Getform Alternative

Getform now trades as Forminit, and its shape hasn't changed with the name: a free plan that covers 100 submissions a month, then a jump to $19/mo before webhooks, integrations or API access unlock. If you picked it for a side project and then needed a form to talk to something else, that jump is usually the moment you start looking.

• •Forminit's free plan is 100 submissions/month; webhooks, integrations and its REST API all require Pro at $19/mo.
• •Formboost's free plan is 500 submissions/month across 10 forms, and Slack, Discord, Telegram and email delivery are included at that tier.
• •Custom webhooks on Formboost start at $9/mo, roughly half Forminit's first paid step.
• •Neither service imports your old submissions, so export before you switch.

Forminit is a straightforward form backend with a clean dashboard, and the free tier is genuinely usable for a contact form that nobody expects much from. Its own pricing page sets out the ladder: free at 100 submissions a month, then Pro at $19/mo for 5,000, Business at $49/mo for 10,000, and Volume at $99/mo for 50,000.

The constraint developers hit isn't the submission count. It's that webhooks, third-party integrations and the REST API all sit on Pro and above. A form that only needs to email you is fine on the free plan indefinitely. A form that needs to notify a Slack channel, append to a sheet, or trigger anything at all is a $19/mo form from the first day it exists.

That is a legitimate way to package a product. It is also why the search for an alternative usually starts with "I just need this one form to post to Slack."

Formboost draws the free/paid line in a different place. The free plan covers 10 forms and 500 submissions a month, with no card and no expiry, and the three chat destinations plus email are included at that tier rather than held back:

Two rows deserve honesty rather than a checkmark.

File uploads. Forminit has them on every plan and Formboost does not have them at all yet — they're on the roadmap, not shipped. If your form takes a CV or a photo, Formboost is the wrong tool today and no amount of pricing comparison changes that.

Webhooks aren't free on Formboost either. They start on Starter at $9/mo. The difference is the size of the step and what you get without taking it: Slack, Discord and Telegram delivery cover most of what people actually wanted a webhook for, and those are free.

Formboost screens every submission, but the depth scales with the plan, and it's worth being precise because "AI-powered" gets used loosely across this category:

• •Free runs heuristics: disposable-domain checks, link flooding, honeypot hits, rate limiting per endpoint.
• •Starter adds an AI model that reads the submissions heuristics can't call either way, scoring them in the context of what the form is for.
• •Pro runs that model on every submission rather than just the ambiguous ones.

Each submission carries a score and a readable reason in the dashboard, so a false positive is something you can look at rather than guess about. There's no captcha to add and no honeypot to wire up, though the _honey field is there if you want one.

Forminit documents built-in validation and spam protection across all its plans. It doesn't advertise a model-based classifier, which is the substantive difference rather than a claim that its filtering doesn't work.

The integration is an HTML form post, so in most cases the migration is one attribute:

<form action="https://formboost.app/f/YOUR_ALIAS" method="POST">
  <input type="text" name="name" required />
  <input type="email" name="email" required />
  <textarea name="message"></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Field names carry through as the column names on your submissions, so your existing markup, styling and client-side validation are untouched. If you post with fetch instead, the endpoint accepts JSON and answers 202; an ordinary HTML form post gets a 302 to whatever you set in _redirect.

Two things worth planning:

• •Export your Forminit submissions first. Formboost doesn't import historical data from another provider, and the export is the one step that's awkward to reverse once an account is closed.
• •Run both for a few days if you can. Point a duplicate form at the new endpoint, confirm the submissions and notifications land where you expect, then switch the real one.

The full walkthrough is in the migration guide, and the endpoint's request and response shapes are in the API reference.

There's no account API. The submission endpoint — POST /f/{alias} — is the only public API surface, and it exists to receive form posts, not to read them back. Forms, submissions and integrations are managed in the dashboard.

If your plan is to query submissions from a script, Formboost won't do that today, and Forminit's Pro tier will. That's a real reason to stay where you are, and it's better to know it now than after you've moved.

Decide on what the form has to do, not on the free tier's headline number:

• •A form that emails you and nothing else runs on Formboost's free plan with five times Forminit's monthly allowance (500 against 100).
• •A form that notifies a channel is free on Formboost and $19/mo on Forminit.
• •A form that accepts file uploads cannot move yet — Formboost's uploads are on the roadmap. Link to a hosted file in the meantime, or wait for the changelog entry.
• •A form whose submissions you query from code has no read API on Formboost; use CSV export or a webhook on Starter.

Formboost's free plan is built to be the one you actually run a project on rather than the one you evaluate on, and the first paid step is $9/mo when you need webhooks or a spreadsheet destination.

Pricing on both sides moves. The figures here were checked in August 2026 against Forminit's pricing page and Formboost's — worth a look at both before you decide.