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Qualtrics vs Quillforms

Qualtrics and Quillforms are both forms and surveys software. Qualtrics is a commercial product from Qualtrics. Quillforms is open source under LGPL-3.0, with 622 GitHub stars.

Which to pick

Pick Qualtrics when
A large organisation or university runs serious research programmes and needs advanced survey logic and statistics.
Pick Quillforms when
Your site runs on WordPress and you want Typeform-like forms without a Typeform subscription.

Side by side

What it does

Enterprise survey and experience management platform for customer, employee and market research, with advanced analytics.

A Typeform-style conversational form builder, shipped mainly as a WordPress plugin, showing one question at a time with logic and quizzes.

Watch out

Expensive with annual contracts, and far more than most small teams need.

Many integrations and features are in the paid Pro add-ons.

Ready for

Production-ready (both)

Runs as

Cloud service

Self-hosted server

Built with

Not published

TypeScript, React, PHP and WordPress

Source code

Closed source, sold by Qualtrics

Open source, LGPL-3.0 (weak copyleft)

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.

How widely known

9.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones

622 GitHub stars

How established

Not known

Established: started 6 years ago, no tagged release yet.

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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.