Survey Tools · September 2026
SurveyMonkey vs SurveySparrow
SurveyMonkey
#1 in Survey Tools
SurveySparrow
These two sit at the top of our survey ranking and they win on opposite grounds. SurveyMonkey is the stronger analyst: more question types, better reporting, and crosstabs and significance testing that SurveySparrow does not try to match. SurveySparrow is the stronger interviewer: it asks one question at a time in a chat style format, and on anything longer than a handful of questions that noticeably lifts the number of people who reach the end.
Price is closer than it looks. SurveySparrow opens at $19 a month billed yearly, half of SurveyMonkey’s $39, but that Basic tier only carries 2,500 responses a year. Matching SurveyMonkey’s 15,000 means SurveySparrow Starter at $39, which is the same money. Compare the tiers that hold your actual volume, not the headline numbers.
The free plans differ in kind. SurveySparrow has a genuine forever free plan. SurveyMonkey Basic is free too but caps every survey at 10 questions, which makes it a way to try the builder rather than a plan to run on.
| SurveyMonkey Our pick | SurveySparrow | |
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| Score | 9.7/10 · Outstanding | 9.3/10 · Excellent |
| Rank | #1 in Survey Tools | #2 in Survey Tools |
| Price | $30.00 | $39.00 |
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Our verdict
SurveyMonkey is the pick for most people, and it is our number one overall. Choose it when the answers matter more than the asking: research with branching, results you need to filter and cross-tabulate, or a survey going to people who will recognise the name and trust it.
SurveySparrow is the better buy when completion rate is the problem you are solving, when you want surveys running inside your product or email rather than behind a link, or when 2,500 responses a year is genuinely enough and you would rather pay $19 than $39.
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