Jotform vs Google Forms

Written head to head: Jotform vs Google Forms, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Jotform Free plan · from $34/mo VisitRemove	Google Forms Free plan · from $7/user/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Form builder with payments through 40+ gateways, AI form generation and 100 free submissions a month	Google's form and quiz builder, free with a Google Account, with responses that flow into Google Sheets
Free plan	Starter: 5 active forms, 100 submissions a month, 10,000 form views a month, 100 MB upload space, 500 stored submissions, 10 payment submissions and 10 signed documents a month, 100 fields per form, 5 AI Agents with 100 conversations a month; Jotform branding	Free with a personal Google Account. Google's pages read do not state a form or response limit; files count toward the 15 GB of storage free Google Drive users get. Gemini features need an eligible paid plan.
Cheapest paid plan	$34/mo billed annually (Bronze)Jotform pricing	$7/user/mo billed annually (Business Starter)Google Forms pricing
What it covers	Single user; $408 billed yearly; 25 forms, 1,000 submissions a month, 100,000 form views, 100 payment submissions and 100 signed documents a month, 1 GB uploads; branding removable. Charged in EUR in Europe.	$8.40 per user a month on the Flexible Plan (no commitment) or $7 per user a month on the Annual Plan ($84 per user a year). Starter, Standard and Plus can be bought for up to 300 users.
Free trial	None stated	14-day free trial of Google Workspace for new customers, for up to 10 users; billing details needed, charged only after the trial
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android	Web
Integrations (vendor's figure)	200+ integrations, including Zapier, Google Sheets, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe and PayPal	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Collecting payments, orders and donations through a form Healthcare intake forms that need HIPAA features Field data collection on phones and tablets, including offline	Quick surveys, quizzes and sign-up forms at no cost Teams that already keep their data in Google Sheets and Google Workspace Classroom quizzes and internal feedback forms
Watch out for	Starter allows 5 active forms and 100 submissions a month, with Jotform branding Bronze, Silver and Gold are single-user plans; multi-user accounts need Enterprise HIPAA features need Gold or Enterprise	Its pages do not describe collecting payments in a form Gemini form creation and response summaries need an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan Gemini summaries need 3 to 200 responses, skip quiz responses and are not saved
Made by	Jotform Inc.	Google LLC

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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