# Which free form backend gives you the most submissions? Free plans of 12 form backends from their own pages: monthly submissions, what happens at the limit, Telegram or Sheets on Free, files and where data lives. Author: Formgong Published: 2026-10-31 Language: en Canonical: https://formgong.com/en/blog/free-form-backend-limits/ Formgong, Web3Forms, StaticForms and ShipMyForm give the most each month of the 12 services we checked on 31 October 2026: 250 submissions. Formgong sends each one to email, Telegram, Google Sheets, Notion or a webhook, where most free plans send email only. It also builds the form for you in your site's own style, needs no captcha on the page, and keeps delivering for a few days after the limit instead of cutting the form off. Formspree, Basin and Formgrid give 50; Splitforms and Formspark give 500 and 250 once, with no refill. ## Why the free limit matters more than it looks A contact form on a small site rarely gets thousands of messages. It does get spam, test sends while you build, and the odd busy week after a mention somewhere. On a plan with 50 submissions a month, that is enough to run out, and most services then stop accepting messages or hide them until you upgrade. The visitor who wrote to you on the 20th may never reach you. So the number on the pricing page is only half of it. The other half is what the service does once the number is used up, and whether it refills next month at all. ## Free plans of 12 form backends Free plans as each service describes them on 31 October 2026. "Not stated" means we could not find it on their own pages. ServiceFree submissionsWhen the free plan runs outWhere submissions go on FreeFiles on FreeData stored in Formgong250 a monthKeeps delivering on credit, then saves new ones until you upgradeEmail, Telegram, Google Sheets, webhooksYes, up to 100 MiB a fileEU (Cloudflare D1, EU jurisdiction) [Splitforms](/en/splitforms-alternative/)500 in total, never refilledRejected (HTTP 429)EmailNo, files are droppedUS [Web3Forms](/en/web3forms-alternative/)250 a monthRefused, per its API docsEmailNoAWS, region not stated [StaticForms](/en/staticforms-alternative/)250 every 30 daysHeld, visitor sees success; up to 100, then rejectedEmailNoUS or Frankfurt, chosen at sign-up [ShipMyForm](/en/shipmyform-alternative/)250 a monthRejectedEmail, webhookNoUS [Formspark](/en/formspark-alternative/)250 in total, never refilledRejected (HTTP 402)Email, webhooks, SlackNoEU (AWS Ireland) [Forminit (was Getform)](/en/forminit-alternative/)100 a month, 1 formRejected, not storedEmailYes, 100 MBEU (AWS Ireland) [Formspree](/en/formspree-alternative/)50 a monthSaved in an Over Limit folder, no emailsEmailNoUS [Basin](/en/basin-alternative/)50 a month, 1 formNot stated for FreeEmail, ZapierYes, 100 MBNot stated [Formgrid](/en/formgrid-alternative/)50 a month, 3 formsPaused until next monthEmailNoNot stated [FormSubmit](/en/formsubmit-alternative/)No number statedNo limit statedEmail, webhookEmailed only, up to 10 MBNot stated [Netlify Forms](/en/netlify-forms-alternative/)Uses the account's 300 monthly credits (accounts since September 2025)The whole site pausesEmail, webhooks, SlackYes, 8 MB a requestNot stated Two of the twelve, Splitforms and Formspark, count free submissions once for the life of the account. When they are gone, they are gone. Netlify is a special case: forms only work on sites hosted on Netlify, and its newer accounts share one pool of credits between hosting, functions and forms, so a busy form can pause the whole site. ## What happens after the last free submission This is where the services differ most. Splitforms, ShipMyForm, Formspark, Forminit and Web3Forms refuse new submissions. Forminit says plainly that they are not stored or queued. Formgrid pauses the form until the next month. Formspree and StaticForms keep the extra submissions but stop emailing them; StaticForms even shows your visitor the usual success message, so neither of you knows a message is waiting. Formgong does not cut the form off when the free 250 run out. The first time it happens in a year, delivery continues on credit until the 7th of next month, up to 5,000 extra submissions, and you get an email when that starts. If you do not upgrade, new submissions are still saved, just not delivered, until you do. Spam never counts toward the limit. ## Where the submissions can go on a free plan On most free plans the only place a submission goes is your inbox. Web3Forms, Forminit, Splitforms and StaticForms keep Telegram, Slack, Google Sheets and webhooks for paid plans. Formgrid allows a one-time sync of 10 rows to Google Sheets on Free. Formspree's own pages disagree: its help centre says Slack and Telegram work on every plan, its plans table says they do not on Free. Formspark and Netlify allow webhooks and Slack on their free tiers; ShipMyForm and FormSubmit allow a webhook. On Formgong's free plan every submission is emailed to you at once and can also go to Telegram, with buttons to reply or mark it handled, to a Google Sheet, and to up to 3 webhooks. For a one-person business that answers leads from a phone, Telegram is usually the channel that gets a reply within minutes. ## Getting the form onto the page A backend only receives the form. You still have to make one, and on a new site that is often the slow part. Formgong covers that step too, on the free plan: - The [form builder](/en/tools/form-builder/) reads your site's address and gives the form the same colours, fonts and corners as the rest of the page. No sign-up is needed to try it. - Ready [form templates](/en/templates/) for contact, booking, quotes, orders and job applications copy into your account in one click, and AI can write the fields from a single sentence. - 28 free [website templates](/en/website-templates/) come with the form already connected, so a new site sends its first message the day it goes live. - If the site was made with [Lovable](/en/docs/lovable/), [Bolt](/en/docs/bolt/), [v0](/en/docs/v0/), [Replit](/en/docs/replit/) or [Base44](/en/docs/base44/), there is a guide for each, and an [MCP server](/en/docs/mcp/) lets Cursor or Claude wire the form for you. And if you would rather write the HTML yourself, any form that posts to Formgong works the same way. ## What the person who wrote to you gets Most form backends stop at delivering the message to you. Formgong can also write back to the person, under your business name, with replies coming straight to your inbox and no email service of your own to set up. On the free plan that covers a review request to each lead after the job, a reminder a visitor asked for, and adding people who agree to your Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Brevo, MailerLite or Kit list. Formspree, for comparison, offers its Mailchimp plugin on its Professional and Business plans. An automatic reply to every visitor comes with the paid plans, Starter and Pro. ## What a captcha adds to your page No service on the list forces a captcha. But some lean on one. Web3Forms' docs mark its honeypot as "NOT RECOMMENDED" and point free users to hCaptcha with a shared site key. FormSubmit keeps reCAPTCHA on unless you turn it off. We loaded each widget into the same empty form in Chrome to see what it costs the visitor before they type a word. One empty contact form, three cold loads each in Chrome, 31 October 2026. Medians. What the form loadsDownloaded before anyone typesRequests hCaptcha with Web3Forms' free-plan site key1,016 KB8 reCAPTCHA v2 checkbox454 KB8–9 hCaptcha with its public test key328 KB7 Cloudflare Turnstile219 KB2 Plain HTML form, spam checked on the server0 KB0 The Web3Forms key pulled about three times as much as hCaptcha's own test key, about a megabyte, on every cold load. That weight lands on a phone over a mobile connection, on the page where you want people to write to you. Formgong checks spam on the server, so the default form loads nothing extra. If you want a visible check anyway, you can add Cloudflare Turnstile with your own key. The full method and raw numbers are in our [captcha speed test](/en/blog/turnstile-vs-hcaptcha-vs-recaptcha-speed/). ## Where another service is the better pick FormSubmit needs no account at all, only your email address in the form's action, and names no submission limit. If you want a form running in two minutes without signing up anywhere, it is the quickest start. ## What Formgong's free plan includes - **Build the form or bring your own.** The [form builder](/en/tools/form-builder/) takes the colours and fonts from your site's address, with no sign-up; ready [form templates](/en/templates/) copy into your account; AI writes the fields from one sentence. Any hand-written HTML form works too. - **Websites with the form already connected.** 28 free [website templates](/en/website-templates/) post to Formgong out of the box. - **250 submissions a month on unlimited forms.** Spam does not count. Once a year, a busy month keeps delivering on credit until the 7th instead of stopping. - **Everywhere you work.** Email to up to 3 people at once, [Telegram](/en/integrations/telegram/) with Reply and Handled buttons, [Google Sheets](/en/integrations/google-sheets/), [Notion](/en/integrations/notion/), and 3 signed [webhooks](/en/integrations/webhooks/) for Slack, Discord, Zapier, Make or n8n. - **Emails to your customers in your business's name.** Formgong sends them under your business name and replies come back to you, with no email service of your own to set up: a review request to every lead, a reminder a visitor asked for, and review emails after an order with your logo and colours. People who agree can also go straight into your [Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Brevo, MailerLite or Kit](/en/docs/marketing-lists/) list. An automatic reply to each visitor is on Pro. - **No captcha needed.** A server-side spam filter, a honeypot, allowed domains and a block list; add your own Turnstile key if you want one. - **Files and voice.** Visitors can attach files, or record a [voice message](/en/docs/voice-field/) that arrives transcribed. - **Made for AI-built sites.** A hosted form page and a contact button; step-by-step guides for sites built with [Lovable](/en/docs/lovable/), [Bolt](/en/docs/bolt/), [v0](/en/docs/v0/), [Replit](/en/docs/replit/) and [Base44](/en/docs/base44/); an [MCP server](/en/docs/mcp/) lets Cursor or Claude wire the form for you. - **See what the form does.** [Analytics](/en/docs/analytics/) for views, starts, conversion and where each lead came from, and an alert when a form goes quiet. - **One account for the rest.** Customer reviews and an [AI help chat](/en/docs/help-chat/) that answers visitors from your own pages, with every message in one inbox. Data is stored in the EU. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which free form backend has the most submissions? Of the 12 we checked on 31 October 2026, Formgong, Web3Forms, StaticForms and ShipMyForm give the most each month: 250 submissions. FormSubmit states no limit at all. Formspree, Basin and Formgrid give 50. Formgong's paid Starter plan takes 1,000 a month. ### Do free form submissions reset every month? On most services, yes. Splitforms (500) and Formspark (250) are the exceptions: their free submissions are counted once and never refill. ### What happens when a free form backend hits its limit? Most reject new submissions or pause the form. Formspree and StaticForms keep them but stop emailing them. Formgong keeps delivering on credit until the 7th of next month (once a year), then saves new submissions until you upgrade. ### Can I get form submissions in Telegram or Google Sheets for free? On Formgong, yes: Telegram, Google Sheets, Notion, email lists and up to 3 webhooks are on the free plan. Web3Forms, Forminit, Splitforms and StaticForms keep Telegram and similar integrations for paid plans. ### Is there a free form backend with a form builder? Formgong has one on the free plan: the builder takes your site's colours and fonts from its address, there are ready form templates, and 28 free website templates come with the form already connected. You can also post any hand-written HTML form to it. ## Sources and documentation - [Splitforms pricing](https://splitforms.com/pricing) - [Splitforms GDPR](https://splitforms.com/gdpr) - [Web3Forms llms.txt](https://web3forms.com/llms.txt) - [Web3Forms docs (full)](https://docs.web3forms.com/llms-full.txt) - [StaticForms llms.txt](https://www.staticforms.dev/llms.txt) - [ShipMyForm pricing](https://shipmyform.com/pricing) - [Formspark pricing](https://formspark.io/pricing) - [Formspark AJAX docs](https://documentation.formspark.io/examples/ajax.md) - [Forminit pricing](https://forminit.com/pricing/) - [Formspree plans](https://formspree.io/plans) - [Formspree: over-limit submissions](https://help.formspree.io/articles/form-and-project-settings/over-limit-submissions.md) - [Basin pricing](https://usebasin.com/pricing) - [Formgrid pricing](https://formgrid.dev/pricing) - [FormSubmit documentation](https://formsubmit.co/documentation) - [Netlify Forms: usage and billing](https://docs.netlify.com/manage/forms/usage-and-billing/) - [Formspree: Mailchimp plugin plans](https://help.formspree.io/hc/en-us/articles/360036061994) - [Formgong data and location](/data) - [Formgong HTML form docs](https://formgong.com/en/docs/html/) [Get a form key](https://formgong.com/en/#top)