# Formspree review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Form backend that handles submissions for any website

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** Forms & Surveys
- **Made by:** Formspree
- **Website:** https://formspree.io
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to build forms with drag and drop, as there is no visual builder.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Formspree has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **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 | $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. |
| Custom | Custom | Unlimited submissions for high-volume campaigns, with SLA, onboarding and phone support. Sold through sales. |

Read from https://formspree.io/plans on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Formspree before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Yearly billing lowers the monthly rate** (Annual discount): Yearly plans cost $120 (Personal), $240 (Professional) or $720 (Business), against $15, $30 and $90 a month when billed monthly. Source: https://formspree.io/plans

## 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.

## Good for

- Static sites and web apps that need a form backend without server code
- Developers who want full control over form markup and styling
- Agencies managing client forms under linked emails

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: B.** Personal is $10 a month billed yearly, inside the cheapest quarter of $14. It allows 200 submissions.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free gives unlimited forms but 50 submissions a month, one team member and a 30-day archive, without uploads, export or search.
- **Features: C.** Spam 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: C.** No store rating on record. You write the form in HTML or code and point it at Formspree.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Google Sheets, Trello, Klaviyo, HubSpot and Zendesk, plus an API on Professional.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among form and survey tools

- Formspree'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 $10 a month, against a middle price of $20 for the category: 31 of the 114 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 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 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.

- You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Google Sheets, Trello, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Zendesk

**Tags:** Forms, Public API, Workflow automation, Transactional email

## Alternatives

- [Basin](https://toolgpa.com/tools/basin): Form backend and builder that collects submissions without code. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/basin-vs-formspree)
- [Tally](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tally): Free form builder that works like a text document. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formspree-vs-tally)
- [Formbricks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/formbricks): Open-source survey platform for links, websites and apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formbricks-vs-formspree)
- [Fillout](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fillout): Form builder with unlimited seats, payments and scheduling. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fillout-vs-formspree)
- [OpnForm](https://toolgpa.com/tools/opnform): Open-source form builder with unlimited submissions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formspree-vs-opnform)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://formspree.io/plans
- https://formspree.io
- https://formspree.io/legal/terms-of-service

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/formspree
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