A SurveyMonkey alternative for one-off surveys and AI workflows

SurveyMonkey is an enterprise research platform. If you run a research program — buying respondent panels, benchmarking against industry data, digging through advanced analytics, pulling from question banks, sharing across a team — it's the right tool, and this post won't talk you out of it.

But most people searching for a SurveyMonkey alternative aren't running a research program. They need one survey, today: a feedback form after an event, a quick pulse check, an intake questionnaire. For that, an enterprise seat is overkill, and the per-response caps on the cheap tiers have a way of cutting you off right when responses start arriving.

The one-off survey, done differently

QuizGen is a headless survey/form service built to be driven by AI assistants. Instead of opening a builder, you describe the survey in one sentence to Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor. The assistant reads quizgen.dev/llms.txt (or connects to the MCP server), builds the JSON definition, and POSTs it. You get back a live quizgen.dev/q/... link.

• No account to try it. A request with no credentials creates a sandbox survey — live immediately, no signup, expires in 72 hours and caps at 10 responses, claimable later if you want to keep it.
• Free tier that covers the common case. 3 live quizzes with 100 answers each per month, no card.
• Responses come back as data. Read them as JSON or CSV from the API — or just ask the same assistant that built the survey to summarize the answers, since it can read them back too.
• Webhooks. Point completed responses at your own endpoint, with an HMAC signature to verify.

Here's the whole build step, no assistant required:

curl -X POST https://quizgen.dev/api/v1/quizzes \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{ "schema_version": 1, "title": "Event feedback",
    "sections": [ { "key": "main", "questions": [
      { "id": "rating", "type": "scale", "prompt": "How was the event?",
        "min": 1, "max": 5 },
      { "id": "comments", "type": "long_text", "prompt": "Anything else?" }
    ] } ] }'

The response includes a live URL. There's a full walkthrough of the assistant-driven version in Build a quiz with Claude.

What QuizGen doesn't do

Honesty matters in a comparison post, so: QuizGen has no panel or audience buying — you bring your own respondents. There's no benchmark data to compare your results against, no advanced analytics beyond basic stats and raw response export, and it's a single-user product today — no team seats, roles, or shared workspaces.

If any of those are load-bearing for you, that's SurveyMonkey's home turf.

Stay with SurveyMonkey if…

• You buy respondent panels or need benchmark comparisons.
• Your team collaborates on surveys and lives in the analytics.
• Surveys are an ongoing program, not an occasional need.

Use QuizGen if…

• You need one survey now and don't want an enterprise seat for it.
• You'd rather describe the survey to an AI assistant than click through a builder.
• You want the responses as JSON/CSV in your own tooling, or summarized by the assistant that built the form.
• You want to try it before creating any account at all.

Ready to keep a survey past the sandbox window? Sign up free at quizgen.dev/login — 3 live quizzes, 100 answers each per month.

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Full API docs, in one file your assistant can read: quizgen.dev/llms.txt.