Formbricks alternative
Formbricks is an open-source survey platform: in-app, website, link and email surveys with targeting, segments and self-hosting. Datasense takes a smaller job: one- or two-question surveys on your site, with every answer tied to the visitor's location, device, profile and replay, inside the analytics you already use.
Free up to 5k events a month. No card.
Formbricks is the better tool if surveys are a big part of your work, or you want to self-host. Datasense is the better tool if you want a quick question on a page and the answer next to your traffic, without another tool or script.
Side by side, on the things people ask about most. Checked against Formbricks's own site in October 2026.
| Feature | Datasense | Formbricks |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 5k events a month, 1 site | 250 responses a month on cloud; free to self-host |
| Paid plans from | $9/month for 50k events | $89/month on Pro ($74 yearly) |
| No cookie banner needed | Cookies by default; switch any site to cookieless | Uses localStorage; cookies not clearly documented |
| Realtime visitors | Updates every second | |
| JavaScript error tracking | Last 100 errors per site, with stack and browser | |
| Revenue by traffic source | Stripe, Dodo Payments or any provider | |
| Goals and custom events | One line of code or a data attribute | Actions that trigger surveys |
| Proxy to get past ad blockers | Recipes for Next.js, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Nginx | Not clearly documented |
| AI crawler and bot tracking | See which AI crawlers read your pages, on paid plans | |
| Visitor profiles and journeys | Each visitor's pages, visit by visit | Contacts and segments on Pro |
| Raw data export | CSV and JSON, any date range, on paid plans | Responses by API and webhooks |
| Script size | Under 4 KB | About 11 KB, then a larger survey bundle |
| Open source / self-host | AGPLv3, self-hostable | |
| Session replay | On Pro and Team, 5k recordings a month on Pro | |
| On-site surveys | Up to 2 questions, on every plan | In-app, website, link and email surveys |
A Formbricks answer lives in Formbricks. A Datasense answer sits next to the visitor's country, device and profile, with their source, pages and payments, and links to their session replay when one was recorded.
Datasense forms have up to 2 questions: stars, a choice or text, shown on page load, scroll, click or exit intent. Formbricks has many question types, logic, recontact rules and link surveys. Pick by how much you need to ask.
Formbricks is open source and self-hostable, which matters if you need full control. Datasense is a hosted service and isn't open source.
Formbricks Cloud is free for 250 responses a month, and Pro is $89 a month billed monthly ($74 billed yearly) for 2,000 responses. Self-hosting the Community Edition is free. Datasense forms are on every plan, including the free one, with analytics: free up to 5k events, $9 a month for 50k, and $49 a month for 200k.
It takes about five minutes, and you don't have to turn anything off on day one.
Create a free account and paste one script tag into your site's <head>. Leave Formbricks where it is for now.
Compare visitors, top pages and sources. Datasense often shows more visitors once the proxy is on, because ad blockers stop blocking it.
When you're happy, delete the Formbricks snippet. Export your old data from Formbricks first if you want to keep it.
Or see all web analytics tools on one page.
Add one script tag, compare the numbers, then keep the one you like. The free plan is enough to test it.
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