Top 20 survey software by AI search visibility (2026)
Tools used to create surveys, collect feedback, run questionnaires, analyze responses, and gather customer or market insights at scale. Ranked by a composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
Refreshed Jun 05, 2026At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
SurveyMonkey, Typeform, and Google Forms each hold a 50% visibility score — triple the category average of 11.9% — and share the top three ranks with identical composite scores of 35.0. This three-way tie at the summit is unusual and signals that Google AI Overviews treats these brands as near-interchangeable default references for the category. The gap between them and rank-4 Pollfish (12.5% visibility) is steep, meaning the vast majority of AI-generated survey software mentions are concentrated in just three brands.
The most striking divergence in this dataset is Pollfish: it ranks fourth by composite score (20.0) but carries the only meaningful citation rate in the top 10 at 37.5%, while every other top-five brand sits at 0% citation. SurveyMonkey, Typeform, and Google Forms are named frequently but never cited as source links, whereas Pollfish is cited far more often than it is mentioned by name. This named-vs-trusted split suggests AI Overviews surfaces the top three brands descriptively but anchors its sourced claims on Pollfish's own domain content.
The top cited sources list reveals that pollfish.com leads citations, followed by third-party properties including guideflow.com, reddit.com, techradar.com, and uschamber.com — none of which are the domains of the highest-visibility brands. Google AI Overviews appears to anchor factual claims in review aggregators, community forums, and industry guides rather than brand-owned sites. All ten tracked brands list Google AI Overviews as their top engine, confirming this category's AI visibility landscape is almost entirely a Google AI Overviews phenomenon with no meaningful distribution across other engines.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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SurveyMonkey 0% → 50% · rank #0 → #1+50pp
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Typeform 0% → 50% · rank #0 → #2+50pp
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Google Forms 0% → 50% · rank #0 → #3+50pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
surveymonkey.com
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50% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
SurveyMonkey matches the category's highest visibility at 50% — 4.2× the 11.9% average — yet holds a 0% citation rate, meaning it is named but never sourced. |
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| 2 |
typeform.com
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50% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
Typeform equals SurveyMonkey's 50% visibility and 35.0 composite score but also carries 0% citations, making it equally prominent but equally unsourced in AI Overviews. |
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| 3 |
google.com
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50% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
Google Forms shares the three-way 50% visibility tie despite its domain being google.com, the same engine serving the AI Overviews where it appears, with 0% citation rate. |
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| 4 |
pollfish.com
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12% | 38% | Google AI Overviews |
Pollfish is the only top-10 brand with citations, at 37.5% — nearly 20× the 1.9% category average — despite visibility of just 12.5%, making it the most trusted if least mentioned. |
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| 5 |
qualtrics.com
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25% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
Qualtrics achieves 25% visibility — more than double the 11.9% category average — but holds 0% citations, ranking fifth with a composite score of 17.5 ahead of lower-visibility peers. |
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| 6 |
surveysparrow.com
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25% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 7 |
jotform.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 8 |
alchemer.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 9 |
wufoo.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 10 |
zoho.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 11 |
tally.so
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 12 |
paperform.co
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 13 |
qualaroo.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 14 |
outgrow.co
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 15 |
surveylegend.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 16 |
asknicely.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 17 |
crowdsignal.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 18 |
microsoft.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 19 |
questionpro.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
| 20 |
formstack.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Overviews |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on survey software, these are the domains Google AI Overviews cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer.
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence — different from being named.
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps.
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically.
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Frequently asked about survey software AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in survey software?
SurveyMonkey, Typeform, and Google Forms share the lead with identical 50% visibility scores and composite scores of 35.0, all well above the 11.9% category average.
Which survey software brand is cited most by AI Overviews?
Pollfish is the only top-10 brand with a non-zero citation rate at 37.5%, making it by far the most cited despite having only 12.5% visibility.
What sources does AI cite most for survey software research?
The top cited sources are pollfish.com, guideflow.com, reddit.com, devopsschool.com, techradar.com, and uschamber.com — none are the domains of the three highest-visibility brands.
Is there a gap between being named and being cited in AI Overviews for this category?
Yes — SurveyMonkey, Typeform, and Google Forms are named at 50% visibility each but have 0% citation rates, while Pollfish reverses this pattern with high citations and low visibility.
Which AI engine dominates visibility for survey software brands?
Google AI Overviews is listed as the top engine for all ten tracked brands, indicating this category's AI visibility is concentrated almost entirely in one engine.
How concentrated is AI visibility in the survey software category?
The top three brands alone account for visibility of 50% each while the category average sits at 11.9%, and brands ranked 9–10 such as Wufoo and Zoho Survey show 0% visibility.