Paperform review

Doc-style form builder for branded forms, surveys, payments, and bookings.

Facts checked July 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Free plan score: 40/100Limited
Starting price: $24/month
Company: Paperform
Founded: 2016

Our take

Paperform excels at branded, commerce-ready forms for SMBs, but its free tier caps submissions at 30 per month.

A form builder that thinks it is a landing page

Paperform is a no-code form builder that combines document-style editing with landing-page design. Teams can build branded forms, surveys, checkout flows, and booking pages with 2,000+ integrations.

Service businesses that sell straight from the form

SMBs that want forms to look like branded landing pages
Service businesses collecting payments and appointment bookings in one form
Teams needing calculations, conditional logic, and e-signatures without multiple tools

Free stops at 30 submissions, Essentials is priced at $24

Paperform is freemium. The free plan includes unlimited forms but only 30 submissions per month. Paid Essentials starts around $24/mo (annual) with higher submission limits and branding control.

Free builders without the 30-a-month limit

Tally covers most form needs at no cost with unlimited responses. Typeform leads on conversational one-question-at-a-time UX for marketing quizzes, though Paperform offers deeper commerce and workflow tools on paid plans.

The 7-day Pro trial flatters a 30-submission free plan

Paperform is genuinely good at the thing it claims: forms that read as branded landing pages, with payments and bookings built in rather than bolted on. Just be clear about which version you are judging, because new signups get 7 days of Pro and the plan you keep afterwards allows 30 submissions a month and stores 100 in total. At $24/mo for Essentials this is a tool to buy on purpose, not to fall into. If you want the branded look without the bill, the free Paperform alternatives are the honest comparison.

What Paperform offers

Conditional logic
Payment collection
E-signatures
App integrations
Custom branding
Scheduling

Not included

Unlimited free tier
Analytics
File uploads
Quizzes & scoring

Paperform plans and pricing

1 user, unlimited forms, 30 submissions per month (including up to 5 payment and 5 appointment submissions), 100 stored submissions

New signups get a 7-day Pro trial. Enterprise pricing is custom

Free

1 user with unlimited forms and Paperform branding

30 submissions/month, 100 stored submissions

Essentials

$24/mo

Billed $288 per year

Pro

$49/mo

Billed $588 per year

Business

$99/mo

Billed $1,188 per year

As of July 2026. Check current pricing on the Paperform pricing page.

Paperform's free plan score

How good Paperform's free plan really is, judged on four things and weighted into one number.

40/100

Limited

A well-liked paid product with a 30-submission-a-month sampler attached.

Free plan generosity: 22/100
Feature depth for the category: 55/100
Freedom and honesty: 40/100
What free users report: 55/100

Read the full free plan breakdown

Scored July 2026. How we calculate the free plan score.

Frequently asked questions about Paperform

What happens when the 7-day Pro trial ends?

You land on the free plan, which is a much smaller product: 30 submissions a month, 100 stored submissions in total, one user, and Paperform branding on every page (as of July 2026). Worth knowing before the trial shapes your opinion of the tool.

Can free Paperform forms take payments and bookings?

Yes, which is unusual, because most free plans in this category offer neither. They are metered rather than missing: up to 5 payment submissions and 5 appointment submissions a month, counted inside the 30 rather than added to them (as of July 2026).

Do the 100 stored submissions reset each month?

No. The 30 a month refills and the 100 stored total does not, so roughly four ordinary months fill it and your own history starts competing for the space (as of July 2026). Our data does not record whether deleting old submissions frees that room, so do not build a process that assumes it does.

What does Paperform cost a year?

Essentials is $24 a month billed as $288 a year, Pro is $49 a month ($588), and Business is $99 a month ($1,188), with Enterprise custom-priced (as of July 2026). Paperform quotes those annual totals openly, which is fairer than most pricing pages in this category.

Latest Paperform news

Changes that affect what you get for free: pricing, free plan limits, ownership, and whether the project is still maintained. Not every release.

We have not checked Paperform's announcements yet. When we do, anything that changes the free plan or the price will show up here.

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