Jotform is powerful, but that power comes with a price sheet: form limits, monthly submission caps, and storage quotas at every tier, and custom domains only near the top. Formly takes the opposite approach: one flat plan with unlimited forms and unlimited submissions, an AI that builds forms from a plain-language description, and MCP support so your AI agent can manage everything for you.
Jotform meters everything: number of forms, monthly submissions, storage, even form views. Grow past your tier and you're shopping for the next one. As of mid-2026, going from 1,000 to 10,000 monthly submissions means moving from Bronze ($34/month billed annually) to Gold ($99/month billed annually).
Formly has one plan: Pro at $29/month, or $24/month billed annually, with unlimited forms and unlimited submissions. A viral form is a win, not a billing event.
Describe what you need ("an event registration form with meal preference and an optional +1") and Formly generates the pages, questions, and field types. The draft opens in a full editor where you can change anything, or you can keep iterating by prompt.
Formly ships an MCP server and a public REST API, so AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex can create, edit, publish, and read your forms directly from chat. Forms become something your agent handles inside your existing workflow. See the MCP guide.
Jotform's maturity shows in its surface area: hundreds of widgets, apps, and settings. That's genuinely useful for some teams, and overwhelming for most. Formly focuses on doing the core job extremely fast: describe, refine, publish, collect, route responses via webhooks or API.
Removing Jotform branding starts at paid tiers, and custom domains sit at the Gold level. In Formly, white-labeling and custom domains are simply part of the plan.
| Feature | Formly (Pro) | Jotform |
|---|---|---|
| Forms | ✅ Unlimited | ❌ Capped per tier (5–100+) |
| Monthly Submissions | ✅ Unlimited | ❌ Capped per tier (100–10k+) |
| AI Form Generation | ✅ Included | ⚠️ AI features, tier-limited |
| AI Agent Access (MCP + REST API) | ✅ Included | ❌ No MCP |
| Remove Branding / White-Label | ✅ Included | 💰 Paid tiers |
| Custom Domains | ✅ Included | 💰 Gold tier and above |
| Multi-Page Forms & Conditional Logic | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| File Uploads | ✅ Included | ⚠️ Storage-capped per tier |
| Webhooks | ✅ Included | ✅ Yes |
| Team Collaboration | ✅ Included | 💰 Higher tiers / Enterprise |
| EU Hosting, GDPR, No Cookies | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Data residency at Enterprise |
Jotform pricing and limits as of July 2026. Check their site for current details.
If you need Jotform's deep enterprise machinery (HIPAA compliance, hundreds of niche widgets), it earns its price. If you need great forms, fast, without watching a submissions meter, Formly costs less than every Jotform paid tier.
One plan: Pro at $29/month, or $24/month billed annually, with unlimited forms and submissions. Cancel anytime.
Yes: no caps on forms, questions, pages, or submissions, subject to fair use.
There's no one-click import, but the AI makes recreating forms fast: paste your question list into a prompt and Formly rebuilds the structure in seconds.
No. If you need HIPAA compliance, Jotform's Gold/Enterprise tiers are the better fit today. Formly is hosted in Europe, GDPR compliant, and doesn't use cookies or track respondents.
Connected over MCP, an agent can create forms, edit them, publish links, and pull responses, the whole lifecycle from chat. See the developer docs.
Describe your form, publish it, and let the responses come. All of them.
