What is Qualtrics?
Qualtrics provides survey creation, distribution and analysis within a wider research and experience-management portfolio. This profile focuses on survey workflows and distinguishes its restricted free account from professional or institutional access.
Who is Qualtrics for?
Research and feedback teams defining survey design, respondent access and the required analysis and licence scope.
Separate the survey from the broader research licence
Define the respondents, question logic and analysis needed. The free survey offer is a starting point with explicit capacity and feature restrictions.
Compare SurveyMonkey and Jotform around the same survey and handover. Confirm any institution-provided access before creating a separate account.
Qualtrics features
The core capabilities to consider for your workflow.
- Survey questions and logic
- Survey distribution and response collection
- Basic analysis and reporting workflows
Qualtrics pricing
Restricted free survey account
Check the actual survey/research licence, institutional access and required distribution and analysis features. A restricted free account and a time-limited professional trial have different scope.
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Qualtrics offers a restricted free survey account. The reviewed offer lists three active surveys, 30 questions per survey and 500 responses; the support article defines the response allowance per user.
Before you choose Qualtrics
The free account has active-survey, question and response restrictions.
Deleted and retaken responses count towards the published free response allowance.
Free accounts have email-distribution restrictions and an inactivity deletion rule.
Plan the response allowance and retention
Write a fictional short survey and two respondent paths. Agree what counts as a recorded response, who can analyse it and which output is required for the research record.
The free-account support article provides important restrictions beyond a headline response count. Check export, distribution and continued account access before relying on it for a long-running project.
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Qualtrics FAQs
How many active surveys can a free Qualtrics account have?
The reviewed free offer allows three active surveys and 30 questions per survey.
Do deleted responses count towards Qualtrics free usage?
Yes. Qualtrics’ support article defines a 500-response allowance per user that includes deleted and retaken responses.
Can I email surveys from a free Qualtrics account?
The reviewed free-account support article says email distribution is not included and points to options such as anonymous links or social distribution.
Can an inactive free Qualtrics account be deleted?
Qualtrics’ support article says free accounts are deleted after 13 months of inactivity. Logging in resets that inactivity timer.
Is a Qualtrics free survey account the full research product?
No. Qualtrics describes restricted free survey access separately from professional research licensing, institutional access and its professional trial.