What was read
6 companies placed; 0 read during October 2026.
- SurveyMonkeySep 30, 2026
- FormbricksSep 30, 2026
- SurveySparrowSep 30, 2026
- TypeformSep 30, 2026
- Survey response qualitySep 30, 2026
- Product teams running in-app surveysSep 30, 2026
Gaps closed and opened
4 themes were raised about two or more of 4 read companies; 1 shares no word with anything a company declares. Against the previous month: 2 gaps opened and 0 closed (0 now share a word with a declared capability, 0 no longer raised about two companies). Themes are compared by their words, so a theme the reading reworded counts as one closed and one opened.
- Opened · 2
- Complexity, setup and learning curve, Price level
- Now answered in the declared names · 0
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- No longer raised about two companies · 0
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- ◌ Complexity, setup and learning curveraised about 2 of 4 · no declared match
- ◌ Price levelraised about 2 of 4 · no declared match
- ● Usage limits and capsraised about 2 of 4
- ● Analytics and reportingraised about 2 of 4
Who entered
0 companies placed; 1 product sighted by a search and not yet read (TheySaid).
- TheySaid — sighted Oct 5, 2026 · source
Pricing moves
5 of 6 read companies have a pricing entry on record; none recorded a pricing change this month.
- Product teams running in-app surveys [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Across the segment, entry pricing clusters at low monthly rates with free tiers gated by response volume: Refiner offers a free plan for 25 responses/month with paid plans scaling by MAU, Userorbit starts at $95/month billed annually, Survicate is free with Growth from $114/month billed annually, and Formbricks is free for 250 responses/month with Pro from $74/month. source
- Formbricks [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Formbricks Cloud pricing is structured as Hobby (free), Pro at roughly $89/month ($74/month billed annually) with 3 workspaces and 2,000 responses/month, and Scale at roughly $390/month ($325/month billed annually) with 5 workspaces, 5,000 responses/month, teams & access roles, and enterprise add-ons like AI topic labeling and 2FA. source
- Typeform [FACT] Sep 30, 2026As checked against Typeform's own pricing page on 2026-09-02, Typeform's plans are: Basic at $39/mo ($28/mo annual), Business at $129/mo ($91/mo annual), Talent at $169/mo ($119/mo annual, 3,000 responses, video questions), and Growth Flow at $379/mo ($266/mo annual), with Enterprise quote-only. source
- Survey response quality [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Across SurveyMonkey-alternative roundups, entry pricing clusters around $19–39/month for tools like SurveySparrow ($19/mo), Alchemer (~$25–55/mo), Typeform ($25–39/mo), and Jotform ($24–39/mo), positioned against SurveyMonkey's paid plans, which one source states start at $25 per month and another cites a $99/month Standard plan. source
- SurveyMonkey [FACT] Sep 30, 2026BASELINE: SurveyMonkey's individual plans are Standard Monthly at $99/month (no annual discount), Advantage Annual around $39–46/month billed annually, and Premier Annual around $139/month billed annually; Team plans run from about $25–30/user/month (Team Advantage) to $92/user/month (Team Premier) with a 3-seat minimum, and Enterprise is custom-priced. source
What users raised
16 themes raised by users; the most raised: Analytics and reporting (2 of 4), Complexity, setup and learning curve (2 of 4), Price level (2 of 4).
- Analytics and reporting 2/4
- Complexity, setup and learning curve 2/4
- Price level 2/4
- Usage limits and caps 2/4
- Billing, fees and cancellation 1/4
- Buggy drag-and-drop survey builder 1/4
- Customization and branding 1/4
- Free tier, trial and paywalled features 1/4
- generic, impersonal outreach 1/4
- Higher tiers feel expensive for small teams 1/4
- Inconsistent customer service responsiveness 1/4
- Integrations and API 1/4
- Mobile apps 1/4
- No annual discount on monthly plan 1/4
- survey fatigue / declining response rates 1/4
- survey fatigue from over-surveying 1/4
Funding by quarter
Withheld: something was read in 1 of the last 8 quarters. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
The ledger this month
0 observed claims recorded this month.
How big this market is, as its publishers state it
No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.
Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.
No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.