A Formcarry alternative, compared honestly

The short version

• Pick embedio if: you need more than one form or more than 50 submissions a month for free, want a redirect after submit without paying, or expect thousands of submissions a month (10,000 are included in the $9 Forms module).
• Stay on Formcarry if: you need several teammates managing forms on a small budget (Starter includes 3 for $6/mo) or want white-label emails sent through your own email server.

Side by side

Formcarry figures come from Formcarry's own public pricing and documentation pages, checked in November 2026 and linked under Sources below. Prices are the monthly-billed list price in USD; most of these products are cheaper billed yearly. If something here is out of date, tell me at help@tryembedio.com and I'll fix it.

What it costs at your volume

Formcarry's Starter plan is the cheapest way to get a few hundred submissions a month with teammates. Past 2,000 a month the next tier is a big step; embedio keeps adding submissions in blocks instead. Monthly billing on both sides:

What embedio is

embedio is a hosted backend for websites: point an HTML form at it and submissions land in a dashboard, with spam filtering, validation and notifications handled for you. The same account also covers surveys, newsletter signups, file uploads, bookings, live chat and an AI assistant, so a site that outgrows a contact form doesn't need a second vendor.

• Free plan: 500 submissions a month on plain forms, a dashboard to read them, CSV export, field validation, a custom thank-you message or redirect, and an email notification for every submission. Slack, Discord, Zapier and other connections need a paid plan.
• Modular: Forms is $9/mo with 10,000 submissions included, then +5,000 for $5/mo at a time. Buying any module turns on Connections: email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Zapier, webhooks, Google Sheets, Notion and more.
• Ultimate: $59/mo for every module and unlimited submissions.
• File uploads: the Uploads module ($7/mo) adds 50GB of storage and accepts files up to 10MB each.

Moving a form from Formcarry

• Swap the action: replace https://formcarry.com/s/... with your embedio endpoint. Field names don't change.
• Keep `_gotcha`: it's the same honeypot field name on both.
• Rename `_next`: to _redirect (same-site URLs), or set the redirect in the dashboard instead, which accepts any URL.
• Fetch code keeps working: send Accept: application/json as before; embedio answers with { ok, message, redirectUrl }.

<form action="https://api.tryembedio.com/f/frm_your_form_key" method="POST">
  <label>Email <input type="email" name="email" required></label>
  <label>Message <textarea name="message" required></textarea></label>
  <!-- Honeypot: real visitors never see or fill it -->
  <input type="text" name="_gotcha" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off" style="display:none">
  <!-- Optional: send people to your own page afterwards (same site only) -->
  <input type="hidden" name="_redirect" value="/thanks">
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>