# Formbricks vs Google Forms API (slim)

> 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 & community. Both do forms surveys. 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 Formbricks's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Formbricks leads on maintenance & community. Both do forms surveys.

- Formbricks: C 57.7, rank #465 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/formbricks.min.md
- Google Forms API: BB 70.8, rank #127 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms.min.md
- Formbricks, good 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. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 83 against 61. Also Open source.
- 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 35; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 54; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Formbricks | Google Forms API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 54 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 78 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Formbricks | Google Forms API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Formbricks GmbH | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.formbricks.com/api` | `https://forms.googleapis.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 30 | 0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2021-11-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | 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 |
| Popularity | 13k stars, 37k npm/wk | 32k npm/wk |