Paperform alternative

The Paperform alternative that never stores a lead

Paperform is a polished form builder with a type-what-you-want editor, and it stores every response on its own platform behind submission caps that start at 30 a month. Amabrik takes the opposite approach: each form submission forwards straight to your CRM, email tool, or webhook, and nothing is stored by us. No submission 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.

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Why switch

Why Amabrik is a pass-through Paperform alternative

Forms that feed your CRM and keep nothing, inside the full website toolkit, vs a builder that stores every response behind submission caps.

Submissions pass through, never stored

Paperform stores every response on its platform. You view them in Paperform, 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. Your form data lives in your own system from the moment a visitor hits submit.

No submission caps, no overage fees

Paperform's free plan stops at 30 submissions a month, Essentials gives 1,200 a year ($24/mo), and Pro gives 12,000 a year ($49/mo), with per-block overage fees of $7.50 to $10 a month when you go over. Amabrik has no submission caps on any plan. You pay a flat price, not by how many people fill in your forms, so a busy month never triggers an overage or a forced upgrade.

No badge on any plan

Paperform shows Paperform branding on its Free and Essentials plans and only lets you remove it from the Pro plan at $49/mo. 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.

One snippet, ten widgets, two scanners

Paperform 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.

GDPR-clean without a response database

Because Amabrik keeps no submission data, there is no hosted response database to encrypt, export on a subject-access request, or purge. Paperform 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.

Invisible spam control, no reCAPTCHA

Amabrik forms ship with an invisible captcha (a proof-of-work challenge), rate limiting, and a domain allowlist so a copied snippet can't run on a different site. Real visitors solve no puzzle and see no checkbox, and there's no Google reCAPTCHA loaded on your page.

Feature by feature

Amabrik vs Paperform, line by line

Every row is a concrete fact. Paperform figures from paperform.co/pricing as of August 2026.

AmabrikRecommended Paperform
Free plan 7-day trial, no card, then paid Yes, but only 30 submissions/mo
Where submissions go Straight to your CRM, email, or webhook Stored on Paperform, then synced out
Stored by the tool Nothing (no submissions table) Every response stored on Paperform
Submission caps None on any plan 30/mo free, 1,200/yr, 12,000/yr, then overage
Badge removal No badge on any plan Requires Pro at $49/mo
Paid plans from $59/year (1 site) or $99 once (unlimited) $24/mo Essentials (1,200 submissions/yr)
Form building 25+ field types, multi-step, conditional logic Guided editor, calculations, conditional logic
Spam protection Invisible captcha, rate limit, domain lock reCAPTCHA (Google dependency)
Payments in forms Not a forms payments feature Stripe, but payment submissions capped per plan
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
Pricing

Pricing, side by side

Amabrik is $59 a year for one site, or $99 once for unlimited sites. Paperform's cost climbs as your submissions grow, and its free plan stops at 30 a month.

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Amabrik

Amabrik keeps two flat plans with no metering. Annual is $59 a year for one site. Lifetime is $99 once for unlimited sites. Every plan includes all 10 widgets, both scanners, and 1000 scan credits.

$199 $99one-time Launch price for the first 100 customers

Amabrik cost stays flat as submissions grow.
  • 30/mo
  • 1.2k/yr
  • 12k/yr
  • 120k/yr
  • No submission, response, or pageview caps on either plan
  • No Powered-by badge on any widget, on any plan
  • 7-day trial (no card), 14-day money-back
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Paperform

A free plan capped at 30 submissions a month, then paid tiers metered by submissions with per-block overage fees. Essentials $24/mo (1,200 submissions a year), Pro $49/mo (12,000 a year), Business $99/mo. Branding removal starts on Pro.

$24/mo

Paperform cost climbs with submissions. + overage
  • 30/mo
  • 1.2k/yr
  • 12k/yr
  • 120k/yr
  • Free plan stops at 30 submissions a month
  • Every response stored on Paperform's servers
  • Paperform branding until the $49/mo Pro plan

Paperform's cost climbs as your submissions grow, and its free plan stops at 30 a month. Amabrik has two flat plans, $59 a year for one site or $99 once for unlimited sites, with no submission caps and no stored responses, plus nine more widgets and two scanners in every plan. For most sites that want embedded forms feeding their own CRM, Amabrik is the better choice. See Amabrik pricing.

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Everything else Amabrik includes

Paperform 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.

Cookie consent Worldwide-compliant consent, no pageview caps. AI Chatbot Chat trained on your own content. Forms Build forms, route submissions to your CRM. Bookings Scheduling synced to your calendar. Popup Modals, slide-ins and exit intent. Chat Button WhatsApp, and more in one tap. Social Proof Real sales, signups and reviews, live. Reviews Google and more, in one widget. Social Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn feeds. Banner Announcement and promo bars. Security ScanScan Find exposed keys and open databases, with a copy-paste fix. SEO and AEO ScanScan Rank on Google and get read by AI, with fixes.
FAQ

Paperform alternative FAQ

Still deciding? Ask us and we answer fast.

It depends on what you compare. Paperform has a free plan capped at 30 submissions a month, and its paid plans start at $24/mo (Essentials, 1,200 submissions a year), then $49/mo and $99/mo. Amabrik costs $59 a year for one site, or $99 once for unlimited sites, after a 7-day free trial. What that gets you is no submission caps, no badge, submissions that go straight to your CRM with nothing stored, and nine more widgets plus two scanners on one bill. For a real form that gets steady traffic, Amabrik is usually the better value.

Paperform is a builder that stores every response on its platform, meters those responses per plan, and gives you a Notion-style editor, calculations, and Stripe payments. 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, and no per-submission cap.

Yes, but it's very limited. Paperform's free plan allows 30 submissions a month with Paperform branding on your forms. That's fine for testing, not for a live form on a real site. Amabrik starts with a 7-day free trial that needs no card, and after it, both plans have no submission caps at all, with no badge on any of them.

Yes. Paperform stores every submission on its own platform. You view, filter, and export responses from Paperform, and you can sync them out 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 Paperform's submission caps or paying its overage fees and want a flat price instead. And switch if your site needs more than forms: consent, popups, a chatbot, bookings, reviews, social feeds, and the two scanners all come from the same snippet.

Amabrik forms are not a payments product. Paperform integrates Stripe for payment collection inside forms, though its payment submissions are capped per plan too. If you need in-form payments (orders, donations, event tickets), Paperform or a dedicated checkout tool is the better fit. Amabrik's Bookings widget does handle Stripe deposits and payments for appointment scheduling, but the forms widget itself is for data collection that routes to your CRM.

No, and it's worth being direct about. Paperform's strength is its type-what-you-want editor, plus calculations and answer piping for scoring and quotes inside the form. Amabrik builds forms from a field list with 25+ field types, multi-step pages, and conditional logic, but it has no calculation engine. If you build quiz scores or priced quotes inside the form, Paperform is the stronger tool. If you want clean forms that route to your CRM with nothing stored, Amabrik is the right fit.

No. Amabrik puts no Powered-by logo or link on any widget, on any plan, including the entry plan. Paperform shows Paperform branding on its Free and Essentials plans and only removes it from the Pro plan at $49 a month.

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. Paperform is a standalone form tool, so those extras would be separate purchases from other vendors.