Wufoo's free plan runs out at 10 fields, before anyone submits anything

38 places Wufoo in our bottom band, Barely free, and one place above SurveyMonkey at 31. That ordering is worth a note, because SurveyMonkey owns Wufoo and ranks higher in our category (9th against Wufoo's 10th of 17). The free plans invert that: 100 entries a month you can read beat 25 responses you cannot, even with a field cap attached.

Against the rest of the category the number is low for a familiar reason. Wufoo is a mature product from 2006 with 400+ templates, form rules, reporting and a REST API, and almost none of that depth changes what you can do for nothing. The pillars below split the judgement into the four parts we score, and the field limit is the one doing most of the damage.

The free plan is four numbers, and they interact badly (as of July 2026):

• 10 fields per form. This is the ceiling people trip over first. Ten fields covers a contact form and not much else.
• 5 forms. Enough for a small site, tight for anyone doing client work.
• 100 entries a month. Reasonable for a quiet form, and the limit you will meet second, if at all.
• 1 user. The free plan is a single account with no way to share it.

Splitting a long form across several short ones is the obvious workaround, and it costs you two of your five forms and breaks the submission into pieces you then have to join up by hand. It is not a real answer.

Here is what we cannot tell you, stated plainly rather than guessed. Wufoo publishes an overage policy for paid accounts, $0.05 per entry past the monthly limit, but nothing about what happens on a free account at entry 101. We have not verified whether free entries are rejected, queued or quietly billed, so treat the free ceiling as unknown behavior rather than assuming it is soft. Our data also does not record which of the payment options (PayPal, Stripe, Square) and API features survive on the free plan, so check those against Wufoo's own pricing page before you plan around them.

The first paid step is Starter at $16.25 a month billed annually, and it is the cheapest entry price of any incumbent on this list. What it buys is specific: unlimited fields per form, 10 forms instead of 5, and 1,000 entries a month instead of 100. The field cap is the reason people pay, and it is the thing Starter removes outright.

Above that the ladder scales on people as much as volume. Professional at $33.25 opens unlimited forms for 5 users and 5,000 entries a month, Advanced at $83.25 covers 20 users and 25,000 entries, and Ultimate at $210.25 covers 60 users and 200,000. All of those are per month billed annually, and annual billing saves 25% against paying monthly. Paid accounts also carry that published $0.05 per entry overage, which is a fairer arrangement than a lockout: your form keeps working and you get a bill.

Read the gap between Free and Starter as the real product decision. Wufoo has not built a middle rung for people who need a proper form but almost no entries, which is exactly the profile the free plan attracts.

No, and we score the answer as taster. Most free plans in this category limit how much you collect. Wufoo limits what you can build, and a form builder that caps you at 10 fields is showing you the editor rather than letting you use it.

The person who can live on it is real but narrow: someone who needs one short contact or feedback form on a low-traffic site, under 100 entries a month, working alone, happy with the older Wufoo look. Everyone else meets the field cap on their first serious form. Event registrations, job applications, order forms and anything with an address block are out of reach before you consider volume at all.

If you like the Wufoo model but need room to build, free Wufoo alternatives ranks the tools that give away unlimited fields, and SurveyMonkey's free plan is worth reading first if you are considering the parent product instead. The full category comparison is at best free form builders.