Comparison
The Formspree alternative for forms that go more than one place
Formspree is the established option. WebForms is the leaner one, built around fan-out and a visible delivery log.
Formspree has been doing hosted form backends for a long time and it shows: a large plugin catalogue, a CLI, a React library and a mature dashboard. If you need submissions pushed into Salesforce, Zendesk or HubSpot with an off-the-shelf integration, that catalogue is the strongest argument for staying, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
WebForms is a smaller surface aimed at a narrower job: take a submission, filter it, store it, and get it to the places your team actually watches. Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram and signed webhooks are first-class, and one submission reaches all of them.
The part people notice first is the delivery log. Every destination gets its own record for every submission, with the status, the response and the retry history. When someone says a notification never arrived, that is a question with an answer rather than a shrug.
When to stay with Formspree
Switching has a real cost. These are the cases where we would not bother.
- You want native plugins for CRMs and helpdesks like Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk or Gorgias. Formspree ships those; we would have you reach them through a webhook or an automation platform.
- You want to take payments in the form itself. Formspree has a Stripe plugin and we have nothing equivalent.
- You are invested in their CLI and formspree.json workflow for managing forms as code.
- You need a long track record for a procurement review. They have years more operating history than we do.
WebForms vs Formspree
Capability by capability, then their published prices. Anything we quote for Formspree was read off their own pricing page on the date shown, but prices change - check their pricing directly before deciding.
| Capability | WebForms | Formspree |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Point form action at your endpoint. Static sites included. | Same model: point the form at their endpoint. |
| Submission storage | Stored, searchable, exportable as CSV or JSON. | Stored, searchable, exportable. |
| Fan-out per submission | Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram and webhooks simultaneously. | Plugins per form, plus a large third-party catalogue. |
| Delivery log | Per-destination status, response body and retry history. | Submission history; per-destination attempt detail is more limited. |
| Routing rules | Route by field value to different destinations. | Form rules available on their plans. |
| Spam filtering | Honeypot, Turnstile, rate limits and an AI classifier trained by your own spam marks. | Honeypot, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile and their own filtering. |
| Signed webhooks | HMAC-SHA256 with timestamp, verified example in the docs. | Signature verification supported. |
| CRM and helpdesk plugins | Via webhook or an automation platform. No native adapters yet. | Native plugins for many CRMs and helpdesks. |
| Payments in a form | Not supported. | Stripe plugin available. |
| Self-serve API for submissions | Read-only Submissions API with scoped keys. | Forms API available. |
Formspree pricing
Read from their pricing page on . Prices in USD.
| Plan | Price | Submissions |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0Testing and development | 50 / month |
| Personal | $15 / month$10 / month billed yearly | 200 / month |
| Professional | $30 / month$20 / month billed yearly | 2,000 / month |
| Business | $90 / month$60 / month billed yearly | 20,000 / month |
Moving from Formspree
Export what you have
Export your existing submissions to CSV from Formspree first. Do this before cancelling anything - it is the one step that is awkward to undo.
Create the equivalent form
Add a form in WebForms and copy the endpoint. If you used several Formspree forms, make one here per form so the submissions stay separated the same way.
Point the action at us
Change the form action URL. AJAX submissions work the same way: POST the FormData or JSON and read the JSON response. Field names need no changes.
Recreate destinations and rules
Add your email recipients, then any Slack, Discord, Telegram or webhook destinations. Rebuild form rules as routing rules if you had them.
Run both for a week
Leave the Formspree form live on a staging page while the real one points here. Compare the delivery log against your inbox before you cancel.
Want the field-by-field version? Read the complete Formspree migration guide
Try it without deciding anything
The free plan includes 300 submissions a month, unlimited forms, email delivery, stored submissions and spam filtering, with no card required and no expiry. Point one form at it and keep Formspree running on the others until you are convinced.
Questions
The form markup change is a one-line edit to the action URL, since both services take a plain HTML POST and neither requires specific field names. The real work is recreating destinations and any form rules, which is dashboard configuration rather than code.
Not automatically. Export them to CSV from Formspree and keep that file. We store everything from the switch onward, but we cannot reach into another provider's account.
No, and that is an honest gap. Formspree has native plugins for CRMs and helpdesks that we do not. We cover email, Slack, Discord, Telegram and signed webhooks natively, and anything else through a webhook or Zapier, Make or n8n.
Fan-out and visibility. One submission reaches every destination you configure, and each attempt is logged with its status, response and retries, so a missing notification is diagnosable. Spam filtering also learns from what you mark rather than staying static.
Yes, on paid plans, with per-plan size and storage limits and a retention window you control.
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