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Fillout vs Tally

Tally scores higher on the AgentReady, 82/100 against 56/100. They differ on 13 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Fillout. Fillout is an all-in-one form solution for creating forms, quizzes, and surveys.

Tally. Tally is a free, intuitive form builder that works like a text document.

Where Fillout is ahead

Fillout passes public docs discoverable, and Tally does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: fast time to first request and copyable quickstart. Tally misses those.

Where Tally is ahead

Tally passes mcp discoverable, and Fillout does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided and errors and status codes documented. Fillout misses those.

And on adopt, programmatic credential creation, official python sdk and mcp integration available. Fillout misses those.

Finally, on operate, machine-readable errors and agent compatibility verified. Fillout misses those.

What neither does

Both fail llms-full.txt / full agent docs, authentication documented, limits / constraints documented, cli available, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Both sit at 80/100 here. Fillout misses llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable; Tally misses public docs discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs.

Understand is whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it. Tally leads 85 to 38. Fillout misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Tally misses authentication documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Tally leads 86 to 60. Fillout misses programmatic credential creation, official python sdk, cli available, mcp integration available; Tally misses fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, cli available.

Operate. Tally leads 76 to 47. Fillout misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Tally misses retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable.

Pricing

Fillout starts at $15/mo and has a free tier. Tally does not publish one and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Tally clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Fillout and Tally. Alternatives to each: Fillout, Tally.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["fillout", "tally"]}