Forminit Alternative (formerly Getform): An Honest Comparison

Two things to know before comparing anything. Getform is now called Forminit — same company, renamed in January 2026 — and its Pro plan went from fifteen forms to ten in the middle of October 2026. If you are choosing between form backends, the question that decides it is whether you are limited by forms or by submissions, because these two services charge for different things.

Full disclosure: ShipMyForm is our product. Every Forminit figure below was read off their pricing page on 21 October 2026; the form-limit change was picked up by our own change monitor on 18 October. Prices move, so check them yourself before deciding — including ours.

What changed, and what did not

The rebrand is the part most people trip over. Searching for "Getform" still works, the domain still resolves, and their FAQ states plainly that Forminit is the same independent service that has been running since 2015. Nothing about your existing endpoints changes because a company changed its name.

The pricing change is more consequential and got no announcement we could find. Until mid-October, the Pro plan allowed fifteen forms. It now allows ten. If you are on Pro with eleven or more forms, that is worth checking today.

The two pricing models

Here is the comparison that actually decides it, as of 21 October 2026.

Read the bold columns and the shape of the decision appears. Forminit's ladder is built on how many forms you have. Ours is built on how many submissions you receive.

Why "how many forms" is a strange thing to pay for

This is the part worth thinking about rather than just tallying.

A form costs essentially nothing to exist. It is a row in a database and an endpoint that does nothing until someone posts to it. The cost of running a form backend is almost entirely in what arrives — storing submissions, filtering spam, sending notifications, retrying failed deliveries.

So a form limit is a pricing lever, not a technical constraint. It prices the shape of your site rather than your actual usage. That has a specific consequence: it charges hardest the people using the least.

That is why ShipMyForm does not cap forms on any paid plan. It is a deliberate choice about which number to charge for, not generosity — we charge for submissions, which is the thing that actually costs us money.

It also means a form limit can be tightened later, which is what just happened. A submission limit is a number you can plan around; a form limit is a number that can quietly make your existing setup non-compliant with your own plan.

Where Forminit is the better choice

Three things, and if any is your deciding factor you should pick them.

File uploads on the free plan. Forminit includes file uploads with 100 MB of storage at $0. ShipMyForm requires the $6 Starter plan for any upload at all. If you need a form that accepts a CV or a photo and you are not paying anything, they win outright and it is not close.

Form analytics. They offer UTM parameters, ad click sources, devices, locations and field-level response breakdowns, built in. We do not offer this. If you want conversion analysis inside your form backend rather than bolted on, that is a real feature gap on our side.

A longer track record. 2015 versus our 2026. If "has been around a decade" is part of how you assess risk — and for some businesses it reasonably is — that is theirs and we cannot argue with it.

Where we are the better choice

The free plan, unless you need uploads. 250 submissions across 5 forms versus 100 submissions on 1 form. If you have a contact page and a quote form, you need a paid Forminit plan and you do not need a paid ShipMyForm plan.

Price per submission at every tier. $6 for 2,000 against $19 for 5,000; $19 for 20,000 against $50 for 50,000. The arithmetic favours us at every point on the ladder, which is unusual in a comparison like this and worth checking rather than taking our word for.

No form cap to plan around. Unlimited forms from $6. Nothing to audit when your client list grows.

How to decide in one question

Count the forms you need and the submissions you actually get in a month. Look at your current backend's dashboard rather than guessing — people overestimate submissions and underestimate forms, usually by a lot.

• Many forms, modest traffic (agencies, multi-site owners, anyone with a form per landing page): a form cap is the thing that will bite you.
• One or two forms, heavy traffic: compare submission allowances and ignore the form counts entirely.
• Need file uploads and paying nothing: Forminit, today.

If you want to try ours, the free plan takes 250 submissions a month across five forms with no card, and moving an existing form over is a change of action URL rather than a migration.