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Sovereignty: not determined

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Typeform SL · www.typeform.com

An AI-assisted analysis of public evidence — not a hands-on test.

Every score, rationale and verdict on this page is AI-generated. Every claim cites the source it was read from. Nothing here is a human star review — and no score can be bought. How scores are made →

Method and versions

The Market Researcher v1.0 · The Operations Manager v1.0 · The HR Lead v1.0 · The Academic Researcher v1.0 · The Data Protection Officer v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.0 · rubric v1 · evaluated 29 Oct 2026

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Typeform at a glance

Vendor: Typeform SL
Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026
Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026
Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page source, captured 28 Oct 2026
Panel verdict: The AI panel rates Typeform 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. Typeform is a forms-and-surveys platform from Typeform SL of Barcelona, and the bench scores it highest on collection and workflows (6 to 7), crediting 28 question types, links, embeds, a 25,000-contact database with CSV import, file uploads, webhooks, a public API and Zapier. how scores are made
As of: Vendor pages captured 28 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 29 Oct 2026. all sources

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The HR Lead

Weighted verdict

Runs the yearly engagement survey and pulse checks for a German company of six hundred, with the works council reading every question. Wants anonymity that is real and stated, results hidden below a minimum group size, reports per department that managers can read, and answers that are deleted when the agreement with the works council says so.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The HR Lead

Panel median The HR Lead This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.

Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion	Panel median	The HR Lead
Form & survey building	3 of 5	3 of 5
Distribution, response collection & workflows	3.5 of 5	3 of 5
Survey analysis & reporting	2.5 of 5	2.5 of 5
Consent, GDPR & respondent data	3 of 5	3 of 5
Hosting choice, teams & portability	3 of 5	3 of 5
European sovereignty	3 of 5	3 of 5
Pricing transparency	3 of 5	2.5 of 5

Form & survey building

How this is scored

What can be built without code: question and field types, conditional logic and branching, piping and hidden fields, calculations, multi-page forms and progress, templates, design and branding, multiple languages, and accessible output for respondents.

0 — Not a form or survey builder; questions cannot be authored in the product.

3 — A builder with the common question types and a few templates; logic, branding or languages are basic or not described.

5 — A drag-and-drop builder with a wide range of question types, conditional logic that shows, hides or skips questions, multi-page forms, a template library, and the customer's logo, colours and fonts.

8 — Advanced logic with piping, hidden fields, calculations and scoring, randomisation, surveys translated into several languages from one master, reusable question libraries, custom CSS or themes, and accessible forms with a named standard (WCAG 2.1 AA or BITV) stated.

10 — Best-in-class authoring: complex research designs (loops, quotas in logic, conjoint or MaxDiff), versioned forms with change history, a published accessibility conformance report, and every element of a form available through the API.

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The HR Lead

The builder is drag-and-drop with 28 question types, conditional logic and branching, piping through the Recall Information feature, multilingual forms and a 3,000+ template library that includes anonymous survey templates, plus brand kits for logo, colours and fonts. We found no public information on calculations or scoring inside the form, hidden fields, randomisation of question order, or a stated accessibility standard such as WCAG or BITV, which my works council will ask about first. 2 3 8 13

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Distribution, response collection & workflows

How this is scored

How forms reach people and what happens to an answer: share links, embedding, QR codes, email invitations with reminders, contact lists and panels, offline or kiosk collection, file uploads, payments and signatures inside the form, notifications, approval or assignment of submissions, and automations that pass a response on to other tools.

0 — No way to collect responses from other people; the product only analyses data collected elsewhere.

3 — A share link and an embed code, with responses visible in the product; invitations, notifications and onward workflows are basic or not described.

5 — Links, embedding and QR codes, email notifications on submission, file uploads, a few native integrations (spreadsheets, CRM, chat) plus a connector service such as Zapier or Make, and either email invitations with reminders or payments inside the form.

8 — Invitations to managed contact lists with reminders and unique links, response quotas and closing rules, offline or kiosk collection, submissions routed for approval or assignment, conditional notifications, documented webhooks and a REST API to read and write responses.

10 — Collection at research and process scale: panel or sample sourcing, multi-channel distribution (email, SMS, web, app intercept) with deduplication, workflows with branching and audit trail, and every response event exposed to the customer's systems in real time with a stated delivery guarantee.

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The HR Lead

Sharing as a link or embedded in email and website, email notifications, follow-up emails and text messages, file uploads up to 4 GB, payments, a 25,000-contact database with CSV import, Zapier and hundreds of integrations, plus webhooks and a public API cover what our yearly distribution needs. Managed invitations with reminders on unique links, response quotas with automatic closing rules, and offline or kiosk collection are not described on the captured pages. 2 3 7 8 11

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Survey analysis & reporting

How this is scored

What the product does with the answers: live results and charts, filters and segments, cross-tabulation, NPS, CSAT and other standard scores, open-text and sentiment analysis, shareable dashboards and reports, and exports to the formats analysts use (CSV, Excel, SPSS, R).

0 — No view of results inside the product; submissions can only be forwarded or downloaded one at a time.

3 — A table of responses with simple charts per question and a CSV export; filters, comparisons and report sharing are basic or not described.

5 — Charts per question, filters and segments, at least one comparison or cross-tab view, standard scores such as NPS, shareable or exportable reports (PDF, presentation), and exports to CSV and Excel.

8 — Cross-tabulation with significance testing, weighting, open-text coding or sentiment analysis, trend reports across survey waves, dashboards for different audiences with permissions, and SPSS or R exports with labels.

10 — A research-grade analysis environment: statistical models beyond cross-tabs (driver analysis, regression), benchmarks, text analytics with themes the customer can edit, and every analysis reproducible from documented exports or an analytics API.

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The HR Lead

Live reporting shows completion rate, drop-off per question, performance over time, auto-generated shareable reports, auto-calculated NPS, and AI topic and sentiment detection on open answers. I found no public information on cross-tabulation, weighting, trend reports across survey waves, exports to SPSS or R, or the filters, per-department report views and minimum group-size suppression that would let me hand each manager their own department results safely. 2 3 10 11 13

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Consent, GDPR & respondent data

How this is scored

What the product gives the customer to collect personal data lawfully: consent and privacy-notice fields, anonymous surveys that really drop IP addresses and identifiers, retention periods and automatic deletion, handling of access and erasure requests, encryption of responses, a data processing agreement, and controls over cookies and tracking on the form itself.

0 — The product collects no personal data from respondents, so there is nothing to protect; or it is a different kind of product.

3 — A privacy policy and a statement of GDPR compliance, with a checkbox field usable for consent; anonymity, retention and deletion are not described.

5 — A data processing agreement offered to customers, a consent or privacy-notice field, an anonymous mode that does not store IP addresses, responses deletable by the customer, and encryption in transit and at rest stated.

8 — Retention periods with automatic deletion, tools for access and erasure requests per respondent, field-level encryption or masking of sensitive answers, forms that set no tracking cookies by default, a published list of technical and organisational measures, and a named data protection officer.

10 — Data protection by design and evidenced: end-to-end or customer-key encryption of responses, documented data minimisation defaults, a DPA with audit rights and subprocessor change notice, records of consent kept with each response, and an independent audit of the privacy controls published.

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The HR Lead

Surveys are anonymous by default and anonymous mode collects no IP addresses or identifiers, the data processing agreement is published with Annex II measures and a named data protection officer, encryption in transit and at rest is stated, data is deleted or returned on termination, and an optional GDPR cookie consent widget exists. Missing for me are a retention period with automatic deletion I can align to the works council agreement, per-respondent access and erasure tooling, and field-level masking; the service terms also grant a worldwide sublicensable licence over respondent data for service improvement, and the Quantitative Insights feature is activated by default and governed by OpenAI's terms — that alone will cost me a long meeting. 4 5 7 12 13

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Hosting choice, teams & portability

How this is scored

What the customer may choose about where and how the product runs and who uses it: a selectable data region or EU-only hosting, self-hosting or an on-premise edition, team workspaces with roles and permissions, single sign-on, an audit log, custom domains and white-labelling, and a complete export of forms and responses that another tool can import.

0 — A single-user tool with no export of forms or responses.

3 — Shared access for a team and a response export; data location, roles and single sign-on are not described.

5 — Hosting location stated with an EU option, team workspaces with at least two roles, single sign-on on a higher plan, a custom domain or removed vendor branding, and an export of all responses.

8 — EU-only hosting selectable per account or a self-hosted edition, granular roles per form or folder, SSO with SAML and user provisioning, an audit log, white-labelling, and forms and responses exportable in a documented format with an API.

10 — Full control over operation: an open-source or on-premise edition with feature parity, customer-chosen region per workspace, administrative APIs, a documented migration path in and out, and an uptime commitment with a published status history.

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The HR Lead

The choice between a US or an EU data center, single sign-on, a custom domain and the top support tier sit on Enterprise only, while shared workspaces with roles, branding removal and a custom subdomain come with the paid plans, and workspace administrators can access and export activity logs. We found no public information on granular roles per form or folder, SAML or user-provisioning detail, or a documented export and migration path — and the terms state the company is not obligated to keep a copy of our submissions. 2 3 4 7

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where forms and responses are hosted, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, email delivery, payment providers, analytics, AI features). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; responses often carry personal and sometimes special-category data, so the whole chain counts, not only the database.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.

5 — EU hosting available and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, but parts of the chain (email, analytics, AI features, support) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The HR Lead

The contracting entity is Typeform, S.L. of Barcelona with a Spanish tax identity, the data processing agreement is published under Spanish law, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications are stated, and subprocessor categories with a published list are referenced, though the named list itself sits behind an external help-centre link. The captured pages give different statements on hosting — EEA processing and an Enterprise EU data center choice on one hand, customer data located in AWS and the San Francisco affiliate acting as joint controller for sales on the other — so the exposure through AWS and the US affiliate is mitigated by standard contractual clauses and Annex II measures rather than removed. 3 4 5 6

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per plan and per user, response or submission limits and what happens above them, which features (logic, branding removal, SSO, EU hosting, analysis modules) need a higher plan, add-ons, minimum term and the free tier's limits.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free tier exists, but how cost scales with users, responses or features is unclear.

5 — Plans are public with prices and their main limits (users, responses, forms), but at least one commonly needed piece (SSO, EU hosting, extra responses, branding removal) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every plan priced publicly with its limits, overage or extra-response prices, feature differences per plan in a comparison table, billing period, VAT treatment and cancellation terms stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given number of users, responses and features, with every add-on, enterprise option, support level and data-return term published.

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The HR Lead

Basic, Plus, Business and Growth Flow carry public monthly prices in euros with user counts and monthly response limits, a 30% yearly saving, priced automation add-ons and a free tier. But single sign-on, the EU data center and the custom domain sit on Enterprise at "contact sales", the price of extra responses and additional users is not stated, the free tier's response limit is not shown and VAT treatment is not described — so for a company of six hundred the real annual cost is not computable from public pages, and the legal notice reserves price changes at any time without notice. 3 7 11

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Open source	Not determined ⚠ unverified	—	uncited Report an error
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Questions about Typeform

Is Typeform European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Typeform as EU-Made.

Where does Typeform store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026.

Does Typeform have a free plan?

Yes. Typeform has a free plan, per the vendor’s page captured 28 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Typeform?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Formbricks (4/5), easyfeedback (3.5/5) and Netigate (3.5/5) highest among the other 19 Forms & Surveys products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Formbricks (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Typeform alternatives.

Where this could be wrong

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 28 Oct 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
Weak sourcing — Open source, Legal entity, Hosting location, Hosting options, Data processing agreement. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
AI can misread a source. Extraction and judgement are automated; a citation guarantees traceability, not infallibility. If something here is wrong, say so — no account needed, every report is decided within 5 business days, and accepted corrections are published.

What we left out

A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.

46 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
9 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
3 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
2 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
2 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
2 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 data fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
5 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us
6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement. Know more? Tell us

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Sources (13)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

1 Vendor homepage www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
2 Features page (surveys) www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
3 Pricing page www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
4 Privacy policy www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
5 Data processing agreement www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
6 Legal notice www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
7 Terms of service www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
8 Distribution, response collection & workflows — found from sitemap www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
9 Distribution, response collection & workflows — found from sitemap www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
10 Survey analysis & reporting — found from sitemap www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
11 Survey analysis & reporting — found from sitemap www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
12 Consent, GDPR & respondent data — found from sitemap www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
13 Consent, GDPR & respondent data — found from sitemap www.typeform.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →