Tally alternative
Tally is a form builder with a generous free plan: logic, payments, file uploads and signatures, shared by link or embedded. Datasense forms do one thing: ask your visitors a quick question on the page they're on, and put the answer next to your analytics, so you know who said it and what they did.
Free up to 5k events a month. No card.
Tally is the better tool for real forms: signups, applications, orders and anything with many fields. Datasense is the better tool for quick on-site feedback that you want to read next to traffic, revenue and session replays.
Side by side, on the things people ask about most. Checked against Tally's own site in October 2026.
| Feature | Datasense | Tally |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 5k events a month, 1 site | Unlimited forms and submissions under fair use |
| Paid plans from | $9/month for 50k events | $29/month on Pro ($24 yearly) |
| No cookie banner needed | Cookies by default; switch any site to cookieless | Not clearly documented; the embed uses localStorage |
| 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 | Google Analytics and Meta Pixel on Pro |
| Proxy to get past ad blockers | Recipes for Next.js, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Nginx | |
| 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 | |
| Raw data export | CSV and JSON, any date range, on paid plans | CSV, webhooks and API |
| Script size | Under 4 KB | About 15 KB embed, form in an iframe |
| Open source / self-host | ||
| Session replay | On Pro and Team, 5k recordings a month on Pro | |
| On-site surveys | Up to 2 questions, on every plan | Popups on load, time, scroll or exit intent |
Tally builds full forms with logic, payments and uploads. A Datasense form has up to 2 questions, stars, a choice or text, and shows as a corner popup or full screen on the pages you choose.
Tally shows you the submission. Datasense shows the answer with the visitor's country, device and profile, their source, pages and payments, and a link to their session replay when it was recorded.
With Tally you still need analytics to know where visitors came from. Datasense's forms load from the analytics script you already have, and the widget only loads when a form is live.
Tally is free for unlimited forms and submissions under fair use. Pro is $29 a month billed monthly ($24 billed yearly). Datasense forms are on every plan, including the free one, which also covers analytics up to 5k events a month. Pro is $9 a month and Team $49 a month.
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 Tally 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 Tally snippet. Export your old data from Tally 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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