If you are looking for an alternative to Jotform, Deftform may be the perfect fit. Jotform, like most form builders, requires payment on a recurring basis. Even if you just create a handful of forms throughout a year, you have to commit to yet another subscription.
Even though Jotform has a free-tier that is sufficient for many customers when starting out with creating online forms, those limits in that tier are approaching fast. Deftform offers two affordable packages. Either choose prepaid, or get a lifetime account. No fixed, recurring costs.
Jotform starts at $39/month (or $408/year), but that does not include team management and you still are limited to 25 forms, 1000 submissions (per month) and have more limitations because of that "smaller" tier.
The Deftform prepaid package is just $15 (one-time payment) and will get you 5 forms. That's just $3 per form with unlimited responses, a custom domain and much more. Our alternative is the lifetime package for just $199. Pay once, use forever. Unlimited forms, unlimited responses, file uploads and much, much more.
We're a German company, building affordable platforms that are easy to use. We don't bloat our software with unnecessary features just so our feature list gets long and impressive. We stay humble, focusing on what matters to get the job done.
A word on privacy
As we have strict rules in the EU, and Germany in particular, your data is safe with us and we value your privacy. We never share or sell your data for profit, that is not our business model and never will be.
While we don't know if or how Jotform uses customer data for anything else, many people prefer EU alternatives for added trust and security. It starts with the fact that there are already 7 external services tracking your visit when viewing their website – without you giving your consent first.
Deftform allows you to create custom form styles. With that, you can create a custom style for every form you have. You can change the background color, even add a background image, field color, button color, text color – basically the whole appearance of a form.
Store it as a template and reuse with any of your forms.
With Deftform, you can also use your own domain per workspace. Simply attach a domain like forms.example.com, add a CNAME record to your domain DNS settings and you're good to go.
Want to use a custom domain with Jotform? Dig deep into your pockets as you will need the Enterprise tier for that.
Give Deftform a try, it's free to get started. Sign up now and play around with the first form. Let us know if you have any questions.