10 Best WordPress Survey Plugins (Free & Paid)

Most survey tools live outside WordPress. You send people to a third-party page, pay per response, and your data sits on someone else’s server. For a quick bit of feedback, that’s a lot of friction.

The good news is that WordPress has plenty of options that keep everything on your own site. But “survey plugin” means three different things depending on what you’re trying to do. Some are full form builders where surveys are one feature among many. Some are dedicated survey tools built for nothing else. And some are quick poll plugins for asking a single question inside a blog post.

In this post, I’ve grouped the best WordPress survey plugins into those three categories, so you can jump straight to the type you need. Most of them have a free version too.

Let’s dive in.

Plugin	Type	Ratings	More Info
WPForms	Form builder	5/5	Learn More
Formidable Forms	Form builder	4.5/5	Learn More
Gravity Forms	Form builder	4.5/5	Learn More
Fluent Forms	Form builder	4.5/5	Learn More
QuillForms	Dedicated survey	4.5/5	Learn More
Quiz and Survey Master	Dedicated survey	4.5/5	Learn More
UserFeedback	Dedicated survey	4.5/5	Learn More
OpinionCamp	Quick polls	5/5	Learn More
Crowdsignal Forms	Quick polls	4/5	Learn More
YOP Poll	Quick polls	4.5/5	Learn More

Form Builders With Survey Features

If your site already needs contact forms, quote requests, or payment forms, this is the group to start with. One plugin covers everything, and surveys become just another form type you build the same way.

The catch is pricing. In almost every case, the survey features sit behind a higher paid tier, so you’re paying for a whole form builder to get them. Worth it if you’ll use the rest. Expensive if surveys are all you need.

1. WPForms

WPForms is the most widely used form plugin on WordPress, and its Surveys and Polls addon brings proper survey functionality into a builder most people already know how to use. You drag fields onto a form, publish it, and responses chart themselves as they come in.

The reporting is what sets it apart. Instead of a spreadsheet of raw answers, you get an interactive reports view inside your WordPress dashboard with bar charts, pie charts, and rating summaries. You can export those or embed them on your site, which saves a lot of time if you need to share results with a client or a team.

It also handles the specific survey field types properly. Likert scales, star ratings, matrix questions, and a dedicated Net Promoter Score field that does the promoter and detractor maths for you.

Noticeable Features

• Drag and drop builder with 80+ survey templates
• Likert scale, star rating, and matrix fields
• Built-in NPS field with automatic scoring
• Interactive reports view with charts
• Conditional logic to show questions based on earlier answers
• Anonymous submissions with no IP or email stored
• Conversational Forms addon for one-question-at-a-time surveys

Things To Know Before Choosing WPForms

• The free version, WPForms Lite, has no survey features at all. This trips up a lot of people. Surveys need the Pro plan.
• The Surveys and Polls addon is included at Pro and above, which is $199.50 per year for up to 5 sites.
• It’s the easiest option here if you’re not technical. If ease of use matters more than price, start here.

2. Formidable Forms

Formidable Forms is the pick when your survey data needs to do something after it’s collected. Most plugins gather responses and stop there. Formidable can turn those responses into calculations, front-end reports, directories, and full applications.

The Views feature is the reason people choose it. You can display survey results publicly on your site, filtered and formatted however you like, updating in real time. If you’re running an annual reader survey and want to publish the findings, or building a tool where user answers generate a result, this is the plugin that does it without custom code.

It’s also strong on the survey basics. Multi-page surveys with progress bars, conditional question branching, image-based answers, and graphs built from your response data.

Noticeable Features

• Views feature for displaying results on the front end
• Multi-page surveys with progress bars
• Smart question branching with conditional logic
• Calculations and scoring inside forms
• Reports and graphs from response data
• 225+ form templates including surveys and polls
• Gutenberg block and shortcode embedding

Things To Know Before Choosing Formidable Forms

• Survey features need the Business plan, which is around $199.50 per year for up to 5 sites. The free Lite version won’t cover it.
• It’s more powerful than WPForms but has a steeper learning curve. If you just want a customer satisfaction survey live this afternoon, this is more plugin than you need.
• Check the renewal price before buying, not just the first-year rate.

3. Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms is the long-standing choice for sites where form data has to flow somewhere else. If your survey responses need to land in a CRM, trigger an automation, or sync with an internal system, Gravity’s add-on library and developer hooks are the deepest in the WordPress ecosystem.

Its Survey Add-On brings the expected field types: Likert scales, rank fields, rating scales, and multiple choice, with results summarised in the dashboard. Nothing flashy, but reliable, and it slots into the same builder you’d use for every other form on the site.

The typical Gravity user is an agency or a larger organisation that already runs Gravity for everything and simply switches the Survey Add-On on.

Noticeable Features

• Survey Add-On with Likert, rank, and rating fields
• Conditional logic and multi-page forms
• Very large library of official and third-party add-ons
• Strong CRM and marketing automation integrations
• Entry management and export tools
• Developer hooks for custom behaviour

Things To Know Before Choosing Gravity Forms

• There’s no free version at all. Everything starts as a paid licence.
• The Survey Add-On sits in the higher tiers, so budget roughly $259 per year.
• Choose it if you’re already invested in Gravity or need integrations the others can’t match. If you’re starting fresh purely for surveys, it’s hard to justify the price.

4. Fluent Forms

Fluent Forms is the lightweight alternative in this group. Where the bigger form builders can add noticeable weight to a page, Fluent Forms was built with performance in mind, which matters if you’re embedding a survey on a page you actually care about ranking.

The builder is clean and quick to work in. You get conditional logic, multi-step forms, and a good spread of field types without the plugin feeling heavy. Response management sits in the dashboard with filtering and export.

For most survey use cases it does everything WPForms does. The reporting isn’t as polished, but the trade-off is a faster site.

Noticeable Features

• Lightweight and fast-loading
• Conditional logic and multi-step forms
• Wide range of field types
• Entry management with filtering and export
• Integrations with major email and CRM tools
• Free version available on WordPress.org

Things To Know Before Choosing Fluent Forms

• Pick this over WPForms if page speed is a priority for you. The feature gap is smaller than the price gap.
• Survey-specific reporting is thinner than what WPForms gives you. You’ll get the data, just presented more plainly.
• Check the current pricing page before buying, as the tiers change.

Dedicated Survey Plugins

These are built for surveys and nothing else. They tend to have better free tiers, cost less, and get the survey-specific details right, because that’s the only thing the developers are working on.

The trade-off is obvious. If you also need a contact form, a payment form, and a booking form, you’ll end up installing more plugins.

5. QuillForms

QuillForms takes the Typeform approach: one question at a time, full screen, with the next question appearing as you answer. That format sounds cosmetic but it isn’t. Long static forms with fifteen visible fields make people give up, and the answers you do get skew towards whoever was patient enough to finish.

It handles the mechanics that make conversational surveys work properly. Jump logic sends people down different paths based on their answers, and answer piping pulls earlier responses into later questions so the survey feels like it’s paying attention.

The free version is unusually generous. Unlimited surveys, no response cap, and no branding on your forms.

Noticeable Features

• Conversational, one-question-at-a-time layout
• Jump logic for branching survey paths
• Answer piping to personalise later questions
• Unlimited surveys and responses in the free version
• No branding on free forms
• Data stays on your own server

Things To Know Before Choosing QuillForms

• The free tier is the most generous on this list. If budget is the constraint, start here.
• It’s a survey and form tool, not a full form builder. Don’t expect payment workflows and CRM depth.
• The conversational format suits feedback and research surveys. It’s less suited to a quick one-question poll in a sidebar.

6. Quiz and Survey Master

Quiz and Survey Master, usually shortened to QSM, is the strongest genuinely free survey plugin for WordPress. The core plugin gives you unlimited quizzes and surveys with multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank, and open-ended questions, with no licence key and no response limit.

Where it really earns its place is scoring. You can assign point values to answers, set a passing score, randomise question order, add time limits, and show different result pages depending on how someone scored. That makes it the obvious choice for anything educational: course assessments, onboarding checks, personality quizzes.

The interface shows its age and isn’t the prettiest thing on this list. But for free, the feature depth is hard to argue with.

Noticeable Features

• Unlimited quizzes and surveys in the free version
• Multiple question types including open-ended
• Point-based scoring with pass marks
• Multi-page surveys
• Different result pages based on score ranges
• Certificate-style completion pages
• Email notifications for new responses

Things To Know Before Choosing QSM

• The free version is genuinely usable, not a trial. It’s the best free option here if you need real survey features.
• The admin interface is dated. Expect a less polished experience than WPForms.
• The Pro version starts at around $129 per year and adds advanced reporting and integrations.

7. UserFeedback

UserFeedback works differently from everything else on this list. Rather than sending people to a survey page, it slides a small question into the corner of the screen while they’re browsing. The visitor answers in two seconds and carries on.

That in-context timing is the whole point. Asking “did you find what you were looking for?” while someone is on the page beats emailing them the same question a week later. You can target specific pages, set when the popup appears, and keep questions short enough that people actually answer.

It’s the right tool for website feedback and conversion research. It’s the wrong tool for a twenty-question customer survey.

Noticeable Features

• Slide-in popup surveys shown while visitors browse
• Page-level targeting and display timing rules
• Google Analytics integration
• Multiple question types
• Free version available
• Response reports in the dashboard

Things To Know Before Choosing UserFeedback

• Best for short, one or two question surveys. It isn’t built for long-form research.
• Paid plans start at around $49.50 per year, one of the cheaper options here.
• Popups annoy some audiences. Use the targeting rules rather than showing it site-wide.

Quick Poll Plugins

This last group isn’t for surveys at all, strictly speaking. These plugins ask one question, show the results, and that’s it. No multi-page forms, no branching logic, no scoring.

That’s a feature, not a limitation. If you want to drop “which of these do you prefer?” into the middle of a blog post and show a live result bar underneath, a full form builder is the wrong tool. Just be clear on what you’re installing so you’re not disappointed.

8. OpinionCamp

OpinionCamp is a poll plugin built natively for the WordPress Block Editor. You insert the Poll block wherever you want the question, type your options directly into the editor, and it works. No separate admin screen, no shortcodes to copy, no switching between two interfaces to build one poll.

Everything stays on your own site. It loads nothing from external sources and has no licence check, so your visitors’ answers never leave your server. Repeat voting is handled with a cookie-based setting rather than by logging IP addresses.

There’s a poll library built into the block. When you insert it, you can either create a new poll or select an existing one, so you can reuse the same poll across multiple pages and keep the results combined. There’s also a Poll List block for showing all your polls on one page, and a minimum vote threshold so results stay hidden until enough people have voted.

Noticeable Features

• Fully Gutenberg-native, built and edited in the block editor
• Poll library for reusing polls across pages
• Poll List block for displaying multiple polls
• Real-time results
• Cookie-based repeat vote prevention
• Minimum vote threshold before showing results
• Self-hosted with no external requests and no IP logging

Things To Know Before Choosing OpinionCamp

• OpinionCamp ships a Poll block only. There’s no Survey block yet. You can use it for surveys by placing several polls on the same page, but if you need one multi-question form with branching logic, choose something from the first two groups instead.
• The free version on WordPress.org is close to complete. The only Pro-exclusive feature is the Modern Card poll style.
• Pricing starts at $24.50 per year for a single site, with a lifetime option available.

9. Crowdsignal Forms

Crowdsignal Forms is Automattic’s block-based poll plugin, and it’s about as frictionless as this gets. Install it, add the block, write your question, publish. It also handles NPS questions and a simple applause widget for gauging whether people liked a post.

Because it’s backed by a Crowdsignal account, results are managed in their dashboard rather than your WordPress admin. For a lot of editorial sites that’s fine, and the free plugin plus a free account covers most needs.

If you write in Gutenberg and want a poll in a post with almost no setup, it’s a solid choice.

Noticeable Features

• Single Gutenberg block for polls, NPS, and applause
• Free plugin with a free Crowdsignal account
• Results dashboard with response breakdowns
• Very quick setup
• Maintained by Automattic

Things To Know Before Choosing Crowdsignal Forms

• Your poll data lives on Automattic’s servers, not yours. If data ownership matters to you, this is the trade-off.
• It requires a Crowdsignal account on top of the plugin.
• The Premium plan unlocks higher limits, but the free tier is enough for most blogs.

10. YOP Poll

YOP Poll is the veteran here, maintained since 2012 and completely rebuilt in 2026. It’s the option for sites that take polling seriously: news sites, sports sites, and community forums where people will try to game the results.

That’s what the vote logging and bot protection are for. You can see who voted and when, restrict voting by various rules, and keep the whole response record inside your own WordPress install. It’s more configuration than Crowdsignal or OpinionCamp, but you get more control in return.

Noticeable Features

• Fully self-hosted with all data in your WordPress database
• Detailed vote logs
• Bot protection and vote restriction rules
• Scheduled polls with start and end dates
• Widget and shortcode display options
• Free on WordPress.org

Things To Know Before Choosing YOP Poll

• It’s free, and the free version is the full plugin.
• Setup takes longer than the block-based options. Expect to spend time in the settings.
• Best suited to high-traffic sites where vote integrity actually matters.

How To Choose a WordPress Survey Plugin

Five questions will narrow this down fast.

• How many questions are you asking? One question means a poll plugin. Five or more means a form builder or a dedicated survey tool. Getting this wrong is the most common mistake, and it’s why people install a form builder for a simple sidebar poll and find it overkill.
• Does completion rate matter? If you need people to finish, a conversational format like QuillForms consistently outperforms a long static form. If you’re surveying a motivated audience who already want to answer, layout matters less.
• Do you need results on the page, or just in your dashboard? Publishing findings publicly is a genuine differentiator. Formidable’s Views and WPForms’ embeddable reports handle it. Most others don’t.
• Who owns the data? Every plugin here except Crowdsignal keeps responses on your own server. If you’re asking anything sensitive, or you have data protection obligations, that difference matters.
• Are you paying for surveys alone? WPForms, Formidable, and Gravity all cost roughly $200 to $260 a year, and that’s fair value if you’ll use the rest of the form builder. If surveys are genuinely all you need, QuillForms or QSM will do the job for free.

One last thing on pricing: the numbers advertised on most plugin sites are first-year discounts. Check the renewal rate before you commit, because that’s where people get caught out.

FAQs About WordPress Survey Plugins

Conclusion

So those are the best WordPress survey plugins available right now.

If you want the quickest recommendation: choose WPForms if you want the easiest setup and the best reporting and you’ll use the rest of the form builder. Choose Quiz and Survey Master or QuillForms if you want real survey features without paying anything. And choose OpinionCamp if all you need is a clean poll inside a blog post.

Now over to you. Which survey plugin are you using on your site, and what made you pick it? Let me know in the comments.