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A Jotform alternative that counts forms per site
Jotform’s free tier allows five forms and a hundred submissions, and both belong to the account. Sorraia’s allowance is per website, so a new client means a new site rather than a smaller share of the one you have.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans start at $19 a month.
Why people look for a Jotform alternative
Jotform’s free tier caps you at five forms and a hundred submissions, and the unit that matters there is the FORM. That makes the shape of the problem different from a response limit: it is not that a busy form runs out, it is that the sixth form has nowhere to go until you retire one of the first five. An agency meets this on its sixth client rather than in its sixth busy week, and the fix — deleting someone’s form to make room — is the kind of thing you only do once. Sorraia counts forms per site. Each website you register carries its own allowance of forms and calendars, so taking on a client means adding their site, not competing with the clients you already have; and submissions are not counted at all, on any plan, so the second half of that free-tier ceiling has no equivalent here.
The differences that are structural, not marketing
Every claim below was read from Jotform’s own pricing or documentation on 3 September 2026, and each one links the page it came from. If one of them has gone stale since, the linked page wins and we would rather you found out there than took our word for it.
Jotform’s pricing page served us euros rather than dollars, which means any figure we printed would be a number for one region presented as if it were yours. So this page compares what is capped, metered and charged extra for — which does not change with currency — and links their pricing page for the amount.
The cap counts forms, and the account owns them
Five forms on Jotform’s free plan is a property of the account, not of a project or a client — every form you have ever built draws on the same five. Sorraia’s equivalent number is per website: register a site, and that site carries its own allowance of forms plus calendars. Adding the sixth client adds their site and their allowance rather than dividing yours.
Source: jotform.com · checked 3 September 2026
Submissions are metered on Jotform and not on Sorraia
The free plan’s hundred monthly submissions is the second half of the same account-wide ceiling, and it moves with your traffic rather than with your work. Sorraia does not meter submissions on any plan, including Free — the caps are on how many sites and how many widgets, never on how many people fill them in.
Source: jotform.com · checked 3 September 2026
Both embed with a script — there is no frame difference to claim here
Jotform’s standard embed is a script that renders the form into your page, the same shape as a Sorraia embed, and a comparison telling you otherwise is describing a different vendor. (Jotform offers an iframe embed as an option too, as do plenty of others; the default is not one.) So the honest difference on this row is not the mechanism — it is what sits behind it: where the submissions live, whose dashboard they appear in, and who you can hand a login to without giving away the rest of the account.
Source: jotform.com · checked 3 September 2026
Client access is per site rather than per account
Sorraia grants access by email address against one website: the person you invite sees that site’s forms, submissions and bookings and nothing else on the account, and you can optionally let them edit that site’s widgets. It does not cost a seat — every paid Sorraia plan has unlimited users, with the billed subscription quantity always one. Jotform organises collaboration around the account and its paid tiers, so check the current pricing page for what that includes rather than assuming parity in either direction.
Source: jotform.com · checked 3 September 2026
Side by side
The same four questions for both. Every Jotform cell repeats a claim from the section above and links the page it was read from; where we hold no claim from Jotform’s own pages, the cell says so instead of guessing.
| Compared | Sorraia | Jotform |
|---|---|---|
| Styling to your site | Styled to match: its colours start from the site’s brand kit, and you can change them in the builder. | Its standard embed is a script that renders into your page, the same shape as ours, so there is no difference to claim here.Source: jotform.com · checked 3 September 2026 |
| Client access | A client login is scoped to one site: the client sees that site’s submissions, bookings and orders and nothing else on your account, and you can let them edit its forms, calendars and shop widgets. No per-seat charge. | Not compared |
| Payments to the client’s own Stripe | Not applicable | |
| Price | Free plan; paid plans from $19 a month | A free tier of five forms and a hundred submissions a month, both counted per account. Paid amounts are on their pricing page.Source: jotform.com · checked 3 September 2026 |
See it working
This is a real Sorraia form — our own contact form, rendered into this page’s own markup rather than into a frame. Open your browser’s inspector if you want to check that. Send it something if you like; it reaches us.
What you get with Sorraia
- Styled to match: colours from the site’s brand kit
- Live with one copy-paste
- One dashboard across client sites
- Client logins scoped to one site
Free plan with no time limit, no card.
More detail in the Help Center: Forms · Plans and limits
When Jotform is the better choice
When the form needs a field type we do not have. Jotform’s breadth is genuinely enormous — thousands of templates, a large catalogue of specialised fields and widgets, PDF generation from submissions, approval workflows, e-signature flows, and a long list of supported payment processors. Sorraia’s form builder covers the common cases well and deliberately stops there. If your intake form needs a signature block, a calculated field feeding a generated PDF, and routing through three approvers, that is a Jotform job, and asking us to do it would waste your afternoon.
Questions
Can I import my Jotform forms?
Yes, one form at a time. Sorraia’s form import copies the fields from the form’s own page — open the form by its share link and import that address — or from HTML you paste, into a new Sorraia form; there is no account connector that brings every form across at once. Check the field list after each import: if a form uses a field type Sorraia’s builder does not have, there is nothing to rebuild it into, and that is a better reason to stay than any pricing argument on this page.
What happens to forms already embedded on client sites?
Nothing, until you replace the snippet. A Sorraia embed is a script tag you paste where the old one was, and the two can coexist on different pages while you move across. Sorraia does need the site verified before a widget can be bound to it — a DNS TXT record, or a meta tag in the homepage head — so do that first, then swap the snippets one page at a time.
Can a client see their own submissions without seeing my other clients?
Yes. You invite a client by email to one site, and their login shows that site’s submissions, bookings and orders and nothing from your other sites. You can also let them edit that site’s forms, calendars and shop widgets. A client login is not a paid seat: the subscription is billed at a quantity of one however many people sign in.
Does Sorraia count submissions against my plan?
No. Submissions are uncapped on every plan, including Free. For forms, what a plan counts is the number of websites you register and how many forms plus calendars sit on each one: one on Free, and fifteen per site on Starter through Enterprise.
Try it on one site before you move anything
The free plan covers one verified website with no card, and the embed is the same one you would use on a paid plan. Build a contact form, put it live with one copy-paste, and see how it looks on a page you already own.
Jotform is a trademark of Jotform Inc. Sorraia is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Jotform.