# FormBackend review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Form endpoint service that emails and routes HTML form entries Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. FormBackend provides an endpoint for HTML forms so submissions can be collected without server code. Entries arrive by email and can be sent to Slack, Google Sheets, Discord or any webhook. Paid plans raise the number of forms and submissions and add rules, an API and custom email domains. - **Category:** Forms & Surveys - **Made by:** FormBackend.com - **Website:** https://www.formbackend.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, as it stops at 1 form, 50 submissions and 30-day auto-delete. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, FormBackend has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5 per month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 form, 50 submissions a month and 10 spam submissions a month, with 30-day auto-delete and data export. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | Read from https://www.formbackend.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with FormBackend before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months free on yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page says yearly plans are priced to give two months free compared with paying monthly. Source: https://www.formbackend.com/pricing - **First-month refund** (Other savings): The vendor says it will refund the first month on a paid plan if you are not happy. Source: https://www.formbackend.com/pricing ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Static sites that need a contact form and email delivery - Freelancers handling forms for several client sites - Developers who want API access and webhooks ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. FormBackend is a form endpoint service that emails and routes entries from your own HTML forms. The free plan stops at 1 form, 50 submissions a month and 30-day auto-delete, and rules, the API and Slack and Sheets delivery sit on dearer plans. - **Value for money: B.** Simple is $5 a month for 1,000 submissions, inside the cheaper quarter of form tools. Monthly billing only is shown. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free is 1 form, 50 submissions a month and entries deleted after 30 days. A separate free hosted form has no submission cap. - **Features: C.** Endpoint, native delivery, Zapier, rules, spam protection and a hosted form. Rules and the API need Freelancer, and Slack and Sheets delivery needs Business. - **Ease of use: C.** No 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. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with an API and eight listed integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from FormBackend's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among form and survey tools - FormBackend's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 88 of the 148 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 27. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 107 of 148) and worst on features (C, above 5). - Its paid plans start at $5 a month, against a middle price of $20 for the category: 11 of the 114 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/forms ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace FormBackend you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $60 a year. - You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack, Google Sheets, Discord, Zapier, Notion, Airtable, Mailchimp, Zendesk **Tags:** Forms, Public API, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Formspree](https://toolgpa.com/tools/formspree): Form backend that handles submissions for any website. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formbackend-vs-formspree) - [Basin](https://toolgpa.com/tools/basin): Form backend and builder that collects submissions without code. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/basin-vs-formbackend) - [Formspark](https://toolgpa.com/tools/formspark): Form backend that emails or forwards submissions from your own HTML. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formbackend-vs-formspark) - [Web3Forms](https://toolgpa.com/tools/web3forms): Form-to-email backend for static websites using an access key. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formbackend-vs-web3forms) - [Formcarry](https://toolgpa.com/tools/formcarry): Form backend that emails HTML form submissions and stores them. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formbackend-vs-formcarry) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.formbackend.com/pricing - https://www.formbackend.com/integrations Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/formbackend Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).