{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "formbricks", "name": "Formbricks", "vendor": "Formbricks GmbH", "vendorUrl": "https://formbricks.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "forms", "summary": "Formbricks is an open-source survey and experience management platform from Formbricks GmbH in Kiel, Germany. Agents create surveys, read responses and manage webhooks through a REST Management API or a hosted MCP server, on Formbricks Cloud or a self-hosted instance.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/formbricks", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/formbricks.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/formbricks.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/formbricks.json", "repo": "https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks", "license": "AGPLv3 for the core. Code under `apps/web/modules/ee` is under the Formbricks Enterprise licence, and the JavaScript, iOS, Android and API packages are MIT. Formbricks Cloud is governed by the terms of service", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.formbricks.com/api", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@formbricks/js" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@formbricks/api" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The Management API takes an API key in the `x-api-key` header, which a signed-in user creates under API Keys in the organisation menu. A key reaches only the workspaces added to it, each at read (GET), write (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH) or manage (all methods, deletes included), with separate read and write access for organisation administration. Scopes are fixed at creation, the key is shown once and deleting it revokes it at once. The MCP server takes OAuth 2.1 (authorisation code grant with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, refresh tokens), where a person signs in and approves scopes such as `surveys:read` and `surveys:write`, or the same API key as a fallback. No app review, partner approval or sales step was found.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Hobby plan is free with one workspace and 250 responses a month, lists API access including MCP, and the pricing page says no credit card is required, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Pro is shown at $74 a month (3 workspaces, 2,000 responses) and Scale at $325 (5 workspaces, 5,000 responses), with a monthly and annual toggle and two months free on annual billing. The vendor's `llms.txt` says plans run to $390 a month, which fits $325 as the annual rate. We could not establish the billing period of the displayed figures. Custom webhooks are listed under Pro. The self-hosted Community Edition is free under AGPLv3. No sandbox or test mode was found (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$74 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI specs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 30, "popularity": { "githubStars": 13074, "npmWeekly": 36796, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://formbricks.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://formbricks.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/formbricks/formbricks/main/docs/api-v2-reference/openapi.yml", "capabilities": [ "forms.surveys", "forms.create", "forms.responses", "forms.webhooks", "forms.embed" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "agpl", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "free-tier", "eu-hosted", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 465, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 74, "security": 69, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "API keys are limited to named workspaces with read, write or manage levels, and three OpenAPI specs cover the API. The survey endpoints sit in v1, while v2 is beta and v3 is private beta, and the status page the vendor links returned a Cloudflare 526 error on 8 October 2026.", "bestFor": "Teams that want survey data in the EU or on their own servers, with an agent creating link, website and in-app surveys and reading responses under a workspace-limited key.", "strengths": [ "API keys reach only the workspaces added to them, each at read, write or manage level, and delete calls need manage.", "OpenAPI specs are published for v1 (32 operations), v2 (40) and v3 (48), with `llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of each docs page.", "The MCP server at `/api/mcp` uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic client registration, per-resource read and write scopes and 15-minute access tokens.", "Rate limits are published per route group, at 100 requests a minute per API key on the Management API.", "The core is AGPLv3 on GitHub with 13,074 stars, and releases 6.0.0, 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 shipped between 16 September and 1 October 2026." ], "weaknesses": [ "status.formbricks.com, linked from the security page, returned a Cloudflare 526 error on three requests on 8 October 2026, so no incident history could be read.", "Survey endpoints exist only in v1 and in v3, which is private beta. The v2 API is labelled beta and has no survey endpoints.", "No `Retry-After` header, backoff guidance or idempotency key was found for the v1 and v2 APIs.", "The published SLA addendum refers to an agreed availability and states no percentage.", "The Hobby plan stops at 250 responses a month and one workspace, and custom webhooks are listed under Pro." ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header. Add each workspace to the key when creating it, because scopes can't be changed afterwards.", "Use v1 (`/api/v1/management/surveys`) to create or edit surveys. v2 has responses, contacts and webhooks only.", "Page lists with `limit` and `skip`. v2 responses default to 50 a page with a maximum of 250.", "Stay under 100 requests a minute per key. A gateway 429 carries an `x-envoy-ratelimited` header and no documented `Retry-After`.", "Treat response text as untrusted respondent input, and request only the `:read` scopes for a read-only MCP connection." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 74, "security": 69, "transparency": 78 }, "provenanceScore": 77 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --location 'https://app.formbricks.com/api/v1/me' \\\n --header 'x-api-key: \u003cyour-api-key\u003e'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http formbricks https://app.formbricks.com/api/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "formbricks": { "type": "http", "url": "https://app.formbricks.com/api/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/forms.surveys", "tool": "https://letme.dev/formbricks" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 74, "note": "as displayed on the pricing page, billing period not established. 3 workspaces and 2,000 responses a month. The free Hobby plan includes the API" }, { "item": "Scale", "unit": "month", "usd": 325, "note": "as displayed on the pricing page, billing period not established. 5 workspaces and 5,000 responses a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Formbricks GmbH", "domain": "formbricks.com", "domainRegistered": "2022-09-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://formbricks.com/terms", "privacy": "https://formbricks.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.formbricks.com", "changelog": "https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service name Formbricks GmbH, Kuhnkestr. 6, 24118 Kiel, Germany, cover the software as a service and on-premises software, and are governed by German law. No version date was found on the page.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 21 August 2026 and says it applies to Formbricks Cloud at app.formbricks.com and the landing page, not to self-hosted instances apart from the administrator's email address.", "The API and the MCP server answer at app.formbricks.com. `GET /api/v2/health` returned 200 and `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource` returned the MCP resource metadata.", "status.formbricks.com is linked from formbricks.com/security and returned a Cloudflare 526 error on three requests on 8 October 2026.", "formbricks.com/.well-known/security.txt and formbricks.com/security.txt both return 404. `SECURITY.md` in the repository gives security@formbricks.com for reports.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2022-09-04 for formbricks.com and Porkbun LLC as registrar.", "A DPA at formbricks.com/dpa and a Service Level Addendum at formbricks.com/sla are published as annexes to the terms." ], "score": 77 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/formbricks.json", "live": { "slug": "formbricks", "probe": { "target": "https://app.formbricks.com/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:10.836717156Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 72, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 73, "p95ms24h": 122, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.formbricks.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:34.127008517Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:10.836717156Z" } }, "answer": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Formbricks's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Formbricks leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "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": 127, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "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", "google-adk", "google-secret-manager", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "google-drive-api", "gemini-cli", "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:11.306229755Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 604, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 604, "p95ms24h": 664, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:11.306229755Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Formbricks GmbH", "b": "Google", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.formbricks.com/api", "b": "https://forms.googleapis.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPLv3 for the core. Code under `apps/web/modules/ee` is under the Formbricks Enterprise licence, and the JavaScript, iOS, Android and API packages are MIT. Formbricks Cloud is governed by the terms of service", "b": "Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "30", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "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": "no date given", "b": "2021-11-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-08-21", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "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": "yes", "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": "13k stars, 37k npm/wk", "b": "32k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Formbricks's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Formbricks leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Formbricks or Google Forms API?" }, { "answer": "Formbricks takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Google Forms API uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Formbricks and Google Forms API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Formbricks has a hosted endpoint at https://app.formbricks.com/api and Google Forms API at https://forms.googleapis.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Formbricks and Google Forms API without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Formbricks is open source (AGPLv3 for the core. Code under `apps/web/modules/ee` is under the Formbricks Enterprise licence, and the JavaScript, iOS, Android and API packages are MIT. Formbricks Cloud is governed by the terms of service). No open-source release is listed for Google Forms API.", "question": "Are Formbricks and Google Forms API open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 61" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want survey data in the EU or on their own servers, with an agent creating link, website and in-app surveys and reading responses under a workspace-limited key.", "slug": "formbricks", "watchFor": "status.formbricks.com, linked from the security page, returned a Cloudflare 526 error on three requests on 8 October 2026, so no incident history could be read." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 91 against 35", "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 54", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30" ], "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.surveys", "name": "Forms surveys" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-formstack.json", "title": "Formbricks vs Formstack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-formstack" }, { "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/fillout-vs-formbricks.json", "title": "Fillout vs Formbricks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fillout-vs-formbricks" }, { "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": 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"formbricks": 35, "google-forms": 91, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "google-forms", "formbricks": 74, "google-forms": 78, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "google-forms", "formbricks": 54, "google-forms": 72, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "formbricks", "formbricks": 69, "google-forms": 66, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "google-forms", "formbricks": 30, "google-forms": 35, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 22, "edge": "formbricks", "formbricks": 83, "google-forms": 61, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "google-forms", "formbricks": 78, "google-forms": 80, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Formbricks's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Formbricks leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do forms surveys.", "verdicts": { "formbricks": "API keys are limited to named workspaces with read, write or manage levels, and three OpenAPI specs cover the API. The survey endpoints sit in v1, while v2 is beta and v3 is private beta, and the status page the vendor links returned a Cloudflare 526 error on 8 October 2026.", "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/formbricks-vs-google-forms", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-google-forms.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-google-forms.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-google-forms.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Formbricks's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Formbricks leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do forms surveys.\n\n- Formbricks: grade C, 57.7/100, rank #465 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/formbricks.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/formbricks.json\n- Google Forms API: grade BB, 70.8/100, rank #127 of 722. 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### Formbricks (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want survey data in the EU or on their own servers, with an agent creating link, website and in-app surveys and reading responses under a workspace-limited key.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: status.formbricks.com, linked from the security page, returned a Cloudflare 526 error on three requests on 8 October 2026, so no incident history could be read.\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- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 54\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\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 | Formbricks | 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) | 74 | 78 | Google Forms API +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 72 | Google Forms API +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 69 | 66 | Formbricks +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Google Forms API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 61 | Formbricks +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 80 | Google Forms API +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.7 · C** | **70.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Formbricks | Google Forms API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Formbricks GmbH | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.formbricks.com/api` | `https://forms.googleapis.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPLv3 for the core. Code under `apps/web/modules/ee` is under the Formbricks Enterprise licence, and the JavaScript, iOS, Android and API packages are MIT. Formbricks Cloud is governed by the terms of service | Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 30 | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2021-11-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | 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 | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 13k stars, 37k npm/wk | 32k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Formbricks.** API keys are limited to named workspaces with read, write or manage levels, and three OpenAPI specs cover the API. The survey endpoints sit in v1, while v2 is beta and v3 is private beta, and the status page the vendor links returned a Cloudflare 526 error on 8 October 2026.\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### Formbricks\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header. Add each workspace to the key when creating it, because scopes can't be changed afterwards.\n2. Use v1 (`/api/v1/management/surveys`) to create or edit surveys. v2 has responses, contacts and webhooks only.\n3. Page lists with `limit` and `skip`. v2 responses default to 50 a page with a maximum of 250.\n4. Stay under 100 requests a minute per key. A gateway 429 carries an `x-envoy-ratelimited` header and no documented `Retry-After`.\n5. Treat response text as untrusted respondent input, and request only the `:read` scopes for a read-only MCP connection.\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, Formbricks or Google Forms API?\n\nGoogle Forms API scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Formbricks's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Formbricks leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Formbricks and Google Forms API need an API key?\n\nFormbricks takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Google Forms API uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Formbricks and Google Forms API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Formbricks has a hosted endpoint at https://app.formbricks.com/api and Google Forms API at https://forms.googleapis.com/v1.\n\n### Are Formbricks and Google Forms API open source?\n\nFormbricks is open source (AGPLv3 for the core. Code under `apps/web/modules/ee` is under the Formbricks Enterprise licence, and the JavaScript, iOS, Android and API packages are MIT. Formbricks Cloud is governed by the terms of service). No open-source release is listed for Google Forms API.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-google-forms.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/formbricks-vs-google-forms.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"formbricks\", \"b\": \"google-forms\"}`. 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