Formbricks
Open-source surveys and experience management
Review status: Research backlog. Research candidate with incomplete checks; not a vetted recommendation.
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open-core planned guideOverview
Formbricks helps collect product/experience surveys. Community managers gather NPS-like feedback from members and event attendees.
At a glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Categories | forms-surveys, community-engagement |
| Deployment | self-hosted, managed-saas |
| License class | open-core (AGPL-3.0-only) |
| Cost model | open-core-paid-features |
| Implementation difficulty | moderate |
| Maintenance burden | medium |
| Maturity | stable |
| Freshness status | partially-verified (2026-07-17) |
| Completeness | partial |
| Confidence | low |
| Directory tier | research-backlog |
Cost reality
Self-host free core; cloud paid. Verify official pricing.
Pricing and free-tier limits change frequently; re-check official pricing before budget decisions.
Tasks reduced or augmented
Software does not replace community or ops staff. It may reduce or augment:
- Member feedback collection
- Event feedback forms
Human oversight still needed
- Survey fatigue
- Anonymity promises
Manual process this can replace
Structured task-fit review has not been completed for this tool. Treat the free-text examples above as evaluation prompts, not replacement claims.
Data held
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responses
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user identifiers if linked
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Personal data: yes
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Payment data: no / not primary
Risks
| Area | Notes |
|---|---|
| Vendor lock-in | Evaluate export formats and API completeness before deep customization. |
| Security | Apply updates promptly; restrict admin access; enable TLS. |
| Compliance | Operator remains responsible for privacy and local regulatory obligations. |
| Licensing | Open core with commercial features. |
| Operational | Plan backups, monitoring, and a restore drill before production use. |
Coworking fit
Roles: community-manager, marketing, owner-operator
Workflows: community-programming, reporting-kpis, event-lifecycle
Problems: improve-member-experience, measure-utilization, reduce-software-cost
Smallest useful experiment
Run a 5-question member satisfaction survey for one site for 30 days.
Initial planning estimate (unverified): 1–3 days
Links
Implementation guide
No implementation guide is published yet.
Verification
- Status:
partially-verified - Completeness:
partial - Confidence:
low - Tier:
research-backlog - Last reviewed:
2026-07-17 - Sources:
Seed entry compiled from official project sites and repositories. Re-verify pricing, license text, and feature claims before production decisions. Star counts and free-tier numeric limits intentionally omitted unless verified at review time.