# empirio.ai – A German AI survey platform with 100% EU data storage > empirio.ai is an AI-powered online survey platform from Germany, used by more than 100,000 people who have collected over 3 million answers since 2018. Describe a survey in one sentence or upload a briefing and the AI drafts the questionnaire; alternatively, start from a template or build it manually. Edit in a modern drag-and-drop editor, share by link, QR code, embed or email, and analyze results in a real-time dashboard with optional AI summaries. Survey data is stored in the EU (Frankfurt). Free plan forever with 50 participants per month and no credit card; paid plans from 19 €/month. ## Basic Information - [Homepage](https://www.empirio.ai): What empirio.ai is, its create-share-analyze workflow, use cases, privacy posture, user reviews, and the publicly reported adoption figures of 100,000+ users and 3 million+ answers collected since 2018. - [Product & features](https://www.empirio.ai/product): Create with AI from a prompt or uploaded briefing, adapt a template, or build manually. Drag & drop editor, question types from rating and NPS to matrix, ranking, image choice and file upload, logic jumps without code, multilingual surveys with automatic translation, real-time dashboards, custom branding, and live team collaboration — shared drafts with roles and visible co-editors. - [Pricing](https://www.empirio.ai/pricing): Free forever with 50 participants per month, no credit card. Paid plans start at 19 €/month (Lite), 39 €/month (Plus, adds 3 seats, AI analysis, own logo and colors) and 69 €/month (Pro, adds 5 seats, email sending, branding removal, multilingual surveys and the REST API, CLI and webhooks); larger participant volumes cost more within each plan. Enterprise on request adds unlimited participants, SSO, an own subdomain and account management. Two months free on annual billing. Every plan includes unlimited surveys and unlimited questions. - [Templates](https://www.empirio.ai/templates): Ready-made surveys for employee feedback, customer feedback, market research, HR & recruiting, events and education. - [Solutions](https://www.empirio.ai/solutions): Use-case pages for employee surveys, customer satisfaction, market research, product feedback, pulse surveys, event feedback, lead qualification and academic research, and for schools, universities, companies and students. - [About empirio.ai](https://www.empirio.ai/about): Company story, mission and milestones. - [AI info page](https://www.empirio.ai/ai-info): Structured company and product information written for AI assistants. ## For AI agents and developers - [Developer docs](https://www.empirio.ai/docs): Interactive OpenAPI 3.1 reference for the MCP server, REST API v1, CLI and webhooks. - [MCP server](https://platform.empirio.ai/mcp): Model Context Protocol over Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, scopes `surveys` and `responses`. Tools to create, edit, publish, duplicate and delete surveys, and to list responses, compute aggregates and cross-tabulations, read survey statistics and run exports. Available on every plan, including Free. Registering a confidential OAuth client requires Pro or Enterprise; the usual self-registration flow used by Claude and ChatGPT does not. - [Create a survey with Claude](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/survey-with-claude): Connecting empirio.ai to Claude and building a survey by prompting. - [Create a survey with ChatGPT](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/survey-with-chatgpt): Connecting empirio.ai to ChatGPT and building a survey by prompting. - [MCP server guide](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/mcp-server-survey): What the empirio.ai MCP server does and how to set it up. - [REST API v1](https://platform.empirio.ai/rest/v1): Bearer auth with an `sk_` key or an OAuth access token. Requires Pro or Enterprise, as do outbound webhooks and the `@empirio-ai/cli` command line tool. ## Privacy and compliance - [Privacy policy](https://www.empirio.ai/privacy-policy): How empirio.ai processes data, GDPR rights, and the legal basis for processing. - [Terms of service](https://www.empirio.ai/terms-of-service): Contract terms for using the platform. - [Imprint](https://www.empirio.ai/imprint): Empirio UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Deisterstraße 20, 31785 Hameln, Germany. HRB 217 891, Amtsgericht Hannover. VAT DE323294297. Contact info@empirio.ai. - [Data privacy help](https://www.empirio.ai/help/data-privacy): Practical answers on GDPR, data processing agreements and anonymous surveys. - [Data residency](https://www.empirio.ai/help/data-privacy): Survey data is stored in the EU, in Frankfurt am Main, and is never sold or passed to third parties. A data processing agreement (AVV/DPA) is available and two-factor authentication is on every plan. AI features send the survey text you are working on to an AI provider for processing; see the privacy policy for the current provider and region. ## Help and learning - [Help center](https://www.empirio.ai/help): Getting started, the survey builder, publishing and sharing, responses and analytics, AI features, team collaboration, billing, account security, data privacy and troubleshooting. - [Learn](https://www.empirio.ai/learn): Articles on survey methodology and empirical research — question types, scale levels, Likert scales, NPS, sample size, reliability and validity, qualitative versus quantitative methods. - [Glossary](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/category/glossary): Definitions of the core terms in survey research. ## Trust and comparisons - [Verified user reviews on OMR Reviews](https://omr.com/de/reviews/product/empirio-ai): Independent product profile with verified reviews. Reviewers highlight the intuitive editor, fast survey creation and real-time results; the profile also records requested improvements such as more documentation and customization for complex surveys. - [Google Forms alternatives](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/google-forms-alternatives): Where Google Forms reaches its limits and what a modern survey tool does differently. - [How empirio.ai differs](https://www.empirio.ai/product): Against SurveyMonkey and Google Forms: survey data stored in the EU rather than in a US cloud, modern respondent-facing design, and transparent pricing without an enterprise contract. Against LimeSurvey and other self-hosted tools: nothing to operate. Across the board: AI over the whole workflow — drafting, editing, translating, analyzing — rather than a chatbot in front of a classic builder, live team collaboration on the same draft, and an MCP server on every plan including Free. ## Optional - [Sitemap](https://www.empirio.ai/sitemap.xml): Every indexable URL on the site. ## Languages The same content is published in these languages. Regional variants (de-AT, de-CH, en-GB) exist but canonicalize to the language listed here. - [English (en-US)](https://www.empirio.ai) - [German (de-DE)](https://www.empirio.ai/de-DE) - [French (fr-FR)](https://www.empirio.ai/fr-FR) - [Spanish (es-ES)](https://www.empirio.ai/es-ES) - [Italian (it-IT)](https://www.empirio.ai/it-IT) - [Dutch (nl-NL)](https://www.empirio.ai/nl-NL)