# Paperform vs SurveyMonkey (slim)

> Paperform and SurveyMonkey score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 56 (C) and 55.3 (C). SurveyMonkey leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do forms responses. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Paperform and SurveyMonkey score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 56 (C) and 55.3 (C). SurveyMonkey leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do forms responses.

- Paperform: C 56, rank #496 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperform.min.md
- SurveyMonkey: C 55.3, rank #513 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surveymonkey.min.md
- Paperform, good for An agent that reads submissions from forms a person has already built, keeps field options, products and coupons in step with another system, or sends Papersign documents. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 67; Schema & documentation, 69 against 47; Maintenance & community, 41 against 36.
- SurveyMonkey, good for Teams already on SurveyMonkey who want an assistant to draft surveys, create a web link and summarise results through the MCP server, and Enterprise customers who export responses or receive webhooks through the REST API. Ahead on Security & auth, 62 against 40; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25; Transparency & trust, 70 against 54.

| Category | Paperform | SurveyMonkey |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 47 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 60 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 41 | 36 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Paperform | SurveyMonkey |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Paperform Pty Ltd | SurveyMonkey Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.paperform.co/v1` | `https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Paperform's General Terms and Conditions of Use | Proprietary service under SurveyMonkey's terms of use, API developer terms and connector terms |
| Tools exposed | none | 20 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-08-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-24 | 2025-11-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-07-10 | 2026-05-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |