# Fillout vs Google Forms API (slim)

> Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Fillout's 52.2 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do forms responses. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Fillout's 52.2 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do forms responses.

- Fillout: D 52.2, rank #567 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fillout.min.md
- Google Forms API: BB 70.8, rank #127 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms.min.md
- Fillout, good for An agent that reads form responses, files submissions on a person's behalf or subscribes a webhook to a form someone has already built.
- Google Forms API, good for Agents that build forms and quizzes in a Google account and read the answers back, where people already use Google Forms. Ahead on Reliability, 91 against 70; Schema & documentation, 78 against 63; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 47; Security & auth, 66 against 37; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Maintenance & community, 61 against 46; Transparency & trust, 80 against 69. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Fillout | Google Forms API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 63 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 47 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 46 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fillout | Google Forms API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Restly, Inc. (trading as Zite) | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fillout.com/v1/api` | `https://forms.googleapis.com/v1` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Price for forms responses | $15 per month (plan) | free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Fillout's terms of service. The TypeScript API client on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-07-02 | 2021-11-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-07 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.8k npm/wk | 32k npm/wk |