Paperform gives you 14 days, then asks for a card. Upform's free plan has no end date and no response cap: unlimited forms, unlimited responses, all 21 question types and conditional logic, for $0.
No calculations and no payment fields (we say so on this page, not in the footnotes). Pro is $12/month.
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What kind of project is this?
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The short answer
Upform is a free Paperform alternative. Paperform has no free plan: a 14-day trial, then paid tiers from around $24 a month. Upform's free plan is permanent, with unlimited forms, unlimited responses, all 21 question types, conditional logic and every integration. The trade is real: Upform has no calculations and no payment fields. Pro is $12 a month.
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What the free plan costs, forever
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Forms and responses, every plan
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Question types, none gated
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Logic operators, free
Side by side
Paperform is a strong product with a price tag attached from day 15. Here is where each tool wins, including the rows we lose.
| Feature |  Upform | Paperform |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Permanent, no card | None, 14-day trial |
| Entry price after that | $0, or $12/month for Pro | From around $24/month |
| Responses included | Unlimited on every plan | A monthly submission allowance per tier |
| Question and field types | 21, all free | A larger library, including payment and scheduling fields |
| Conditional logic | Free, 20 operators, 4 actions | Included on paid plans |
| Calculations and scoring | Not available | Yes, and it is one of their best features |
| Payments inside the form | Not available | Yes, through card processors |
| Default respondent experience | One question per screen, keyboard-first | A document-style page you scroll |
| File uploads | Free, 100 MB storage | Included on paid plans |
| Integrations | Nine native destinations, all free | A larger directory, plus Zapier |
| Analytics and drop-off | Free, with completion rate, per-question funnel, country split | Included |
| Remove the maker's branding | Pro, $12/month | Included on paid plans |
| Team members | Up to 5 on Pro | Extra users cost more on higher tiers |
| Custom domain | Not available, embed instead | Available on higher tiers |
| How you upgrade | Email us, set up the same day | Self-serve card checkout |
Paperform plans, trial length and limits checked September 2026 on Paperform's public pricing page; Upform's on our own pricing page. Plans change, so verify both before you decide.
The three reasons
Almost nobody leaves Paperform because the builder is bad. They leave because the bill arrives before the form has proved itself.
Fourteen days is enough to build a form. It is rarely enough to know whether the form works. A waitlist that collects nine sign-ups in its first fortnight still has to be paid for in week three, before anyone can tell you it was worth it.
Paperform's price reflects calculations, payments, scheduling and a signature product. If your form is a contact form, a client intake or a feedback survey, you are renting machinery you never switch on. Upform's pricing has two lines and one of them is free.
The document editor is elegant to write in, but the respondent sees every field at once and decides how much of their evening it is worth. One question per screen hides the length and keeps people moving to the end.
Being straight with you
Four of these are not close. If any one of them is load-bearing for your form, stay where you are. A cheaper tool that cannot do the job is not a saving.
Paperform can add, multiply and score. Quote builders, quiz grades, order totals that change as options are ticked. All of that is native. Upform's logic routes people, it does not compute values, so there is no equivalent and no workaround worth pretending about.
Products, quantities, coupons, subscriptions and a card field at the end: Paperform handles the whole transaction. Upform has no payment field at all. If the form is also the checkout, this page ends here and Paperform wins.
Writing a Paperform feels like writing a page, with questions dropped into the prose. It is genuinely lovely for forms carrying a lot of explanation. Upform's builder is a step list with a live preview: faster for a twelve-question flow, less expressive for a long one.
Paperform has booking fields, a separate e-signature product, custom domains and a much bigger template gallery, built up over years. Upform has none of those. It has an unlimited free plan, which is a different kind of answer.
The swap
This is what you get in exchange, and none of it sits behind a plan. The published form loads your branding first, then asks question one, and every question after it takes the full screen.
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A number in USD. An estimate is fine.
After the submit
Every destination below is on the free plan, connected with your own account, with no automation tool in the middle.
Migration
There is no Paperform importer. In practice a ten-question form is rebuilt in under twenty minutes, because the field types line up almost one to one and the writing is already done.
Download your Paperform submissions as CSV before you cancel anything. Upform does not import response history, and answer archives should never depend on a subscription staying active.
This is the only real thinking in the move. One long page becomes a list of steps: each question gets its own screen, and the explanatory paragraphs between them become Statement steps that carry no input.
Recreate your rules in the Logic panel with the 20 operators and the four actions: show, hide, jump, end. Then set your logo, colors, font and radius in Design and save it as a reusable theme so the next form starts branded.
Copy the public link or the iframe snippet and replace the old URL wherever it lives. If your Paperform took payments, send an invoice or a payment link from the response instead, or push it onward with a webhook.
Fit check
Two minutes here saves you an afternoon of rebuilding a form in the wrong tool.
No. Paperform runs a 14-day free trial and then moves you onto a paid tier, starting around $24 a month at the time of writing. Upform's free plan is permanent, with unlimited forms and unlimited responses and no expiry date. Pricing changes, so check Paperform's own pricing page before you decide.
No. Upform's logic routes, it does not compute. There is no scoring engine, no calculated field and no running price total. Logic can branch on a number with operators like greater than, less than and between, but it cannot add one answer to another. If your form has to produce a figure, Paperform is the better tool.
Not today. Upform has no payment field and no payment processor connection, so money cannot move inside the form. Most people collect the order details in Upform and send an invoice or a payment link afterwards, or pass the response to their billing tool with a webhook. If checkout has to happen in the form itself, stay on Paperform.
Not in one click. Upform's only importer is a one-way import from Google Forms, so a Paperform is rebuilt by hand. A ten-question form usually takes ten to twenty minutes because the field types line up closely: copy the question text across, set the types, then rebuild your rules in the Logic panel.
Yes, and it costs nothing. Rules are a flat list, each one an AND or OR group of conditions built from 20 operators covering text, numbers, dates, choices and file uploads. Four actions are available: show a question, hide it, jump to another step, or end the form.
Not yet. Published forms live on an upform.com link. The usual workaround is the iframe embed, which drops the form into a page on your own site so your domain stays in the address bar. Paperform offers custom domains on its higher tiers, so this is a genuine point against Upform.
Export them as CSV from Paperform before you cancel anything, because Upform does not import response history. New answers collected in Upform can be exported to CSV whenever you like, or piped into Google Sheets, Slack, Notion or HubSpot as they arrive.
Pro is $12 a month, a launch offer at half the $24 list price. It adds unlimited file storage, branding removal, up to five team members and early access to new features. Online checkout is not live yet, so you email hello@upform.com with the subject Upform Pro upgrade request, and we set the account up by hand, usually the same day.
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Unlimited forms, unlimited responses, 21 question types and 20 logic operators, on a plan that costs nothing and stays that way.
No credit card. No trial clock. Pro is $12/month when you want the branding gone.
