Seagit Forms vs Jotform
Seagit Forms is a free Jotform alternative for people who found Jotform larger than the job. Jotform is a big product with thousands of templates and a long integration list. Seagit Forms is deliberately small: nineteen field types, webhooks, CSV and a self-sizing embed on the free plan, with Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion and Google Sheets delivery on paid.
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 | Jotform | |
|---|---|---|
| Template library | Six worked examples | Thousands |
| Field types | Nineteen | Many more |
| Cost to collect responses | Free | See their pricing page |
| Send each submission to your endpoint | Yes — JSON webhook | Yes |
| Post submissions into Slack | Yes, on paid plans — built in | Yes, via integrations |
| Post submissions into Discord | Yes, on paid plans — built in | Check their integrations directory |
| Post submissions into Microsoft Teams | Yes, on paid plans — a Workflows webhook | Check their integrations directory |
| Post submissions into Google Chat | Yes, on paid plans — built in | Check their integrations directory |
| Create an Airtable record per response | Yes, on paid plans — built in | Check their integrations directory |
| Create a Notion page per response | Yes, on paid plans — built in | Check their integrations directory |
| Append each response to Google Sheets | Yes, on paid plans — built in | Yes, built in — pick or create a spreadsheet |
| Embed that resizes itself | Yes — script loader | Yes |
| Restrict which sites may embed | Yes — frame-ancestors allow-list | Not exposed |
| File uploads | Paid plans only, up to 200 KB per file | Yes, larger |
Pricing: Seagit Forms vs Jotform
Jotform 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 plansJotform
| Plan | Price | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | 100 submissions per month, 5 forms |
| Bronze | $39/month ($34 billed annually) | 1,000 submissions per month, 25 forms |
| Silver | $49/month ($39 billed annually) | 2,500 submissions per month, 50 forms |
| Gold | $129/month ($99 billed annually) | 10,000 submissions per month, 100 forms |
Jotform counts submissions per month across the account and resets monthly. Seagit Forms counts them per form, for the life of the form.
Jotform 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 Jotform is the better choice
Every comparison should have this section. If it does not, you are reading an advert.
You want a template for exactly your case
Jotform has thousands of prebuilt forms and a long list of integrations. If starting from a template that already matches your industry saves you an afternoon, that library is a real advantage and six examples will not replace it.
You need large file uploads
File fields need a paid plan here, and even then Seagit Forms accepts up to 200 KB per file, because attachments are stored inside the response rather than uploaded separately. If people are sending portfolios or video, Jotform handles that and this does not.
When Seagit Forms is the better choice
You want the whole product on the free plan
Webhooks with an optional auth header, Telegram delivery, CSV export and embedding are all on the free plan, and there is no upgrade prompt in front of a respondent. Email notifications, file uploads, password protection, your own logo in place of the Seagit mark, and connected apps — Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion — are what need a paid plan.
You want a small surface you can hold in your head
Nineteen field types, one settings screen and a two-line embed snippet. For a contact form or an RSVP, the smaller product is the faster one — the choice is genuinely about how much form you need.
What Jotform costs, and why this page will not quote it
More people search for what Jotform charges than for an alternative to it, so it would be easy to put a price table here and collect the traffic. This page does not, for a reason worth stating: a competitor's plan contents change, comparison tables do not get re-read, and a figure that was accurate the day it was written becomes a false claim about another company's product without anyone touching the page. Every stale pricing table on the internet was correct once.
What does not go stale is knowing what to look for. Four things decide whether a free form builder stays free for you, and they are the four worth checking on their pricing page before you commit: how many submissions a month the free tier accepts, how many forms you may have at once, the ceiling on a single file upload, and whether removing the vendor's branding requires a paid plan. Check them against your busiest month, not your quietest.
For the equivalent numbers here, stated plainly: the free plan holds 10 forms and accepts 100 responses per form, with webhooks, Telegram delivery, embedding and CSV export included. Basic is $20 a month and Advanced is $40; they raise those numbers and add email notifications, file uploads and connected apps — Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion and Google Sheets — which the free plan does not have. There is also a 200 KB ceiling per uploaded file, because attachments are stored inside the response rather than uploaded separately. That is the honest shape of it — this product is smaller, not more generous.
Jotform, Google Forms or Typeform?
These three come up together, and they are not really competing for the same job. Jotform is the broad one: thousands of templates, a long integration list, and enough field types that most forms map onto it without compromise. Google Forms is the one already inside your Workspace account, which matters more than any feature list if your responses belong in Sheets. Typeform is the one that looks best, asking one question at a time, and it charges for that.
The question that actually separates them is what has to be true after submit. If the answer is "it lands in Sheets beside everything else", use Google Forms. If it is "the form has to feel like part of a polished campaign", use Typeform. If it is "the form needs a field type most builders do not have", use Jotform. If it is "each submission has to reach a system I own, without paying to unlock the integration", that is the case this product is built for.
Seagit Forms is the smallest of the four by some distance — nineteen field types and one settings screen. That is a genuine limitation and also the entire proposition: webhooks with a documented contract, CSV export and an embed allow-list, all on the free plan, with file uploads, password protection, custom branding and connected apps behind a paid tier.
How much form do you actually need?
Breadth is the real axis here, not price. Jotform can build things this cannot: signature capture, payment collection, appointment scheduling, structured address blocks, and long conditional flows. If your form needs any of those, the comparison is over and Jotform wins it — no amount of free changes that.
The counter-case is that most forms are not those forms. A contact form, an RSVP, a feedback survey, a job application: text, choices, a date, a file under 200 KB. For that shape, a smaller product is faster to build in and easier to reason about, and the parts that usually cost money — sending each submission somewhere you own, restricting where the form may be embedded — are the parts that are free here.
A useful test before switching: open your busiest Jotform and list the field types it uses. If every one has an equivalent in nineteen, the move takes minutes. If two or three do not, keep that form where it is. Nothing says both cannot be true at once, and moving the simple forms while leaving the complicated one behind is a perfectly sensible outcome.
Moving from Jotform
You will notice the smaller field set first
Jotform has many more question types than nineteen. Signature fields, payment fields, appointment pickers and address blocks have no direct equivalent here — an address becomes a long text field, and a payment becomes a link you send afterwards. Check your busiest form against the field list before assuming it maps.
File uploads are the common blocker
Collecting a file needs a paid plan here, and attachments are stored inside the response, which caps them at 200 KB per file. Jotform handles far larger uploads. If people send portfolios, scans or video, either keep that form where it is or switch to asking for a link in a URL field.
What to check before you switch
The field types your form actually uses, the size of typical uploads, and whether anything depends on a Jotform integration rather than a plain webhook. Forms that are text, choices and a file under 200 KB move over in a few minutes.
Questions people ask
Is there a free Jotform alternative?
Yes, within the free plan's 10 forms and 100 responses per form, which includes webhooks, Telegram delivery, embedding and CSV export. File uploads, password protection, your own logo and connected apps are paid. It is a smaller product than Jotform, with nineteen field types and six worked examples rather than thousands of templates.
Is Jotform free?
Jotform has a free tier; what it includes changes, so check their pricing page rather than a table on someone else’s site. The four things worth checking are the monthly submission cap, the form count limit, the single-file upload ceiling, and which integrations are gated. For Seagit Forms: the free plan is 10 forms at 100 responses each, with webhooks, Telegram delivery and embedding included; file uploads and Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Airtable, Notion and Google Sheets delivery are on the paid plans, and the file ceiling is 200 KB.
Jotform vs Google Forms vs Typeform — which should I use?
They answer different questions. Google Forms if responses belong in Sheets beside your other data. Typeform if presentation drives completion and you will pay for it. Jotform if you need a field type most builders lack — signatures, payments, scheduling. Seagit Forms if each submission has to reach a system you own without paying to unlock the integration.
What is the file upload limit?
File fields are a paid feature, and then up to 200 KB per file. Attachments are stored inside the response rather than uploaded separately, which is what caps the size. For anything larger, add a URL field and ask for a link — or use Jotform, which handles big files properly.
What does Jotform do that Seagit Forms does not?
Thousands of templates, a much longer integration list, more field types and large file uploads. If any of those decide it for you, Jotform is the better choice. Seagit Forms competes on having the delivery plumbing free rather than on breadth.
Does the price go up as more people use it?
No. Basic is a flat $20 a month — $16.67 if you pay for the year — and it includes 3 organizations at 2 seats each. That is 6 seats, and up to 4 distinct people, because the owner occupies a seat in each organization they own. Inviting someone does not change the bill; running out of seats is what moves you to Advanced, at $40 a month for 15 seats.
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 Jotform 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.