---
title: "Tally alternative for in-product forms"
description: "Compare Tally with Fillo when a hosted form moves into your app: native controls in your own route and a schema shared across validation and responses."
group: "Compare & migrate"
order: 0
type: "comparison"
keywords:
  - "Fillo vs Tally"
  - "Tally alternative"
  - "native form embed"
updated: "2026-08-01"
---

Tally is a hosted builder. You share its forms as a link, popup, or iframe. Fillo renders the form inside your app and handles validation, uploads, and responses behind it.

## Which should you choose?

### When Fillo fits

- The form has to render as native controls inside an existing product route.
- Your component system should own layout, focus behavior, and field rendering.
- The schema belongs in code, or needs to be shared across rendering, validation, responses, and exports.
- Signed-in account identity should travel with the response.
- Uploaded files must go directly to Google Drive, Box, or S3-compatible storage such as Amazon S3 or Cloudflare R2 that you connect.

### When to stay on Tally

- The form never touches your product — a hosted link or popup does the job.
- It depends on Tally's payments, custom domains, or non-numeric calculations. Fillo doesn't have those today — its [calculated fields](/docs/fields/calculated) handle numbers only.
- Nobody on the team is going to touch code for this form, and the current integrations already work.

## Key differences

| Decision | Fillo | Tally |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rendered form | Native React or DOM controls, fully headless UI, or a hosted page | Tally-hosted form in standard, popup, or full-page embeds |
| Authoring | Dashboard or typed `defineForm()` schema | Document-style visual builder |
| Application identity | Optional server-verified respondent ID from your app | Hidden values and Tally's duplicate-submission controls |
| File destination | Browser-direct upload to storage connected by your workspace | Files collected and managed through Tally's service and plan rules |
| Calculations | Numeric calculated fields: totals and derived values, recomputed on the server | Calculations are a documented Tally feature |
| Payments | No payment field today | Payment collection is a documented Tally feature |
| Pricing shape | Fillo plans limit completed responses; renderer access is included on both plans | Tally advertises unlimited forms and submissions within its fair-use policy |

Check [Fillo plans and limits](/docs/limits) and [Tally's current pricing](https://tally.so/pricing) before comparing costs for a live form.

## What you would need to change

| Existing Tally form | Expected work |
| --- | --- |
| Questions, required fields, and a single completion screen | Rebuild the fields, publish, and replace the link or embed |
| Pages, hidden values, logic, numeric calculations, uploads, and destinations | Map each rule and setting, rebuild calculations as calculated fields, connect storage, and test every path |
| Payments, custom code, non-numeric calculations, or automations built around Tally payloads | Redesign those parts and update downstream consumers before cutover |

Old Tally submissions don't become Fillo responses. Export them and keep the archive under its existing access and retention policy.

## Next step

[Open the editor](/new) and rebuild one real form first. If it works for your team, read [Migrate from Tally](/docs/migrate/tally) for the full checklist.

## Related

- [Migrate from Tally](/docs/migrate/tally): Plan the rebuild, archive, cutover, and rollback.
- [Embed a Fillo form](/docs/embed): Choose a native React, DOM, or hosted form.
- [Author forms in code](/docs/authoring): Keep a typed Fillo schema in your repo.
- [Compare form tools](/compare): Find the right starting point for the form you need.
- [Headless form builder](/headless-form-builder): See how a Fillo form works inside your app.
- [Fillo plans and limits](/docs/limits): Check response, branding, and upload limits.