Formsite vs Wufoo
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
Both sides assessedFormsite compared with Wufoo
Two survivors of the same generation, both now owned by bigger companies. Wufoo is simpler, cheaper at entry, meters entries per account per month, and bills five cents an entry over the cap instead of stopping. Formsite is the deeper product with calculations, save-and-return, result documents, and workflows, but it caps stored results per form and hard-stops when a table fills. Choose Formsite for long procedural forms, Wufoo for short ones where you never want the form to break.
Wufoo compared with Formsite
Two survivors of the same era, both now inside larger companies: Wufoo belongs to SurveyMonkey, Formsite to Formstack since December 2023. Formsite is the deeper product, with calculations, save-and-return partial capture, PDF result documents, and workflows, and it meters results per form rather than per account. Wufoo is simpler, cheaper at the entry level, and has the better overage behaviour. Buy Formsite if your forms are long and procedural; buy Wufoo if they are short and you want the bill to be predictable.
Choose Formsite if
Small businesses and departments running long, procedural, document-producing forms (applications, orders, inspections, registrations) across many separate forms rather than one high-volume one, who need save-and-return, calculations, and a PDF at the end.
Choose Wufoo if
Small businesses and non-profits that want a plain, reliable, well-supported form builder with a five-user Professional plan under $400 a year, that value an overage bill over a paused form, and that do not need AI generation, partial-response capture, or deep survey analytics.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Formsite | Wufoo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Forms | Forms |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $21 per month or $249.95 per year (Personal) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $16.25 per month billed annually (Starter) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Six service levels priced on forms, stored results per form, file space, and sub-users; billed monthly or annually, with paid add-ons for storage, sub-users, and result documents. | Five tiers priced on a monthly entry allowance, with forms, users, storage, and API requests scaling alongside; paid accounts pay per-entry overage rather than being paused. |
| Free plan | Free allows 5 forms, 10 stored results per form, and 50MB of file space, with export included. It is a demonstration allowance, not a usable production tier. | Five forms, 100 entries per month, one user, unlimited reports, email support, and 100 API requests. Wufoo branding stays on the form. |
| Free trial | A 14-day trial that automatically downgrades to the Free service level rather than expiring | No fixed trial; the free plan is the evaluation path |
| Best for | Small businesses and departments running long, procedural, document-producing forms (applications, orders, inspections, registrations) across many separate forms rather than one high-volume one, who need save-and-return, calculations, and a PDF at the end. | Small businesses and non-profits that want a plain, reliable, well-supported form builder with a five-user Professional plan under $400 a year, that value an overage bill over a paused form, and that do not need AI generation, partial-response capture, or deep survey analytics. |
| Setup time | A simple form takes an hour. A real multi-page application with logic, calculations, save-and-return, and a result document template is a day or two of work, and the document template is the slowest part. | Under an hour for a working, branded, embedded form. The builder needs no training and the theme designer is the only part that rewards patience. |
| Learning curve | Moderate. The builder is dense and the terminology is its own (items, service levels, results, server post), so the first form is slower than it should be. Once the vocabulary lands it is straightforward. | Low. The interface is dated but conventional, and anyone who has filled in a web form can build one. Rules are the only concept that needs a few minutes of explanation. |
| Platforms | Web application, Hosted form pages, Iframe and JavaScript embeds, QR code publishing, Mobile-responsive rendered forms | Web application, Hosted form pages, JavaScript and iframe embeds, Mobile-responsive rendered forms |
| Compliance | Secure submission handling and encryption in transit, reCAPTCHA spam protection, No published HIPAA business associate agreement, No published WCAG or Section 508 conformance statement | SOC 2 Type II audited data center, PCI scanning on a quarterly cycle, No published HIPAA business associate agreement |
| Founded | 1998 | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Chicago area, Illinois, United States | San Mateo, California, United States (as part of SurveyMonkey) |
| Ownership | Owned by Formstack since December 2023 | Owned by SurveyMonkey since 2011 |
Strengths and limitations
Formsite
Strengths
- Save and Return is genuine partial capture with a resume link, which almost nothing else in this price band offers and which transforms completion rates on long forms.
- PDF and Word result documents turn each submission into a filed artefact that can be routed, attached, and stored, which is the whole point for application and order workflows.
- A calculation engine plus over fifty item types makes it capable of order forms and scored assessments that simpler builders cannot express.
- Unlimited approval workflows from the $59 Business tier, which is a Formstack-class feature at a small-business price.
Limitations
- The per-form results ceiling is the wrong shape for most modern use cases, and hitting it stops the form and shows visitors an error rather than billing you for overage.
- The rendered forms and the builder both look dated, which matters when the form is the first thing a customer sees.
- Sub-users are excluded from the two cheapest plans and cost $10 a month each thereafter, so team use is more expensive than the headline price suggests.
- No published HIPAA business associate agreement, no WCAG or Section 508 conformance commitment, and no stated EU or UK data residency option.
Wufoo
Strengths
- The overage model is the right one: paid forms keep accepting entries past the cap and bill five cents each instead of pausing and losing submissions the way Typeform does.
- Nearly twenty years in production under a large parent company, which is about as low as continuity risk gets in this category.
- Complete CSV and Excel export on every plan including free, with no export paywall and no cap, so leaving is genuinely easy.
- Professional at $399 a year includes five users and payment collection, which several competitors price as separate seats or a higher tier.
Limitations
- The editor and the rendered forms look their age, and there is no AI generation, conversational mode, or document-style builder of the kind every newer competitor ships.
- No partial submission capture at all, so abandoned forms leave no trace and you cannot diagnose where people quit.
- No published HIPAA business associate agreement and no WCAG or Section 508 conformance commitment for the rendered form, both of which Jotform and Cognito Forms do publish.
- US-only hosting with no regional data residency option, which is a live problem for EU and UK buyers.
Pricing compared
Formsite
Six service levels priced on forms, stored results per form, file space, and sub-users; billed monthly or annually, with paid add-ons for storage, sub-users, and result documents.
- Free$0
- Personal$21
- Professional$34
- Business$59
- Business+$84
- Enterprise$209
Model it at 500 submissions a month against one form and Formsite looks bad: Personal at $249.95 a year fills its 500-result table in month one and then stops, so you are really on Professional at $399.95 and deleting results every month. Model the same 500 spread across ten forms and it looks fine. At 5,000 a month on a single form you need Business+ at $999.95 a year, where Zoho Forms would charge $120 and forms.app nothing. The honest read is that Formsite is priced for accounts with many low-volume procedural forms and is expensive for anything with concentrated traffic. What you are buying at the top of that range is save-and-return, result documents, and approval workflows, which very few competitors under $1,000 a year offer at all.
Wufoo
Five tiers priced on a monthly entry allowance, with forms, users, storage, and API requests scaling alongside; paid accounts pay per-entry overage rather than being paused.
- Free$0
- Starter$16.25
- Professional$33.25
- Advanced$83.25
- Ultimate$210.25
Modelled at 500 submissions a month, Wufoo costs $195 a year on Starter, which is competitive but buys you an ageing builder with no logic-free extras. Modelled at 5,000 a month you are exactly at the Professional ceiling for $399 a year with five users and payment collection, and that is a reasonable price for what it does. The problem is what sits either side: below it, Tally and forms.app give you unlimited submissions free, and above it, the jump from Professional to Advanced more than doubles the bill. Wufoo is fair value in a narrow band and poor value outside it. You are paying for two decades of uptime and a parent company, not for capability per dollar.
Editorial verdict on each
Formsite
Formsite is a specialist wearing a generalist's label. For long procedural forms that must be resumable, calculate a total, produce a PDF, and pass through an approval, it does at $699.95 a year what Formstack charges considerably more for, and save-and-return alone justifies the look of the thing. Buy it for applications, orders, inspections, and registrations spread across many separate forms. Do not buy it for a single high-traffic form, because the per-form stored-results ceiling will fill and your visitors will start seeing an error page instead of a confirmation, and there is no overage option to save you. Also weigh the ownership question honestly: Formstack now owns a direct competitor to its own product, and while nothing suggests Formsite is going away, nothing suggests it is the future either. Export regularly, which you will be doing anyway.
Read the full Formsite profileWufoo
Wufoo is the safe, boring choice, and in 2026 that is both its argument and its problem. It has run continuously for nearly twenty years, it exports everything on every plan, and its overage policy of five cents an entry means a form that goes viral sends you a bill instead of quietly failing, which is more than Typeform can say. Against that, the builder looks its age, there is no partial capture, no calculations, no HIPAA agreement, no accessibility commitment, and no data residency choice, and Zoho Forms sells ten times the submission allowance for less money. Buy Wufoo if continuity and predictable behaviour matter more to you than capability, or if you have been on it for years and the case for moving is weaker than the cost. If you are choosing fresh, look at Zoho Forms or forms.app first and come back to Wufoo only if neither fits.
Read the full Wufoo profileFormsite profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Wufoo last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.