Formsite vs Jotform (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Jotform grades higher than Formsite: 3.0 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Jotform grades higher on features and ease of use. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Formsite
Online form builder for registrations, orders and surveys
Jotform
No-code form builder with payments, e-signatures and workflows
Which one is for you
Pick Formsite if
- Fits if you run event sign-ups or order forms with a few hundred results
- Works for teams who want a trial without handing over a card
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free, because 10 results per form runs out fast
- Watch out: Personal caps results at 500 per form, Professional at 1,000 and Business at 2,500
- Pricey if you add helpers, as sub-users are $10 a month each and storage $10 per GB
- Watch out: payments, the API and third-party integrations are Professional and up, at $34 a month
Pick Jotform if
- Fits if you want forms, payments and signatures in one account, not three
- Works for field teams collecting answers with no signal, like on a building site
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if all you need is a quick survey, because Google Forms is free
- Tight if you want to stay on free, with 5 forms, 100 responses a month, 500 kept and Jotform's logo on each form
- Pricey if two of you build forms, since only Enterprise takes more than one user and its price isn't published
- Not for you if you need HIPAA features on a budget, as they start on Gold at $99
- Watch out: there's no trial, full storage deletes your oldest responses, and sale prices renew at full price
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAFormsiteFair | 3.0GPAJotformVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPersonal is $21 a month billed yearly, in the ordinary band. Professional, where payments and the API start, is $34. | C$34 a month on yearly billing lands between this category's $24 middle and its dearer quarter at $39, and that's 25 forms for one person. Fair if it replaces a signing tool too. Steep if you only need forms, and a second builder means Enterprise. |
| Free plan and trial | C14-day trial of Professional with no card, then a free level of 5 forms, 10 results per form and 50 MB of files. | CNearly every feature is in the free plan, and it never expires, but the caps are ones you'll hit: 5 forms, 100 responses a month, 500 responses kept, and Jotform's logo on every form. |
| Features | CForms, payments, workflows and PDF results cover the basics, but results are capped per form at 500, 1,000 or 2,500 on paid plans. | AForms, payments, e-signatures, approvals, tables, reports, an app builder and AI agents, from more than 20,000 templates. Two things the rest of this category hasn't got: a phone app that collects answers with no signal, and agents that run a form over chat, phone or WhatsApp. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. It is a web app where you build each form yourself. | A4.9 from about 44,600 App Store ratings, the highest score in this category. Pick a template, drag the fields around, send the link. One reviewer's car club, run by volunteers with little tech experience, got on fine. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with Salesforce, Google Sheets, Slack, Mailchimp, Zapier, DocuSign, Stripe and PayPal. | BWeb plus iPhone and Android, with the phone app working offline, and it hooks into PayPal, Stripe, Google Sheets, Slack and Zapier, with an API key even on free. No desktop app, which is the one thing short of top marks. |
| Best for | online registrations, orders and surveys | forms that take payments and signatures |
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: Formsite and Jotform. How we grade
Price against what you get
Formsite starts at $21 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Jotform starts at $34 a month and scores 3.7.
Jotform scores higher, and starts $13 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other form and survey tools on the chart, 12 score higher than Formsite for less, and none scores higher than Jotform 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
- Formsite also covers surveys.
- Jotform also covers AI agents and app builder.
At a glance
| Formsite | Jotform | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $21 per month, billed annually ($24.95 billed monthly) | $34 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | Free level after the trial: 5 forms, 10 results per form and 50 MB of file space. | Starter plan: 5 forms, 100 monthly submissions, 100 MB of upload space, 10,000 monthly form views and 500 stored submissions for one user. Forms and signed documents carry Jotform branding. |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial of Professional, no credit card required | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Formsite | Jotform Inc. |
| Price read from | formsite.com | jotform.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Formsite
- Results are capped per form: 500 on Personal, 1,000 on Professional and 2,500 on Business.
- Sub-users cost $10 a month each and file storage $10 per GB a month; custom PDF and Word results docs are $50 a month.
- The vendor says it offers the same prices to all customers, with no nonprofit discounts or sales.
- Payments, API access and third-party integrations are listed as features for Professional and above.
Jotform
- Bronze, Silver and Gold are single-user plans; Enterprise is the only multiuser plan.
- The free Starter plan allows 5 forms and 100 submissions a month, and its forms show Jotform branding.
- HIPAA compliance features are limited to the Gold and Enterprise plans.
- Paid plans have no trial period, only a 30-day money-back guarantee; once submission storage is full, the oldest responses are deleted.
Key features
Formsite
- Form building and templates
- Forms cover registration, order and survey uses, and the site offers a template library and a features list for each service level.
- Payment integrations
- Forms can collect payments through PayPal, Braintree, Authorize.net and Stripe.
- Third-party integrations
- The pricing page lists Salesforce, Google Sheets, Google Drive, DocuSign, Slack, Mailchimp, Dropbox, Box, Amazon S3 and Zapier.
- Results as PDF and workflows
- Business and above receive each result as a PDF and can combine several forms and their results into workflows.
- Save and return, data upload
- Respondents can save a partial result and return later, and existing data can be imported into forms.
- API access
- An API is listed for working with forms and results programmatically.
Jotform
- Drag-and-drop Form Builder
- Build forms without code, starting from more than 20,000 premade templates, with conditional logic to show or hide fields and widgets that extend what a form can do.
- Online payments
- Collect one-time payments and recurring subscriptions through gateways such as PayPal, Stripe and Square. Monthly payment submissions are capped by plan, from 10 on Starter to 1,000 on Gold.
- Jotform Sign
- Create, share and e-sign documents. Signed documents count against a monthly limit that runs from 10 on Starter to 1,000 on Gold.
- Workflows, Tables and reports
- Jotform Workflows automates approval steps, Jotform Tables organizes submissions in a workspace, and Report Builder turns responses into charts and grids.
- Mobile app with offline collection
- The free iOS and Android app collects submissions without an internet connection and has a kiosk mode for gathering many responses on one device.
- AI Agents
- Agents trained on URLs, uploaded documents or custom Q&As answer questions and guide people through a form over chat, phone, SMS, WhatsApp and email.
Plans
Formsite
Personal$21
per month, billed annually ($24.95 billed monthly)
5 forms, 500 results per form and 500 MB of file space. Billed $249.95 yearly.
Professional$34
per month, billed annually ($39.95 billed monthly)
10 forms, 1,000 results per form, 1 GB of space, branding removal. Billed $399.95 yearly.
Business$59
per month, billed annually ($69.95 billed monthly)
25 forms, 2,500 results per form, 2 GB, 1 sub-user, PDF results and workflows. Billed $699.95 yearly.
Business +$84
per month, billed annually ($99.95 billed monthly)
100 forms, 10,000 results per form, 4 GB and 5 sub-users. Billed $999.95 yearly.
Enterprise$209
per month, billed annually ($249.95 billed monthly)
1,000 forms, 50,000 results per form, 10 GB and 20 sub-users. Billed $2,499.95 yearly.
Jotform
Starter$0
5 forms, 100 monthly submissions, 100 MB of space and 10 payment submissions a month, with Jotform branding.
Bronze$34
per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)
25 forms, 1,000 monthly submissions, 1 GB of space and 100 payment submissions a month for one user.
Silver$39
per month, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)
50 forms, 2,500 monthly submissions, 10 GB of space and 250 payment submissions a month for one user.
Gold$99
per month, billed annually ($129 billed monthly)
100 forms, 10,000 monthly submissions, 100 GB of space and optional HIPAA compliance features, for one user.
EnterpriseCustom
The only multiuser plan: unlimited forms and submissions, SSO, user management, data residency and a custom domain.
Ways to pay less
Formsite
- Annual discount
Yearly billing saves $49 to $499
Paying yearly saves $49 on Personal, $79 on Professional, $139 on Business, $199 on Business + and $499 on Enterprise against monthly billing.
Jotform
- Annual discount
Save up to 20% with yearly billing
The pricing page advertises up to 20% off for yearly payment. Bronze is $34 per month billed annually versus $39 monthly, Silver $39 versus $49 and Gold $99 versus $129.
- Nonprofit
50% off for nonprofits
Approved nonprofits get 50% off the Bronze, Silver and Gold plans and 30% off the Enterprise plan.
- Education
50% off for educators and schools
Verified teachers and academic institutions get 50% off Bronze, Silver and Gold and 30% off Enterprise. Fees for HIPAA, SSO and other add-ons are excluded.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Formsite or Jotform?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Formsite is cheaper to start with: $21 a month, against $34 a month for Jotform. Formsite starts at $21 per month, billed annually ($24.95 billed monthly), and Jotform starts at $34 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Formsite or Jotform?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both Formsite and Jotform have a free plan.
Which platforms do Formsite and Jotform run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Jotform lists iOS and Android apps. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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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.