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LimeSurvey
Mature survey tool used heavily in research, with complex question types and quotas.
Will it still be around?
Health 75/100 · Stable
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
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Savings proposal
A 25-user team on SurveyMonkey Team Advantage pays about $750 a month. Self-hosting LimeSurvey costs about $132 a month to run plus $480 to set up, so it pays for itself in month 1 and saves about $21,768 over three years.
List price: SurveyMonkey Team Advantage, billed annually. Minimum 3 users. Team Premier is about $75 per user. Prices vary by region. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Saved over 3 years
$21,768
Pays for itself
Month 1
Saved in year one
$6,936
Each month
$750 → $132
Show as a table
| Month | SurveyMonkey | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $480 | −$480 |
| Month 3 | $2,250 | $876 | $1,374 |
| Month 6 | $4,500 | $1,272 | $3,228 |
| Month 9 | $6,750 | $1,668 | $5,082 |
| Month 12 | $9,000 | $2,064 | $6,936 |
| Month 18 | $13,500 | $2,856 | $10,644 |
| Month 24 | $18,000 | $3,648 | $14,352 |
| Month 30 | $22,500 | $4,440 | $18,060 |
| Month 36 | $27,000 | $5,232 | $21,768 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting LimeSurvey usually means one small container and a database. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of LimeSurvey (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 75/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 1520 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- No GitHub releases published, so release cadence is not scored.
Bus factor30% weight
38/100
- Top contributor wrote 71% of the last 94 commits (past 12 months).
- 12 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
Not scored; weight shared by the other parts.
- Issues are disabled on GitHub, so this part is not scored.
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
GPL-2.0-or-later · Open source (copyleft)
Standard GPL: if you distribute modified versions, you must share the source under the GPL.
OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
License text checked 2026-10-07: read it.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 3.8k | Forks | 1.1k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 1.5k |
| Releases, 12 months | none on GitHub | Last release | – |
| Contributors | 241 | Active authors | 12 in last 94 commits |
| Open issues | disabled | Closed issues | – |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.