Google Forms alternative
Google Forms is free, unlimited, and genuinely good for a quick internal survey. Teams move to Formpaste when the form needs to live on their own site, match their own design, and send responses to their own inbox instead of a Google Sheet.
Formpaste vs Google Forms
| Feature | Formpaste | Google Forms |
|---|---|---|
| Use your own HTML and CSS | Yes - it's your markup | No - Google-branded iframe |
| Matches your site's design | Yes | No - header, fonts, and branding are fixed |
| Stays on your domain | Yes | No - hands off to a google.com/forms.gle URL |
| Framework components | 5 (HTML, Astro, React, TS, JS + CSS, Tailwind) | None - iframe embed code only |
| Automatic spam handling | Yes - heuristics + quarantine, no CAPTCHA | None built in - add a third-party add-on yourself |
| Quarantine folder you review | Yes | No |
| Where responses land | Your inbox, plus a dashboard with history | A Google Sheet; email alerts are opt-in with no response summary |
| Reply-to goes to the submitter | Yes - reply straight from your inbox | No - notification emails come from Google's own system |
| AI agent setup (MCP) | Yes | No |
| File uploads, webhooks, autoresponder | Yes | File uploads yes; webhooks need Apps Script; autoresponder needs an add-on |
| Free plan | 250 submissions / month | Unlimited |
| Paid plans (from) | $9.99 / month | Free |
| Free plan | 250 / month | Unlimited / month |
| Paid plans (from) | $9.99 / month | Free / month |
Google Forms 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 Google Forms?
Your design, not Google's
Formpaste is markup you write and style yourself. Google Forms is an iframe with Google's own header, fonts, and 'Powered by Google' branding baked in - no CSS override removes it.
Your inbox, not a Sheet
Submissions email you directly with reply-to set to the visitor, so you can answer from your own inbox. Google Forms writes rows to a Sheet, and notification email is an opt-in extra with no response summary in the alert.
A domain your visitor already trusts
The form posts to your own site the whole time. Google Forms hands the visitor off to a docs.google.com or forms.gle URL, which is a jarring context switch for anyone browsing your marketing site.
Common Google Forms issues Formpaste solves
The form looks like Google, not like your website
Formpaste is your own HTML and CSS, so the form matches your fonts, colors, and layout exactly - no iframe, no fixed header.
Visitors get bounced to a google.com URL mid-flow
The form posts to your own domain the entire time, so nobody leaves your site to submit it.
Responses pile up in a Sheet instead of your inbox
Every submission emails you directly - with reply-to set to the person who filled it out - and stays in a dashboard with full history.
There's no built-in spam filter, only third-party add-ons
Formpaste scores every submission with heuristics and quarantines anything borderline, with no CAPTCHA widget and nothing to install.
Your AI coding agent can't touch a Google Forms UI
An MCP server lets your coding agent create the form and return a wired snippet without opening a browser.
Why people leave Google Forms
Google Forms is free, unlimited, and hard to beat for a quick internal
survey or a one-off signup sheet - that’s a genuine strength, not a knock.
Where teams outgrow it is ownership. The form lives inside a Google-branded
iframe: fixed header, fixed fonts, a “Powered by Google” notice you cannot
remove, and a handoff to a docs.google.com or forms.gle URL that breaks
the flow of anyone browsing your own site. Responses land in a Google Sheet,
and email alerts are an opt-in extra that don’t even summarize the response -
you have to click back into Forms to read it. There’s also no built-in spam
filter; stopping bots means installing a third-party Workspace Marketplace
add-on. Formpaste is markup you write and style yourself, with automatic spam
scoring and a quarantine folder, and it emails you directly with reply-to set
to the person who submitted it.
Moving from Google Forms to a form you own
There’s no endpoint to repoint here - a Google Form isn’t code sitting on
your site, it’s a form built and hosted inside Google’s UI. The honest
migration is a rebuild: recreate your fields as real HTML using a Formpaste
component for your stack (HTML, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Astro),
style it to match your site, and point the action at
https://api.formpaste.com/submit with a hidden access_key input from your
dashboard. For a typical contact or signup form with a handful of fields,
that’s usually a ten-minute job, not a project. Your existing Google Form and
its Sheet stay untouched, so nothing is lost during the switch - you’re just
pointing new submissions somewhere else.
Who should switch - and who shouldn’t
Switch if the form lives on your marketing site or product and needs to look like it belongs there, if you want responses in your inbox instead of a Sheet, or if you want spam handling that doesn’t require installing an add-on. Stay on Google Forms if you need a fast, free, unlimited form for an internal survey, an event RSVP, or anything where Google’s own branding and UI are a non-issue - it’s a genuinely solid tool for that job, and there’s no reason to pay for something you don’t need.
Google Forms 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.