Formcarry alternative
Formcarry is a capable form backend with a strong spam filter. Teams pick Formpaste when they want a quarantine folder they control instead of a spam/not-spam split, copy-paste components for HTML, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Astro, and an MCP server their AI agent can drive.
Formpaste vs Formcarry
| Feature | Formpaste | Formcarry |
|---|---|---|
| No backend or server required | Yes - POST to /submit | Yes |
| Framework components | 5 (HTML, Astro, React, TS, JS + CSS, Tailwind) | 0 - code examples only |
| Automatic spam handling | Yes - heuristics + quarantine | Yes - built-in spam and bot detection, on by default |
| Quarantine folder you review | Yes | No - submissions are marked as spam, not held for review |
| Submission-history dashboard | Yes | Yes - CSV/JSON export |
| Copy-paste components | HTML, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Astro | HTML, jQuery, React, Vue code examples |
| AI agent setup (MCP) | Yes | No |
| File uploads, webhooks, autoresponder | Yes | Yes - file uploads and autoresponse; webhook-style delivery via integrations |
| No email server / DNS / MX records | Yes | Yes |
| Forms included on entry plan | Up to 3 | 1 (free Baby plan); unlimited from the first paid tier |
| Email deliverability | Aligned DKIM/SPF on formpaste.com sender | Sends from formcarry.com, with an option to use your own email server |
| Free plan | 250 / month | 50 / month |
| Paid plans (from) | $9.99 / month | $5 / month |
Formcarry pricing verified July 2026. Check their pricing page for current numbers.
How it works
Three steps from sign-up to form submissions landing in your inbox.
Create Your Form
Sign up for an account. Verify your email and create an access key in your dashboard.
Create Contact Form
Add the code snippet using your favourite language to create the form.
<form action="https://api.formpaste.com/submit" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE">
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Your email" required>
<textarea name="message" placeholder="Your message" required></textarea>
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>Add Access Key
Replace with your access key to start receiving email submissions.
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE">Why switch from Formcarry?
Quarantine, not a spam label
Review borderline submissions in a folder you control instead of trusting an automatic spam/not-spam call you can't inspect.
First-class components
Copy-paste form components for HTML, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Astro - with a live preview per template, not code snippets to adapt.
Agent-native
An MCP server so your AI coding agent can create the form and wire it up on the first try.
Common Formcarry issues Formpaste solves
Formcarry's free plan caps at 50 submissions and 1 form
Formpaste's free plan includes 250 submissions a month across up to 3 forms, so a small site or a couple of side projects both fit.
Spam is marked, not quarantined for your review
Anything borderline goes to a quarantine folder you review and release yourself, so a real message flagged by mistake isn't just relabeled and buried.
Building the form UI from scratch for every framework
Copy-paste components for HTML, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Astro come pre-wired, with a live preview per template.
Your AI coding agent can't set the form up for you
An MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex create the form and return a wired snippet on the first try.
Jumping from the free plan to Starter still caps you at 500 submissions
Formpaste's paid plan starts at $9.99/month with room to grow, and you're not paying per team seat to get there.
Why people leave Formcarry
Formcarry does the basics well and its spam detection is genuinely strong, but two limits push people to look elsewhere. First, the free Baby plan caps out at 50 submissions a month on a single form - tight if you run more than one site or get a traffic spike. Second, Formcarry’s spam handling marks a submission as spam rather than holding it in a folder you check yourself, so a real message caught by mistake isn’t something you can easily find and recover. Formpaste takes a different approach: automatic spam scoring, and a quarantine folder where you review anything borderline yourself, so a real message is never silently relabeled and lost.
Migrating from Formcarry
Switching takes about two minutes and touches one line of your form. Point your
form’s action at https://api.formpaste.com/submit, add a hidden access_key
input with the key from your dashboard, and remove the Formcarry endpoint. Your
existing field names keep working - Formpaste emails you whatever fields you
POST. No code rewrite, no framework lock-in.
Who should switch - and who shouldn’t
Switch if you want more free submissions and forms, a review folder for false positives, copy-paste components across HTML, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Astro, or an MCP server so an AI coding agent can wire the form up for you. If you specifically need Formcarry’s EU data center hosting for a GDPR requirement, or already rely on one of its 3,000+ third-party integrations, check the comparison above first - we only claim what’s shipped.
Formcarry alternative FAQ
Paste a form. Get submissions.
Instantly without setting up any backend, servers or databases. 250 submissions/mo free - no credit card.
What you get with Formpaste
No server, no DNS
Point your form at Formpaste - no backend, no DNS, no email server to run.
Spam filtered automatically
Heuristics + a quarantine folder you control. Real messages always get through.
Quarantine you control
Suspicious submissions land in a folder you review - nothing silently dropped.
Built for AI agents
An MCP server your coding agent calls to create a form and wire it up.
Copy-paste components
Accessible, copy-paste form code for HTML, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Astro.
Simple dashboard
Manage forms, inbox, quarantine, and delivery from one place.