Quizcraft vs Typeform pricing: $900 vs $29 once

OneTimeSuite Blog · Published 2026-07-21

Typeform starts at $25 a month and meters your responses; Outgrow starts at $14 and scales up fast with volume. That's $300 a year and climbing to run a quiz. Quizcraft is $29 once, with unlimited quizzes and unlimited responses, because it runs on your server.

This is the full pricing breakdown: what Typeform actually costs over one, two and three years, what Quizcraft gives you for $29 paid once, and the honest cases where the subscription is still the right call.

What Typeform actually costs you

At $25+/mo, one Typeform subscription adds up to $300 every year — $900 over a three-year window, for software you stop owning the day you cancel. Quizcraft is $29 the day you buy it, and the meter never runs again.

Three years in, the gap is $871 — and every year after that adds another $300 to the subscription side of the ledger.

Quizcraft vs Typeform, feature by feature

Price is only half the story — here's how the two line up on the things that decide day-to-day use:

What you get for $29, once

Self-hosted quiz builder with branching, server-side scoring, email-gate lead capture and CSV export. The highlights:

• 🧱 One-question-per-screen builder — Multiple choice, image choice, rating and text questions in a clean flow you can reorder freely.
• 🔀 Conditional branching — If answer = X, jump to question Y rules resolved server-side so the logic cannot be tampered with.
• 🏆 Scoring and result buckets — Per-option points with score-range or answer-mapped results; points and criteria never reach the browser.
• 📧 Lead-gen gate — Optionally require an email before revealing the result — the quiz-as-lead-magnet pattern without per-lead pricing.

A lead-gen quiz that captures 500 emails a month climbs into Typeform's $83 tier — Quizcraft is $29, once.

Switching is 3 steps

1. Buy once on Whop. One payment of $29 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/quiz-builder-mvp and run it yourself for free.
2. Deploy or run desktop. docker compose up onto a $5 VPS to go public, or npm run desktop for an Electron window that auto-logs you in.
3. Embed anywhere. Drop one div and one script tag on any site for an inline, full-page or popup quiz.

When paying Typeform is still the right call

Being straight about it: the subscription earns its keep in three situations. If your team is large enough that Typeform's collaboration features, permissions and admin controls are genuinely load-bearing; if your workflow is built on its integrations and leaving means rebuilding that plumbing; or if you have enterprise requirements — SSO, audit logs, SLAs, a vendor to call — that a pay-once app doesn't come with. Everyone else is paying $25+/mo for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.

If that's you, Quizcraft is $29, once. For the deeper dive, read the Quizcraft vs Typeform head-to-head or the full Typeform comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Quizcraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/quiz-builder-mvp. The $29 buys the packaged installer and 1-click setup; building from source is free.

Where do my captured leads live?
In a SQLite file on your own box, exportable as CSV. Nothing is uploaded to us.

Is this a subscription in disguise?
No. $29 once, unlimited responses, no renewal and no license server phoning home.

More on Typeform pricing

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