Guide

How to make a lead magnet quiz without a quiz builder subscription

Write the quiz with one prompt, collect the email at the result, and keep every lead, with what the quiz builders charge for the same thing.

Updated 2026-11-02 · by Hostus Team

A quiz is one of the few lead magnets people finish: they answer a few questions, get a result about themselves, and leave an email to receive it. Quiz builders do this well and charge by how many leads you collect a month. If you already use Claude or ChatGPT, you can write the whole quiz as one HTML file and host it at a link where every email lands in your inbox. Builder prices below were read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2 November 2026.

What do quiz builders charge for a lead magnet quiz?

ToolFree planCheapest paid planBranding
Hostus100 responses a month, no time limit; over the limit, responses are held, not lost$9.99 a month or $49.99 a yearSmall Hostus badge on every page
Interact100 completions a month, 5 quizzes, no integrations, no analytics; quizzes pause at the limitLite: $39 a month, or $27 a month billed yearlyInteract branding until Growth
ScoreApp1 live scorecard, 10 responses a monthStarter: $39 a month, or $351 a yearLogo removal from Starter
Typeform10 responses a month across all formsBasic: $39 a month, or $28 a month billed yearlyBranding removal from Plus
OutgrowForms and surveys only, no quizzes, 100 leads a monthFreelancer Limited: $22 a month, or $14 a month billed yearlyCannot be removed on that plan
involve.me50 submissions a monthStart: $49 a month, or $29 a month billed yearlyLogo until Grow

ScoreApp's pricing page and Typeform's Free plan article list an AI builder on the free plan; Interact's pricing page offers creating a quiz with AI. Sources: tryinteract.com/plans, scoreapp.com/pricing, typeform.com/pricing and Typeform's Free plan help article (updated 21 October 2026), outgrow.co/pricing, involve.me/pricing.

How do you build the quiz with one prompt?

Ask for the whole quiz as a single file. The result logic runs in the page, and the email form at the end is a plain HTML form, which is what lets a host store the leads without any setup.

Make a lead magnet quiz as one self-contained HTML file, mobile first. Topic: [what the quiz tells people, e.g. "which pricing model fits your studio"]. 6 questions, one per screen, 3 or 4 answers each, with a progress bar. Score the answers into 3 results: [name and one-line description of each]. After the last question, show the result title and a teaser, then a form to get the full result by email: a plain <form name="quiz" method="post"> with no action, fields name and email, and a hidden field named result holding the result. After sending, show the full result on the page. All CSS and JavaScript inline, no external files except Google Fonts.

Open the file in your browser and take the quiz once with each result in mind, to check that the scoring lands where you meant.

Where should you host the quiz? 3 options ranked

Hostus is first because it is the option we recommend when the quiz exists to bring you leads you keep. The rest follow with the case where each is the right pick.

1. Hostus. A host for pages your AI made, built around the people who open them. Drop the HTML file on hostus.io and the quiz is live at https://your-quiz.hostus.page with SSL; switch it to Public in the dashboard so anyone with the link can take it. The email form works with no setup: each lead lands in an inbox in your Hostus dashboard, with the result it got, and you get an email for each one, or one daily summary if you prefer. Export the list as CSV, or ask Claude to read it through the Hostus connector and draft the follow-up. Spam is filtered and kept for you to review. Cookieless analytics show visits and where people came from, so you can compare visits with leads. Change a question and upload the file again; the link in your posts stays the same. Free: 20 pages, 2 MB in total (HTML and media together), 100 responses a month. Paid: $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year.

2. A quiz builder (Interact, ScoreApp, Typeform). Pick one if you need native integrations with your email tool, branching logic built by clicking instead of prompting, or A/B tests of the quiz.

3. A form inside your email tool. Pick it if a single question is enough and you want the subscriber added to a sequence the moment they answer.

Can people see how others answered?

Only if you want them to. Form answers on Hostus are private to you by default. A result page that says "38% of people got the same result as you" is a strong finish for a quiz, and it takes two small changes: mark the result field with data-publico, and have the page ask Hostus for the count with hostus.data. Visitors then see the share for each result, never names or emails. It works while the page is Public and its data mode is not set to each reader only their own records. Add this to the prompt:

On the result screen, show what share of people got each result, using hostus.data count on the collection "form:quiz" with where result equals each result. Mark the result field data-publico. Never show names or emails.

Good to know before you switch

Hostus has no native integration with Mailchimp, Kit or other email tools; you export the leads as CSV or read them through the connector or the API. The scoring logic lives in the page, so a curious visitor can read it in the source, which is fine for a lead magnet and wrong for a graded test. There is no custom domain: the quiz lives at a hostus.page subdomain, every page carries a small Hostus badge, and pages are noindex, so people reach the quiz from your links, not from Google. Free is 100 responses a month across your pages; responses over the limit are held, not lost.

Questions people ask

Can I make a lead magnet quiz for free?

Yes. Write the quiz as one HTML file with Claude or ChatGPT and host it on Hostus: the email form stores up to 100 leads a month free, with no time limit. Among quiz builders, Interact's free plan allows 100 completions a month with branding and no integrations; ScoreApp and Typeform free plans allow 10 responses a month.

Where do the emails from my quiz go?

On Hostus, to an inbox in your dashboard and to your email, one message per lead or one daily summary. You can export them as CSV or ask Claude to read them through the Hostus connector.

What happens when I go over the free limit?

On Hostus, responses over 100 in a month are held, not lost; upgrading releases them. Interact's FAQ says quizzes are deactivated at the free limit until the next cycle.

Can the quiz send the result by email automatically?

Hostus emails you, the owner, for each lead; it does not send emails to the people who took the quiz. Show the full result on the page after the form, and send your follow-up from your own email tool.

Is an AI-written quiz good enough?

The writing is the easy part; the thinking is yours. Give the AI your three results in your own words and the questions you would ask in a sales call, then take the quiz yourself once per result before you share it.

Your quiz, your leads, no per-lead pricing

Drop the quiz HTML your AI made and every email lands in your inbox with the result it got. Free for 100 responses a month.