Formcarry vs Tally
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentFormcarry compared with Tally
Not really competitors, and the choice is about who writes the form. Tally builds and hosts the form for you, unmetered and free, with logic, payments, and file uploads included. Formcarry receives submissions from a form you wrote yourself and never renders anything. If you want a form on a page without writing code, Tally wins outright. If the form is part of your own React codebase and must look and behave exactly as designed, Tally cannot help and Formcarry costs $5 a month.
Choose Formcarry if
Developers and small technical teams who build their own forms in React, Next.js, Vue, or plain HTML and need submissions received, stored, spam-filtered, and emailed for a few dollars a month, especially on static and Jamstack sites with no backend of their own.
Choose Tally if
Startups, indie makers, and small marketing teams that need real forms (logic, calculations, payments, file uploads) without a per-response meter, and who are comfortable analyzing responses in Notion, Sheets, or Airtable rather than inside the form tool.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Formcarry | Tally |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Forms | Forms |
| Starting price | $0 (Baby), then $5 per month billed annually (Starter) (free plan available) | EUR 20/mo (Pro, billed monthly; yearly billing gives 2 months free) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium with four self-serve tiers metered on monthly submissions, plus separate meters on team members, file storage, and integration calls; annual billing discounts every paid tier. | Flat per-workspace subscription with an unlimited free tier; paid plans unlock branding removal, custom domains, workspaces, and governance features rather than higher response quotas. Seats are not charged separately. |
| Free plan | Baby is free and covers 1 form, 50 submissions a month, 1 team member, file upload, built-in integrations, and white-label handling. | Unlimited forms and unlimited submissions, plus conditional logic, calculations, answer piping, file uploads (10 MB per file), signatures, Stripe payments, password protection, submission limits and close dates, 45+ languages, and integrations with Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, Make, and webhooks. Subject to published fair-usage guidelines. |
| Free trial | No separate trial; the free Baby plan is the evaluation path | No separate trial; the free plan is permanent and unlimited on submissions |
| Best for | Developers and small technical teams who build their own forms in React, Next.js, Vue, or plain HTML and need submissions received, stored, spam-filtered, and emailed for a few dollars a month, especially on static and Jamstack sites with no backend of their own. | Startups, indie makers, and small marketing teams that need real forms (logic, calculations, payments, file uploads) without a per-response meter, and who are comfortable analyzing responses in Notion, Sheets, or Airtable rather than inside the form tool. |
| Setup time | Ten minutes, and that includes reading the documentation. Create a form in the dashboard, copy the endpoint, set it as your action attribute or POST target, and submit a test. | Minutes. A working form with logic and an integration is a 15-minute job, and there is no account requirement for respondents, no domain setup, and no data model to design first. |
| Learning curve | Minimal for a developer and impossible for anyone else. There is nothing to learn beyond an HTTP POST, but you must be able to write and deploy the form yourself. | The lowest in the category for anyone who has used Notion. The only non-obvious parts are the calculator (variables are configured per block) and hidden fields, both of which the help docs cover in a page each. |
| Platforms | HTTP POST endpoint usable from any framework, Plain HTML forms, React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Astro, and other JavaScript frameworks, Static site generators, Mobile applications | Web app, Embeds (inline, popup, full page), Custom domains on paid tiers |
| Compliance | GDPR compliant with Data Processing Agreements available, CCPA compliant, Standard Contractual Clauses available, No published HIPAA business associate agreement | GDPR compliant, built and hosted in the EU (Belgium-based company), Data encrypted in transit and at rest, No cookie tracking on respondent-facing forms |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Not publicly disclosed | Belgium (Tally BV, EU-hosted) |
| Ownership | Independently owned; no funding disclosed | Bootstrapped |
Strengths and limitations
Formcarry
Strengths
- Spam filtering that works with no configuration at all and no CAPTCHA in front of your users, which is the main reason to rent a backend rather than write one.
- The cheapest credible paid plan in this category at $5 a month billed annually, with unlimited forms included from that tier.
- Submissions are stored permanently rather than expiring on a retention clock, which several competitors cannot say about their lower tiers.
- Team members are bundled generously (three on the $5 plan, five on the $15 plan) rather than sold per seat.
Limitations
- No published overage rate, so what happens when you exceed the monthly submission cap is undocumented; assume the cap is firm and plan for it.
- The jump from Basic at 2,000 submissions to Premium at 30,000 has nothing in between, making mid-volume forms disproportionately expensive.
- Integration calls are metered separately and set equal to the submission allowance on Starter, so any form firing more than one integration per submission runs out early.
- No form builder, no hosted form page, and no conditional logic; if you cannot write the markup yourself this product does nothing for you.
Tally
Strengths
- Genuinely unlimited free tier: unlimited forms and submissions with logic, calculations, payments, file uploads, and signatures included, not withheld as paid bait.
- The document-style editor is the fastest way to build a form of any tool in this category, especially for teams already fluent in Notion.
- Flat workspace pricing with unlimited collaborators, so team growth does not create a bill the way per-seat tools do.
- EU-built and EU-hosted with no respondent cookie tracking, which clears European privacy reviews without a negotiation.
Limitations
- Analytics are minimal: visits, completion, and drop-off, with the useful historical depth reserved for Pro. Serious response analysis happens elsewhere.
- No in-app or website-behavior survey targeting at all, so product teams wanting NPS or in-product feedback need a second tool.
- The free plan's limits are governed by fair-usage language rather than a published number, which is fine for most teams and unnerving for anyone planning very high volume.
- Compliance posture is thinner than rivals: GDPR and EU hosting are documented, but there is no advertised SOC 2 Type II certification of the kind Fillout and Formbricks publish.
Pricing compared
Formcarry
Freemium with four self-serve tiers metered on monthly submissions, plus separate meters on team members, file storage, and integration calls; annual billing discounts every paid tier.
- Baby$0
- Starter$5
- Basic$15
- Premium$80
- EnterpriseCustom quote
At 500 submissions a month Formcarry costs $60 a year, which is the cheapest way to receive form data from a service that will still exist next year. At 5,000 a month the picture inverts completely: you are past Basic's 2,000 and into Premium at $960 a year, where Basin's Pro plan handles 5,000 for around $367 and Forminit's Pro handles 5,000 for $228. The verdict is therefore volume-dependent in an unusually sharp way. Under two thousand submissions a month Formcarry is excellent value and the unconfigured spam filtering is worth the money on its own. Over two thousand it becomes the most expensive of the three backends by a wide margin, and you should price the alternatives before renewing.
Tally
Flat per-workspace subscription with an unlimited free tier; paid plans unlock branding removal, custom domains, workspaces, and governance features rather than higher response quotas. Seats are not charged separately.
- FreeEUR 0
- ProEUR 20
- BusinessEUR 65
On capability per dollar Tally is close to unbeatable, because for a large share of teams the correct answer is zero dollars. The paid tier is honest about what it sells: branding, domain, team workspaces, and partial submissions, not access to features you already needed. At 20 euros a month flat for unlimited collaborators and unlimited responses, Pro undercuts Fillout's Business tier by a factor of three and Paperform's Pro tier by more than half, and it does so without a submission meter running in the background. The catch is scope, not price: if you need in-app surveys, a real database behind the form, or a SOC 2 report, the cheapness is irrelevant because Tally does not do those things.
Editorial verdict on each
Formcarry
Formcarry is the cheapest sensible way for a developer to stop writing form backends, and at $5 a month billed annually for unlimited forms and 500 submissions it is close to unbeatable at the bottom of the market. The zero-configuration spam filtering is the real product, and it means no CAPTCHA in front of your users and no reCAPTCHA keys to rotate. Buy it for Jamstack client sites, marketing pages attached to no backend, and any React form where you want the markup to stay yours. Two things should stop you: the undocumented behaviour at the submission cap, which is the one place a form backend must not be vague, and the cliff between the 2,000-submission plan at $15 and the 30,000-submission plan at $80, which makes anything mid-volume the worst deal of the three backends here. Under two thousand a month, buy it without much thought. Over that, price Basin and Forminit first.
Read the full Formcarry profileTally
Best ValueTally is the default recommendation for any startup that needs forms and has not already committed to something else. The free tier is not a trial in disguise: unlimited submissions with logic, calculations, payments, and file uploads included is a real product, and the 20-euro Pro plan buys branding, a domain, and a shared workspace rather than access to features you were already using. The limits are honest ones: no in-app survey targeting, thin analytics, no public API, and no SOC 2 report. If your form is a front end for an operational process, buy Fillout; if your survey has to fire inside your product, buy Formbricks. For everything else, Tally is the tool you should try first and will probably never leave.
Read the full Tally profileFormcarry profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Tally last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.