HeyForm vs Qualtrics
HeyForm and Qualtrics are both forms and surveys software. HeyForm is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.1k GitHub stars. Qualtrics is a commercial product from Qualtrics.
Which to pick
- Pick HeyForm when
- You want Typeform-style forms without per-response pricing.
- Pick Qualtrics when
- A large organisation or university runs serious research programmes and needs advanced survey logic and statistics.
Side by side
A conversational form builder for surveys, quizzes and lead forms, with logic, integrations and analytics, self-hosted or hosted.
Enterprise survey and experience management platform for customer, employee and market research, with advanced analytics.
AGPL licensed, and some features are in the paid hosted plans.
Expensive with annual contracts, and far more than most small teams need.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service
TypeScript, Node.js, React and MongoDB
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Qualtrics
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
9.1k GitHub stars
9.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v3.0.6.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.