# LimeSurvey

> LimeSurvey is an open-source online survey platform that lets anyone build, distribute and analyze surveys, questionnaires, polls and forms without vendor lock-in. Started in 2003 as the SourceForge project PHPSurveyor and now stewarded by LimeSurvey GmbH in Hamburg, it offers both a free, self-hostable Community Edition licensed under the GPL and a hosted LimeSurvey Cloud service. With 30+ question types, 80+ languages, deep logic and branching, and a privacy-first, GDPR-compliant design, it is used by businesses, universities, governments and researchers in more than 80 countries as a flexible alternative to SurveyMonkey, Typeform and Qualtrics.

- **Founded:** 2003
- **Headquarters:** Hamburg, Germany
- **Founders:** Jason Cleeland (Original creator (PHPSurveyor, 2003)), Carsten Schmitz (Founder & CEO, LimeSurvey GmbH)
- **Products:** LimeSurvey Community Edition, LimeSurvey Cloud, LimeSurvey Enterprise / Corporate
- **Notable:** Grew from a single SourceForge project (PHPSurveyor, 2003) into one of the world's most-used open-source survey tools., Won Les Trophées du Libre in the Enterprise Management category (December 2007)., Ranked 99 out of 100,000+ SourceForge projects (2010).

## Products & services

- **LimeSurvey Community Edition** — Free, open-source, self-hosted survey software licensed under the GNU GPL, written in PHP and supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and MSSQL.
- **LimeSurvey Cloud** — Official hosted SaaS version with managed infrastructure, tiered plans, choice of EU/US hosting regions and a free entry tier (25 responses/month).
- **LimeSurvey Enterprise / Corporate** — Managed hosting, dedicated support, SLAs and custom deployments for large organizations.

## Achievements

- Grew from a single SourceForge project (PHPSurveyor, 2003) into one of the world's most-used open-source survey tools.
- Won Les Trophées du Libre in the Enterprise Management category (December 2007).
- Ranked 99 out of 100,000+ SourceForge projects (2010).
- Available in 80+ languages (116 languages and dialects reported as of late 2024).
- Used for monitoring the 2004 U.S. presidential election, logging over 13,500 incidents.
- 43,000+ commits and 3.7k+ GitHub stars on the open-source codebase.

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — LimeSurvey 6.6.6 released as the current stable version; language support cited at 116 languages and dialects.
- **2026-07** — Cloud pricing tiers updated (Expert, Basic, Business and custom Corporate plans) with student/teacher/nonprofit discounts.

## Links

- Website: https://www.limesurvey.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/limesurvey
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/limesurvey
- GitHub: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/limesurvey
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LimeSurvey/

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Last updated: 2026-08-06