Which online form builder has real conditional logic?

Tally made an unusual call: all of its conditional logic sits on the free plan. So do calculations and the redirect at the end of the form. Its help center is blunt about it: no upgrade needed, no cap on how many conditions you add. Forms and responses are unlimited too, under a fair use policy whose threshold Tally doesn't publish.

A Tally rule can do six things: jump to a page (or the thank-you page), calculate a value, make a question required, show or hide blocks, hide the submit button to block the submission, or redirect to a URL or another Tally form. Conditions combine with AND and OR, including nested groups. That's more than most competitors offer on paid tiers.

Two gotchas straight from the docs. Jumps only fire when someone clicks "Next" or "Submit", so the rule has to live on the page where the question is, not the next one. And to show a block conditionally, you have to hide it first; otherwise "show" does nothing because it's already visible. Limits: file uploads cap at 10 MB on free, and since the fair use ceiling isn't public, ask support before a big launch.

Fillout's free plan gives you 1,000 responses a month with conditional logic, calculations, quiz scoring, prefill and hidden fields. Hidden fields are the quiet win here: data the respondent never sees but that travels with the submission, like a UTM source, a customer ID or a sales rep's name. Fillout can use them inside conditions.

Logic works at two levels. Page logic hides or shows whole pages or custom endings. Field logic shows a question based on an earlier answer. Conditions can read an answer, a URL parameter, a date or a calculated value. Real example: the link you email to existing customers carries ?customer=yes, and Fillout skips every qualifying question for them.

Paid tiers are mostly about volume: Starter at $15/mo billed yearly ($19 monthly) for 2,000 responses, Pro at $40 ($49 monthly) for 5,000, Business at $75 ($89 monthly) for unlimited. The Fillout badge only goes away on Pro. The catch: simple forms come together in minutes, but multi-condition logic has a real learning curve, and support is slower than the product.

Jotform has the widest set of condition types in this lineup. Its help docs list six: show/hide a field, update/calculate a field, enable/require a field, skip to or hide a page, change the thank-you page, and change the email recipient. That last one is the reason to pick it: depending on the answer, the notification goes to sales, support or HR, with no Zapier in between.

The free plan is a trial in disguise: 5 forms and 100 submissions a month. Bronze, at $34/mo billed yearly ($39 monthly), raises that to 25 forms and 1,000 submissions. Gold, at $99/mo billed yearly, gets you 100 forms and 10,000 submissions. If you have EU respondents, Jotform also offers data storage on its Frankfurt servers.

The limit came straight from a user on Jotform's own forum: the logic feels too basic for complex flows, with no nested conditions or multiple actions inside one rule, and support confirmed it isn't available. In practice you stack several simple rules instead of writing one rich one. The builder is also busy, with logic and calculation settings spread across several menus.

Gravity Forms is a WordPress plugin, so the form lives on your site and the entries live in your database. Our full review scores it 4.7 on features and depth, and it earns it: field-level conditional logic, calculations, payments and notifications that go to a different recipient based on answers. For agencies running a fleet of client sites, it's often the default.

Pricing is per year and per site count: $59/yr for one site on Basic, $159/yr for three sites on Pro, $259/yr for unlimited sites on Elite. No free plan. The good news is renewal pricing stays flat. The less good news: the most useful add-ons need Pro or Elite.

Where it gets heavy: once notification logic grows, each recipient carries its own set of rules, and a heavily branched form turns into maintenance work. The builder feels dated and has no undo. Our habit: duplicate the form before you touch live logic, and name fields clearly, because rules show them by label. Already on WPForms? No need to switch: its Smart Logic also combines AND/OR conditions and sends conditional confirmations and notifications.

We don't have a full Zoho Forms review yet, but it earns its spot here for one reason: it treats logic as a process, not just a path. Its official plan grid splits rules into three levels, all available on every plan, free included: field rules (show or hide a question), form rules (what happens on submit) and page rules (skip a page).

Paid plans add what others skip: advanced rules, a Set Value action that fills a field for you, and Deny Submissions, which blocks a form when a condition isn't met (handy for out-of-budget or late requests). They also add approval workflows, so a purchase request above a threshold goes to a manager while smaller ones go straight through.

The free plan holds up with 3 forms and 500 submissions a month. The catch is the ecosystem: Zoho Forms shines with other Zoho apps and is a bit less compelling alone.

Typeform made the one-question-at-a-time form famous, and its logic fits that format. The pricing page describes logic that connects, skips and rearranges questions, adds scores and calculations, and shows different endings to different respondents. Hidden fields round it out. It's still the most polished experience in this list, and on brand surveys that shows up in completion.

Volume is the problem. Free stops at 10 responses a month. Basic, where Typeform's own grid lists conditional logic, costs $28/mo billed yearly ($39 monthly) for 100 responses. Plus is $56 ($79 monthly) for 1,000. In user reviews, it's the top complaint: "It works well but it is expensive." One successful launch and the cap is gone in days. Budget for your peak, not your average.

A tip from Typeform's community forum: when combinations pile up (say, six goals someone can tick together), nested logic becomes unreadable. Typeform's own answer was to redirect people, based on their answer, to separate forms instead of cramming everything into one. The branching map is clear on short flows and gets crowded fast on long ones.

Paperform builds like a page: you write copy, drop in images, and slot questions in between. Conditional logic is on the free plan, which is capped at 30 submissions a month. That's enough to check your flow, not to run a real campaign.

The interesting part starts on Pro, at $49/mo billed yearly ($59 monthly). The calculation field outputs a price, an order total or a score, and conditional redirects send people to a different URL based on their answers. Concrete use: a quote form that computes the total, then sends high-budget leads to your booking page and everyone else to a resource page. Business is $124/mo billed yearly ($149 monthly).

The limit is in the grid: no calculation field and no conditional redirects on free. Tally and Fillout give you both for nothing. Paperform makes sense when layout matters as much as logic, like an order form that also has to sell.

forms.app keeps showing up in conditional logic searches, and its official page says why: logic is on the free plan, along with multiple endings based on answers and a calculator field. That covers three of the four jobs in this comparison for free: jumps, different endings and simple math such as a quiz score.

Free gives you 5 forms, and the pricing page lists monthly submissions as unlimited on that plan. The first paid tier, Basic, is $19/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly), cheaper than Typeform or Paperform for similar use.

The catch: 5 forms go fast if you build one per campaign. And we didn't find the same depth as Tally on nested AND/OR conditions or blocking submission. For a quiz with a result or a two- or three-branch sign-up, it does the job well.

Microsoft Forms does one thing: branching. Based on the answer to a choice question, people jump to a later question or section. Each answer has one destination, and branching only moves forward, so no going back or looping. No show/hide on the same page, no calculations, no combined conditions.

The limits are known: 200 questions max per form, and a response cap that depends on the account (200 on a free personal account, 1,000 on a paid personal account, up to 5 million on a work or school account). One user on Microsoft's Tech Community described getting stuck at the 17th branch of a 34-option question, with no clear answer.

The tip people hunt for: branching isn't on the question itself, it's in the "…" menu at the top right of the form. And since everything flows forward, put every question in its final order before you add a single rule, or you'll redo the lot. For an internal poll, it's enough. For a customer form that needs to qualify or calculate, move to Tally or Fillout.

Google Forms has exactly one kind of logic: "Go to section based on answer". It triggers on multiple choice or dropdown questions, not checkboxes. You can't show or hide a single question, and you can't combine two conditions ("if they're in the US AND have 10+ employees"). There's no map of your rules either; you find them section by section.

The setup that works: one section per conditional question. Put the sorting question in its own section, point each answer to its matching section, and end each branch with "Go to section" back to the shared path. If someone might not fit any option, add an explicit "Something else" choice with its own destination. The free-text "Other" option can't trigger a jump.

It's free, and nobody needs instructions to fill it in. For a three-branch sign-up, it's the simplest choice. The moment you need to calculate a quote, hide a question on the same page or notify a different person per answer, switch tools.