FORMTORCH ALTERNATIVE

Everything Formtorch does, with a free tier that keeps more

Formstork is a form backend for HTML, React, Vue, Svelte and more. Point your form at our endpoint and submissions land in a searchable dashboard, with spam protection, free integrations and a rules engine built in.

What is Formtorch?

Formtorch is a headless form backend: point your HTML form at it and it handles submissions, TorchWarden spam scoring with Turnstile, hCaptcha or reCAPTCHA, notifications and webhooks. Its free plan covers 150 submissions a month with 30-day retention, and it has no hosted form builder, no analytics and no client SDKs, so you bring your own markup and tooling.

A bigger free plan that keeps more

Formtorch's free tier stops at 150 submissions a month and archives them for 30 days. Formstork gives you 250 a month kept for 90 days, with a searchable, taggable dashboard and CSV plus JSON export, no card needed.

Features Formtorch does not build

Formtorch is a headless backend, so you bring your own markup. Formstork adds a no-code hosted builder with multi-step and conditional fields, per-form analytics, and client SDKs with an MCP server.

More volume, logic without the top tier

Formtorch's Pro plan is 5,000 submissions for $16 to $20 a month, and it gates conditional routing and autoresponders there. Formstork Pro is $12 for 10,000, and the rules engine plus conditional fields are free on every plan.

	Formstork	Formtorch
Free submissions / month	250, no card	150
Free-tier data retention	90 days	30 days
No-code hosted form builder	Yes	–
Per-form analytics	Yes	–
Client SDKs + MCP server	React/Vue/Svelte/JS + MCP	–
Spam protection (standard)	smart filter + 3 CAPTCHAs	TorchWarden + 3 CAPTCHAs
File uploads	Pro ($12)	Starter ($8)
Price for 5,000 submissions / mo	$12/mo (10,000)	$16-20/mo

Switching takes one line

Point your form's action at your Formstork endpoint and use your access key. There is no data migration and your existing HTML keeps working.

<form action="https://api.formstork.com/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_KEY">
  <input type="email" name="email" required>
  <textarea name="message" required></textarea>
  <button>Send</button>
</form>

The honest verdict

Formtorch is a genuinely close form-backend competitor: its Starter plan starts at $8/mo billed yearly, below our $12 Pro, and it ships field-level encryption with per-project role permissions. For a bigger free tier, longer retention, a no-code builder, analytics and SDKs with an MCP server, plus 10,000 submissions at $12, Formstork comes out ahead.

Formtorch features and pricing as of 2026, from their public docs. Check their site for the latest.

Frequently asked questions

Is Formstork a free Formtorch alternative?

Yes. Formstork's free plan gives 250 submissions a month with 90-day retention, a searchable dashboard, CSV and JSON export and free integrations, no card required, versus Formtorch's 150 with 30-day retention.

What does Formtorch have that Formstork does not?

Formtorch's Starter plan is a cheaper entry point at $8/mo billed yearly and it adds field-level encryption. Formstork counters with a bigger free tier, a no-code builder, analytics and SDKs with an MCP server.

Try Formstork free

250 submissions a month with a full dashboard. No credit card required.

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