and sources

Official product, pricing, and operating-policy sources

  • Tally help center
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  • Tally pricing
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  • Tally fair-use guidelines
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  • Typeform help center
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  • Typeform pricing
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  • Formspree documentation
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  • Formspree account limits
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  • Formspree plans
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