The Formstack Alternative You Actually Own

Yes, WPForms is the most-used Formstack alternative for WordPress sites, active on 5+ million websites. Instead of renting hosted forms, you build them inside WordPress and keep every entry in your own database.

Every paid license includes unlimited forms, unlimited submissions, and unlimited users, with field-level form analytics and an AI toolkit on Pro. If your forms live on a WordPress site, that’s the natural home for them.

The key differences between Formstack and WPForms are where forms live, what they cost, and how limits work.

Formstack is a hosted SaaS platform: forms are embedded via JavaScript, plans start at $83 a month billed annually, and the starting plan stores 1,000 submissions per form.

WPForms is a native WordPress plugin: forms render on your own domain, entries live in your database without caps, and paid licenses start at $49.50 for the first year.

Formstack counters with approval workflows, document generation, eSignatures, and Salesforce-native products for enterprise teams.

Formstack’s Forms plan starts at $83 a month billed annually, which is about $996 a year for 1 builder user, 25 forms, and 1,000 stored submissions per form. The Suite bundle starts at $250 a month billed annually, and there’s no free plan, just a 14-day trial.

WPForms Lite is free forever, and paid licenses run from $49.50 to $299.50 for the first year with renewals at full price. All of them include unlimited forms and submissions.

One note for fairness: on Lite, Basic, and Plus, payment forms carry a 3% WPForms fee, which disappears on Pro and Elite. Compare tiers on the pricing page.

Formstack’s plans include a stored-submission allowance per form, such as 1,000 submissions per form on the starting plan.

It’s a storage cap rather than a monthly quota: once a form hits its limit, new submissions are emailed to you instead of being stored, and Formstack’s docs suggest exporting and deleting entries to free up space.

WPForms has no submission caps of any kind. Every paid license stores unlimited entries in your own WordPress database, and even the free version accepts unlimited submissions.

Formstack includes per-form analytics such as views, conversion rates, and abandonment, while its field-level tool, Field Bottlenecks, is part of the extra-cost Conversion Kit add-on and only reports required fields.

WPForms Form Analytics is included with Pro and Elite at no extra cost. It tracks views, interactions, conversion rate, abandonments, and errors, plus per-field drop-offs and average time on every single field, with conversion goals and a built-in AI chat over your real data.

Everything is tracked automatically, with no code and no Google Analytics account, and the data stays in your WordPress database.

In June 2025, the company behind Formstack renamed itself Intellistack, moved its headquarters to Denver, and launched a new flagship automation platform called Streamline.

Formstack itself continues as the product brand for Forms, Documents, and Sign, and the company says those products remain actively sold and supported.

If the change has you re-evaluating your form stack, WPForms is a focused option: one WordPress form plugin, actively developed for over a decade, running on 5+ million sites.

Yes, and you can keep your submission history. There’s no direct Formstack importer, so rebuild each form in minutes with WPForms AI or one of 2,100+ templates. Then export your Formstack submissions to CSV, something Formstack supports on demand or on a schedule.

The WPForms Entry Importer maps your CSV columns to the new form’s fields by label and handles files up to 300 MB in chunks, with a paid WPForms license. Keep Formstack active until you’ve confirmed everything came across.

Yes, WPForms Lite is free forever, not a trial. It includes the drag and drop builder, the 2,100+ template gallery, Stripe, Square, and PayPal payments, Smart Edit and AI Choices, smart spam protection, and unlimited forms and submissions.

Formstack offers a 14-day free trial, after which the starting plan is $83 a month billed annually. If you’re testing the switch, WPForms costs nothing to try for as long as you like. See what each tier adds in the Lite vs Pro comparison.

WPForms connects to Salesforce through the Salesforce addon, available on the Elite license. It sends form entries to Salesforce objects with flexible field mapping and conditional logic, which covers lead capture and CRM handoff for most WordPress sites.

To be fair to Formstack, its Salesforce-native products go deeper, building forms inside Salesforce itself. If Salesforce-native tooling is your core requirement, Formstack is built for that. If you want WordPress forms that feed Salesforce, WPForms Elite does the job.

With a paid WPForms license, every entry is stored in your own WordPress database on your own hosting.

Nothing routes through WPForms servers, there’s no per-form storage cap, and you can export entries to CSV, Excel, or PDF from the entry management screen anytime.

Form Analytics data stays in your database too, with no cookies and no external scripts. WPForms also ships GDPR-friendly tools like consent checkboxes and data-request forms to help you meet privacy requirements.