Typeform costs $29/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $1,044 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$29/mo ($348/yr) is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Formforge: the pay-once alternative
Formforge does the same core job for $39, once. Typeform-style forms with unlimited responses, file uploads and CSV export — self-hosted.
| Formforge | Typeform | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 one-time | $29/mo ($348/yr) |
| Responses | Unlimited | 100/mo (Basic) |
| Forms | Unlimited | Capped by plan |
| File uploads | Included, your disk | Higher tiers only |
| Data ownership | Your server, your SQLite file | Their cloud |
| One-question-per-screen UX | Yes | Yes |
| CSV export | Yes | Yes |
| Works offline / air-gapped | Yes | No |
Six weeks of Typeform costs more than Formforge does once.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Typeform's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Formforge is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Formforge — $39, once
Typeform-style forms with unlimited responses, file uploads and CSV export — self-hosted.