A Formbricks Alternative for Teams That Ship PHP

The stack difference matters

A self-hosted Formbricks installation adds a Next.js application and a Postgres database to operate. That setup can be the right trade when product teams need surveys shown to selected users inside an application.

For a Laravel team, that choice also creates another deployment target. Someone needs to own its environment settings, releases, health checks, backups, and upgrades. A second database also creates another retention policy and another access boundary.

FilaForms has a narrower scope. It requires an existing Laravel and Filament application. That requirement makes it unsuitable for a non-technical team that needs a hosted form link in five minutes.

It also does not provide Formbricks-style in-app product surveys with audience targeting. Choose Formbricks if targeted surveys inside your product drive the project. That is a capability FilaForms does not claim to replace.

Choose FilaForms when forms belong in an existing Laravel application. A Laravel form builder for Filament keeps the form builder beside the administration tools your team already uses.

Comparison

The table above compares the operational boundaries, not just the form screens. Both options are self-hostable. The important question is whether your team wants a dedicated survey application or a plugin inside its PHP application.

One deployment and one database

FilaForms registers in a Filament panel provider. The plugin runs with the Laravel application, so there is no second service to deploy. Its submitted form data stays in the application's database.

This example is complete for a Laravel 12 application using PHP 8.4 and Filament 4. Add it to the panel provider that serves the panel where administrators build forms.

<?php

namespace App\Providers\Filament;

use Filament\Panel;
use Filament\PanelProvider;
use FilaForms\Core\FilaFormsPlugin;

class AdminPanelProvider extends PanelProvider
{
    public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel
    {
        return $panel
            ->default()
            ->id('admin')
            ->path('admin')
            ->plugin(FilaFormsPlugin::make());
    }
}

The plugin registration is part of the same provider you deploy with Laravel. It does not create a separate Next.js runtime. It does not require a separate service process.

Your application still needs normal database migrations and backups. That work is not removed. It remains in the same release and operations workflow that already protects your Laravel data.

The form builder offers 25+ field types, conditional logic, and multi-step forms. Administrators build those forms visually in the Filament panel. Your team can then use the submission dashboard, analytics, and email notifications without moving form data into a different product.

For teams evaluating an overview of FilaForms features, the central benefit is ownership of the existing application boundary. Authentication, authorization, and data access can follow the policies your Laravel application already applies.

Project facts worth checking yourself

Formbricks is the larger project by a wide margin: 12,849 GitHub stars against OpnForm's 3,656, with commits landing on 2 September 2026, the day these figures were checked. It is written in TypeScript, which is the point this page keeps returning to.

Its LICENSE file opens with "Portions of this software are licensed as follows", and GitHub reports the licence as "Other" rather than a standard identifier. That is an open-core split, not a blanket grant, so read the file before assuming which features you may self-host and modify. FilaForms makes no open-source claim: it is commercial, licensed once per plan, and self-hosted because it runs inside your application.

Choose based on the job

Choose Formbricks for in-app product surveys that target audiences. Its open-source, self-hosted Next.js and Postgres setup suits teams that need feedback prompts as part of product experience work.

Choose FilaForms for operational, customer, or internal forms in an established Laravel and Filament application. It fits teams that want visual form building, submission handling, analytics, and notifications within that application.

Formbricks is not a weaker option. It has a different centre of gravity. FilaForms avoids adding another service when PHP is already the stack you operate.

What changes during a migration

Moving from Formbricks to FilaForms is not a drop-in survey migration. Recreate only forms that make sense as Laravel-owned workflows. Review every survey that depends on in-app delivery or audience targeting, because FilaForms does not provide those features.

Move the process around a form, not only its fields. Decide which application users can build forms, view submissions, receive notifications, and export data. That approach preserves the access model your Laravel team already maintains.

Keep Formbricks if its targeted in-app surveys remain essential. Add FilaForms when you also need forms managed from the Filament panel. A mixed setup can be reasonable when the two tools serve distinct workflows.