Contact forms for Netlify
Add a contact form to your Netlify site with no serverless function and no backend of your own. The form is plain HTML you deploy with your site, and submissions post straight to Formpaste and land in your inbox - spam filtered. Preview it live or copy the code.
How to create a Netlify form
- 1
Create a form in your Formpaste dashboard and copy its access key.
- 2
Add the HTML above to a page in your site and deploy to Netlify as usual.
- 3
Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE with your access key, then deploy.
Prompt for your AI coding agent
Give me a plain HTML contact form for a site hosted on Netlify that POSTs to https://api.formpaste.com/submit with a hidden access_key input. No serverless function, no Netlify Forms, no backend.Or connect the Formpaste MCP server to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, or any mcp-remote client. See the setup guide.
Just HTML you deploy
Netlify serves your static build, so a contact form is simply markup you deploy with the site. It posts to the Formpaste endpoint, which means no serverless function, no build-time form detection, and no backend of your own to maintain.
You do not need Netlify Forms
A Formpaste form works on Netlify with or without Netlify Forms, and it is not tied to Netlify hosting - the same markup runs anywhere. If you are weighing the two on price and limits, our Netlify Forms alternative page compares them directly.
File uploads deploy the same way
A form with a file input posts multipart form data straight to Formpaste, so uploads work on a plain Netlify deploy. Your site never stores or processes the file - it goes directly to Formpaste.
How it works
Three simple steps for form submissions to land in your email inbox.
Create your form, set your form's action URL to Formpaste's endpoint, and add your access key.
Create your form
Sign up, verify your email, and create an access key in your dashboard.
Copy the code
Paste the snippet above into your project. Pick CSS or Tailwind to match your site.
<form action="https://api.formpaste.com/submit" method="POST" class="mx-auto flex w-full max-w-md flex-col gap-4 rounded-xl border border-gray-200 bg-white p-6 shadow-sm dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-gray-950">
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE">
<label class="flex flex-col gap-1.5 text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100">Name
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your name" required class="rounded-md border border-gray-300 bg-white px-3 py-2 text-sm text-gray-900 shadow-sm outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-gray-900 dark:border-gray-700 dark:bg-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100 dark:focus-visible:ring-gray-100" />
</label>
<label class="flex flex-col gap-1.5 text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100">Email
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="you@example.com" required class="rounded-md border border-gray-300 bg-white px-3 py-2 text-sm text-gray-900 shadow-sm outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-gray-900 dark:border-gray-700 dark:bg-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100 dark:focus-visible:ring-gray-100" />
</label>
<label class="flex flex-col gap-1.5 text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100">Message
<textarea name="message" required class="min-h-28 rounded-md border border-gray-300 bg-white px-3 py-2 text-sm text-gray-900 shadow-sm outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-gray-900 dark:border-gray-700 dark:bg-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100 dark:focus-visible:ring-gray-100"></textarea>
</label>
<button type="submit" class="w-full rounded-md bg-gray-900 px-4 py-2 text-sm font-medium text-white shadow-sm transition-colors hover:bg-gray-800 disabled:opacity-60 dark:bg-white dark:text-gray-900 dark:hover:bg-gray-200">Send</button>
</form>Add your access key
Replace the placeholder with your access key to start receiving submissions.
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE">Contact forms for Netlify 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.