Typeform vs Microsoft Forms

If your organisation is on Microsoft 365, one of these already exists and costs nothing more. That single fact does most of the work here, and the rest of the page is about when it is not enough.

Already paid for, or paid for again

Microsoft Forms comes with a Microsoft 365 subscription at no extra cost, is governed by the same accounts and policies as the rest of the suite, and syncs responses into Excel where most reporting already happens. For an internal survey, a registration or a quick poll, that combination is very hard to argue with.

Microsoft Forms scores 5 for ease and Typeform scores 5 for ease too, so neither is difficult. They are easy in different ways: one because it does very little, the other because it has spent years on the experience of building.

Typeform scores 1 for value against Microsoft Forms' 4. Its entry paid plan carries a hundred responses a month and removing its branding needs the second tier.

Where the free one runs out

Microsoft Forms scores 1 for customisation and 2 for looks, against Typeform's 3 and 5. It offers little control over how the form looks, no payments, no calculations across answers, and some capabilities require a work or school account rather than a personal one — which matters the moment you send a form outside the organisation.

Typeform's one-question-at-a-time format is built for exactly that outside audience, its logic routes respondents down properly different paths, and its design control is strong enough that the result reads as yours rather than as a product's.

Neither offers signatures, and neither lets somebody save a part-finished form and come back to it. On a long application form that is a real shared gap, and Jotform is the entry in this directory that answers it.

Which should you choose?

Choose Microsoft Forms if the form is internal, if it has to sit under your organisation's policies, or if the answers need to be in Excel by Friday. You are already paying for it.

Choose Typeform if the audience is outside the organisation and the form is representing you — and be honest about the response cap, because a public form is exactly the kind that blows through a hundred a month.