Votense vs Google Forms

Google Forms is free, familiar and wired into Sheets. Votense is built for the moment after people answer: a results page they can watch, a rule that each person votes once, and survey questions — NPS, matrix, ranking — whose scores are calculated for you instead of in a spreadsheet.

At a glance

Only things that are stable and checkable. Anything that moves — prices, volume limits — is in the dated table below rather than stated here as though it were permanent.

	Votense	Google Forms
Price to build and collect	Free plan: 10 surveys or polls, 100 responses each	Free with a Google account
Owner needs a Google account	No — sign in with Google or GitHub	Yes
Respondent needs an account	No (unless you choose one vote per account)	No, unless the form is limited to signed-in users
Public live results page	Yes — four visibility settings	Respondents can be shown a summary after submitting
One vote per person without sign-in	Yes — per browser or per network, enforced server-side	Limiting to one response requires respondents to sign in
NPS question with the score calculated	Yes	Build it from a 0–10 scale; calculate NPS yourself
Ranking and constant-sum questions	Yes	Not as dedicated question types
Matrix / grid questions	Yes	Yes — multiple-choice and checkbox grids
Conditional logic	Show a question when one earlier answer matches	Go to a section based on an answer
Responses straight into Google Sheets	No — CSV export, webhook or connected apps	Yes, built in
Quizzes with automatic grading and custom points	Yes — plus partial credit on multi-select	Yes — “Make this a quiz”
Essay questions marked by hand, with feedback	Yes	Yes — paragraph answers can be graded
Hold scores until marked, then release	Yes	Yes — “Later, after manual review”
Exam time limit enforced by the server	Yes — with auto-submit	Not built in — add-ons exist
Random question draw from a pool	Yes	Not built in
Pass mark and letter grades on the score	Yes	Points only
Live quiz game (PIN, countdown, leaderboard)	Yes	No
Post each response to Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Airtable or Notion	Yes, on paid plans	Through add-ons or Apps Script; Sheets is built in

Pricing: Votense vs Google Forms

Google Forms pricing below was read from their own pricing page on 2026-10-03. Prices change without notice, so treat this as a snapshot and check their page before deciding.

Votense

Plan	Price	Limits
Free	Free	10 surveys, 100 responses per survey
Basic	$20/month	100 surveys, 2000 responses per survey
Advanced	$40/month	200 surveys, 5000 responses per survey, 3 seats

Response limits are per survey for the life of the survey, not per month. Every survey question type, live results, voting limits, scheduling, webhooks, Telegram delivery, embedding, CSV export and bot protection are on the free plan — every public survey is checked for automated submissions the same way, free or paid; file uploads, password protection, email notifications, your own logo, connected apps (Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion), and keeping a submission that fails the bot check for review instead of refusing it are on the paid plans.

All Votense plans

Google Forms

Plan	Price	Limits
Personal Google account	Free	Google Forms included
Workspace Business Starter	$7/user/month	Forms bundled with Workspace; an introductory discount was shown on the page
Workspace Business Standard	$14/user/month	Forms bundled with Workspace

Google Forms itself is free. Workspace prices buy the rest of Workspace — mail, storage, meetings — with Forms included, not Forms on its own.

Google Forms pricing page

One price for the whole team: Basic is $20 a month flat, not per person.

Billed annually it is $200 a year — $16.67 a month, 17% less than paying monthly. Advanced is $40 a month, or $33.33 a month billed annually.

Basic covers 3 organizations of 2 seats each — 6 seats, which is up to 4 people once you count that you hold a seat in each organization you own. Advanced raises that to 15 seats across 5 organizations, up to 11 people.

Adding someone does not change the bill: the price is the plan, not the head count. Whether that beats a given rival depends on how they charge for seats — check their pricing page, which every comparison here links to, rather than a claim on this one.

When Google Forms is the better choice

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Your data lives in Google Sheets

If every answer needs to land in a Sheet next to the rest of your work, Google Forms does that with no setup. Votense exports CSV and can post each response to a webhook, but it does not write into Sheets.

Your school runs on Google Classroom

Google Forms quizzes import grades straight into the Classroom gradebook. Votense can post a quiz link to Classroom, but grades come back as a CSV to import, not a sync.

You need no limits at all, for free

Google Forms is free without a published response cap. Votense’s free plan is 10 surveys or polls, 100 responses each.

When Votense is the better choice

Results people can watch

Every poll and survey has a public results page that refreshes itself every few seconds. You choose who may open it — everyone, people who have voted, everyone once voting closes, or only you — and written answers are never shown on it.

One vote per person, checked on the server

Limit voting to one per browser, per network or per signed-in account. The check is a conditional database write made when the vote arrives, so reloading, clearing a cookie or pressing Vote eight times at once still counts once.

Survey scores worked out for you

An NPS question returns the score with its promoter, passive and detractor split; a ranking returns average rank and first-place counts; a constant-sum question totals the points. No spreadsheet formulas.

Moving from Google Forms

Rebuild the questions — there is no importer

Short answer becomes short text, paragraph becomes long text, multiple choice becomes multiple choice, checkboxes and dropdown map directly, and a linear scale used for 0–10 becomes a Net Promoter Score question. Most forms take a few minutes.

Old responses stay where they are

Nothing is migrated. Existing responses remain in Google Forms and its linked Sheet; Votense starts empty. Export the Sheet to CSV if you want one archive.

Sections become conditions or wizard steps

A Google Forms section jump becomes either a condition on the follow-up question or a wizard step. A Votense condition matches a single answer, so a branch built on several answers needs rethinking.

Questions people ask

Is there a free Google Forms alternative with live results?

Yes. Votense’s free plan includes 10 surveys or polls, 100 responses each, a public live results page and one-vote-per-person limits. You can also create a single-question poll with no account at /poll-maker.

Can Votense stop people voting twice without making them sign in?

Yes — one vote per browser or one per network, enforced on the server when the vote arrives. For a vote where a second device must not count, choose one vote per account, which does require sign-in.

What does Google Forms do better?

Native Google Sheets integration, grade sync with Google Classroom, and no response cap on its free tier. If those matter most, Google Forms is the better choice.

Checked against the shipped product on 2026-10-03. The Votense limits above come from the same plan table the product enforces, not marketing rounding. What this page says about Google Forms is limited to what they publish; their prices are a snapshot from their own pricing page on 2026-10-03, and where we were not sure of a feature we say to check their documentation rather than guess.

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