Formspree vs. Basin

Same idea. Different plans.

Both are form backends. Point your form’s action at an endpoint, give each field a name, and submissions are stored, emailed to you and filtered for spam, with no server code. Both work with plain HTML, AJAX and any host.

Both filter spam with machine learning on every plan: Basin uses SpamCheck.ai, and Formspree runs Formshield. Both support reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile, and both can restrict a form to your domain. Basin’s Pro plan ($49) adds location, language and burner-email filters. Formspree’s Professional plan ($30) lets you tune Formshield’s sensitivity and block whole categories.

The differences are in what each plan includes: how many forms you get, which tools connect without a middleman, and what a month of submissions costs.

Every Formspree plan has unlimited forms.

Basin’s Free plan covers one form, and Starter ($15) covers three, both inside a single project. Unlimited forms and projects start on Growth at $29 a month.

Every Formspree plan, Free included, has unlimited forms and projects. A contact form, a newsletter signup and a job application on the same site cost the same as one. Agencies can give each client their own project from day one.

History follows the same pattern. Basin Starter keeps 365 days of submissions, and Formspree Personal ($15) keeps every one.

Your tools connect directly, starting on Free.

Basin’s direct integrations (Slack, Discord, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Asana and webhooks) start on Growth at $29 a month. For CRMs, help desks and most other tools, Basin points you to Zapier, Make, Pipedream or Integrately, each a separate account. Basin’s Zapier connection does work on every plan, Free included.

Formspree’s plugins start sooner and go further. Slack, Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp alerts work on every plan. Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Trello, GitHub, Linear and Asana start at Personal. HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, ConvertKit and Stripe payments are native at Professional, alongside Zapier and webhooks.

Native means you set each one up in the same dashboard as your submissions, and Formspree handles retries and delivery for you.

More submissions for the money, plus no surprise bills.

At about $30 a month, Basin Growth includes 1,000 submissions and Formspree Professional includes 2,000. Formspree Business gives you 20,000 for $90. Basin’s Pro plan gives 5,000 for $49, and Agency gives 25,000 for $130. At $15 Basin gives a little more, 250 to Formspree’s 200.

Going over works differently. Basin keeps delivering and bills the extra, starting at $5.25 per 1,000, and it doesn’t count spam toward your limit. Formspree never bills overage: your form keeps working, and submissions over your limit wait in an Over Limit folder until you upgrade or the limit resets.

Either way, you don’t lose a submission. With Formspree, you also never get a bill you didn’t choose.

Switching is a one-line change.

Create a form in Formspree, copy its endpoint, and paste it into your form’s action in place of the Basin URL. Your field names carry over unchanged, and Basin’s _gotcha honeypot field works as-is. On Webflow, paste the endpoint into the form’s Action setting and set the Method to POST. If you added BasinJS, remove its script and the data-basin-form attribute.

Then rebuild the rest in your dashboard: a redirect from Personal, and autoresponses, webhooks and the plugins that replace your Zaps from Professional. If you’d rather hand the whole setup off, point your coding agent at formspree.io/ai. It writes the form and a link that creates it in your account, and you paste the endpoint back.

Your history stays in Basin. On a paid Basin plan, export it as CSV or XLSX before you switch. Formspree starts storing from the first submission to your new endpoint.

Just use Formspree.

Basin is a good fit if you want a drag-and-drop builder and hosted forms alongside your backend, build on Webflow and want its dedicated app, or need your whole team on the account for $29. Its Free plan also takes file uploads and connects to Zapier.

Formspree fits when your site will grow past one or three forms, when your tools are a CRM or a help desk rather than a Zap, and when you’d rather your bill never moves on its own. It’s free to start, with unlimited forms from the first day.