The dominant survey platform in mainland China vs an assessment engine built around the deliverable. A Wenjuanxing alternative with automated per-person reports and statistical significance.
Wenjuanxing is not a toy — it is the default survey tool for a huge share of Chinese teams, with 30+ question types, free statistics reports, an AI assistant, exam auto-scoring, and a mature 360-degree module that outputs department and individual evaluation reports on its own. It also reaches respondents where Western tools cannot: WeChat, QQ, SMS invitations, red-packet incentives, a paid sample panel. What it produces is analysis of a dataset. What FormLM produces is a product: every submission is scored across weighted dimensions and turned into a branded, interpreted PDF that you can hand a client. If your respondents are in the WeChat ecosystem, choose Wenjuanxing. If the report is what you get paid for, read on.
Ten dimensions that decide whether the output is a report or a chart pack.
| Feature | Wenjuanxing | FormLM |
|---|---|---|
| Per-respondent interpreted report | ⚠️ Automatic reports for 360 projects; AI reports describe aggregate statistics (table-to-text) | ✅ Scored, interpreted PDF generated for every submission |
| Scoring model | ⚠️ Exam auto-scoring; 360 supports role weights — no weighted dimension model for surveys | ✅ Weighted multi-dimension scoring with configurable bands |
| Pre-post significance testing | ⚠️ Not part of the advertised output — you chart it yourself | ✅ Welch's t-test, Welch–Satterthwaite df, two-tailed p, Cohen's d per dimension |
| AI building | ✅ AI assistant covers design, distribution and analysis | ✅ Questions + scoring logic + report template generated as one system |
| Branded client deliverable | ⚠️ Statistics downloads; report branding not the focus | ✅ Logo, colours, report header/footer on Plus and above; the share-page badge can switch to custom brand text or disappear entirely as white label |
| Respondent reach | ✅ WeChat, QQ, SMS invites, red-packet incentives, paid sample panel | ✅ Submit-triggered email (fixed recipients, or auto-reply to the respondent with the finished PDF attached), webhooks, delayed pushes; link/QR/embed collection. ⚠️ No paid sample panel |
| Mainland access & billing | ✅ Servers on the Chinese mainland, local invoicing, CNY pricing | ⚠️ No China-local hosting commitment published; billed in USD |
| Question type breadth | ✅ 30+ types, free to use | ✅ Type set oriented to scoring: scales, ratings, choice, text |
| Data export | ✅ Raw responses and statistics free; third-party reviews record a per-download cap on the free tier | ✅ CSV on all plans, Excel on Plus and above |
| Pricing model | Free core; Enterprise Standard ¥399/mo or ¥2,999/yr; Enterprise Premium ¥3,000/mo or ¥12,000/yr | Free plan; Plus $19/mo ($199/yr); AI credits top-up from $5 and never expire |
Vendor figures from its public product and pricing pages; free-tier export behaviour is from third-party reviews. Availability and terms change — verify on wjx.cn and on our pricing page before deciding.Also on our side: the finished PDF report is auto-emailed to the respondent when they leave an address (with a per-recipient daily cap). Known shortfalls we won't hide: no collaborator seats, contact management is a Pro feature, and no data-retention policy or audit log yet. Badge policy (three tiers, server-enforced): Basic keeps the FormLM badge; Plus and Pro can swap it for custom brand text or hide it entirely as white label.
Four reasons it is the incumbent, not an underdog.
Group forwarding, QQ, SMS invitations, and red-packet incentives that lift response rates in a way a link shortener never will. There is also a paid sample service for recruiting respondents. FormLM has no answer to any of this.
You upload an assessor relationship table and a contact list, set role weights across supervisor/peer/subordinate, and it automatically issues four reports: department comparison, individual comparison, department evaluation and individual evaluation — plus a self-awareness quadrant analysis. For an HR talent review in China, that is a complete workflow.
Mainland servers, fast load on Chinese networks, CNY billing and local invoicing — procurement and IT approvals that a foreign-hosted tool has to argue for, page by page.
30+ question types, statistical analysis, statistics reports and raw-response downloads are free, which is exactly why students, HR teams and researchers default to it. An AI assistant now spans design, distribution and analysis too.
Chart packs vs the artefact a client signs off on.
Wenjuanxing's AI report sends survey statistics to a large language model and produces descriptive text about the aggregate — with a data-authorisation agreement to accept first. Its per-person reports live in the 360 product line. FormLM's report is per respondent by default: the score combination is read, the bands are applied, and the interpretation is written for that individual, then delivered as a branded PDF.
Trainers in China commonly run a pre- and post-session questionnaire on Wenjuanxing and then rebuild both rounds in Excel to answer the client's real question — "did it work?". FormLM answers it in the document: two apps compared, per-dimension mean, SD, n, Welch's t-test with Welch–Satterthwaite degrees of freedom, two-tailed p and Cohen's d, with a stated α and a written interpretation band.
Getting onto Wenjuanxing's business ladder means ¥399/month or ¥2,999/year for Enterprise Standard — sensible for an organisation, steep for a solo coach whose paying artefact is the report. FormLM Plus is $19/month ($199/year) with unlimited applications, branded reports and 1,000 AI credits, and credit top-ups roll over rather than expiring.
FormLM ships CSV/Excel export, webhooks on every plan, an open-source CLI and an MCP server, so assessments can be built from a terminal or an AI agent. The public site itself is maintained in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese — useful when you serve HK, Taiwan and cross-border clients from one practice.
For trainers delivering in Chinese organisations, be honest about both halves.
Collecting the room's feedback is genuinely solved in China by Wenjuanxing — a QR code on the last slide, a few minutes of WeChat-native filling, charts already drawn when you pack up.
The second half is where the money is, and it is still manual: turning two rounds of responses into a document the training manager can forward to their own boss. That is the job FormLM's training evaluation form template and baseline-comparison report are built for. Some trainers keep both — collect on Wenjuanxing, deliver on FormLM. See the quiz maker comparison for trainers for the wider field.
Yes, two kinds. Its AI report feature feeds survey statistics to a large language model and writes aggregate text descriptions (table-to-text), governed by a data-authorisation agreement. Its 360-degree assessment module automatically produces four report types — department comparison, individual comparison, department evaluation, individual evaluation. What it does not produce, on the material I could verify, is a branded per-respondent interpretation report for an ordinary questionnaire. FormLM generates exactly that for every submission.
The core platform is free — the vendor states that 30+ question types, statistical analysis, statistics reports and raw response downloads cost nothing, which is why it dominates student and HR use in China. Third-party reviews record that the free tier caps how many raw responses you can download at once (around the first 100) while statistics viewing stays open. Business tiers are sold annually: the Enterprise Standard plan is listed at ¥399/month or ¥2,999/year, and Enterprise Premium at ¥3,000/month or ¥12,000/year. FormLM has a permanent free plan and a $19/month paid plan.
It can collect both rounds and show charts for each, and its exam type auto-scores answers. Statistical significance is not part of the advertised output, so proving that a cohort actually improved is something you assemble yourself in Excel. FormLM compares a post-session app against a baseline app in one PDF: means, standard deviations, n, Welch's t-test with Welch–Satterthwaite degrees of freedom, two-tailed p, and Cohen's d effect size per dimension.
Mainland China reach. WeChat and QQ distribution, SMS invitations, red-packet incentives, a paid sample panel for recruiting respondents, servers on the Chinese mainland, and local invoicing. Its 360 module also handles assessor relationship tables and role weighting (supervisor, peer, subordinate) for organisational talent reviews. FormLM has none of that distribution machinery.
Wenjuanxing is unbeatable for reaching respondents in China. FormLM is the layer that turns what came back into a report a client can act on — free to start.
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