Typeform alternative
Typeform is a beautiful conversational form builder - but the form lives on Typeform's domain, wears Typeform's branding until you pay to remove it, and routes your visitors through a third-party page. Formpaste is for developers who want the form to be their own markup, on their own site, that they own outright.
Formpaste vs Typeform
| Feature | Formpaste | Typeform |
|---|---|---|
| Form lives on your own domain | Yes - it's your HTML | No - hosted on typeform.com or embedded via iframe |
| You style and structure the markup | Yes - it's your code | No - built in Typeform's editor |
| No backend or server required | Yes - POST to /submit | Yes - fully hosted |
| Framework components | 5 (HTML, Astro, React, TS, JS + CSS, Tailwind) | None - embed script only |
| Automatic spam handling | Yes - heuristics + quarantine, no CAPTCHA | reCAPTCHA, including reCAPTCHA Enterprise on paid plans |
| Quarantine folder you review | Yes | No |
| AI agent setup (MCP) | Yes | No |
| Third-party branding on your form | Never | Shown on Free and Basic; removable on Plus and up |
| Conversational, one-question-at-a-time UI | No - standard form layout | Yes - Typeform's core strength |
| Free plan responses / month | 250 | 10 |
| Free plan | 250 / month | 10 / month |
| Paid plans (from) | $9.99 / month | $39 / month |
Typeform 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 Typeform?
The form is yours
No iframe, no typeform.com URL, no third-party page between your visitor and your site. The markup is HTML you own and can change any time.
No response-cap anxiety
Formpaste's free plan includes 250 submissions a month. Typeform's free plan caps at 10 responses a month, total, across all your forms.
No branding to buy back
Formpaste never puts its name on your form. Typeform shows 'Powered by Typeform' on every response until you upgrade to its Plus plan or higher.
Common Typeform issues Formpaste solves
Typeform's free plan caps out at 10 responses a month
Formpaste's free plan includes 250 submissions a month, so a normal contact or signup form doesn't hit a wall in the first week.
Your form lives on typeform.com, not your own site
Formpaste is a plain HTML form on your own domain - no iframe, no hosted page, no visitor ever leaves your site.
"Powered by Typeform" shows on every response until you pay
Formpaste never adds its own branding to your form, on any plan.
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.
Why people leave Typeform
Typeform is genuinely good at what it does - the conversational, one-question-at-a-time
format converts well for surveys and quizzes. But developers who just need a contact,
signup, or lead form on their own site run into the same friction repeatedly. The form
lives on typeform.com or sits behind an iframe embed, not as markup on your own page.
It carries Typeform’s own branding - “Powered by Typeform” on every response - until
you upgrade to the Plus plan or higher just to remove someone else’s logo from your
form. And the free plan caps at 10 responses a month, total, across every form on the
account, which most real forms exceed in days. Formpaste starts from a different premise:
the form is your HTML, on your domain, with no third party’s name on it and no response
cap that forces an upgrade before your form has even proven itself.
Moving from Typeform to a form you own
This isn’t a config change - be clear-eyed about that going in. Typeform doesn’t expose a POST endpoint you can repoint the way you would with a form backend, because a typeform isn’t a static HTML form to begin with; it’s a hosted, JavaScript-driven experience. Moving to Formpaste means rebuilding the form as real markup:
- Recreate each question as a standard HTML field - text input, email, select, textarea - with your own labels and layout.
- Point the form’s
actionathttps://api.formpaste.com/submitand add a hiddenaccess_keyinput with your key from the Formpaste dashboard. - Reimplement any conditional logic in your own JavaScript, or simplify the flow into a single-page form, since Formpaste doesn’t replicate Typeform’s branching engine.
- Style the form to match your site - it’s your CSS now, not a theme picker.
For a short form (five or six fields, little or no branching) this is usually a 30-60 minute rebuild. A long, heavily-branched typeform will take longer, because you’re rebuilding the logic, not just swapping a URL.
Who should switch - and who shouldn’t
Switch if the form belongs on your own site as your own markup, you want a free tier that doesn’t run out after 10 responses, or you don’t want any third-party branding on a form your visitors fill out. Don’t switch if the conversational, one-question-at-a-time format is the actual reason you use Typeform - that’s a real product strength Formpaste doesn’t attempt to replicate, and a standard HTML form is a fair trade for some teams and not for others.
Typeform 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.