ComparisonGulf · GCC · MENA
Forms.qa vs. Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Forms ships with every MS 365 seat across the GCC's enterprises, banks, and government agencies. It's there, it's free, and it stops being enough the moment a form needs brand, logic, or modern analytics.
Microsoft Forms is the default form tool inside MS 365 deployments — and GCC enterprises deploy a lot of MS 365. It handles quick internal polls well. For customer-facing bilingual forms with brand, logic, and depth, teams outgrow it quickly.
Where Forms.qa has the edge
- Real brand themes — colour, font, logo, corner radius, layout variant. Forms doesn't touch typography.
- Conversational layout one question at a time; Forms is page-at-a-time, always.
- Deep logic: skip, jump, calculate, redirect, custom ending. Forms has branching, nothing more.
- Analytics that match standalone tools — drop-off, device split, time-on-form, CSV export with metadata.
- Schema-per-tenant isolation: each workspace runs in its own PostgreSQL schema, not shared infrastructure. Your data never shares a table or index with another organisation — auditable at the database level, not just the application layer.
Where Microsoft Forms is strong
- Free with every MS 365 seat — no procurement friction for existing tenants
- Teams integration, Power Automate triggers
- Respectable Arabic rendering on desktop
Feature by feature
Row by row, honestly.
| Feature | Forms.qa | Microsoft Forms |
|---|---|---|
Core differentiator Schema-per-tenant data isolation (dedicated Postgres schema per workspace) Microsoft 365 isolates tenants at the application layer across shared infrastructure. Forms.qa uses a dedicated PostgreSQL schema per tenant — physically separate queries, indexes, and backups with no shared tables. The difference matters when a regulator or auditor asks how data is separated, not just that it is. | Yes | Partial |
Custom domain + branded public URL | Yes | No |
Brand themes (font, logo, corner radius) | Yes | Partial |
Sub-processors disclosed publicly Forms.qa publishes the full sub-processor list. MS 365 offers Multi-Geo residency (AE, SA) on E3+ only, and commercial opex is significant. | Yes | Partial |
PDPL-aligned architecture, outside MS 365 MS Forms' PDPL posture is inherited from the tenant's MS 365 subscription; it doesn't stand on its own. | Yes | Partial |
Public-facing (non-employee) respondents MS Forms anonymous links work but live on forms.office.com — not your brand. | Yes | Partial |
Signable DPA without MS 365 commitment | Yes | No |
Conversational layout | Yes | No |
Skip / jump / calculate / redirect logic | Yes | Partial |
AI form generation Copilot in Forms drafts questions but not full flows with logic. | Yes | Partial |
Analytics — per-question drop-off | Yes | No |
Webhooks + REST API MS Forms exposes Power Automate triggers, not a public webhook. | Yes | Partial |
Question types (count) | 25 | ~10 |
Free tier outside MS 365 | Yes | No |
Every row is verifiable against each product's public surface. Corrections welcome at hello@forms.qa.
Regional view
How this looks from Riyadh, Dubai, Doha.
Saudi Arabia · KSA
Saudi banks and Aramco-family companies run on MS 365. Forms is there by default, and it's fine for internal polls. For customer-facing intake or NPS with branding, Forms.qa picks up where Forms tops out — without adding another licence to procurement.
United Arab Emirates
UAE's large enterprises and government entities are MS 365-heavy. Forms.qa sits alongside Forms for customer-facing use cases where brand, analytics, and conversational layout matter.
Qatar
Qatari government agencies have standardised on MS 365 for internal work. Forms.qa is the external-facing complement — forms that live on your brand domain and respect your visual identity.
Gulf-wide · GCC · MENA
Microsoft Forms is "we have it." Forms.qa is "we chose it." For anything customer-facing, that distinction shows on every rendered screen.
Pricing
At a glance, today.
Microsoft Forms has no standalone price — it's bundled. For orgs not already on MS 365, Forms.qa is the modern standalone option without a productivity-suite commitment.
As of April 2026 · microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/business/compare-all-plans
Starting tier
Forms.qa
99 QAR / mo (~$26 USD)
Microsoft Forms
Included with MS 365 ($6+/user/mo)
Business tier
Forms.qa
199 QAR / mo (~$53 USD)
Microsoft Forms
Included with MS 365 ($22+/user/mo)
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