Comparison
Google Forms is familiar and free, but it is also generic, limited, and built around a spreadsheet-first workflow. BuoyForms gives teams better branding, stronger analytics, smarter logic, and AI-powered creation without losing the ability to start for free.
Choose BuoyForms if
You need forms that look like your product, track real performance data, branch intelligently, and fit business workflows beyond a simple spreadsheet feed.
Choose Google Forms if
You just need a fast, internal, no-frills form tied to your Google account and you are comfortable with the generic Google Forms experience.
Features
See how BuoyForms stacks up against Google Forms on the capabilities that matter most.
| Feature | BuoyForms | Google Forms |
|---|---|---|
| Forms limit | Unlimited (paid) | Unlimited |
| Submissions | Up to unlimited | Unlimited |
| AI form generation | ||
| Analytics dashboard | ||
| Conditional logic | ||
| Custom branding | ||
| Remove platform branding | ||
| Embeddable forms | Basic | |
| Webhooks | ||
| Salesforce integration | OAuth-based, Salesforce Integration Suite | |
| SSO / SAML | Google Workspace only | |
| Starting price | Free ($0) | Free ($0) |
Detail
Google Forms gives you a few color choices and a header image. Every form still looks unmistakably like a Google Form, and the Google branding remains in place.
BuoyForms lets you control colors, fonts, logos, and backgrounds so the form actually looks like part of your website or product. On paid plans, you can remove platform branding entirely.
Detail
Google Forms gives you a basic response summary. Anything deeper usually turns into a spreadsheet workflow.
BuoyForms includes a dedicated analytics dashboard with submission tracking, completion times, field-level drop-off, and funnel visibility. That means you can improve forms based on actual behavior instead of manually piecing the story together in Sheets.
Detail
Google Forms supports simple section branching, but it cannot build truly dynamic flows at the field level.
BuoyForms gives you a real conditional logic builder so you can show, hide, or require fields based on previous responses. That lets you create shorter, smarter forms for each respondent.
Detail
Google Forms has no AI creation workflow. Every form starts manually.
BuoyForms can generate a complete form from a plain-English description, including structure, field choices, and validation. For teams that build forms regularly, that is a real speed advantage.
Detail
Google Forms can be shared or embedded with a plain iframe, but the experience is limited and visually generic.
BuoyForms supports inline embeds, modal embeds, and full-page form experiences that are easier to style, easier to deploy across different site stacks, and better aligned with customer-facing use cases.
Pricing
Google Forms is free, but the business-grade capabilities teams usually need come from outside the product. BuoyForms packages those workflows directly into the platform.
| Tier | BuoyForms | Google Forms | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Branding | Analytics | Price | Branding | Analytics | |
| Starter | $0 | 5 forms, branded | Not on Starter | $0 | Google branding | Basic summary |
| Professional | $29/mo | Custom branding | No | $7-$22/user/mo | Workspace context only | Spreadsheet-driven |
| Business | $79/mo | Custom + embeddable | Built-in dashboard | N/A | No equivalent | No equivalent |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Enterprise control | Full dashboard + enterprise features | Workspace + add-ons | Limited | External tooling |
FAQ
Move to a product built for professional, customer-facing, analytics-aware form workflows instead of settling for a generic internal tool.
Starter includes 5 forms and 100 submissions per month. No time limit.