Yay Forms vs Fillout: free plan, responses per dollar and AI analysis

Yay! Forms vs Fillout: prices on both billing bases

Fillout gives more responses for the money on its entry plans, and Yay! Forms puts AI insights and drop-off rates on its entry plan, Starter. Both paid entry plans cost $19 a month on monthly billing: Fillout Starter allows 2,000 responses a month, Yay! Forms Starter 200 form submissions a month. On yearly billing, Fillout Starter is $15 a month, billed annually, and Yay! Forms Starter is $9 a month, billed yearly, as read on October 13, 2026.

Fillout prints its yearly totals; Yay! Forms prints none, and 12 x $9 = $108 is our arithmetic for Starter. At the top, Yay! Forms Professional is $79 a month on monthly billing for 20,000 form submissions, and Fillout Business is $89 a month on monthly billing for unlimited responses.

Responses and seats on each plan

Fillout allows 1,000 responses a month on its free plan, 2,000 on Starter, 5,000 on Pro and unlimited on Business, with unlimited seats on every plan. Yay! Forms allows 200, 2,000 and 20,000 form submissions a month on Starter, Plus and Professional, with unlimited forms and users on every plan. Its pricing page also says one plan can hold several customers, each in its own workspace, a setup it describes for agencies and teams.

Yay! Forms Starter's 200 is a fifth of Fillout's free 1,000, and Yay! Forms has no free tier. Fillout starts at no charge; Yay! Forms starts with a 7-day trial, and its terms want 15 days' notice to cancel and allow a refund request within 7 days of the first payment.

Over the limit: Fillout forms keep collecting

Fillout's pricing page says forms keep collecting after you pass the plan limit, and the pages read give no price for those extra responses. Yay! Forms stops instead: without the additional-responses add-on, a form at its plan limit stops accepting new responses until the next cycle or an upgrade. With the add-on on, Starter lists $9.50 a month per 100 additional form submissions. Yay! Forms emails you before the account reaches the limit.

Branding, drop-off rates and answer analysis

Fillout removes all branding on Pro, $49 a month on monthly billing, and lists drop-off rates on its highest plan only. Fillout's Business plan adds form analytics, partial submissions and a custom domain. Yay! Forms removes its branding from Plus, $39 a month on monthly billing, and lists drop-off rates and AI insights on every plan, and Yay! Forms pricing lists the rest of each card.

Who should pick Fillout and who should pick Yay! Forms

Pick Fillout for volume on a small budget: a free plan of 1,000 responses a month, unlimited seats and forms that keep collecting past the limit. Pick Yay! Forms when open-text comments and drop-off data matter on the entry plan: Starter lists AI insights, sentiment and keyword extraction, and drop-off rates. See Typeform alternatives and best form builder software for wider comparisons.