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QuestionPunk vs LimeSurvey

LimeSurvey Cloud’s free plan takes 25 responses a month, and Basic is $39 a month for 1,000; its Community Edition is free if you host it yourself. QuestionPunk’s free plan has unlimited surveys and responses, hosted for you, with AI follow-up questions.

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Free forever with unlimited surveys and responses. Pro is $50/mo, or $41.67/mo billed annually, with unlimited surveys and responses too.

Voice interviews

Respondents answer out loud. An AI interviewer asks the follow-up.

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How a voice interview goes (example)
  1. AI interviewerWhat made you start looking for a new survey tool?
  2. Respondent, speakingHonestly, the answers we got back were too short to act on.
  3. AI follow-upToo short how? Tell me about one answer you couldn’t use.

Take the interview as a participant: three minutes, by voice, with an AI that follows up on what you say.

  • Runs in the browser, no app to install
  • Voice interviews in 25 languages
  • Included on the free plan
  • Unlimited surveys and responses on every plan, not priced per seat
  • Surveys in 130+ languages, voice in 25
  • No sales call, no annual contract

The short answer

LimeSurvey is open source: host the Community Edition yourself for free, or pay for LimeSurvey Cloud. It has 30+ question types, quotas, randomization and exports to SPSS, R and Stata. If your surveys have to run on your own server, choose LimeSurvey. QuestionPunk is hosted and built around AI: build the survey in the AI builder chat, and the AI asks follow-ups on open answers, runs voice interviews and writes the report. Surveys and responses are unlimited on the free plan; voice and analysis use monthly AI credits.

Already have a LimeSurvey survey? Bring it with you.

You do not have to start over. Three ways to move a study you already run.

Rebuild it in the builder

Sign up free, then copy your questions out of LimeSurvey and paste them in when the builder asks what you want to study. It rebuilds them as a study here, ready for AI follow-ups.

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Get a free review first

No account needed. Paste your questions or upload a PDF or Word file, and an AI methodology review lands in your inbox with a rebuilt version you can launch here.

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Start from a template instead

Browse the Education & Academic templates for one close to what you run in LimeSurvey today. Templates open in the app with no sign-up.

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What you get here that you don’t get there

  • AI voice interviews

    Respondents answer out loud and an AI interviewer asks follow-up questions in real time

    LimeSurvey: not listed

  • Intelligent follow-up questions

    Asks a follow-up question based on the answer the respondent just gave

    LimeSurvey: not listed

  • Full prompt transparency

    Read the full prompt behind each AI interview, edit parts of it and add your own sections

    LimeSurvey: not listed

  • Custom AI interviewer personalities

    Choose from prebuilt personalities (researcher, detective, comedian, etc.) or define your own

    LimeSurvey: not listed

  • AI-powered survey creation

    Drafts a survey from a plain-language description of what you want to learn

    LimeSurvey: not listed

  • Multi-language support

    Create and distribute surveys in multiple languages with automatic translation

    LimeSurvey: paid plans

  • Panel integration

    Recruit respondents from a panel without leaving the tool

    LimeSurvey: not listed

  • Video & audio responses

    Respondents record video or audio answers

    LimeSurvey: file upload only

Feature by feature

AI Interview

AI voice interviewsVoice
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed
Intelligent follow-up questions
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed
Full prompt transparency
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed
Custom AI interviewer personalities
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed
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Core Features

AI-powered survey creation
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed
Multi-language support
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyPaid plans
Panel integration
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed
Video & audio responses
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyFile upload only
Advanced question types
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyYes
Skip logic
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyYes
Randomization for experiments
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyYes

Data Collection

Unlimited responses
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed

Pricing

Free tier
QuestionPunkUnlimited surveys and responses
LimeSurvey25 responses/month

Analytics

Synthetic respondent simulation
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed
AI-powered survey review
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyNot listed

Design

Custom branding removal
QuestionPunkPro plan
LimeSurveyPremium
Custom styling & themes
QuestionPunkYes
LimeSurveyYes

“Not listed” means we could not find the feature on the competitor’s own pricing or help pages when we checked in October 2026.

Pricing

LimeSurvey Cloud Basic costs less than QuestionPunk Pro, $39 a month against $50, for 1,000 responses a month. QuestionPunk has no response cap on Free or Pro; LimeSurvey’s free Cloud plan stops at 25 a month.

Billed monthly
QuestionPunk: $50/moPro: unlimited surveys and responses, 25,000 AI credits a month
LimeSurvey: $39/moBasic: 1,000 responses a month
Billed annually
QuestionPunk: $41.67/moPro, $500 a year: unlimited surveys and responses
LimeSurvey: $36/moExpert: 10,000 responses a year
Free plan
QuestionPunk: $0Unlimited surveys and responses, no credit card
LimeSurvey: $0Cloud: 25 responses a month. Self-hosted Community Edition: free

25,000 AI credits a month, not per seat. 7-day free trial, card required. Every plan has unlimited surveys and responses, under fair use. Free includes AI text follow-ups and 3,000 AI credits a month for voice interviews and analysis; Pro adds every AI model, 25,000 credits a month and no branding.

On limesurvey.org/pricing in October 2026, with checkout in euros: Basic is $39 a month billed monthly for 1,000 responses a month. Expert is $36 a month billed annually for 10,000 responses a year, and adds custom branding. Business is $67 a month billed annually. The free Cloud plan has 25 responses a month, and the self-hosted Community Edition is free.

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Where QuestionPunk wins

  • Unlimited surveys and responses, nothing to host

    No response cap on Free or Pro, under fair use. LimeSurvey’s free Cloud plan stops at 25 a month.

  • AI follow-ups and voice

    The AI asks about vague answers, and respondents can answer out loud in 25 languages.

  • AI builder chat and analysis

    Paste your questions or upload a PDF or Word file and the AI builder chat rebuilds the survey; when answers arrive, the AI groups them into themes and quotes, using your monthly AI credits.

Where LimeSurvey wins

  • Open source, self-hosted

    The Community Edition is free and runs on your own infrastructure.

  • Exports for statistics packages

    Data exports to SPSS, R, Stata, CSV, Excel and PDF.

  • 80+ languages

    Surveys in more than 80 languages, with Google auto-translate on paid Cloud plans.

Looking for a LimeSurvey alternative?

If you would rather not run a server, or the Cloud plan’s response limits arrive mid-study, QuestionPunk is hosted, has no response cap, and adds AI follow-ups. Voice interviews and the automatic report use your monthly AI credits.

Frequently asked questions

Is LimeSurvey free?

In two ways. The free LimeSurvey Cloud plan has every survey feature but 25 responses a month and one administrator. The Community Edition is free, open-source software that you host yourself. QuestionPunk Free is hosted for you, with unlimited surveys and responses under fair use and no credit card.

How much does LimeSurvey Cloud cost?

On limesurvey.org in October 2026, Basic is $39 a month billed monthly (1,000 responses a month), Expert $36 a month billed annually (10,000 a year), and Business $67 a month billed annually (50,000 a year). Checkout is in euros. QuestionPunk Pro is $50 a month or $500 a year, with unlimited surveys and responses.

Does LimeSurvey have AI features?

Its paid Cloud plans auto-translate surveys with Google Translate, and its site lists an AI beta as coming soon. We did not find an AI survey builder or AI follow-up questions in October 2026.

Can I move a LimeSurvey survey to QuestionPunk?

Paste the questions into the AI builder chat, or upload the questionnaire as a PDF or Word file after you sign up. It rebuilds them as a survey you can edit. QuestionPunk does not read LimeSurvey’s own survey files.

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