The short version

Hands-on test there; plan math here. The free-plan run (build → publish → collect → CSV export → webhook, screenshots dated) is documented in our Tally hands-on review; this page reads Tally’s published prices, the yearly-vs-monthly arithmetic and the fair-use wording.

Tally has two self-serve tiers. We captured the live pricing page on August 30, 2026 and toggled the monthly/yearly switch ourselves:

Free Pro
Price (yearly) $0 $290/yr (shown as $24/mo, save 17%)
Price (monthly) $0 $29/mo
Forms & submissions Unlimited (fair use) Unlimited
Payments, signatures, file uploads ✅ ✅
Conditional logic, calculations, answer piping ✅ ✅
Integrations (Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Make, Webhooks) ✅ ✅
Remove “Made with Tally” branding ❌ ✅
Custom (sub)domain ❌ ✅
Team collaboration (shared workspaces) ❌ ✅
Partial-submission capture ❌ ✅

Yearly billing costs $58 less per year ($29 × 12 = $348 vs $290/yr — note the yearly total is $290, not $24 × 12 = $288: the page displays $24/mo but charges $290 up front; both figures come from Tally’s own pricing-page data, captured 2026-08-30). Business ($89/mo, confirmed on Tally’s official plans help page, checked 2026-08-31) adds compliance features like email verification and data-retention controls; we did not test paid tiers (no-card policy), so treat Pro/Business rows as page-verified claims, not hands-on results. Sources: tally.so/pricing (captured 2026-08-30, re-checked 2026-08-31, re-checked 2026-09-26 with zero drift on Pro — $24/mo default-yearly view, $29/mo after clicking Pay monthly; the yearly page also prints Business at $74/mo, the monthly state at $89/mo).

What “unlimited free” actually means

The free plan’s own wording is “unlimited forms and submissions, completely free, as long as you stay within our fair usage guidelines”. The fair-use page is not a hard paywall but it does publish trigger examples: consistently collecting around 50,000 submissions/month for 3-4 months in a row, or heavy file handling (100 GB/month transfer or 500 GB total storage), prompts Tally to reach out about a custom plan (fair-use page captured 2026-08-31). Whether real usage stays under those triggers is a hands-on question, not a pricing one: the build → publish → collect → CSV export → webhook run is documented in our Tally hands-on review. This page keeps the published wording and the trigger numbers as they appear on Tally’s own pages.

Who should pay

Pro only buys you four things: branding removal, custom domains, team workspaces, partial submissions. If none of those matter to you, $0 is the honest answer. If branding matters, the $24 vs $29 choice is trivial: pick yearly unless you expect to cancel within 5 months.

Prices captured from tally.so/pricing on 2026-08-30, re-checked 2026-08-31 and 2026-09-26 (both billing states, zero drift); screenshots in the evidence panel. See our testing methodology for how we verify claims.

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