Typeform is the form builder most people find first. They look for an alternative at one of two moments: when the free plan, which Typeform's pricing page describes as "a limited number of responses per month" without printing the number, stops collecting; or when the next step costs $39 a month, or $28 billed yearly, for 100 responses and one user, a lot for one contact form on one page.
If the form is one piece of a page you designed, a proposal's Accept, an order form, a bio's contact form, an intake, Hostus is the alternative we recommend: the form is plain HTML inside your page, Claude writes it, and it records submissions with no backend, no action URL and no key. Below, seven alternatives and Typeform itself, with facts read on each vendor's own site on 18 October 2026.
Which Typeform alternative should you pick in 2026?
Our answer is Hostus, best if the form is one piece of a page you designed (a proposal, an order page, a bio, an intake) and it just needs to work. Hostus is not a form builder: no drag-and-drop editor, no logic jumps, no payment step. Instead, any <form method="post"> with named fields inside your page records its submissions on the document, you get an email per response or a daily one, and you can close the form, stop it at N responses, set a success message or a redirect, without editing the HTML. The free plan has no clock and asks for no card.
For a standalone form builder, free, Tally is the second pick: unlimited forms and submissions under fair use, per its site. Jotform, Google Forms, Fillout, Youform and a plain HTML form with Formspree each have a case below.
Why do people look for a Typeform alternative?
Three reasons, two of them written on Typeform's own pricing page.
- The free cap has no number. The FAQ says the Free plan "includes basic features with a limited number of responses per month". You learn how many when a form stops collecting.
- The price of one form. Basic is $39 a month, or $28 billed yearly, for 100 responses and one user. Plus is $79 ($56 yearly) for 1,000 responses, and is where removing Typeform branding is listed. For a studio with one intake form, the bill is for the builder, not the form.
- The form is separate from the page it sits on. With a form builder the page is one thing and the form is another, with its own link, its own branding and its own bill.
One caution: the comparison table lower on the same page printed different Basic prices ($29 and $25) than the plan cards, so confirm before you pay.
How do the alternatives compare one by one?
1. Hostus
Hostus hosts a single HTML file as a page at your-slug.hostus.page. The form is part of that file: any <form method="post"> with named fields, up to 50 text fields, no action URL, no key, no backend. Submissions land in an inbox on the document, export as CSV, and Claude reads them. The settings live on the document, not in the HTML: email per response or daily, close, stop at N, a success message of up to 200 characters, or a redirect. Your own submissions are marked as tests; a visitor pressing send twice does not create two. Free: 20 documents, 2 MB, 100 responses a month across the account; paid is unlimited. Pick it if the form is one piece of a page you designed and it just needs to work.
2. Tally
Its pricing page says "unlimited forms and submissions, completely free, as long as you stay within our fair usage guidelines"; the free list includes conditional logic, payments, file uploads, email notifications, redirects, closing a form on a limit or a date, and Google Sheets and Notion integrations. Pro is $24 a month (yearly billing takes two months off; the figure is not printed) and removes Tally branding. Pick it if you want a standalone form builder, free, with logic and payments.
3. Jotform
Starter, the free plan: 5 forms, 100 submissions a month, 10,000 views, 100 MB, 500 stored submissions in total, 10 payment submissions a month, Jotform branding. Bronze is $39 a month, or $408 a year, for 1,000 submissions a month. Pick it if you want payments on a free form and 5 forms with 100 submissions a month is enough.
4. Google Forms
The product page describes logic ("Add logic to show relevant questions based on previous answers"), quizzes, and respondents who "can easily access and complete forms from any device"; the help page calls the branching "Go to section based on answer". It prints no price and no response limit, and does not say whether respondents need a Google account. Pick it if you already live in Google Workspace and the form can look like a Google Form.
5. Fillout
Free is "Free forever": unlimited forms, 1,000 responses a month, a Fillout badge, conditional logic and "Collect payments" included. Starter is $15 a month, or $180 a year, for 2,000 responses with light branding. Pick it if you want a four-digit free cap and payments from day one.
6. Youform
Free is unlimited forms and responses under fair use, one user, Youform branding until Pro; conditional logic and calculations are free. Pro is $29 a month, or $20 a month billed yearly ($240 a year): no branding, Stripe payments, your own domain for the form link, redirects, three team members. Pick it if you want unlimited responses free and will pay only for payments or your own branding.
7. A plain HTML form with Formspree
The baseline when the page lives where nothing stores a form (GitHub Pages, a Claude publish link): keep your HTML and point the form's action at a Formspree URL. Free is 50 submissions a month with "as many forms as you want"; Personal is $15 a month, or $120 a year. Two vendors, one for the page and one for the form; see Formspree alternatives. Pick it if the page must stay where it is.
8. Typeform, if you stay
Free is "a limited number of responses per month", number not printed. Basic is $39 a month or $28 billed yearly for 100 responses and one user, with conditional logic, per the plan cards (the comparison table on the same page printed $29 and $25, so confirm before you pay); Plus is $79 ($56 yearly) for 1,000 and removes the branding. Pick it if the Typeform look is the point and 100 responses a month is worth the Basic price.
Side by side
| Option | Form inside a page you designed | Responses a month on free | Logic and branching | Payments | Submitter needs an account | You get an email per response | Page is yours (HTML) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostus | Yes, plain HTML in your page | 100 across the account; unlimited on paid | No | No | No | Yes, per response or daily | Yes, one file |
| Tally | A form on its own link | Unlimited under fair use | Yes, on free | Yes, on free | Not stated | Email notifications on free | No |
| Jotform | A form on its own link | 100, and 5 forms | Check their site | 10 payment submissions a month on free | Not stated | Check their site | No |
| Google Forms | A form on its own link | Not published | Yes, "Go to section based on answer" | Not mentioned | Not stated | Check their site | No |
| Fillout | A form on its own link | 1,000, with a Fillout badge | Yes, on free | Yes, on all plans | Not stated | Check their site | No |
| Youform | A form on its own link | Unlimited under fair use, with Youform branding | Yes, on free | On Pro | Not stated | Check their site | No |
| Plain HTML form with Formspree | Yes, your HTML; the action points at Formspree | 50 | Whatever you write | No | No | Yes, to your inbox | Yes; submissions live at Formspree |
| Typeform | A form on its own link | "A limited number", not published | Conditional logic on Basic | Stripe listed; plan not stated | Not stated | Check their site | No |
Read on each vendor's own site on 18 October 2026; "check their site" and "not stated" mean the vendor did not publish it.
How do you move a form from Typeform to a page?
There is no import: the form becomes part of a page, and the page starts clean.
- Keep a copy of the responses you have. The new form starts at zero.
- Ask Claude for the page with the form in it, with the Hostus connector on. The short prompt below covers a contact form; the full ones are in HTML form without a backend and order form without a website.
- Switch the page on. The page is born private: switch it to public (or email-gated) in the Hostus dashboard before sharing the link.
- Send it once yourself. Your submission is marked as a test and does not count.
- Replace the Typeform link wherever it lives.
Make me a one-page site for [the business] with a short intro, three services and a contact form at the end: <form method="post" name="contact"> with fields name, email and message. No action URL, no key in the page, no backend, no localStorage. One HTML file, mobile first.
Publish it to Hostus. Set the form to email me on every response and to show "Thanks. I reply within a day." in place of the form after sending. Give me the link.Three live pages with a form inside, each a fictional business with illustrative details: a bakery's pre-order page that closes itself at 40 orders, a link in bio with a contact form and a reply on screen, and a coaching intake.
Good to know before you switch
The free plan is 100 form responses a month across the whole account, not per form; paid is unlimited. There are no logic jumps, no payments, no quizzes and no scoring: the form is the fields you ask for, in the order they are written; if a question must depend on the previous answer, Tally, Fillout and Youform have that free. Fields are text, up to 50 per submission. Hostus does not email the person who filled in the form; the success message on screen is their confirmation.
The link is your-slug.hostus.page, with no custom domain on any plan; the honest argument is portability, since the file is yours and goes on your own domain with any host. Public and gated pages carry a noindex meta, so a Hostus page is not where search traffic comes from. And the visitor sees two small things from Hostus: the "Published with Hostus" pill in the bottom-right corner, free and paid, and the one-line "Form by Hostus" under the thank-you message.