A Jotform alternative is worth considering once your forms hit Jotform’s monthly limits, or once you would rather keep entries on your own website. Jotform is a capable hosted form builder with a huge template library. This guide is for teams and site owners on WordPress who pay for Jotform or are about to. We compare limits, prices and where data lives, and show how a WordPress plugin changes the picture, with figures from Jotform’s own pricing page.
We make Echo Forms, one of the alternatives, so we keep to facts you can check.
The short version
- Jotform is hosted: forms and entries live on Jotform’s servers.
- Its plans limit forms and monthly submissions, from 5 forms free.
- A WordPress plugin stores entries in your own database, with no per-entry limit.
- Echo Forms is free with no limits on forms or entries; Signature is from $49.99 a year.
How do Jotform’s plans compare?
From Jotform’s pricing page, billed yearly at the time of writing:
| Plan | Price | Active forms | Monthly submissions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | 5 | 100 |
| Bronze | $34 a month, $408 a year | 25 | 1,000 |
| Silver | $39 a month, $468 a year | 50 | 2,500 |
| Gold | $99 a month, $1,188 a year | 100 | 10,000 |
The free plan also shows Jotform branding. Prices and limits change, so check the page before you decide.
How do Jotform and WordPress forms differ?
| Jotform | A WordPress form plugin | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | Jotform’s servers, embedded or linked | Part of your own page |
| Entries | Jotform’s storage, within plan limits | Your own database, as many as you get |
| Price model | Monthly or yearly, by usage | Free version, yearly license for extras |
| Look | Jotform’s builder and themes | Your theme, your fonts |
| Best for | Teams without a website, or many standalone forms | Sites already on WordPress |
If your site already runs on WordPress, Jotform vs WordPress forms usually comes down to cost and control, because the site is already paid for. A form builder without submission limits means a busy month never pauses your forms, so you never lose the 1,001st lead of the month. If 2% of the 50,000 people who visit each month send a form, that is 1,000 entries, right at the Bronze limit.
What does Echo Forms cost by comparison?
Echo Forms is free, with the everyday fields, conditional logic, multi-step forms, payments with no fee from us, and no limit on forms or entries. Echo Forms Signature adds quizzes, surveys, conversational forms, designs and more, on every plan:
| Signature plan | Sites | Launch price a year |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | 1 | $49.99 |
| Freelancer | 10 | $99.99 |
| Agency | 25 | $199.99 |
| Enterprise | 100 | $299.99 |
That is less per year than 2 months of Jotform Bronze, with no cap on entries. See Echo pricing for the details.
How to move from Jotform to WordPress, step by step
- List your Jotform forms and the ones that matter most.
- In Echo Forms, start each from a close template or describe it with the AI builder.
- Rebuild any conditional rules as show or hide logic.
- Connect payments, mailing lists or Google Sheets on Connections.
- Export old entries from Jotform as a spreadsheet, for your records.
- Replace the embed or link on each page, and send a test entry.
A typical form of 10 to 15 fields takes about 20 minutes to rebuild. The start a form guide shows the template picker.
When should you keep Jotform?
When you have no website, need hundreds of standalone forms without a site, or rely on Jotform-only features such as its apps and PDF editor. Jotform has been around for about 20 years and is a good product; the question is whether a site that already runs on WordPress needs a second platform for its forms.
A Jotform alternative on WordPress keeps forms and entries on your own site and removes monthly limits. Compare your real monthly submissions with the plan you would need, and try a free plugin on one form for 14 days before you switch the rest.
No submission limits, no monthly fee
Echo Forms is free, with no limit on forms or entries. Signature is from $49.99 a year.
