The Tally alternative built for founders and growth teams.
Tally is a generous, well-designed form builder for collecting answers, and for a solo project it is hard to beat. Orbit is built for teams whose forms start a sales process: AI qualification, a built-in scheduler, and workflows that route each lead without a separate automation stack.
Orbit
Forms, AI lead qualification, scheduling, and a full sales CRM in one subscription.
- Unlimited team members and MCP access on every plan
- AI Agent workflows for lead qualification on every plan
- Built-in meeting scheduler. No separate Calendly.
- Visual workflow builder with conditional routing
Tally
Clean, generous form builder with a no-cost tier and a Notion-like editor.
Why switch
Why founders and growth teams choose Orbit over Tally.
The pattern we hear from teams evaluating both: Tally was perfect until the form became the first step of a pipeline.
One tool from form to booked meeting
A visitor fills in the form, an AI Agent qualifies the answers, and good-fit leads book a meeting from the thank-you step. Tally users typically stitch that together from three tools and a Zapier account.
AI qualification with written reasoning
On both plans, every submission is classified into a bucket such as high-intent ICP or nurture, with a short explanation attached, so an enterprise buyer and a student no longer look identical in Notion or Sheets.
Visual workflows that work the pipeline
Create deals, tasks, and notes in Orbit's CRM or send leads to HubSpot, Attio, or Close, post to Slack, send email, add delays, or fire a webhook from one visual builder instead of one zap per rule.
Conversational forms and sequences included
Flow forms ask one question at a time for higher completion on longer lead forms, and multi-step email and SMS sequences follow up automatically from your own address.
At a glance
Orbit vs Tally at a glance.
Tally wins on price and simplicity; Orbit wins on everything that happens after the submission.
Pricing model
Tally
Free, paid Pro tierA no-cost tier plus a paid Pro tier.
Orbit
Paid plans, quoted on a demoCore and Enterprise, both with unlimited team members.
Form responses
Tally
UnlimitedNo response cap on the base offering.
Orbit
Plan allowance, custom on EnterpriseAnnual plans pool twelve months into one bucket.
Conversational forms
Tally
LimitedApproximated with multi-page forms.
Orbit
YesA toggle on any form, not a separate product.
AI lead qualification
Tally
NoNot offered.
Orbit
Built-inClassification with reasoning on both plans.
Visual workflow builder
Tally
NoNotifications and integrations instead of a builder.
Orbit
YesDeal, task, Slack, email, delay, filter, and webhook nodes.
Built-in scheduler
Tally
NoRequires a separate booking tool.
Orbit
YesGoogle Calendar sync, with round-robin on both plans.
Sequences (multi-step email)
Tally
NoNot offered.
Orbit
YesEmail and SMS sequences sent from your own address.
Custom CSS
Tally
Pro onlyAvailable on the paid tier.
Orbit
YesIncluded on both plans.
Honest take
When Tally is the right fit.
Tally is the right fit when the budget is zero, the form is the end of the process, and the answers are going to Notion, Sheets, or an inbox that one person checks. Solo founders, side projects, and internal surveys run well on it, and its editor is a pleasure to use. The case for Orbit starts when leads need to be qualified, booked, and routed to a sales team: then one subscription replaces Tally, a scheduler, and a Zapier stack, and a demo lets you see it on your own forms first.
“Finally a form builder that just works. Clean, fast, and the integrations save me hours every week.”
FAQ
Orbit vs Tally.
The questions founders and growth teams ask most when evaluating both platforms.
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- Tally power users outgrowing the no-workflows ceiling
- Teams that need AI qualification without changing tools
- Founders who want forms + scheduling in one place