# Alchemer vs Tally (slim)

> Tally scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do forms create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Tally scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against Alchemer's 41.4 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do forms create.

- Alchemer: E 41.4, rank #798 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alchemer.min.md
- Tally: C 60.6, rank #457 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tally.min.md
- Alchemer, good for A company already on an Alchemer Business Platform contract that wants an agent to build surveys, load contacts, send campaigns and export responses.
- Tally, good for An agent that builds a form from a description, publishes it and reads the answers for an owner on a small budget, since the whole API is free. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 35; Schema & documentation, 82 against 45; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 66 against 45; Transparency & trust, 73 against 61.

| Category | Alchemer | Tally |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 45 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 47 | 50 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 45 | 66 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Alchemer | Tally |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Alchemer LLC | Tally BV |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.alchemer.com/v5` | `https://api.tally.so` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Alchemer Software as a Service Agreement | Proprietary service under Tally's terms and conditions. The OpenAPI spec names MIT as its own licence |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-14 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-23 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |