FormSubmit and Typeform & Tally both help you collect form submissions without building your own backend, but they take different approaches. Typeform & Tally is hosted form builders with conversational or document-style editors. FormSubmit is a headless form backend: you keep full control of your form's HTML and design, and every plan — including Free — includes spam protection, file uploads, webhooks and all integrations.
At a glance
| FormSubmit | Typeform & Tally | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Headless endpoint + optional builder & hosted pages | Hosted form builder |
| Works with any host | Yes | Yes |
| Your own HTML & design | Yes | Limited (embed or hosted page) |
| Free plan | 1 form, 50 submissions/month, 100 MB storage | Check their site |
| Integrations on free plan | All (webhooks, Slack, Discord, Sheets, Airtable, Mailchimp, Kit) | Check their site |
| Over-limit behaviour | Stored & locked until upgrade or next month | Check their site |
About Typeform & Tally
Typeform and Tally are form builders: you design forms in their editor and share or embed them. They excel at surveys, quizzes and multi-step flows with logic.
What FormSubmit does differently
- Headless: keep your own markup and styling instead of embedding a third-party form.
- Faster pages — no heavy embed scripts or iframes.
- Developer-friendly JSON responses, signed webhooks and code export for 13 targets.
- Also offers hosted form pages and a visual builder when you do want no-code.
Pricing
FormSubmit has four plans: Free (1 form, 50 submissions/month), Starter at $5/month (2 forms, 1,000 submissions), Pro at $15/month (10 forms, 5,000 submissions, no branding) and Business at $50/month (unlimited forms, 10,000 submissions). Yearly billing gives two months free. See pricing for details. For Typeform & Tally's current pricing, visit their website.
When to choose Typeform & Tally
You need complex conditional logic, quizzes, payments inside forms, or you don't have a website and want a no-code form editor.
When to choose FormSubmit
- You want your form to look exactly like the rest of your site.
- You want integrations, captcha and spam protection without upgrading.
- You care about privacy details: hashed IPs, encrypted secrets, private files, minimal Google permissions and configurable retention.
- You build many sites (agency, freelancer) and want one dashboard for all of them.
How to switch
- Create a FormSubmit form.
- Replace the form's
actionURL (or yourfetchURL) with your FormSubmit endpoint. - Keep your field names — emails and exports will look the same.
- Recreate integrations in the form's Integrations tab and send a test.