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A Jotform alternative that counts forms per site, not per account
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
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
Build the form in Sorraia, paste one line into your website, and every submission lands in your dashboard — styled to match the site, with no plugin and no form-handling code to maintain.
Submissions live in your dashboard
Every submission is stored and searchable, filtered by site and date, with no cap on how many you can take — submissions are uncapped on every plan including Free. CSV export is a paid feature, and the export honours whatever filters the list is showing, so what you download is what you were looking at.
It points out which fields hold health data
While you build the form, Sorraia reads your field LABELS and flags the unambiguous ones — date of birth, MRN, insurance or member ID, diagnosis, medication, vitals — and offers to mark them as PHI. It is deliberately conservative and stays quiet on plain name, email and phone fields, because a tool that flags everything gets tuned out. Two things it is not: it reads labels in the builder, never submitted answers, and a marked field only routes into separate encrypted storage once HIPAA is switched on for that site under a signed BAA. Marking is a storage decision, not a compliance certificate — and we are not the ones who get to certify that anyway.
Workflows fire on submit
A submission can send email, post to Slack, hit a webhook, or run a multi-step workflow with conditions. Each run is logged with its result, so a failed delivery is visible rather than silent.
It inherits your brand kit
A new form is seeded from the site’s brand kit at creation, so the first version already looks like your site instead of like a generic form. Restyle it later in the builder and the change reaches live pages without you touching the embed again.
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?
No — there is no form importer, so you rebuild in Sorraia’s builder. The specific thing to check before you start is the field list: if a form leans on one of Jotform’s specialised widgets, there may be no equivalent 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.
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 the contact form, paste one line, and see how it looks on a page you already own.
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