Fillout is a capable form builder backed by Y Combinator that stores every response on its platform. Amabrik takes the opposite approach: each form submission forwards straight to your CRM, email tool, or webhook, and nothing is stored by us. No response caps on any plan, no badge on any plan, and nine more widgets your site actually needs. For most sites, that pass-through model is the better fit.
Forms that feed your CRM and keep nothing, inside the full website toolkit, vs a database-first form builder.
Fillout stores every response on its platform. You view them in Fillout, filter them, export them, and sync them to other tools from there. Amabrik works the other way: each submission forwards to your connected CRM, email tool, or webhook the instant it lands, and nothing is stored, logged, or kept by us. There is no submissions table, no responses viewer, no hosted database. The data lives in your own system from the moment a visitor hits submit.
Fillout's free plan caps at 1,000 responses per month, Starter gives 2,000 ($15/mo), Pro gives 5,000 ($40/mo), and you need the $75/mo Business plan for unlimited responses. Amabrik has no response caps on any plan. You pay by the number of sites, not by how many people fill in your forms, so a traffic spike never triggers an overage or a forced upgrade.
Fillout shows a Fillout badge on forms and requires the Pro plan at $40/mo to remove it. Amabrik puts no Powered-by logo or link on any widget, on any plan, including the entry plan. Your forms look like your own site from the first day.
Fillout is a standalone form tool. Amabrik's single async snippet also adds cookie consent, a banner, popups, an AI chatbot, reviews, social feeds, social proof, bookings, and a chat button, plus a Security scan and an SEO/AEO scan. One bill, one script, every widget your site is missing.
Because Amabrik keeps no submission data, there is no hosted response database to encrypt, export on subject-access request, or purge. Fillout stores responses on its servers, which is one more third-party dataset to account for under GDPR. Amabrik also includes a worldwide-compliant cookie-consent widget with Google Consent Mode v2.
Amabrik forms ship with an invisible captcha (a proof-of-work challenge), KV rate limiting, and a domain allowlist so a copied snippet can't run on a different site. Fillout offers reCAPTCHA, which adds a Google dependency and an extra friction step for your visitors.
Every row is a concrete fact. Fillout figures from fillout.com/pricing as of June 2026.
| Feature | AmabrikRecommended | Fillout |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 7-day trial, no card, then paid | Yes, 1,000 responses/mo, Fillout badge |
| Where submissions go | Straight to your CRM, email, or webhook | Stored on Fillout, then synced out |
| Stored by the tool | Nothing (no submissions table) | All responses stored on Fillout |
| Response caps | None on any plan | 1,000 free / 2,000 / 5,000 / unlimited at $75/mo |
| Badge removal | No badge on any plan | Requires Pro at $40/mo |
| Paid plans from | $29/mo per site | $15/mo (Starter, 2,000 responses) |
| Spam protection | Invisible captcha, rate limit, domain lock | reCAPTCHA (Google dependency) |
| Database sync | Not a database product | Airtable, Notion, PostgreSQL, MongoDB |
| Payments in forms | Not a payments feature | Stripe (0% added fees) |
| Cookie consent | Included worldwide-compliant widget | Not offered |
| Other widgets | 10 widgets in one snippet | Forms only |
| Security and SEO/AEO scan | Both included in every plan | Not offered |
Fillout is a standalone form builder. Amabrik gives you pass-through forms plus nine more widgets and two scanners from one snippet, all with no badge.
It depends on what you compare. Fillout has a free plan with 1,000 responses per month and a badge, and its paid plans start at $15/mo. Amabrik starts at $29/mo per site after a 7-day free trial, so the entry price is higher. What that gets you is no response caps, no badge, submissions that go straight to your CRM with nothing stored, and nine more widgets plus two scanners on one bill. If you only need a free form, Fillout costs less. If you need a full website toolkit with forms that keep nothing, Amabrik is the better value.
Fillout is a database-first form builder: it stores every response on its platform, syncs to databases like Airtable and Notion, and gives you analytics, filtering, and export from there. Amabrik is a pass-through: each submission forwards straight to your CRM, email tool, or webhook the instant it lands, and nothing is stored on our side. There is no submissions table, no responses viewer, no hosted database.
Yes. Fillout stores every submission on its own platform. You view, filter, and export responses from Fillout, and you can sync them to other tools. Amabrik never stores submissions. Each one forwards directly to your connected integration and is never kept, logged, or sold.
Switch if you want your form data to live only in your own systems, with no third-party database in between. Switch if you're hitting response caps on Fillout's free or lower plans and don't want to pay by the submission. And switch if your site needs more than forms: consent, popups, a chatbot, booking, reviews, social feeds, and the two scanners all come from the same snippet.
No, and this is worth being direct about. Fillout syncs bidirectionally with Airtable, Notion, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, and stores responses in its own database so you can query, filter, and analyze them there. Amabrik does not store or sync form data at all. If you need a database-first form builder, Fillout is a strong choice. If you need forms that pass through to your CRM and keep nothing, Amabrik is the right tool.
Amabrik forms are not a payments product. Fillout integrates Stripe with 0% added fees for payment collection inside forms. If you need in-form payments (orders, donations, event tickets), Fillout or a dedicated checkout tool is the better fit. Amabrik's Bookings widget does handle Stripe deposits and full payments for appointment scheduling, but the forms widget itself is for data collection that routes to your CRM.
No. Amabrik puts no Powered-by logo or link on any widget, on any plan, including the entry plan. Fillout shows a Fillout badge on its free and lower-tier forms and requires the Pro plan at $40 per month to remove it.
Amabrik forms ship with an invisible captcha (a proof-of-work challenge), KV rate limiting, and a domain allowlist so a copied snippet can't run on an unauthorized site. All of that runs with no puzzle for your visitors. Fillout uses reCAPTCHA, which works but adds a Google dependency and an extra step for your visitors.
Amabrik works on any site that can add a script tag: WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Framer, Ghost, and AI-built sites from Lovable, v0, Bolt, Cursor, and more. Fillout offers embeds, popups, and standalone form links that work on most platforms too. Both tools are platform-agnostic.
One Amabrik snippet adds 10 widgets: cookie consent, a banner, popups, forms, an AI chatbot, reviews, social feeds, social proof, bookings, and a chat button. It also includes a Security scan and an SEO/AEO scan, each finding paired with a copy-paste AI fix prompt. Fillout is a standalone form tool, so those extras would be separate purchases from other vendors.