Microsoft Forms vs Qualtrics
Microsoft Forms and Qualtrics are both forms and surveys software. Microsoft Forms is a commercial product from Microsoft. Qualtrics is a commercial product from Qualtrics.
Which to pick
- Pick Microsoft Forms when
- Your organisation uses Microsoft 365 and needs internal surveys or quizzes with no extra tool.
- Pick Qualtrics when
- A large organisation or university runs serious research programmes and needs advanced survey logic and statistics.
Side by side
Simple forms, surveys and quizzes inside Microsoft 365, with responses flowing to Excel and Power Automate.
Enterprise survey and experience management platform for customer, employee and market research, with advanced analytics.
Basic design and logic options; external-facing forms look plain.
Expensive with annual contracts, and far more than most small teams need.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Microsoft
Closed source, sold by Qualtrics
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
1.2k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
9.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
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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.