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SubmissionBuddy vs Getform (now Forminit) — an honest comparison

Published 2026-07-15

First, a note on the name: Getform rebranded to Forminit in January 2026. Same team, same product, same URL structure (getform.io now redirects to forminit.com) — just a new brand. We're writing this comparison under both names because people still search "Getform," and if that's how you found this page, you're in the right place.

Second, the disclosure: we make SubmissionBuddy. This is a comparison written by a competitor, so we've held ourselves to a rule — every claim about Forminit below comes from Forminit's own pricing page, checked on 2026-07-15, with links. Where Forminit is simply better, we say that too.

TL;DR

Forminit is the most developer-focused of the form-backend players we looked at — webhooks, a REST API, and file uploads are available even on cheap tiers, and their free plan includes file uploads at no cost. SubmissionBuddy doesn't have webhooks, an API, or file uploads at any tier yet. Where SubmissionBuddy wins is cost for the volume most contact forms actually need: SubmissionBuddy's $8/month Pro plan is priced for roughly 1,000 submissions, while Forminit's cheapest paid plan is sized (and priced) for 5,000.

Free tier, side by side

SubmissionBuddy Free Forminit Free
Submissions 100/month 100/month (source)
Forms 2 Not capped by form count
Submission history Full history, no expiry, Excel export 30-day archive (source)
File uploads ❌ Not supported ✅ 10 MB storage, included free (source)
Redirect after submit ✅ Included ✅ Included (source)
Integrations None Zapier included (source)
Spam protection Honeypot + per-IP rate limiting Built-in spam filters (source)

The free-tier submission caps are identical — both give you 100/month. From there the trade is clear: Forminit's free plan includes file uploads and Zapier, features SubmissionBuddy doesn't offer at any price yet. SubmissionBuddy's free plan keeps your dashboard history forever instead of deleting it after 30 days.

Pricing and the paid tiers

Forminit's paid plans, verified on their pricing page on 2026-07-15:

Tier Price (billed yearly) Submissions/mo Notable gates
Pro $15.83/mo 5,000 Webhooks, REST API, Slack/Discord notifications, CSV export, Form Analytics
Business $40.83/mo 10,000 + Autoresponder, Workspaces (team), custom email sender, remove branding
Volume $82.50/mo 50,000 scale only

SubmissionBuddy's paid plans are Pro at $8/month (1,000 submissions, unlimited forms, invisible CAPTCHA) and Business at $24/month (20,000 submissions, unlimited forms, invisible CAPTCHA, auto-responses, and team members).

The math, side by side

Forminit has no tier between its free plan (100/mo) and Pro (5,000/mo, $15.83). If your form only needs, say, 500–1,000 submissions a month — the volume a typical contact form actually generates — you still have to pay for Forminit's 5,000-submission Pro tier. SubmissionBuddy's Pro plan is scoped to that volume directly: $8/month for 1,000 submissions, about half of Forminit's $15.83 minimum paid price, for the volume most sites need.

To be fair in the other direction: if you genuinely need 5,000 submissions a month, Forminit's per-submission cost at that tier ($15.83 ÷ 5,000 ≈ $0.0032/submission) is actually cheaper per submission than SubmissionBuddy Pro ($8 ÷ 1,000 = $0.008/submission). Forminit's pricing rewards higher volume; SubmissionBuddy's rewards not over-buying capacity you don't need.

At higher volume the picture flips back. For 20,000 submissions a month, SubmissionBuddy Business is $24. Forminit's Business tier only covers 10,000, so you'd need Volume at $82.50/mo (50,000 submissions) to clear 20,000 — more than 3x SubmissionBuddy's price, and you'd be paying for 30,000 submissions you don't use.

The architectural difference

SubmissionBuddy writes the raw payload to immutable object storage before anything else touches it — before the database write, before the email notification. Everything downstream runs through independent, retryable queues that reference that stored payload. The full pipeline walkthrough covers this step by step.

Forminit's changelog shows active investment in delivery reliability — they shipped signed webhooks (HMAC-SHA256) in June 2026 and webhook failure alerts in July 2026, which suggests they take retry/delivery guarantees seriously for outbound webhooks specifically. Their public docs don't describe the internal pipeline from POST to storage the way we do, so we can't compare beyond that.

Where Forminit wins

Honesty means listing these plainly:

Where SubmissionBuddy wins

Switching is one attribute change

Both products work the same way: your form POSTs to a hosted endpoint. Migrating is editing one line:

<form action="https://api.submissionbuddy.io/f/your-form" method="POST">
  <input type="text" name="name" required />
  <input type="email" name="email" required />
  <textarea name="message" required></textarea>
  <!-- hidden honeypot: bots fill it, humans never see it -->
  <input type="text" name="_honeypot" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off" />
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Or from JavaScript:

await fetch('https://api.submissionbuddy.io/f/your-form', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ name, email, message }),
})
// → 202 { "ok": true, "submission_id": "…" }

JSON, url-encoded, and multipart text fields are all accepted; add a hidden _redirect field and your visitor is redirected to a thank-you page after submitting — on every plan, including Free. If your form uses file uploads or needs a webhook, this migration isn't for you yet — see "Where Forminit wins" above.

Forminit (formerly Getform) claims verified against their pricing page on 2026-07-15. If you spot something that's since changed, tell us and we'll fix it.

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