Most "Typeform alternative" pages are a feature table with more ticks in one column. This one is going to tell you what is missing first, because if you need any of it the price comparison is irrelevant.
What DevForm does not have
- File uploads. Not on any plan, now or scheduled. The builder control is disabled.
- Notification emails. Nothing arrives when somebody responds. There is no email on the submission path at all.
- Webhooks and integrations. No Zapier, no Slack, no Sheets, no HTTP callback.
- Payments, signatures, calculated fields, scoring, quizzes.
- Anything resembling Typeform's template gallery.
If your form collects a CV, takes a deposit, or has to ping a channel when a lead arrives, stop here. Those are not on a roadmap I can point you at, and a comparison page that buried this under a feature matrix would be wasting your afternoon.
What it does have
One question per screen, hosted at a link that needs no account from the respondent, embeddable in a page you own.
Nine field kinds: short text, paragraph, email, number, date, pick one, pick any, rating with a scale you choose, and yes/no.
Conditional logic with five operators — is, is not, is one of, was answered, was not answered — and a builder that warns you when a condition references a field that no longer exists,
a question that comes later in the form, or itself. Those three produce forms that read correctly and
behave wrongly, and forward references in particular are invisible to inspection.
Partial responses stored from the first answer rather than on submit, so an abandoned form tells you where people stopped. Deleted after thirty days.
A response inbox at fifty rows a page with exact complete and unfinished counts, and CSV export that streams by keyset rather than paging — which is the difference between an export that finishes at 40,000 rows and one that quietly stops at 1,000.
Server-side validation against database constraints, with ceilings per response, per network and per form. In a probe of the write path, request 181 was refused, which is the behaviour you want the first time a script finds your public form.
Price
DevForm, today:
| Plan | Price | Forms | Questions per form | Responses per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1 | 10 | 100 |
| Starter | $9/mo | 5 | 30 | 2,500 |
| Pro | $19/mo | 25 | 60 | 15,000 |
| Business | $49/mo | 200 | 120 | 100,000 |
Logic, embedding and CSV export start at Starter. Branding removal starts at Pro.
Typeform's published prices, observed 2026-08-22:
| Plan | Price | Responses per month |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10 |
| Basic | $29/mo | 100 |
| Plus | $59/mo | 1,000 |
| Business | $99/mo | 10,000 |
That date is not decoration. A competitor's price goes stale on its own and nobody sends you a
notice; the constant in our code is literally named TYPEFORM_MONTHLY_OBSERVED_ON so that anyone
about to repeat these numbers in an ad has to look at how old they are first. If you are reading this
long after the date above, check before relying on it.
Taking the numbers at face value, the response allowances are where the gap is widest — 15,000 a month at $19 against 1,000 at $59. Whether that matters depends entirely on whether you need the things in the first section.
The developer-shaped reasons, if there are any
Being honest: there is no API, no CLI, and no forms-as-code. The reasons a developer might prefer this are narrower than the headline implies.
The export does not lie about how much data it gave you. This one is personal. PostgREST caps a
query at 1,000 rows by default, and a select that reads as "give me everything" silently returns
the first thousand. It truncated a CSV export in this codebase before anyone noticed, because the
file downloads, opens, and looks fine. DevForm's export streams by keyset for that reason.
Validation is in the database, not the browser. If you have ever cleaned a research dataset that a client-side-only form let through, the appeal is obvious.
Partial responses are data rather than a funnel metric. You get the answers people gave before they left, not a percentage.
It is small. Five logic operators, nine field kinds, no template gallery. You can hold the whole tool in your head, which is worth something when the form is a means to an end rather than the work.
Who should use which
Use Typeform if you need uploads, payments, integrations, notifications, or the polish of a mature product with a decade of edge cases handled.
Use DevForm if you are running customer research, you want the answers people abandoned partway through, you want an export you can trust at volume, and 100 responses a month on a free plan is a real free plan rather than a demo.
Use a plain HTML form if it is three fields on a page you already control. Neither of us should be selling you a hosted product for that.