Typeform vs Fillout 2026

Typeform takes this 4.7 to 4.5, and the difference is real but narrow. We set up the same 10-question lead form on both tools with a non-technical team member watching. Typeform's editor felt more guided: templates are polished, the logic jump builder is visual and forgiving, and the one-question-at-a-time output looks finished from minute one. Our tester had a working, branded form live in under 8 minutes.

Fillout is genuinely close. Its drag-and-drop canvas is cleaner than Jotform and the conditional logic clicks quickly. We built the same form in about 12 minutes, the extra time going to figuring out multi-page transitions and the automation workflow tab, which lives in a separate panel. One real catch: Fillout has no auto-save button, and two reviewers report losing work on a browser refresh. Typeform autosaves continuously. For a beginner who wants to look professional from form one, Typeform edges it. For someone already comfortable with no-code tools, the gap nearly disappears.

Fillout wins this decisively, 4.0 to 3.2. The structural reason: Typeform's free plan caps at 10 responses a month, and when you hit it, your forms go into private mode and stop accepting submissions entirely. At $29/mo for just 100 responses on Basic, a busy launch week can burn through your quota in 48 hours. We saw this happen on a client product launch: forms silenced mid-campaign, no warning, just a hard stop.

Fillout's free plan gives 1,000 responses per month with unlimited forms and seats, no credit card, no expiry. The $15/mo Starter covers 2,000 responses with all question types unlocked. At the mid-tier, Fillout Pro at $40/mo matches Typeform Plus at $50/mo for monthly pricing but covers 5,000 responses versus 1,000. The one counter-argument: if you need Typeform's Growth Flow lifecycle suite (enrichment, SMS follow-ups, Salesforce native), the value equation shifts at the higher Growth Flow tier ($291/mo annual). But for the 90% of users between free and $100/mo, Fillout's value is materially better.

Typeform takes this 4.6 to 4.5, and it is entirely down to the AI and lifecycle depth it shipped in 2025 and 2026. The October 2025 AI Engagement Platform added FAQ with AI, Clarify with AI, and video/audio blocks. The February 2026 AI Data Enrichment layer automatically appends contact profiles to every submission, with a claimed 92% B2B match rate and 71% B2C. The May 2026 Growth Flow combines enrichment, nurturing, SMS follow-ups, and Salesforce into a single platform. If your funnel is about qualifying and converting leads, Typeform now does things Fillout simply does not.

Fillout punches back on the operations side. Its bidirectional Airtable sync, built-in scheduling (Google Calendar, Outlook, Zoom, Teams, all free), PDF generation, login forms, and pre-fill from database records make it genuinely powerful for intake and ops workflows. The honest bémol on Typeform: its core form builder is the same one-question-at-a-time format it has always been; the new AI layer is mostly an add-on, not a redesign. For building complex multi-path forms quickly, Fillout's multi-question pages and automation panel are faster in practice.

Typeform wins this 4.3 to 3.5. Its support is more mature: 200+ knowledge base articles, active community forum with 10,000+ members, email response within 24 to 48 hours on Basic and Plus, priority support on Business, and dedicated account management on Enterprise and Growth Flow. We opened two tickets in six months (a Zapier sync issue and a billing question) and had actionable replies within 30 hours both times.

Fillout's support team is responsive and genuinely helpful (we got a clear JSON example on a webhook question within 24 hours), but its community forum is thin compared to Typeform's, and live chat is only available on the Business plan at $75/mo. One G2 reviewer flagged having features removed without notice after a billing glitch, which points to a support communication gap you would not expect from a polished tool. Priority support gating on the top plan is common in this space, but Fillout's community moat is not yet deep enough to compensate.

Typeform edges this 4.5 to 4.0, but the story is nuanced. Typeform's native catalog covers 100+ direct integrations including Calendly, Slack, Stripe, Klaviyo, HubSpot, and Salesforce (native on Growth Flow), plus Zapier for 5,000+ additional connections and a well-documented API. The breadth for marketing stacks is hard to beat, and the Growth Flow tier adds native CRM sync that removes the need for middleware entirely on sales workflows.

Fillout scores 4.0 because its native set (50+) is narrower, and the big CRM integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce) require Zapier or Make as middleware. That said, where Fillout is native it is very good: the bidirectional Airtable sync is best-in-class, the Notion connector is smooth, and the Google Ads conversion tracking is native and accurate. The free scheduling layer connecting to Google Calendar, Outlook, Zoom and Teams is a genuine native strength most integration lists undercount. The honest catch: Fillout has no native email marketing connectors (Mailchimp, ConvertKit require Zapier), which is a gap for campaign-heavy teams.