Fillout vs Tally: free booking or unlimited responses

At 1,000 responses a month the two free plans split: Fillout's stops counting there and Tally's keeps going, so a high-volume form with no meeting at the end belongs on Tally. If the form has to end on a booked call, or several people build forms, Fillout does both on its free plan and Tally charges for the second. The Fillout catalogue entry carries the plan we install for clients, and what Fillout does on our desk is the qualify-and-book flow below.

We moved our own inbound from a dedicated qualify-and-book tool to one Fillout form. The questions come in two steps, the contact details are saved at the first one, and the answers decide which meeting length is offered: a short call below a budget or revenue threshold. The first version took about three hours to build. Capturing the details of someone who stops halfway needed a paid tier, and that is the plan we run.

Compare what each free plan does

Tally's free plan is wide on volume and features: unlimited forms and submissions under its fair use policy, payments, signatures, file uploads up to 10 MB a file, conditional logic and calculations, webhooks and the Airtable, Notion and Zapier integrations, all listed on its pricing page. Fillout's free plan caps responses at 1,000 a month but adds unlimited seats, unlimited file uploads, native scheduling, PDF generation and Fillout Workflows, and lets a respondent resume an in-progress form.

The rows that move the decision are the booking row and the team row: removing branding costs a Pro tier on both sides, and Tally's free plan already covers signatures that Fillout puts at Starter.

Book the meeting inside the form

Fillout Scheduling books on Google Calendar, Outlook, Zoom or Teams from inside a form, on every plan, with round robin, collective and group meetings among the event types. Its help page sets the condition that matters for budgeting: each booking arrives as a form submission and counts toward the monthly responses, so 1,000 free responses means 1,000 bookings and questionnaires combined. A form can carry several scheduling pages and still count one response per submission. The Fillout badge stays on the booking page until Pro.

Tally's pricing page and help center list no booking engine of its own. Its embed help lists calendars from Calendly and Cal among the content a form can show, which puts the date picker inside the page but leaves the meeting, the reminders and the routing to that other product and its plan. The answers and the booking then live in two tools, joined by whatever automation you set up. That gap is the reason our qualification flow, described in qualify and book on one page, runs on Fillout.

Price a year at your volume

Fillout bills per account, not per seat. Its pricing page shows Starter at 180 dollars billed annually or 19 dollars billed monthly, Pro at 480 billed annually or 49 billed monthly, and Business at 900 billed annually or 89 billed monthly. Tally's pricing page, read from France, shows Pro at 20 euros a month and Business at 65 euros a month, with yearly billing at two months off; Tally's help page comparing it with Fillout quotes 29 and 89 dollars a month, so a US buyer should check the price shown at checkout.

Tally prints no yearly amount, only the two months off, so its column stays a monthly price, in euros as the page displayed it. At the Business tier the gap is 89 dollars a month on Fillout against 65 euros on Tally, before any exchange rate.

Four situations, priced from those figures. A solo form under 1,000 responses with Tally or Fillout branding acceptable costs 0 on both. A waitlist form that outgrows Starter's 2,000 responses a month costs 0 on Tally and 480 dollars a year on Fillout, where Pro and its 5,000 responses is the next tier. Five people building forms under 1,000 responses costs nothing on Fillout and the Tally Pro fee on Tally, the tier where collaboration is listed. A form that must keep half-finished answers costs the same Pro fee on Tally against 900 dollars a year on Fillout Business billed annually, where partial submissions are listed.

Tally's fair use policy names the ceiling of its free volume: consistently collecting high volumes, around fifty thousand submissions a month for three to four months in a row, triggers a call to set up a custom plan, billed quarterly. Below that, the unlimited claim holds as written.

Check the payment fee before you sell

Tally's payment help page says standard Stripe fees apply and that Tally adds no fee on top of Stripe's pricing. Two other pages disagree with it today: Tally's own comparison table and Fillout's comparison page both list "no commission on payments" as a Tally Pro feature. The same help page also says Tally does not collect recurring payments, so a subscription form needs Stripe's own checkout behind it. Before selling through a free Tally form, run one real payment and read the payout line in Stripe.

Test both for two weeks

Build the one form you need this month in each tool and send real traffic to it for 14 days; neither free plan has a time limit, so the test costs nothing. Count three numbers at the end: responses received, how many respondents left before submitting, and how many teammates had to touch the form. Past 1,000 responses in the period, Fillout's free plan is already too small for you. If the drop-off count matters, Tally lists drop-off analytics under Pro and Fillout lists drop-off rates under Business.

Tally sells no trial of its paid tiers and its refund policy refuses refunds except for a prolonged outage, so the free plan is the test. On Fillout, opening the account through Fillout's plans on our page adds one month of Pro free, a perk agreed with the vendor and not published on its site. The free-plan limits of Fillout are detailed in our Fillout free plan breakdown, and the full tier ladder in Fillout pricing.

Decide by profile

A team comparing Fillout with Jotform rather than Tally has a different decision, on HIPAA and per-seat pricing, covered in Fillout vs Jotform.

Fillout is an affiliate of this site and we earn a commission if you sign up through its link; Tally is not, and we have never run a Tally account, so its side comes from Tally's own pages.