Freedback alternatives in 2026: pricing, limits and options

What is Freedback?

Freedback (freedback.com) is a hosted online form builder aimed at people who want a working HTML form on their website without writing code. Its home page promises a form on your site in about 8 minutes: create the form in the web builder, copy the HTML it generates, and paste it into your page. Each submission is emailed to you, and a copy is stored in your Freedback account where you can review it after logging in (Freedback FAQ).

Its About page says the service "has been around since 1998" (About), and the footer reads "Freedback / Response-o-Matic". The pages we read do not explain how the two names relate, so we don't either.

That makes Freedback closer to a form builder than to an API-style form backend: you design fields in its builder rather than writing your own markup and pointing the action at an endpoint. Which one you want depends on whether you would rather click or code. For a fuller explanation of the endpoint model, see our guide to the best free form backend services.

What are Freedback's pricing and limits?

Every row below was read from the page linked in the last column on October 18, 2026. Prices are in USD, as Freedback states.

Facts checked October 18, 2026: freedback.com, pricing and features, FAQ, About. Plans change, so confirm on Freedback's own pricing page before you sign up.

How do Freedback alternatives compare?

Freedback is the baseline row; the alternatives follow alphabetically. Free tiers are monthly unless marked otherwise, and Freedback's Free plan is capped by forms (1) rather than by submissions.

splitforms' free allowance is 500 submissions in total rather than per month; email notifications are free on every splitforms plan, while webhooks and file uploads are on paid plans.

Where do the alternatives' numbers come from?

splitforms is a competitor; prices were checked on each vendor's public pricing page on September 27, 2026 to October 10, 2026 (date per row). Archive dates come from web.archive.org snapshots: a “Seen” change happened between the linked snapshot and the one before it.

Which Freedback alternatives changed their pricing recently?

• May 16, 2026 · Basin: Paid plans were renamed and repriced (billed yearly): the 250-submission plan went from $5.83 to $12.50 a month (Basic to Starter), the 1,000-submission plan with webhooks from $12.50 to $24.17 (Standard to Growth), and the 5,000-submission plan from $36.67 to $40.83 (Premium to Pro). Free stayed at 50 submissions a month on 1 form. First seen in the May 16, 2026 archived snapshot; the previous snapshot still showed the old terms.
• February 21, 2026 · FormSubmit: The combined attachment limit per submission rose from 5 MB to 10 MB. First seen in the February 21, 2026 archived snapshot; the previous snapshot still showed the old terms.
• January 4, 2026 · Web3Forms: The Pro allowance is shown as 10,000 submissions a month (20,000 in the previous snapshot), and the $49/year plan changed from a public purchase to an application for students, startups and nonprofits. First seen in the January 4, 2026 archived snapshot; the previous snapshot still showed the old terms.

Which Freedback alternative is best for each use case?

Each row names the option whose published plan wins that use case on the numbers above:

Why do people look for Freedback alternatives?

Freedback does what it says for a simple brochure-site form, and it has been running a long time. The comparisons usually start from one of these points, all taken from its own pages:

• One form and an ad on Free. The Free plan covers 1 form and shows an ad after the form is submitted; removing it means Professional at $19/month.
• Pricing by form count, not volume. Plans step up by number of forms (1, 10, 50, unlimited). A site with a few forms and light traffic pays $19/month, while endpoint-style backends such as Formspree, Web3Forms and splitforms price by monthly submissions.
• Retention windows. Submissions are kept for 6 months and file attachments for 1 month, so long-term records need regular exports.
• No developer integrations listed. The pricing page lists email and SMS notifications but not webhooks or an API. If you want submissions pushed to Slack, a CRM or your own server, check first.

Basin: spam controls and uploads on Free

Basin (usebasin.com) is a no-code-friendly form backend. Free is 50 submissions a month on 1 form, with 30-day retention and 100 MB of file uploads. Its spam toolkit covers reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, domain restriction and a custom honeypot. Starter is $12.50/month billed yearly for 250 submissions, and Growth, the first plan with webhooks, is $24.17/month for 1,000. Current tiers are on our Basin pricing page.

Forminit (formerly Getform): uploads on every plan

Getform rebranded to Forminit in January 2026. Free is 100 submissions a month on 1 form with 100 MB of file storage, and Pro is $15.83/month billed yearly for 5,000 submissions a month. It publishes setup guides for React, Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, WordPress and Webflow. The trade-off is the single form on Free.

Formspree: the established endpoint

Formspree popularized pointing an HTML form's action at a hosted URL. Free covers 50 submissions a month with 30 days of history, and Personal is $15/month ($10 billed yearly) for 200 a month. See our Formspree pricing page for every tier, or Formspree alternatives if you are weighing it too.

FormSubmit: free email forwarding with no signup

FormSubmit has no account and no API key. Set your form's action to https://formsubmit.co/[email protected], confirm the first submission from the activation email, and later submissions land in your inbox. It is free and unlimited with no paid plans. What you trade away is everything beyond email: no dashboard, a 30-day archive, and attachments emailed (10 MB total per submission) but not stored. More in our FormSubmit alternative guide.

splitforms: a plain endpoint, 500 free submissions

splitforms (the publisher of this page) is an HTML-form endpoint: an action URL plus one hidden access_key field, so it works on any host. Free includes 500 submissions total, one-time, with no card and no expiry. Email notifications are free on every plan, and smart spam filtering is built in. Pro is $5/month for 5,000 submissions a month with webhooks and file uploads (up to 5 files of 5 MB each per submission); Annual is $49/year for 15,000 a month. A hosted MCP server with OAuth for ChatGPT and Claude connectors is included.

The trade-offs: splitforms is endpoint-first rather than builder-first, so you write or generate the HTML yourself, and it has no EU data residency. The whole integration:

<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" />
  <input type="text"  name="name"    required />
  <input type="email" name="email"   required />
  <textarea           name="message" required></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Get a free access key at splitforms.com/login, no credit card needed. More context: best form backend.

Web3Forms: the largest metered monthly free tier

Web3Forms is an access-key endpoint that suits static sites and landing pages. Free covers 250 submissions a month, unlimited forms and domains, hCaptcha spam protection, and 30 days of history. Pro is $149/year (about $12/month billed yearly) for 10,000 submissions a month, about $1.24 per 1,000. Webhooks need a paid plan. Side-by-side: Formspree vs Web3Forms.

When is splitforms not the right choice?

• You want a visual form builder as the main product. Freedback is built around generating the form for you; splitforms is endpoint-first and expects you to supply the HTML.
• You need SMS notifications. Freedback lists them on paid plans; splitforms sends email.
• You need EU data residency. splitforms hosts data in the US under Standard Contractual Clauses (see the DPA).
• You want a free allowance that resets monthly. splitforms Free is 500 once; Web3Forms gives 250 every month.
• You need file uploads on a free plan. splitforms uploads are paid; Basin includes 100 MB on Free.

How do you move a form off Freedback?

1. Export your submissions from your Freedback account first. Its FAQ says submissions are kept for 6 months and paid plans can export Excel or CSV.
2. Open the page where you pasted the Freedback form. Its FAQ mentions hidden account and form ID fields in the generated code; those belong to Freedback and are not needed by another backend.
3. Replace the form with a plain <form> whose action is your new backend's URL. For splitforms that is https://splitforms.com/api/submit plus a hidden access_key input.
4. Send one real test submission, confirm it arrives, then cancel or downgrade Freedback.

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