Formspree review (2026): is the free plan enough?
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Formspree report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for form handling for any website you code yourself
Formspree receives and routes submissions from forms you write yourself, with no visual builder. Personal is $10 a month billed yearly for 200 submissions, and the free plan stops at 50 submissions with no file uploads, export or search.
Who Formspree is for
- 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
Who Formspree is not for
- 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
Why Formspree gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for moneyPersonal is $10 a month billed yearly, inside the cheapest quarter of $14. It allows 200 submissions.
- CFree plan and trialFree gives unlimited forms but 50 submissions a month, one team member and a 30-day archive, without uploads, export or search.
- CFeaturesSpam protection, storage, plugins, routing rules and an API cover the backend job. There is no visual form builder, and API access needs Professional.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. You write the form in HTML or code and point it at Formspree.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with Google Sheets, Trello, Klaviyo, HubSpot and Zendesk, plus an API on Professional.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Formspree's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Formspree's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 24 of the 60 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 16.
It stands best on value for money (B, above 42 of 60) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $19.50 for the category: 11 of the 51 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 61 form and survey tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Formspree’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 42 of 60, level with 12
- CFree plan and trialAbove 4 of 60, level with 38
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 60, level with 31
- CEase of useAbove 3 of 60, level with 51
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 12 of 60, level with 48
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 53 form and survey tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Formspree, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Formspree 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 $120 a year.
What you could make
- Forms: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers.
What this rests on. Formspree’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Formspree?
Formspree is a hosted form backend: a site's own HTML form posts to a Formspree endpoint, and submissions arrive by email, in a dashboard and through integrations. It does not provide a visual form editor, so the form markup and styling stay under the site owner's control.
Worth knowing
- 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
- 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.
Formspree pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Formspree has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $10 per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- Unlimited forms, 50 submissions a month, 1 team member, 2 linked emails and a 30-day submission archive.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Unlimited forms, 50 submissions a month, 30-day archive, basic spam filtering and no file uploads. |
| Personal | $10per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly) | 200 submissions a month, 1 GB file uploads, unlimited archive, CSV and JSON export, basic plugins. |
| Professional | $20per month, billed annually ($30 billed monthly) | 2,000 submissions a month, 2 team members, 5 GB uploads, API access, autoresponses and premium plugins. |
| Business | $60per month, billed annually ($90 billed monthly) | 20,000 submissions a month, unlimited team members, rules engine, custom email domains and priority support. |
| Custom | Custom | Unlimited submissions for high-volume campaigns, with SLA, onboarding and phone support. Sold through sales. |
Read from formspree.io on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Formspree before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountYearly 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.
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Common questions
Does Formspree have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Formspree is listed for Web.
Does Formspree have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Formspree is listed for Web.
Is Formspree open source?
Formspree is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Formspree have an API?
Yes. Formspree offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.