Free Tier Form Builders and Survey Tools for Product Feedback: 7 Compared

Every site eventually needs a form. A contact box, a waitlist, a feedback survey, a "tell us what you are building" page. You can wire up a backend, a database and spam protection yourself, or you can paste a snippet and get on with your week.

"Form tool" covers two different products. A form builder gives you a hosted page with questions on it. A form backend gives your own HTML form somewhere to send its data. Free plans exist for both, and the submission limits run from 50 a month to unlimited.

Form builders: you design it, they host it

Tally

The generous one. The free plan has unlimited forms and unlimited submissions, and it includes payments, signatures, file uploads, conditional logic, calculations and answer piping. Integrations include Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Make and webhooks, with 45 plus languages. Removing the Tally branding is a Pro feature. A G2 reviewer said design customization is limited because everything follows a Notion style layout, and called the analytics basic. If you just need a form that works, start here. See Tally or go straight to tally.so.

Formbricks

Built for surveys and in product feedback rather than contact forms. The free Hobby plan has 1 workspace and 250 responses a month. It is open source, so you can self host it and keep the data on your own server. The next plan up is $74 a month. G2 reviewers say advanced features need some technical know how and that support is community driven. See Formbricks or visit formbricks.com.

Form backends: your HTML, their inbox

These are for static sites. You point your form's action at the service, and it handles delivery, spam filtering and the email notification.

Web3Forms

250 submissions a month, unlimited forms and unlimited domains, with hCaptcha spam protection and a custom redirect page. File uploads, autoresponders, team collaboration and webhooks need the Pro plan at $12 a month. A Reddit user noted that the free plan has no Google Sheets or Notion integration. See Web3Forms or visit web3forms.com.

Formspark

250 submissions, 10 forms and 5 team members on the free plan, with community support. Upgrading is listed at $25 and takes you to 50,000 submissions, 100 forms and 50 team members, which is a big jump, so check how the numbers reset before you rely on it. See Formspark or visit formspark.io.

Forminit

1 form and 100 submissions a month, with 100 MB of file storage and uploads included, plus email notifications, redirections and built in validation. Fine for a single contact form that takes an attachment. See Forminit or visit forminit.com.

Formspree

The name everyone knows, with the tightest free plan on this list: 50 submissions a month, 2 linked emails and a 30 day archive. Submission export, search, a custom thank you page and API access are not on Free. Basic spam filtering, custom reCAPTCHA and domain restriction are. The next plan is $15 a month for 200 submissions. A Reddit poster called out the 50 limit and another called the interface clunky. See Formspree or visit formspree.io.

Basin

1 form, 50 submissions a month, 1 project, 30 days of data and basic spam protection. No file uploads and no collaborators. It supports AJAX and Zapier. Worth a try if you like its interface, and one to skip if you need room to grow. See Basin or visit usebasin.com.

Which one fits your project

• A hosted form or survey with logic and payments: Tally.
• A static site contact form: Web3Forms for the best free allowance, Formspark if you want more forms.
• A form with a file upload: Tally, or Forminit if you want a backend.
• User feedback inside your product: Formbricks.
• Staying under 50 submissions a month: Formspree or Basin, though you outgrow them first.

Before you publish, submit the form yourself from your phone, then confirm the notification email arrives and does not land in spam. A contact form that silently fails is worse than no contact form.