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Choosing the right form backend

Submit JSON vs Headlessforms

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A quick summary

When comparing these two products, the main differences that stand out are cost, plan limits, and overall design philosophy. Their feature offerings are pretty similar.

Headlessforms' cheapest monthly plan starts at $28/month with 1,500 submissions and 15 forms. Compare that to Submit JSON's $15/month plan that has a submission limit of 10,000 with 100 forms.

Submit JSON's plans offer almost 10 times (1000%) the submissions on average with a comparable feature set.

Headlessforms comes with a few bells and whistles that Submit JSON will not ever have, like a form builder. It's definitely targeted more towards non-technical folks.

Regardless, it's another Formspree clone. Headlessforms's HTML-first approach is their greatest strength, and also their greatest weakness.

In comparison, Submit JSON's API-first approach is more versitile, secure, and aligned with modern web development best practices.

Which is the best form backend for you? We think the answer is obvious, but we'll let you decide.

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Submit JSON
Headlessforms
Price$5-$30$3.75-$99
Free submission limit250No free plan
Basic submission limit2,500 @ $5/month100 @ $3.75/month
Pro submission limit25,000 @ $30/month30,000 @ $99/month
Number of endpoints (pro plan)Unlimited50
JavaScript (TS) Client SDK
Data storage
Projects
Data export
Search submissions
Webhooks
Linked Emails
White-label-emails
Free endpoint security
API key security
Restricted domains
Honeypot fields
Slack app
Discord app
Zapier integration
reCAPTCHA integration
Cloudflare Turnstile integration
hCaptcha integration
We're biased, but honest

When to choose Headlessforms, and when Submit JSON?

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Submit JSON
  • Greater value - Submit JSON's $5/month plan has 1,000 more submissions than Headlessforms' $28/month pro plan.
  • Go beyond form submissions - Submit JSON is not only a form backend, it doubles as a powerful notification API
  • Plays nice with JS frameworks and TypeScript projects. Headlessforms, not so much.
Headlessforms
  • Headlessforms is a good choice if you are not very technical and need help building a form. They have their own form builder.
  • Headlessforms supports file uploads and custom email templates, which we are still ironing out.
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