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Microsoft Forms

Quick surveys inside Microsoft 365, with responses that sync into Excel.

Last verified 2026-08-26

Ratings

Ease of building5/5
How the form looks2/5
How much you can change it1/5
Logic and question types3/5
What happens after submit3/5
Value for money4/5

At a glance

Cheapest plan

$0 a month

Included with Microsoft 365

Kind of tool

You build it in an editor

Built for

Surveys and feedback, Registrations and bookings

Where it runs

Inside a suite you may already pay for

About Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms exists to be the form your organisation already owns, rather than the best form builder you could choose.

The ease of building is high for the same reason as its sibling products: a short list of question types, branching on an answer, and nothing to configure before sharing. Its real mechanism is the account. Sign-in is with work, school or personal Microsoft credentials, governance follows the rest of the tenancy, and responses sync into Excel where the reporting already lives. Customisation is equally shallow, running to themes and no further, which means the form announces which suite produced it.

The cost is what happens after submit, once you leave that boundary. There is no payment collection and no calculation across answers, some capabilities need a work or school account rather than a personal one, and appearance is limited to themes. Outside a Microsoft 365 organisation there is very little reason to pick it.

Features

  • Supported
  • Paid
  • Not supported
  • Not recorded
  • Free plan, not a trialSupported
  • Asks one question at a timeNot supported
  • Splits a long form across stepsNot recorded
  • No builder branding on the formSupported
  • Host it on your own domainNot supported
  • Conditional logicSupported
  • Calculations and scoringNot supported
  • Take paymentsNot supported
  • File uploadsSupported
  • Save and resume a part-filled formNot supported
  • Signature fieldNot supported
  • Connects to other tools without codeSupported
  • Filters spam submissionsNot recorded
  • Fetch your responses from an APINot recorded
  • AI drafts the formNot supported
  • Talk to a humanPaid

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