Formspree or Basin: a focused backend, or one bundled with a website builder
Formspree is a form backend and stays one, with CRM and helpdesk plugins and payments on top. Basin is a form backend bundled with AI-generated microsites, hosting and custom domains, plus capture of forms visitors abandon. Pick by whether you want the website half.
The difference that decides it
Basin's paid tiers all include AI-generated sites with hosting and custom domains, which makes it a different kind of product if you need a landing page as well as somewhere for the form to post. Its Agency plan also captures form data before a visitor finishes, so you see the leads who gave up halfway, and it validates phone numbers and email addresses to flag fake leads.
Formspree does none of that and does not try to. What it has instead is breadth on the delivery side: native plugins for Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk and Gorgias, a Stripe plugin, form rules and a CLI for managing forms as code. If you already have a site and want submissions to flow into business tools, that is the more relevant half.
Side by side
| Capability | Formspree | Basin |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Point your form at an endpoint | Endpoint, plus a visual form builder |
| Stored submissions | Stored, searchable, exportable | Stored with CSV export |
| Destinations | Plugins per form plus a large catalogue | Slack, webhooks and Google Sheets from the Growth tier |
| Routing rules | Form rules on their plans | Not a documented core feature |
| Abandoned-form capture | Not a documented feature | On the Agency plan |
| Hosted microsites | Not a documented feature | AI-generated sites and custom domains on every paid tier |
| Payments in the form | Stripe plugin | Not a documented feature |
| Spam filtering | Honeypot, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile and their own filtering | Basic filtering, with advanced rules on higher tiers |
"Not a documented feature" means it is not in their published documentation as we read it, not that it can never be done. Check with them before ruling something out.
Which to choose
Choose Formspree if
Choose Formspree when you already have a site, and what matters is getting submissions into a CRM or helpdesk, or taking payments.
Choose Basin if
Choose Basin when you want a hosted microsite and a form backend on one bill, or when recovering abandoned submissions is worth paying for.
Pricing, as each lists it
Copied from each pricing page on the date shown. Prices change without notice, so check the current figure before deciding.
Formspree
As listed on , in USD. Current pricing
- Free: $0, 50 / month (Testing and development)
- Personal: $15 / month, 200 / month ($10 / month billed yearly)
- Professional: $30 / month, 2,000 / month ($20 / month billed yearly)
- Business: $90 / month, 20,000 / month ($60 / month billed yearly)
Basin
As listed on , in USD. Current pricing
- Free: $0, 50 / month (1 form, 30-day retention)
- Starter: $15 / month, 250 / month ($12.50 / month billed yearly)
- Growth: $29 / month, 1,000 / month ($24.17 / month billed yearly)
- Pro: $49 / month, 5,000 / month ($40.83 / month billed yearly, before promotional discounts)
- Agency: $130 / month, 25,000 / month ($108.33 / month billed yearly, before promotional discounts)
A third option, honestly assessed
If you have a site already and do not need either the microsite or the CRM plugins, both of these ask you to pay for a half you will not use. WebForms is only the submission side: stored, spam-filtered and, on paid plans, routed by field value to several places at once, with a free plan that covers 300 submissions a month by email.