{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "alchemer", "name": "Alchemer", "vendor": "Alchemer LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://www.alchemer.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "forms", "summary": "Alchemer, formerly SurveyGizmo, is a survey and customer feedback platform. Agents reach it through REST API v5, which creates surveys, pages and questions, reads and writes responses, and manages contacts, email campaigns, quotas and account users.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alchemer", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alchemer.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alchemer.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alchemer.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Alchemer Software as a Service Agreement", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.alchemer.com/v5", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Sales approval on the published plans. The pricing page says API access is for Business Platform accounts, which are quoted by sales, and the API documentation says it is for enterprise customers. An account administrator creates an API key and secret for each user under Security, API Access, and the key works with that user's team roles. The documented call sends `api_token` and `api_token_secret` as URL query parameters. Regenerating a key deletes the old one. OAuth 1.0 with a consumer key and secret is the alternative, with no scopes. Administrators can restrict the accepted HTTP methods and OAuth for the whole account, or block API access for one user.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "API access is sold with the Business Platform plan, quoted by sales, with no public price. Small-team plans list at $55, $165 and $275 a user a month (Collaborator, Professional, Full Access), or $315, $1,075 and $1,895 a user a year, and the pricing page does not include the API in them. A 7-day trial needs no card, and a help article last updated on 12 May 2025 says a trial account may make 60 API calls a minute once its email address is verified. Nothing is priced per call (https://www.alchemer.com/plans-pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$55 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API documentation, the pricing page or the Software as a Service Agreement (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://apihelp.alchemer.com/help", "llmsTxt": "https://www.alchemer.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "forms.create", "forms.surveys", "forms.responses", "forms.webhooks", "forms.embed" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "api-key", "oauth", "webhooks", "sales-led", "enterprise", "iso27001", "soc2", "free-trial" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 41.4, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 798, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 47, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 35, "schema": 45, "security": 44, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Alchemer's REST API v5 covers surveys, questions, responses, contacts and email campaigns in 101 documented operations, with a reference rewritten in April 2026. The pricing page limits API access to Business Platform accounts quoted by sales. Keys travel in the URL query string, and no status page, OpenAPI document or SDK was found.", "bestFor": "A company already on an Alchemer Business Platform contract that wants an agent to build surveys, load contacts, send campaigns and export responses.", "strengths": [ "101 documented v5 operations across 21 resources, each with typed parameters, a cURL request and an example response", "Response lists page up to 500 a request, with filters on status, dates, questions and URL variables and four sort orders", "API keys are issued per user and inherit that user's team roles. An account can restrict which HTTP methods the API accepts", "Four regional hosts for accounts in the United States, European Union, Canada and Australia", "Sunset policy says older API versions stay stable and keep working for at least two years" ], "weaknesses": [ "The pricing page says API access is for Business Platform accounts only, which are quoted by sales", "The documented call puts `api_token` and `api_token_secret` in the URL query string. The alternative is OAuth 1.0, with no scopes", "No status page was found. status.alchemer.com redirects to the home page of www.surveygizmo.com", "No OpenAPI document, official SDK or idempotency key was found, and writes are sent as query parameters", "The Software as a Service Agreement bars disclosing benchmark test data and load or penetration testing, and allows aggregated customer data to train machine learning models" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the host for the account's region (`api.alchemer.com`, `api.alchemer.eu`, `api.alchemer-ca.com` or `api.au.alchemer.com`). The wrong host returns a 401 login failure even with valid keys", "Create with PUT and update with POST. The API reverses the usual meaning of the two methods", "Do not repeat an identical request inside 60 seconds. GET results are cached for 60 seconds and a repeat can return 429", "Stay under 240 requests a minute for the account and slow down when the `X-SG-Warning` header appears", "Wait up to five minutes before reading back a response that was just submitted, and expect a 500 after a 30 second timeout" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 41.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 47, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 35, "schema": 45, "security": 44, "transparency": 49 }, "provenanceScore": 73 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X GET \"https://api.alchemer.com/v5/survey?api_token=YOUR_API_TOKEN\u0026api_token_secret=YOUR_API_TOKEN_SECRET\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/forms.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/alchemer" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Collaborator", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 55, "note": "Billed monthly, or $315 a user a year. 75,000 responses a year. The pricing page does not include API access" }, { "item": "Professional", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 165, "note": "Billed monthly, or $1,075 a user a year, up to 3 users. The pricing page does not include API access" }, { "item": "Full Access", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 275, "note": "Billed monthly, or $1,895 a user a year, up to 3 users. The pricing page does not include API access" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Alchemer LLC", "domain": "alchemer.com", "domainRegistered": "2015-01-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.alchemer.com/service-agreement/", "privacy": "https://www.alchemer.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://help.alchemer.com/help/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Alchemer Software as a Service Agreement, last updated 14 January 2026, names Alchemer LLC, 168 Centennial Parkway, Suite 250, Louisville, Colorado 80027, under Colorado law. Section 15.1 grants a revocable right to use the API.", "https://www.alchemer.com/terms/ is the Website Terms of Use, last modified 12 October 2020, in the name of Widgix, LLC dba Alchemer. It does not govern the service.", "The privacy policy, last updated 23 April 2026, covers customer and respondent data on app.alchemer.com as well as the website.", "No status page was found. status.alchemer.com answers 301 to https://www.surveygizmo.com/, and the home page, the security page and the API documentation link none.", "https://www.alchemer.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 to WebFetch. www.alchemer.com answered 403 to curl for every page except robots.txt, so its pages were read with WebFetch.", "The changelog link is the product-wide release notes list. There is no separate API changelog.", "The API answers at api.alchemer.com, api.alchemer.eu, api.alchemer-ca.com and api.au.alchemer.com.", "RDAP for alchemer.com gives a registration date of 2015-01-20. The company took the Alchemer name in 2021 per its llms.txt." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alchemer.json", "live": { "slug": "alchemer", "probe": { "target": "https://api.alchemer.com/v5", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:34.835015669Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 303, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 291, "p95ms24h": 317, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:34.835015669Z" } }, "answer": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "google-forms", "name": "Google Forms API", "vendor": "Google", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/forms", "kind": "http-api", "category": "forms", "summary": "REST API from Google for creating and editing Google Forms forms and quizzes, reading responses and quiz grades, and subscribing to change notifications through Cloud Pub/Sub. Access is by OAuth 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-forms.json", "repo": "https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client", "license": "Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://forms.googleapis.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@googleapis/forms" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-api-python-client" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0, set up by a person in a Google Cloud project with a consent screen. No partner or sales approval. Six scopes work with the API. forms.body, forms.body.readonly and forms.responses.readonly are specific to Forms, and drive, drive.file and drive.readonly are the Drive scopes. Reading responses needs forms.responses.readonly, drive or drive.file. Google's troubleshooting page says apps asking for sensitive scopes must pass verification to remove the unverified-app warning. The limits page says calls by a service account count as one account for quota. Watches also need a Pub/Sub topic that grants publish rights to forms-notifications@system.gserviceaccount.com.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Standard use of the Forms API has no additional cost, and a Google account can enable it without a card or contract. Quotas are 975 reads, 450 response-list reads and 375 writes a minute per project, with no daily limit. Google says exceeding the quota request limits is planned to incur charges to the Cloud billing account later in 2026, with no price published and 90 days' notice promised. Push notifications use Cloud Pub/Sub, which is billed separately and needs billing enabled. There is no separate sandbox; a test form in any account does that job (https://developers.google.com/workspace/forms/api/limits; https://developers.google.com/workspace/tools-safety).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Forms API docs, the limits page or the discovery document (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 31730, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/forms/api/guides", "capabilities": [ "forms.create", "forms.responses", "forms.webhooks", "forms.surveys" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "free", "oauth", "webhooks", "typescript", "python", "enterprise", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.8, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 139, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 35, "reliability": 91, "schema": 78, "security": 66, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Six OAuth scopes separate form structure from responses, and batchUpdate applies a batch atomically with a revision check. Notifications go only to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic and carry no response data, the API can't list forms or create file upload questions, and the release notes were last updated on 8 April 2025.", "bestFor": "Agents that build forms and quizzes in a Google account and read the answers back, where people already use Google Forms.", "strengths": [ "Separate read-only scopes for form structure (forms.body.readonly) and responses (forms.responses.readonly), plus the per-file drive.file scope", "forms.batchUpdate applies every request or none, and writeControl.requiredRevisionId rejects a write made against a stale revision", "Public discovery document for v1 (revision 20261004, 10 methods, 64 schemas) and Markdown copies of doc pages at `.md.txt` URLs", "Quotas are 975 reads, 450 response-list reads and 375 writes a minute per project, with no daily cap", "No Forms incident on the Workspace status dashboard since 12 November 2025, read on 8 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Push notifications go only to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic in the caller's project, which needs Cloud billing, and they carry no form or response data", "A watch expires after seven days unless renewed, with at most 20 watches per form and event type for each project", "No method lists forms or deletes one, the API can't create file upload questions, and it can't submit a response", "The release notes have two entries, the latest dated 8 April 2025, and no error reference page was found beyond authentication and 429", "forms.create copies only the title, so a ten-question form takes forms.create, forms.batchUpdate and, by the vendor's notice, forms.setPublishSettings" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call forms.create with a title only, then add items with forms.batchUpdate. Any other field in the create body is disallowed", "Publish with forms.setPublishSettings before sharing. Google's notice says forms created through the API after 30 June 2026 start unpublished", "Pass pageSize on forms.responses.list. With none set a page can hold up to 5,000 responses. Use filter=timestamp \u003e N to fetch only new ones", "After a Pub/Sub notification, call forms.responses.list yourself. The message holds only formId, watchId and eventType. Renew each watch within seven days", "Send writeControl.requiredRevisionId on forms.batchUpdate, and read the form before retrying a timed-out forms.create, which has no idempotency key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 35, "reliability": 91, "schema": 78, "security": 66, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 94 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @googleapis/forms", "http": "curl \"https://forms.googleapis.com/v1/forms/$FORM_ID/responses?pageSize=50\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/forms.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-forms" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "gemini-live", "google-adk", "google-secret-manager", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "firebase-cloud-messaging", "google-drive-api", "gemini-cli", "google-search-console", "google-ads-api", "google-sheets-api", "gmail-api" ], "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://developers.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/", "changelog": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/forms/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Google APIs Terms of Service (last modified 9 November 2021) name Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View.", "RDAP for google.com gives a registration date of 1997-09-15.", "www.google.com/.well-known/security.txt expires on 1 April 2030 and names g.co/vulnz, security@google.com and the vulnerability reward programme.", "Google publishes a discovery document for the API, not an OpenAPI spec.", "The release notes page has two entries, 17 March 2022 and 8 April 2025.", "The Google privacy policy read on 8 October 2026 is the version effective 1 October 2026." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms.json", "live": { "slug": "google-forms", "probe": { "target": "https://forms.googleapis.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:44.390945378Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 625, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 596, "p95ms24h": 669, "samples24h": 164, "samples30d": 164, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 50, "ok": 50 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 114, "ok": 114 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:44.390945378Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Alchemer LLC", "b": "Google", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.alchemer.com/v5", "b": "https://forms.googleapis.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the Alchemer Software as a Service Agreement", "b": "Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-09-24", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-01-14", "b": "2021-11-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-04-23", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "32k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Alchemer or Google Forms API?" }, { "answer": "Alchemer takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Google Forms API uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Alchemer and Google Forms API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Alchemer has a hosted endpoint at https://api.alchemer.com/v5 and Google Forms API at https://forms.googleapis.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Alchemer and Google Forms API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "A company already on an Alchemer Business Platform contract that wants an agent to build surveys, load contacts, send campaigns and export responses.", "slug": "alchemer", "watchFor": "The pricing page says API access is for Business Platform accounts only, which are quoted by sales" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 91 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 45", "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 47", "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 44", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 61 against 45", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 61" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "Agents that build forms and quizzes in a Google account and read the answers back, where people already use Google Forms.", "slug": "google-forms", "watchFor": "Push notifications go only to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic in the caller's project, which needs Cloud billing, and they carry no form or response data" } ], "job": { "capability": "forms.create", "name": "Forms create" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-fillout.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Fillout", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-fillout" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-paperform.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Paperform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-paperform" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-wufoo.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Wufoo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-wufoo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fillout-vs-google-forms.json", "title": "Fillout vs Google Forms API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fillout-vs-google-forms" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-paperform.json", "title": "Google Forms API vs Paperform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-paperform" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-wufoo.json", "title": "Google Forms API vs Wufoo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-wufoo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-formbricks.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Formbricks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-formbricks" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-formstack.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Formstack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-formstack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-jotform.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Jotform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-jotform" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-surveymonkey.json", "title": "Alchemer vs SurveyMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-surveymonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-tally.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Tally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-tally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-typeform.json", "title": "Alchemer vs Typeform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-typeform" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formstack-vs-google-forms.json", "title": "Formstack vs Google Forms API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formstack-vs-google-forms" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-jotform.json", "title": "Google Forms API vs Jotform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-jotform" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-surveymonkey.json", "title": "Google Forms API vs SurveyMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-surveymonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-tally.json", "title": "Google Forms API vs Tally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-tally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-typeform.json", "title": "Google Forms API vs Typeform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-forms-vs-typeform" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-google-forms.json", "title": "Formbricks vs Google Forms API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-google-forms" } ], "scores": [ { "alchemer": 35, "by": 56, "edge": "google-forms", "google-forms": 91, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alchemer": 45, "by": 33, "edge": "google-forms", "google-forms": 78, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "alchemer": 47, "by": 25, "edge": "google-forms", "google-forms": 72, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "alchemer": 44, "by": 22, "edge": "google-forms", "google-forms": 66, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "alchemer": 20, "by": 15, "edge": "google-forms", "google-forms": 35, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alchemer": 45, "by": 16, "edge": "google-forms", "google-forms": 61, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "alchemer": 61, "by": 19, "edge": "google-forms", "google-forms": 80, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do forms create.", "verdicts": { "alchemer": "Alchemer's REST API v5 covers surveys, questions, responses, contacts and email campaigns in 101 documented operations, with a reference rewritten in April 2026. The pricing page limits API access to Business Platform accounts quoted by sales. Keys travel in the URL query string, and no status page, OpenAPI document or SDK was found.", "google-forms": "Six OAuth scopes separate form structure from responses, and batchUpdate applies a batch atomically with a revision check. Notifications go only to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic and carry no response data, the API can't list forms or create file upload questions, and the release notes were last updated on 8 April 2025." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-google-forms", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-google-forms.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-google-forms.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-google-forms.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do forms create.\n\n- Alchemer: grade E, 41.4/100, rank #798 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alchemer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alchemer.json\n- Google Forms API: grade BB, 70.8/100, rank #139 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-forms.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Alchemer (E)\n\nGood for: A company already on an Alchemer Business Platform contract that wants an agent to build surveys, load contacts, send campaigns and export responses.\n\nWatch for: The pricing page says API access is for Business Platform accounts only, which are quoted by sales\n\n### Google Forms API (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that build forms and quizzes in a Google account and read the answers back, where people already use Google Forms.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 91 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 45\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 47\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 44\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 61 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: Push notifications go only to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic in the caller's project, which needs Cloud billing, and they carry no form or response data\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Alchemer | Google Forms API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 91 | Google Forms API +56 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 45 | 78 | Google Forms API +33 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 72 | Google Forms API +25 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 66 | Google Forms API +22 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Google Forms API +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 61 | Google Forms API +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 80 | Google Forms API +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **41.4 · E** | **70.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Alchemer | Google Forms API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Alchemer LLC | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.alchemer.com/v5` | `https://forms.googleapis.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Alchemer Software as a Service Agreement | Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-01-14 | 2021-11-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-23 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 32k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Alchemer.** Alchemer's REST API v5 covers surveys, questions, responses, contacts and email campaigns in 101 documented operations, with a reference rewritten in April 2026. The pricing page limits API access to Business Platform accounts quoted by sales. Keys travel in the URL query string, and no status page, OpenAPI document or SDK was found.\n\n**Google Forms API.** Six OAuth scopes separate form structure from responses, and batchUpdate applies a batch atomically with a revision check. Notifications go only to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic and carry no response data, the API can't list forms or create file upload questions, and the release notes were last updated on 8 April 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Alchemer\n\n1. Use the host for the account's region (`api.alchemer.com`, `api.alchemer.eu`, `api.alchemer-ca.com` or `api.au.alchemer.com`). The wrong host returns a 401 login failure even with valid keys\n2. Create with PUT and update with POST. The API reverses the usual meaning of the two methods\n3. Do not repeat an identical request inside 60 seconds. GET results are cached for 60 seconds and a repeat can return 429\n4. Stay under 240 requests a minute for the account and slow down when the `X-SG-Warning` header appears\n5. Wait up to five minutes before reading back a response that was just submitted, and expect a 500 after a 30 second timeout\n\n### Google Forms API\n\n1. Call forms.create with a title only, then add items with forms.batchUpdate. Any other field in the create body is disallowed\n2. Publish with forms.setPublishSettings before sharing. Google's notice says forms created through the API after 30 June 2026 start unpublished\n3. Pass pageSize on forms.responses.list. With none set a page can hold up to 5,000 responses. Use filter=timestamp \u003e N to fetch only new ones\n4. After a Pub/Sub notification, call forms.responses.list yourself. The message holds only formId, watchId and eventType. Renew each watch within seven days\n5. Send writeControl.requiredRevisionId on forms.batchUpdate, and read the form before retrying a timed-out forms.create, which has no idempotency key\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Alchemer or Google Forms API?\n\nGoogle Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Alchemer and Google Forms API need an API key?\n\nAlchemer takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Google Forms API uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Alchemer and Google Forms API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Alchemer has a hosted endpoint at https://api.alchemer.com/v5 and Google Forms API at https://forms.googleapis.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-google-forms.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alchemer-vs-google-forms.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"alchemer\", \"b\": \"google-forms\"}`. 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