empirio.ai is the privacy-compliant, free alternative to Typeform with unlimited surveys, unlimited questions and 50 respondents a month. EU hosting is included from the start. Typeform is built mainly for enquiries, empirio.ai for surveys you also want to analyse thoroughly.
Where Typeform's free plan stops at ten responses a month across all your forms and only unlocks file uploads from 35 euros a month, empirio.ai gives you all 35+ question types, file uploads and the AI survey editor for free. You describe in one sentence what you want to know, and the AI creates your first questionnaire.
With empirio.ai you spread your questions across one or more pages, share the survey by link, QR code or directly on your website, and connect it to your other tools through Zapier, Make, the verified n8n connector, the REST API or webhooks. That costs nothing either.
Survey data and AI processing run 100 percent in the EU, and the data processing agreement (DPA) is included even on the free plan. Typeform stores the data in the US, where an EU data centre is only available on the Enterprise plan.
Create a survey for free
With empirio.ai you can create a modern online survey in minutes — with hosting in the EU.
- AI-built survey
- Adjust by drag & drop
- Real-time analysis
Typeform or empirio.ai: which suits you?
Typeform is a modern provider from Spain, geared mainly towards enquiries, that is contact forms, lead flows, job applications or appointment bookings. For that it is a strong choice: one question appears after another and the answers land straight in tools like Google Sheets or Slack.
Typeform is less tailored to surveys and their analysis. In the tool you see the individual answers and simple charts, and for anything more you download the data as Excel or CSV and analyse it elsewhere. If you want to dig deeper into your results, with cross-tabulations, AI analysis of free-text answers or SPSS export, empirio.ai is the right fit, and it costs less.
Our free plan includes unlimited surveys and questions, plus features that cost money or are missing at Typeform, such as file uploads or exporting the questionnaire as Word and PDF. As with Typeform, you can put each question on its own page or gather several questions on one page. For how empirio.ai compares with the other big providers, see our overview of survey tools compared.
| Feature | empirio.ai | Typeform |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited surveys | ✅ free | ✅ free |
| Unlimited questions | ✅ free | ✅ from 35 €, free only 10 per form |
| Respondents per month | ✅ 50 free, 100 from 19 €, 1,000 from 39 € | ✅ 10 free across all forms, 100 from 35 €, 1,000 from around 70 € |
| Up to 750 respondents a month with one person | ✅ around 35 € | ✅ around 55 € |
| Several users on the team | ✅ 3 users from 39 € | ✅ 3 seats from around 70 € |
| Question types | ✅ 35+, free | ✅ free, payment and file upload from 35 € |
| Start from a template | ✅ 90+ templates, free | ✅ free |
| Edit in draft without changing the live survey | ✅ free | ✅ free |
| File uploads | ✅ free | ✅ from 35 € |
| Export the questionnaire as Word or PDF | ✅ free | ❌ |
| Share by link and embed on your website | ✅ free | ✅ free |
| Logic jumps | ✅ from 19 € | ✅ free |
| Calculations and scoring in the logic | ❌ | ✅ free |
| Quiz with automatic scoring | ❌ | ✅ from 35 € |
| Custom colours and logo | ✅ from 39 € | ✅ colours free, logo from 35 € |
| Remove provider branding | ✅ from 69 € | ✅ from around 70 € |
| Custom subdomain | ✅ Enterprise | ✅ from around 70 € |
| Multilingual surveys | ✅ from 69 €, with AI translation | ✅ only from Business |
| AI creates the questionnaire | ✅ free | ✅ free |
| AI summarises results | ✅ from 39 € | ✅ only Enterprise, Talent and Growth |
| Analyse free text with AI | ✅ from 39 € | ✅ only Enterprise, Talent and Growth |
| Answers individually and as charts | ✅ free | ✅ free |
| Cross-tabulations | ✅ from 39 € | ❌ |
| Drop-off rate | ✅ from 39 € | ✅ only from Business |
| Raw data as CSV and Excel | ✅ from 19 € | ✅ free |
| SPSS export | ✅ from 19 € | ❌ |
| Export to PowerPoint and Word | ✅ from 39 € | ❌ |
| Email sending to respondents | ✅ from 69 € | ❌ only via a paid add-on |
| Access restriction | ✅ from 39 €, also with anonymous answers | ❌ no real access protection |
| Invite people | ✅ from 39 € | ✅ from around 70 € |
| Single sign-on | ✅ Enterprise | ✅ Enterprise |
| Zapier | ✅ free | ✅ free |
| Google Sheets, Slack and Airtable connected directly | ❌ via Zapier, Make or n8n | ✅ free |
| Languages | ✅ nine country versions in six languages, free | ✅ 27 form languages for system text, free |
| EU hosting | ✅ free, also for the AI | ❌ only on the Enterprise plan |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | ✅ free | ✅ free |
| Price | Free, Lite 19 €, Plus 39 €, Pro 69 € per month (cancel monthly) | Free, Basic 35 €, Plus from around 70 € per month |
As of November 2026. We checked Typeform's euro amounts in the product, because Typeform shows dollars on its own pricing page. Typeform says it tests prices, so your account may see different amounts. For Business and the plans above it we give no euro amount, because we have no verified one for those.
Why empirio.ai instead of Typeform?
With empirio.ai you build surveys with no question limit, analyse them directly in the tool and always know where your data sits. The free plan is enough for genuine first surveys, and the paid plans start cheaper than Typeform. That holds for a customer survey just as much as an employee survey or the survey for your dissertation.
Pricing
empirio.ai
With empirio.ai, unlimited surveys and questions are free. On top come all 35+ question types, all 90+ templates, the AI survey editor, EU hosting and the data processing agreement (DPA). The only limit is the number of respondents, namely 50 a month.
If you need more, you pay 19 euros for Lite, 39 euros for Plus or 69 euros for Pro a month. Every plan stays cancellable monthly. Lite can be topped up to 750 respondents a month without having to switch plans.
Typeform
Typeform also allows unlimited forms on its free plan. In return you get only ten responses a month, counted across all your forms together, and at most ten questions per form. Once that quota is used up, the form takes no more responses until the next month.
For more responses you need at least Basic for 35 euros a month. Basic is a single licence and ends at 750 responses. After that Typeform automatically moves your account to the Plus plan, which starts with three seats fixed and costs around 70 euros a month.
Editor
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You briefly describe what it should be about, and the AI creates a first questionnaire. You adjust it by drag and drop, spread the questions across several pages and check everything in the preview. Changes to a live survey stay a draft until you publish them.
Typeform
Typeform is known for forms that show one question after another and so feel like a conversation. There too an AI creates the form by chat, even on the free plan. Changes likewise stay a draft until you publish them.
Features
empirio.ai
Even for free you get all question types including matrix, ranking and NPS, file uploads, export of the questionnaire as Word and PDF, plus the MCP server, the REST API and webhooks. From 39 euros come cross-tabulations, AI analysis of free-text answers, the drop-off rate and export to PowerPoint and Word. That way you analyse your survey directly in the tool instead of first preparing the data in Excel.
Typeform
Typeform's strengths lie before the analysis. The logic can calculate and award points even for free, Google Sheets, Slack and Zapier are connected at no extra cost, and from 35 euros there is a quiz with automatic scoring. At the analysis stage, though, it stops early, because Typeform collects enquiries rather than analysing surveys. You see the answers individually and in simple charts and can download them as Excel or CSV. There are no real cross-tabulations, no SPSS export and no export to PowerPoint and Word. The AI analysis sits only in the Enterprise, Talent and Growth plans, and multilingual forms only start at Business.
Create a survey with empirio.ai for free
Set up a free account and describe in one sentence what you want to find out. The AI creates the first questionnaire from it. Already have a questionnaire as a Word file, PDF or Excel list? Then just upload it and the AI turns it into a survey.
More is possible with empirio.ai
Some empirio.ai features are only available at Typeform on pricier plans or not at all, above all when it comes to analysis. Here are a few of them:
- Cross-tabulations. Compare answers between groups in a few clicks, such as satisfaction by department.
- Analyse free text with AI. The AI summarises open answers and shows you the key themes.
- Multilingual surveys. The AI translates your questionnaire into further languages at the touch of a button.
- SPSS export. Download your data straight away for statistical analysis.
- Export to PowerPoint and Word. Your results land ready-prepared in your next presentation.
- Questionnaire as Word and PDF. Present the questionnaire to the works council, the ethics committee or your supervisor without retyping it.
- File uploads. Respondents upload photos or documents directly in the survey, even on the free plan.
- Access restriction. Decide who may take your survey, with anonymous answers if you wish.
- Drop-off rate. See at a glance how many respondents do not finish your survey.
- 100 percent EU. Survey data and AI processing stay in the EU, and the data processing agreement (DPA) comes free with it.
Create a survey for free
With empirio.ai you can create a modern online survey in minutes — with hosting in the EU.
- AI-built survey
- Adjust by drag & drop
- Real-time analysis
Templates for your start
Start with a blank survey or take one of our 90+ free templates and adapt it to your project.