The Jotform Alternative That Doesn’t Count Your Submissions

Yes, WPForms is the most-used Jotform alternative for WordPress sites, active on more than 5 million websites. Rather than renting hosted forms, you build them inside WordPress and keep every submission in your own database.

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

The key differences between Jotform and WPForms are metering, hosting, and analytics depth. Jotform is a hosted platform where every plan counts your forms, submissions, stored entries, form views, paid orders, and fields per form, and your form is served from a jotform.com address unless you’re on Enterprise.

WPForms is a WordPress plugin. Forms render on your own domain in your own theme, entries live in your own database with no caps, and field-level analytics come included with Pro. To be fair to Jotform, it counters with a far bigger template library, AI agents on every plan, no payment transaction fee, and optional HIPAA features on Gold.

Jotform’s cheapest paid plan, Bronze, is $408 a year billed annually, or $39 a month billed monthly, and it includes 25 forms with 1,000 submissions a month. Silver is $468 a year and Gold is $1,188.

There’s no trial on paid plans, though Jotform does offer 50% discounts for nonprofits and schools plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.

WPForms Lite is free forever, and paid licenses run from $99 to $599 a year, every one of them with unlimited forms, submissions, and users. Compare tiers on the pricing page.

Yes, Jotform limits submissions on every plan: 100 a month on the free Starter plan, 1,000 on Bronze, 2,500 on Silver, and 10,000 on Gold.

According to Jotform’s own help documentation, once you reach the monthly cap “the system will disable your forms on the scheduled date indicated in the email sent to you” and those forms “will also display the ‘Form over quota’ message” to visitors.

There’s a separate cumulative storage cap too, and their docs say exceeding it “deletes the oldest form entry to make room for the new submission.”

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

For form analytics, the difference is depth. Jotform does include analytics, and they cover views, submissions, conversion rate, device, location, browser, and traffic source.

What they don’t cover is anything at the field level, which is why Jotform’s own analytics page suggests connecting Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager for more detail.

WPForms Form Analytics is included with Pro and Elite at no extra cost. It reports views, interactions, conversion rate, abandonments, and errors for the form, then breaks every single field down by interactions, error rate, drop-off, and average time spent.

On top of that you get conversion goals with a progress ring, a built-in AI chat over your real data, and CSV or print exports. Tracking is automatic, needs no code, and the data stays in your database.

Yes, and you can keep your history. There’s no direct Jotform importer, so the path runs through CSV. Export your Jotform submissions to CSV or Excel, which Jotform supports on demand, then rebuild each form in WPForms in minutes with WPForms AI or one of 2,100+ templates.

From there the WPForms Entry Importer maps your CSV columns to the new form’s fields by label and processes files up to 300 MB in chunks. An import run requires a paid WPForms license. Keep your Jotform account active until you’ve confirmed everything arrived.

Yes. WPForms Lite is a free Jotform alternative with no submission limit at all, and it isn’t a trial.

Lite gives you unlimited forms, unlimited submissions, unlimited form views, the drag and drop builder, the full 2,100+ template gallery, Stripe, Square and PayPal payments, Smart Edit and AI Choices, and built-in spam protection.

Jotform’s free Starter plan caps you at 5 forms, 100 submissions a month, 500 stored entries, 10,000 form views a month, and 100 fields per form, and it adds Jotform branding to your forms.

Yes, and both products are strong here, so it’s worth being precise. Jotform has an AI form generator you can chat with plus AI Agents available on every plan, including the free one.

WPForms AI generates a whole form from a description, then Smart Edit lets you change any existing form by describing what you want, including conditional logic, notifications, and calculation formulas, with every change saved as a snapshot you can undo.

The distinctive part is that WPForms also works with outside assistants: you can connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor and have them build and edit your forms for you. Smart Edit and AI Choices are available free.

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 storage cap, and no entry gets deleted to make room for a newer one. You can export to CSV, Excel, or PDF from the entry management screen at any time.

Form Analytics data lives in your database too, with no external scripts and no analytics account to connect. WPForms also ships GDPR-friendly tools including consent fields, data-request forms, and rules to auto-delete old entries on a schedule.

Your forms are styled however you like, and they inherit your site’s look by default. WPForms renders forms as native WordPress content, so your theme’s fonts and colors apply automatically instead of a hosted form sitting in a fixed-width box.

Beyond that, the block editor gives you visual controls for field sizes, label styles, button colors, and border radius with no CSS, and there are native widgets for Elementor and Divi.

That’s a common reason people look for a Jotform alternative in the first place, since an embedded form can be awkward to make match the page around it.