A Tally alternative with every subprocessor in Europe
Tally is a good, Belgian form builder. FormVault is the alternative when you need every subprocessor in the EU or EEA, encryption at rest and a respondent portal.
Tally is one of the best form builders around, and it is European: the company is in Belgium and, according to its own GDPR page, form data is stored in Europe on Google Cloud in Belgium. For most teams that is a fine answer.
Where teams start looking further is the rest of the stack. Tally's published subprocessor list includes US companies for email notifications, error monitoring, product analytics, DNS and bot protection, and payments, and the hosting provider is a US-owned cloud. If your clients or your data protection officer want every party that touches respondent data to be European, FormVault is built that way.
FormVault vs Tally at a glance
| FormVault | Tally | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | polarmake, Norway (EEA) | Tally, Belgium (EU) |
| Where form data is stored | Hetzner (a German company), Nuremberg, Germany | Google Cloud, Belgium |
| Subprocessors outside the EU/EEA | None (see our subprocessor list) | Several US providers listed, e.g. SendGrid, Sentry, Mixpanel, Cloudflare, Stripe |
| Respondent access and erasure requests | Built-in respondent portal | Handled by you |
| Free plan | 3 active forms, 100 responses a month | Far more generous; see Tally's pricing page |
| Integrations and form features | Core field types, webhooks, Slack, email, CSV, API, MCP | Much broader: logic, payments, many integrations |
When Tally is the better choice
If you want the most form for no money, Tally wins: a very generous free plan, conditional logic, payments, and a long list of integrations. For newsletters, waitlists, feedback and most marketing forms, its European base and EU storage are more than enough. Check Tally's GDPR page for its current subprocessors.
When FormVault fits better
- Your policy or your clients require that no US company processes respondent data, including for email, monitoring or analytics.
- The forms collect sensitive data, such as health, financial or HR information, and you want the shortest possible list of processors.
- You want respondents to be able to see or delete their own submissions.
- You want no cookies and no third-party scripts on the form page.
Who processes your respondents' data at FormVault
- Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany: servers, database and file storage.
- Brevo, France: notification emails (they never contain the answers).
- Mistral AI, France: only when a signed-in user asks for an AI feature, such as drafting a form or summarising answers.
- Sign-in and analytics run on our own servers. The full, current list is on our subprocessors page.
Questions about switching from Tally
Is Tally GDPR compliant?
Tally is a Belgian company, stores form data in Europe and offers a DPA, so it can be used in a GDPR-compliant way. The difference is the subprocessor list: Tally uses several US providers, FormVault uses none.
Is FormVault free like Tally?
There is a free plan with 3 active forms and 100 responses a month. It is smaller than Tally's. Paid plans are not on sale yet.
Can I import my Tally forms?
Not yet. You recreate the form in FormVault, which usually takes a few minutes per form.
Last checked: 2026-11-12