Is Jotform or Tally cheaper?

Jotform starts at $0 (Starter), then $39 per month for Bronze ($408 a year billed annually) (free plan available). Tally starts at EUR 20/mo (Pro, billed monthly; yearly billing gives 2 months free) (free plan available).

Jotform 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 assessment

Jotform compared with Tally

Tally gives unlimited responses free with logic, payments, and file uploads included, and charges mainly for branding and custom domains. Jotform meters submissions but delivers approvals, PDFs, tables, HIPAA, and accessibility tooling that Tally has no intention of building. Take Tally if you want unmetered simple forms cheaply; take Jotform when the submission is the start of a business process rather than the end of one.

Choose Jotform if

Small businesses and practices that need forms to do real operational work, collecting payments, routing approvals, generating PDFs, capturing signatures, and that value HIPAA, EU hosting, and documented accessibility being available on a published price rather than through procurement.

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	Jotform	Tally
Category	Forms	Forms
Starting price	$0 (Starter), then $39 per month for Bronze ($408 a year billed annually) (free plan available)	EUR 20/mo (Pro, billed monthly; yearly billing gives 2 months free) (free plan available)
Pricing model	Per-account monthly subscription metered on monthly submissions and cumulative stored submissions, with secondary caps on forms, form views, fields, payment submissions, signed documents, and upload storage. Self-serve tiers are single-user.	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	Starter includes 5 active forms, 100 monthly submissions, 500 total stored submissions, 10,000 monthly form views, 100 fields per form, 10 payment submissions, 10 signed documents, and 100 MB of upload space, with Jotform branding.	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 Starter plan is the evaluation path and paid features can be tested before committing	No separate trial; the free plan is permanent and unlimited on submissions
Best for	Small businesses and practices that need forms to do real operational work, collecting payments, routing approvals, generating PDFs, capturing signatures, and that value HIPAA, EU hosting, and documented accessibility being available on a published price rather than through procurement.	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	A form is live in fifteen minutes from a template. Building a full workflow with approvals, a generated PDF, and a payment gateway is more like a day, mostly spent deciding how the process should work rather than fighting the tool.	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	Moderate. The builder is approachable but the platform is wide, and knowing which of Tables, Approvals, Apps, Sign, and Report Builder to use for a given problem takes some exploration. The conditional logic panel is powerful and slightly unforgiving once you have a dozen rules.	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	Web app, iOS and Android apps, Jotform Apps for staff-facing mini applications, Inline iframe, script, popup, and lightbox embeds, QR codes	Web app, Embeds (inline, popup, full page), Custom domains on paid tiers
Compliance	HIPAA with a business associate agreement (Gold and Enterprise), GDPR with a data processing agreement, CCPA, Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA form checking, PCI handling via connected payment gateways	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	2006	2020
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, with major operations in Ankara, Turkey	Belgium (Tally BV, EU-hosted)
Ownership	Bootstrapped and founder-owned; no outside funding raised	Bootstrapped

Strengths and limitations

Jotform

Strengths

HIPAA with a business associate agreement on a published $129 tier, which no other mainstream form builder offers without a sales process at anything like that price.
A built-in Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 accessibility checker in the builder, addressing a requirement almost every competitor ignores entirely.
EU data residency in Frankfurt available from account settings rather than through a custom contract.
Genuinely broad scope: tables, approvals, e-signature, PDF generation, apps, and a store builder, replacing several point subscriptions.

Limitations

Every self-serve tier is single-user; a two-person team cannot both administer forms without going to Enterprise, which is the single most frustrating gap in the lineup.
The cumulative stored-submission cap is easy to miss at purchase and forces either deletion of history or an upgrade unrelated to current volume.
The interface carries twenty years of accumulated features and options, and new users routinely describe it as cluttered next to a modern block editor.
Form output looks conventional; Jotform will not win a design comparison against Typeform, Paperform, or Tally without a lot of custom CSS.

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

Jotform

Per-account monthly subscription metered on monthly submissions and cumulative stored submissions, with secondary caps on forms, form views, fields, payment submissions, signed documents, and upload storage. Self-serve tiers are single-user.

Starter$0
Bronze$39
Silver$49
Gold$129
EnterpriseCustom

Jotform is the best capability-per-dollar buy in this category for a business that needs forms to do work rather than look good. Silver at $468 a year covers 2,500 submissions a month plus tables, approvals, e-signature, PDF generation, payments through your own gateway, and an app builder, which would cost several separate subscriptions elsewhere. Gold at $1,188 a year is the cheapest published route to HIPAA in this whole category by a wide margin. The weaknesses in the model are the cumulative storage cap, which is a slow-burning upgrade trigger most buyers do not model, and the single-user restriction, which turns an otherwise excellent small-business tool into an Enterprise conversation the moment a second person needs admin access.

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

Jotform

Jotform is the workhorse of this category and the best value in it for a small business that needs forms to actually do something. Twenty years of bootstrapped development have produced a platform that captures the submission, stores it as data, routes it for approval, generates the document, takes the payment through your own gateway, and checks the rendered form for accessibility failures, all on a published price. HIPAA at $129 a month self-serve is a genuine market anomaly and reason enough for a small clinic to stop shopping. The two things to check before buying are the cumulative stored-submission cap, which quietly forces upgrades unrelated to your monthly volume, and the single-user restriction on every self-serve tier, which is the wall a growing team hits first. If neither of those blocks you, nothing else here delivers as much for the money.

Read the full Jotform profile

Tally

Best Value

Tally 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 profile

Jotform 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.