Fillout vs Youform
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedFillout compared with Youform
Youform is the budget play: unlimited free responses and a 29-dollar Pro plan, but capped at 3 team members and with none of Fillout's workflow, database, or compliance depth. Fillout is the tool you graduate to when the form stops being a questionnaire and starts being a process. A startup can genuinely start on Youform and move to Fillout when routing and integrations become the bottleneck.
Youform compared with Fillout
Youform never meters responses; Fillout never meters seats and does far more after submit. If you are one person sending a survey to thousands of people, Youform costs nothing and Fillout would cost 75 dollars. If you are a team routing submissions into Airtable, generating PDFs, and answering a security questionnaire, Fillout is the only one of the two that qualifies.
Choose Fillout if
Startups and small operations teams that want a form to actually do something: route to an owner, write into Airtable or Notion, generate a document, book a meeting. Especially strong for teams of five to fifty, since seats are unlimited on every plan and only the response count is billed.
Choose Youform if
Indie founders, solo marketers, and small teams that want a Typeform-style conversational form without a response meter, and who can live with a 3-person team cap and a very small vendor behind the product.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Fillout | Youform |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Forms | Forms |
| Starting price | $15/mo (Starter, billed monthly; $180/yr annually) (free plan available) | $29/mo (Pro, billed monthly; $20/mo equivalent at $240/yr annually) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Response-metered subscription across five tiers (Free, Starter, Pro, Business, Enterprise) with unlimited seats and unlimited forms on every plan; annual billing saves roughly 20 percent. | Flat-rate subscription with an unlimited free tier; paid plans unlock branding, payments, verification, and small team access rather than raising a response quota, which does not exist. |
| Free plan | 1,000 responses per month with unlimited forms and unlimited seats, including multi-page forms, embedding, conditional logic, calculations, file uploads, pre-fill, payment collection, and workflows. | Unlimited forms, unlimited responses, and unlimited questions per form, with conditional logic, calculations, answer piping, signatures, file uploads up to 10 MB, and integrations with Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, webhooks, Calendly, Cal.com, and SavvyCal. Single user, no team access. |
| Free trial | No time-limited trial needed; the free plan is permanent at 1,000 responses per month | No trial needed; the free plan is permanent with unlimited forms and responses |
| Best for | Startups and small operations teams that want a form to actually do something: route to an owner, write into Airtable or Notion, generate a document, book a meeting. Especially strong for teams of five to fifty, since seats are unlimited on every plan and only the response count is billed. | Indie founders, solo marketers, and small teams that want a Typeform-style conversational form without a response meter, and who can live with a 3-person team cap and a very small vendor behind the product. |
| Setup time | A basic form is a same-hour job. A routed workflow that writes into Airtable, generates a PDF, and books a meeting is realistically a half day to a day of configuration and testing. | Under an hour. The AI builder produces a usable draft from a description, themes remove the design step, and publishing is a single click to a hosted link or embed. |
| Learning curve | Low for form building, moderate for workflows. The concepts that take longest to internalize are pre-fill versus pre-fetch and how login forms scope a respondent to their own record. | The lowest of the five products here, partly because the feature surface is the smallest. Anyone who has filled in a Typeform can build one in Youform without documentation. |
| Platforms | Web app, Embeds (popup, slider, side tab, full screen), Hosted links and QR codes, Custom domains (Business and up) | Web app, Embeds (inline, popup, email), Hosted links and QR codes, Custom domains (Pro and up) |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, 256-bit AES encryption at rest, CAPTCHA and spam protection on public forms | Not published in detail; no SOC 2 or ISO certification advertised on public pages |
| Founded | 2022 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | United States (operating as Restly, Inc.); public trackers list Chicago, Illinois | Not disclosed on the company's public pages |
| Ownership | Venture-backed (angel-led seed) | Bootstrapped |
Strengths and limitations
Fillout
Strengths
- Workflow and routing depth well beyond a normal form builder: post-submission automation, record updates, PDF generation, and scheduling in one flow.
- Unlimited seats and unlimited forms on every plan including free, which makes it the cheapest option in the category for teams with many form owners.
- Login forms and pre-fetch let respondents authenticate and edit their own submissions, a capability most rivals in this price band simply do not have.
- SOC 2 Type II and published encryption details make it the easiest of these five to get through a vendor security review.
Limitations
- Responses are metered on every tier below Business, which is a real cost disadvantage against Tally and Youform for public, high-volume forms.
- Form analytics and partial submissions are locked to the 75-dollar Business tier, which feels late given both are table stakes elsewhere.
- No in-app or behavior-triggered survey targeting; Fillout collects, it does not run product research inside your application.
- Cloud-only with no self-hosting or open-source option, so data-sovereignty-driven buyers have to look at Formbricks instead.
Youform
Strengths
- Truly unlimited free plan: forms, responses, and questions, with logic, calculations, signatures, and file uploads included rather than teased.
- The conversational, one-question-at-a-time experience most people are seeking when they search for a Typeform alternative, without the per-response bill.
- 300-plus themes and an AI builder mean a decent-looking form exists within minutes of signing up, with no design or copywriting work.
- Honest, specific block library including NPS, opinion scale, matrix grid, and searchable dropdowns, which is more than most free tools offer.
Limitations
- Team caps are the product's real ceiling: single-user free, 3 members on Pro, 5 on Business, which rules it out for anything past a small team.
- Vendor risk is real and should be priced in: a two-founder, unfunded company launched in 2024 with no published SOC 2, SSO, or enterprise compliance program.
- Stripe payments sit behind the 29-dollar Pro tier, where Tally and Fillout include payment collection on their free plans.
- File uploads cap at 10 MB per file with no published paid-tier increase, which excludes video and large-media collection entirely.
Pricing compared
Fillout
Response-metered subscription across five tiers (Free, Starter, Pro, Business, Enterprise) with unlimited seats and unlimited forms on every plan; annual billing saves roughly 20 percent.
- Free$0
- Starter$15
- Pro$40
- Business$75
- EnterpriseCustom
Fillout is priced for teams, not individuals. Because seats are unlimited on every tier, a twenty-person company collecting 4,000 responses a month pays 40 dollars, which no per-seat competitor comes close to matching, and Paperform would charge 99 dollars plus per-user fees for a comparable setup. The weakness is the opposite case: a solo founder whose single form draws 8,000 responses jumps from 40 dollars to 75 while Tally and Youform stay at zero. The Business tier is also where the value judgment gets awkward, because analytics and partial submissions being gated there means the jump from Pro to Business is often about features rather than volume. Buy Fillout for the workflows, the integrations, and the SOC 2 report; do not buy it to save money on a simple form.
Youform
Flat-rate subscription with an unlimited free tier; paid plans unlock branding, payments, verification, and small team access rather than raising a response quota, which does not exist.
- Free$0
- Pro$29
- Business$89
For one person, Youform is close to free money: unlimited responses with logic, calculations, signatures, and integrations, at zero, is more than most competitors sell for 15 to 25 dollars a month. The value gets less obvious as the team grows, because Pro costs 29 dollars for 3 seats where Tally charges 20 euros for unlimited collaborators and Fillout gives unlimited seats away on its free plan. Payments being a Pro feature also narrows the free tier's edge for anyone selling something. Judge Youform as the best free conversational form builder for an individual, and compare carefully rather than reflexively once you are paying.
Editorial verdict on each
Fillout
MomentumFillout is the most capable form platform in this group and the one that most deserves to be called a platform. Workflows, native database integrations, login forms, PDF generation, and scheduling combine into something closer to a lightweight operations tool than a questionnaire builder, and the unlimited-seat pricing makes it genuinely cheap for a team where many people own forms. Two things should give buyers pause: the response meter, which is a straight loss against Tally and Youform for public high-volume forms, and the decision to hold analytics and partial submissions until the 75-dollar tier. Buy it for the workflows and the SOC 2 report, not to save money on a contact form.
Read the full Fillout profileYouform
Youform is the best free conversational form builder for one person, and it is honest about being exactly that. Unlimited responses with logic, calculations, NPS, signatures, and integrations at zero cost is a real offer, not a funnel, and the 29-dollar Pro tier buys sensible things: your domain, your branding, partial submissions, and drop-off data. The reservations are structural rather than about the product: a 3-seat cap on Pro, no SOC 2 or SSO, no workflow layer, and a two-person unfunded vendor behind it. Use Youform freely for surveys, lead capture, and feedback, keep exports current, and move to Tally when the team grows or Fillout when the form needs to do work after submit.
Read the full Youform profileFillout profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Youform last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.