FormBackend vs Formspree (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, FormBackend and Formspree share a 2.4 GPA, both have a free plan, and FormBackend starts cheaper, at $5 a month against $10 a month.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on all five counts.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
FormBackend
Form endpoint service that emails and routes HTML form entries
Formspree
Form backend that handles submissions for any website
Which one is for you
Pick FormBackend if
- Fits if you have a static site and want entries by email
- Works for freelancers routing forms for several clients
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free, as it stops at 1 form, 50 submissions and 30-day auto-delete
- Watch out: rules, API access and white-label notifications need Freelancer at $14
- Watch out: Slack and Google Sheets delivery sits on the $50 Business plan
- Skip it if you want a drag-and-drop builder, as the form is yours to write
Pick Formspree if
- Fits if you can paste an HTML form and want submissions emailed to you
- Works for small sites that get a few dozen messages a month
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to build forms with drag and drop, as there is no visual builder
- Tight if you stay free, with 50 submissions a month and a 30-day archive
- Watch out: file uploads, export and search are not on Free, and API access needs Professional
- Pricey if you grow, as submissions are capped at 200, 2,000 and 20,000 across Personal, Professional and Business
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAFormBackendFair | 2.4GPAFormspreeFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BSimple is $5 a month for 1,000 submissions, inside the cheaper quarter of form tools. Monthly billing only is shown. | BPersonal is $10 a month billed yearly, inside the cheapest quarter of $14. It allows 200 submissions. |
| Free plan and trial | CFree is 1 form, 50 submissions a month and entries deleted after 30 days. A separate free hosted form has no submission cap. | CFree gives unlimited forms but 50 submissions a month, one team member and a 30-day archive, without uploads, export or search. |
| Features | CEndpoint, native delivery, Zapier, rules, spam protection and a hosted form. Rules and the API need Freelancer, and Slack and Sheets delivery needs Business. | CSpam protection, storage, plugins, routing rules and an API cover the backend job. There is no visual form builder, and API access needs Professional. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record, and it is a web app where the work is writing the form and setting up routing, so it sits at C. | CNo store rating on record. You write the form in HTML or code and point it at Formspree. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with an API and eight listed integrations. | BWeb only, with Google Sheets, Trello, Klaviyo, HubSpot and Zendesk, plus an API on Professional. |
| Best for | emailing and routing HTML form entries | form handling for any website you code yourself |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: FormBackend and Formspree. How we grade
Price against what you get
FormBackend starts at $5 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Formspree starts at $10 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and FormBackend starts $5 a month lower. Of the other form and survey tools on the chart, 3 score higher than FormBackend for less, and 8 score higher than Formspree for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Formspree also covers transactional email.
At a glance
| FormBackend | Formspree | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $5 per month, billed monthly | $10 per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | 1 form, 50 submissions a month and 10 spam submissions a month, with 30-day auto-delete and data export. | Unlimited forms, 50 submissions a month, 1 team member, 2 linked emails and a 30-day submission archive. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | FormBackend.com | Formspree |
| Price read from | formbackend.com | formspree.io |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
FormBackend
- The free plan stops at 1 form, 50 submissions a month and 30-day auto-delete.
- Slack and Google Sheets delivery is listed under the Business plan.
- The pricing page shows a yearly option worth two months free but not its price.
- Rules, API access and white-label notifications need Freelancer or above.
Formspree
- There is no visual form builder; forms are written in HTML or code.
- Plans are capped by submissions: 50 on Free, 200 on Personal, 2,000 on Professional and 20,000 on Business.
- File uploads, export and search are not on the Free plan, and API access needs Professional.
- Free plan submissions older than 30 days drop out of the dashboard view.
Key features
FormBackend
- Form endpoint
- Submit an HTML form to the endpoint and receive entries by email, with custom redirects.
- Native delivery
- Sends submissions to Slack, Google Sheets, Discord and any webhook without a third-party account.
- Zapier connections
- Reaches 1,000+ more apps, including Notion, Airtable and Mailchimp, through Zapier.
- Rules and routing
- From Freelancer up: a rules engine, conditional email notifications and white-label notifications.
- Spam protection
- Included from the Simple plan, with a monthly cap on spam submissions on the free plan.
- Hosted form option
- A free hosted form builder is offered for people who do not want to write the form themselves.
Formspree
- Bring your own form
- Any HTML markup, styles or scripts can post to a Formspree endpoint, including AJAX submission that works cross-origin.
- Spam protection
- Formshield filters spam with machine learning. Higher plans add adjustable sensitivity, custom honeypots and custom spam rules.
- Submission storage and export
- Submissions are stored in a dashboard with search, and paid plans can export all of them as CSV or JSON.
- Plugins and integrations
- Basic plugins send submissions to apps such as Google Sheets and Trello; premium plugins cover Klaviyo, HubSpot and Zendesk.
- Rules engine and routing
- On Business, rules route submissions to different emails, flag spam or change the redirect based on field values.
- API access
- Professional and above can fetch submissions from a JSON HTTP endpoint without logging in.
Plans
FormBackend
Free$0
1 form, 50 submissions a month, custom Thank You page and data export. A separate free hosted form gives unlimited submissions.
Simple$5
per month, billed monthly
2 forms, 1,000 submissions a month, 250 MB file uploads, auto-responses, spam protection and webhooks.
Freelancer$14
per month, billed monthly
10 forms, 5,000 submissions a month, 1 GB file uploads, rules engine, API access and white-label notifications.
Business$50
per month, billed monthly
Unlimited forms, 10,000 submissions a month, 10 GB file uploads, team members, custom sender domains and Slack and Sheets integrations.
Formspree
Free$0
Unlimited forms, 50 submissions a month, 30-day archive, basic spam filtering and no file uploads.
Personal$10
per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly)
200 submissions a month, 1 GB file uploads, unlimited archive, CSV and JSON export, basic plugins.
Professional$20
per month, billed annually ($30 billed monthly)
2,000 submissions a month, 2 team members, 5 GB uploads, API access, autoresponses and premium plugins.
Business$60
per month, billed annually ($90 billed monthly)
20,000 submissions a month, unlimited team members, rules engine, custom email domains and priority support.
CustomCustom
Unlimited submissions for high-volume campaigns, with SLA, onboarding and phone support. Sold through sales.
Ways to pay less
FormBackend
- Annual discount
Two months free on yearly billing
The pricing page says yearly plans are priced to give two months free compared with paying monthly.
- Other savings
First-month refund
The vendor says it will refund the first month on a paid plan if you are not happy.
Formspree
- Annual discount
Yearly billing lowers the monthly rate
Yearly plans cost $120 (Personal), $240 (Professional) or $720 (Business), against $15, $30 and $90 a month when billed monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, FormBackend or Formspree?
As of Nov 13, 2026, FormBackend is cheaper to start with: $5 a month, against $10 a month for Formspree. FormBackend starts at $5 per month, billed monthly, and Formspree starts at $10 per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, FormBackend or Formspree?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both FormBackend and Formspree have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.