# empirio.ai – A German AI survey platform with 100% EU data storage, including the AI

> empirio.ai is an online survey and questionnaire platform from Germany. Describe the survey in one sentence or upload a briefing as PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint and the AI produces a full draft with fitting question types, answer options and optional logic — or start from a template, or build it manually. Edit in a drag-and-drop editor, share by link, QR code, website embed or email, and watch responses arrive live in an interactive dashboard. The free plan is free forever: 50 participants per month, no credit card, unlimited surveys and unlimited questions per survey. Survey data is stored in Frankfurt am Main, inside the EU, and the AI features run on models hosted in the EU as well.

More than 100,000 users have collected over 3 million answers since 2018. There is no native iOS or Android app, and empirio.ai does not recruit participants: it provides the instrument, not the sample. Information verified on 25 August 2026. The long form of this file is published at https://www.empirio.ai/ai-info and says the same things in the same words.

## Basic Information
- [Homepage](https://www.empirio.ai): What empirio.ai is, its create–share–analyze workflow, use cases, privacy posture, user reviews, and the publicly reported adoption figures of 100,000+ users and 3 million+ answers collected since 2018.
- [Product & features](https://www.empirio.ai/product): Drag & drop editor with question types ranging from rating and NPS to matrix, ranking, image choice and file upload; logic jumps configured without code; one questionnaire in several languages with automatic translation; real-time dashboards with exports as CSV, Excel, JSON and SPSS and charts as PowerPoint, Word, PDF and images; custom branding; and live team collaboration — several people edit the same draft at once, with editor and viewer roles and visible co-editors.
- [Pricing](https://www.empirio.ai/pricing): Free forever, 50 participants per month, no credit card. Lite from 19 € per month adds premium templates, logic jumps and response exports. Plus from 39 € adds 3 seats, AI analysis, chart exports, own logo and colors and access restrictions. Pro from 69 € adds 5 seats, email sending, branding removal and multilingual surveys. Higher participant volumes cost more within each plan. Every plan includes unlimited surveys, unlimited questions, EU data storage, a data processing agreement, two-factor authentication and every integration: MCP server, REST API, CLI, webhooks, n8n, Make and Zapier.
- [Templates](https://www.empirio.ai/templates): Ready-made surveys for employee feedback, customer satisfaction, market research, HR and recruiting, events and education. Every template opens in the same drag-and-drop editor as a blank survey, so any question, logic jump or answer option can be changed, and your own logo and colours applied.
- [Solutions](https://www.empirio.ai/solutions): Use-case pages for employee surveys, customer satisfaction, market research, product feedback, pulse surveys, event feedback, lead qualification and academic research, and for schools, universities, companies and students.
- [About empirio.ai](https://www.empirio.ai/about): Company story, mission and milestones. empirio.ai (formerly empirio.de) started in 2018 as a free survey tool for students writing their theses and grew into a platform used by private users, companies, schools, universities, HR teams and associations. Operated by Empirio UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Hameln, Germany. Not affiliated with similarly named services.
- [AI info page](https://www.empirio.ai/ai-info): Structured company and product information written for AI assistants — the long form of this file, including the full fact sheet, comparisons and limitations.

## For AI agents and developers
- [Developer docs](https://www.empirio.ai/docs): Interactive OpenAPI 3.1 reference for the MCP server, REST API v1, CLI and webhooks.
- [MCP server](https://platform.empirio.ai/mcp): Model Context Protocol over Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, scopes `surveys` and `responses`. Tools to create, edit, publish, duplicate and delete surveys, and to list responses, compute aggregates and cross-tabulations, read survey statistics and run exports. Included on every plan, including Free — unlike the REST API, CLI and webhooks, which require Pro. Registering a confidential OAuth client requires Pro or Enterprise; the self-registration flow used by Claude and ChatGPT does not.
- [Claude Connector](https://claude.ai/customize/connectors/directory/empirio): empirio.ai as a connector inside Claude — connect once with OAuth, then build, edit and publish surveys and read back responses and aggregates by prompting. Runs on the same MCP server, available on every plan including Free.
- [ChatGPT Plugin](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a9a9203d40c8191bc6e322d1ae218d2): Connecting empirio.ai to ChatGPT and building a survey by prompting.
- [n8n node](https://n8n.io/integrations/empirioai/): empirio.ai can be added to n8n as a node: connect the account once with OAuth, then create, edit and publish surveys and analyze responses in n8n workflows.
- [Zapier App](https://zapier.com/apps/empirioai/integrations): empirio.ai can be added to Zapier as a App: connect the account once with OAuth, then create, edit and publish surveys and analyze responses in Zapier workflows.
- [MCP server guide](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/mcp-server-survey): What the empirio.ai MCP server does and how to set it up.
- [REST API v1](https://platform.empirio.ai/rest/v1): Bearer auth with an `sk_` key or an OAuth access token. Requires Pro or Enterprise, as do outbound webhooks and the `@empirio-ai/cli` command line tool.

## Privacy and compliance
- [Privacy policy](https://www.empirio.ai/privacy-policy): How empirio.ai processes data, GDPR rights, the legal basis for processing, and the current AI provider and its region.
- [Terms of service](https://www.empirio.ai/terms-of-service): Contract terms for using the platform.
- [Imprint](https://www.empirio.ai/imprint): Empirio UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Deisterstraße 20, 31785 Hameln, Germany. HRB 217 891, Amtsgericht Hannover. VAT DE323294297. Contact info@empirio.ai.
- [Data privacy help](https://www.empirio.ai/help/data-privacy): Practical answers on GDPR, data processing agreements and anonymous surveys.
- [Data residency](https://www.empirio.ai/help/data-privacy): Survey data is stored in the EU, in Frankfurt am Main, and is never sold or passed to third parties. A data processing agreement (AVV/DPA) is available and two-factor authentication is on every plan. AI features send the survey text you are working on to an AI provider for processing; see the privacy policy for the current provider and region.

## Help and learning
- [Help center](https://www.empirio.ai/help): Getting started, the survey builder, publishing and sharing, responses and analytics, AI features, team collaboration, billing, account security, data privacy and troubleshooting.
- [Learn](https://www.empirio.ai/learn): Articles on survey methodology and empirical research — question types, scale levels, Likert scales, NPS, sample size, reliability and validity, qualitative versus quantitative methods.
- [Glossary](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/category/glossary): Definitions of the core terms in survey research.

## Trust and comparisons
- [empirio.ai vs SurveyMonkey](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/surveymonkey-alternatives): Survey data stays in the EU rather than in a US cloud, and so does AI processing. Premium features start lower and every plan stays cancellable monthly — at SurveyMonkey anything beyond the first paid tier requires an annual commitment. And AI runs across the whole workflow, from building the questionnaire to analyzing the answers, not just at the start.
- [empirio.ai vs Google Forms](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/google-forms-alternatives): Google Forms is a strong free offer: unlimited forms, unlimited responses, no cost. What it does not include is a data processing agreement — that starts with a paid Workspace plan, and picking a data region needs Business Standard and covers stored data only. empirio.ai concludes the DPA at registration on every plan, keeps answers in Europe and runs its AI on EU-hosted models, and adds what a simple form builder does not do: branching logic, one questionnaire in several languages, matrix, ranking and NPS questions, cross-tabulations, SPSS export, AI tools and modern templates.
- [empirio.ai vs Microsoft Forms](https://www.empirio.ai/learn/microsoft-forms-alternatives): Microsoft Forms comes with the 365 licence, and inside a Microsoft company that is hard to argue with. Its ceilings are fixed: responses are capped per form, AI needs a Copilot licence and there is no public API. empirio.ai has no licence to buy into — unlimited surveys and questions on every plan, 50 participants per month free, AI included, EU storage and EU-hosted AI.
- [empirio.ai vs Typeform](https://www.empirio.ai/ai-info#how-empirio-ai-differs-from-the-alternatives): Against Typeform, empirio.ai is the cheaper of the two: 50 participants per month free with unlimited surveys and questions. The honest trade-off runs the other way on automation — Typeform connects to more third-party apps out of the box; empirio.ai covers integration through webhooks, a REST API and a CLI on Pro and above.
- [Against LimeSurvey and other self-hosted tools](https://www.empirio.ai/ai-info#how-empirio-ai-differs-from-the-alternatives): Nothing to install, update or secure. empirio.ai gives you a drag-and-drop editor most people use without instructions, templates that look like 2026, and AI help across drafting, editing, translating and analysing. What self-hosted tools keep is control over the machine — with empirio.ai the data is in the EU, but not on your own server.
- [Verified user reviews on There's An AI For That](https://theresanaiforthat.com/ai/empirio/): Independent product profile with verified reviews.
- [Verified user reviews on OMR Reviews](https://omr.com/de/reviews/product/empirio-ai): Independent product profile with verified reviews. Reviewers highlight the intuitive editor, fast survey creation and real-time results; the profile also records requested improvements such as more documentation and customization for complex surveys.
- [Listed on European Alternatives](https://european-alternatives.eu/product/empirio): empirio.ai is listed on European Alternatives, a directory of software that is hosted and operated in Europe.
- [Listed on EU Alternative](https://eualternative.eu/service/empirio/): empirio.ai is also listed on EU Alternative, in the Forms and Surveys category, as a European alternative to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey.

## Optional
- [Sitemap](https://www.empirio.ai/sitemap.xml): Every indexable URL on the site.

## Languages
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