A Formspree alternative, compared honestly

The short version

• Pick embedio if: you need more than 50 submissions a month for free (embedio's Free plan has 500), you're paying for volume, or you'd rather add bookings, live chat or a newsletter to the same site without another vendor.
• Stay on Formspree if: you upload files larger than 10MB, or rely on one of Formspree's plugins that embedio doesn't have.

Side by side

Formspree figures come from Formspree'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 If something here is out of date, tell me at help@tryembedio.com and I'll fix it.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

Formspree prices by plan tier, so you jump to the next tier when you pass a submission cap. embedio prices the Forms module plus blocks of extra submissions, so you only pay for the volume you actually have. 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 Formspree

• Create the form: sign up, create a form, and copy its key (it starts with frm_).
• Change one attribute: replace the https://formspree.io/f/... action with your embedio endpoint. Field names stay the same.
• Keep the honeypot: embedio uses the same _gotcha field name, so an existing hidden honeypot keeps working.
• Redirect, if you used one: set it per form in the dashboard (any URL), or add a hidden _redirect field pointing at a page on your own site.

<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>

Submitting with fetch instead? Send JSON or FormData to the same URL with an Accept: application/json header and you get back { ok, message, redirectUrl }. The API reference lists every error code.