Forminit alternative: what changes if you switch

Forminit vs Formgong

Where Forminit's docs say nothing about a feature, the cell says so instead of guessing.

Why people look for a Forminit alternative

• Your field names have to change. Forminit's docs say to name every input in the fi-{blockType}-{fieldName} pattern, and inputs with other names are not stored. Old Getform endpoints still work, but a new Forminit form means renaming every field.
• Browser forms are rate-limited. In public mode, the one for plain HTML forms, Forminit accepts 1 request per 5 seconds per IP address. Requests over that get a 429 and are not stored.
• Only email on Free. Each form has a Workflow, and on Free it can send email notifications. Webhooks, Slack, Discord, Google Sheets and autoresponders are on Pro.
• Branding in your emails. Removing Forminit branding from notifications and autoresponders is on its Business plan.

Where Forminit is the better choice

Forminit checks every value on the server before it stores it: phone numbers as E.164, countries as ISO codes, dates as ISO 8601. Its free plan keeps submissions until you delete them, while Formgong's Free keeps them 30 days. It also has official JavaScript and Python SDKs with helpers for Next.js and Nuxt, and stores data in the EU as we do. If typed, validated data matters more than free volume, Forminit is a good choice.

1. Web3Forms

Best for: A generous free quota with one access key and no account dashboard work.

• Free plan: 250 submissions a month, unlimited forms, 1 recipient.
• Telegram: Starter, Pro and Agency, not Free.
• Data location: Infrastructure on AWS, Cloudflare and Hetzner; data may be processed in several regions.

Watch out: Stops accepting submissions at the monthly limit. Telegram and other integrations need a paid plan.

Formgong vs Web3Forms: full comparison

2. Formspree

Best for: Teams that need many plugins (CRM, Sheets, Stripe), team seats and a long track record.

• Free plan: 50 submissions a month, 30-day archive.
• Telegram: Telegram plugin on every plan.
• Data location: May be processed in the United States and other countries where Formspree operates.

Watch out: The free plan is meant for testing; prices per submission are high on the small paid plans.

Formgong vs Formspree: full comparison

3. Basin

Best for: Agencies that want spam filtering, signed webhooks and integrations on mid-size plans.

• Free plan: 1 form, 50 submissions a month, 30-day retention.
• Telegram: Not listed.
• Data location: Hosting on DigitalOcean in Canada, backups in Germany, file storage on AWS in the USA.

Watch out: Overage is billed (from $5.25 per 1,000). Sheets, Slack, API and webhooks start at Growth.

Formgong vs Basin: full comparison

What Formgong's free plan includes

• Build the form or bring your own. The form builder takes the colours and fonts from your site's address, with no sign-up; ready form 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 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 with Reply and Handled buttons, Google Sheets, Notion, and 3 signed 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 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 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, Bolt, v0, Replit and Base44; an MCP server lets Cursor or Claude wire the form for you.
• See what the form does. 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 that answers visitors from your own pages, with every message in one inbox. Data is stored in the EU.

Moving a form from Forminit to Formgong

1. Create a free Formgong account and copy the form's access key.
2. Change the form's action from https://forminit.com/f/YOUR_FORM_ID to https://formgong.com/submit and keep method="POST".
3. Add <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="…">. Field names stay as they are. Add Formgong's empty botcheck field for the honeypot.
4. Send a test, then connect Telegram or Google Sheets in Form settings if you want them.

Every hidden field Formgong understands is in the HTML docs.