Seagit Forms vs Google Forms
Seagit Forms is a free Google Forms alternative for people who need a submission to go somewhere other than a spreadsheet. Both build a form in a browser and both are free to use; the difference is what happens after someone presses submit, and how the form looks when it is on your own site.
At a glance
Only things that are stable and checkable. Anything that moves — prices, volume limits — is in the dated table below rather than stated here as though it were permanent.
| Seagit Forms | Google Forms | |
|---|---|---|
| Price to build and collect | Free | Free |
| Respondent needs an account | No | No |
| Send each submission to your own endpoint | Yes — JSON webhook, 5s, no retries | Not without Apps Script |
| Post submissions into Slack | Yes, on paid plans | Not without an add-on |
| Post submissions into Discord | Yes, on paid plans | Not without an add-on |
| Post submissions into Microsoft Teams | Yes, on paid plans — a Workflows webhook | Not without an add-on |
| Post submissions into Google Chat | Yes, on paid plans | Not without an add-on |
| Create an Airtable record per response | Yes, on paid plans | Not built in — responses go to a Sheet |
| Create a Notion page per response | Yes, on paid plans | Not built in — responses go to a Sheet |
| Append each response to Google Sheets | Yes, on paid plans | Built in, free — every response already writes to a linked Sheet |
| Embed that resizes itself | Yes — script loader | Fixed-height iframe |
| Restrict which sites may embed | Yes — frame-ancestors allow-list | No |
| Password-protect a form | Yes, on paid plans — scrypt-hashed | Sign-in restriction only |
| Owner needs a Google account | No | Yes |
Pricing: Seagit Forms vs Google Forms
Google Forms pricing below was read from their own pricing page on 2026-08-30. Prices change without notice, so treat this as a snapshot and check their page before deciding.
Seagit Forms
| Plan | Price | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10 forms, 100 responses per form |
| Basic | $20/month | 100 forms, 2000 responses per form |
| Advanced | $40/month | 200 forms, 5000 responses per form, 3 seats |
Response limits are per form for the life of the form, not per month. Webhooks, Telegram delivery, embedding and CSV export are on the free plan; file uploads, password protection, email notifications, your own logo and connected apps (Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets) are on the paid plans.
All Seagit Forms plansGoogle Forms
| Plan | Price | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Personal Google account | Free | No published response cap |
| Workspace Business Starter | $7/user/month | Forms included; paid for Workspace, not for Forms |
| Workspace Business Standard | $14/user/month | Forms included |
| Workspace Business Plus | $22/user/month | Forms included |
Google Forms itself is free with any Google account. The Workspace prices buy the rest of Workspace — Forms is bundled, not the thing being sold.
Google Forms pricing pageOne price for the whole team: Basic is $20 a month flat, not per person.
Billed annually it is $200 a year — $16.67 a month, 17% less than paying monthly. Advanced is $40 a month, or $33.33 a month billed annually.
Basic covers 3 organizations of 2 seats each — 6 seats, which is up to 4 people once you count that you hold a seat in each organization you own. Advanced raises that to 15 seats across 5 organizations, up to 11 people.
Adding someone does not change the bill: the price is the plan, not the head count. Whether that beats a given rival depends on how they charge for seats — check their pricing page, which every comparison here links to, rather than a claim on this one.
When Google Forms is the better choice
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You live in Google Workspace
If responses belong in Sheets next to the rest of your data, and your team already shares Drive folders and permissions, Google Forms is the shorter path. Nothing here beats being in the same account as everything else you use.
You want quizzes and automatic grading
Google Forms grades quizzes, assigns point values and returns scores. Seagit Forms has no quiz mode — if you are marking answers rather than collecting them, that is a real gap and Google Forms is the better tool.
When Seagit Forms is the better choice
The submission has to reach your own system
Add a webhook and every response is POSTed to your endpoint as JSON as it arrives, with an optional auth header. Each destination gets five seconds and one attempt with no retries, and the response is stored in Seagit either way.
The form has to live on your site
Two lines of HTML embed the form and it resizes itself as fields expand, so there is no inner scrollbar. You can also restrict which domains are allowed to frame it, which a Google Form cannot do.
Moving from Google Forms
Your existing responses stay in Sheets
Nothing is migrated for you. The responses already collected sit in whatever Google Sheet they were writing to, and they stay there — Seagit starts an empty response set. If you want one archive, export the Sheet to CSV and keep it beside the Seagit CSV export rather than trying to merge live systems.
Rebuilding the form takes minutes, not hours
There is no importer. Most Google Forms map field-for-field: short answer becomes short text, paragraph becomes long text, multiple choice becomes radio buttons, checkboxes become checkboxes, dropdown becomes dropdown, file upload becomes file upload — on a paid plan, and with a 200 KB ceiling. The two that do not map are quiz scoring and section-based branching, neither of which exists here.
What to check before you switch
Whether anyone relies on the Sheet updating live, whether the form is restricted to your Workspace domain (Seagit uses a password instead, which is a different control), and whether the form collects files at all, since uploads need a paid plan here and are then capped at 200 KB. Those three account for most of the surprises.
Questions people ask
Is there a free alternative to Google Forms?
Yes. The free plan builds and collects on up to 10 forms with 100 responses each, and respondents never need an account. Unlike Google Forms it also posts each submission to your own webhook and embeds with a script that resizes the form to fit its content. Delivery into a Slack channel needs a paid plan.
Can I use it without a Google account?
Yes. Building a form needs a Seagit account, which you create with Google or GitHub, and answering one needs no account at all. Google Forms requires the form owner to be signed in to Google; that is the practical difference for anyone avoiding a Google dependency.
What can Google Forms do that Seagit Forms cannot?
Quizzes with automatic grading, and native Google Sheets and Drive integration. If your responses belong beside other data in Sheets, or you are marking answers rather than collecting them, Google Forms is the better fit and we would rather say so here.
How many people does a paid plan cover?
Basic is $20 a month flat, or $16.67 a month billed annually, and it covers 3 organizations of 2 seats — 6 seats, so up to 4 people, because you hold a seat in each organization you own. The price does not change as you add them. Google Forms itself is free on a personal account and needs no comparison here; the per-user figures in the table above buy Workspace, not Forms.
Checked against the shipped product on 28 August 2026. The Seagit Forms limits quoted above — the five-second webhook timeout, the absence of retries, the 200 KB ceiling on a single file — are the values enforced in the code, not marketing rounding. Anything stated about Google Forms is limited to behaviour they document publicly; their pricing is deliberately not quoted, because a figure correct today becomes a false claim on its own.