best form builders for nonprofits under $10 a month

Google Forms

The default answer for most small nonprofits, and hard to argue with on a tight budget: anyone with a Google account can build a form in a browser and watch answers land in a Sheet. Google publishes no cap on responses or forms, and eligible nonprofits get the whole Workspace suite at no charge, so the running cost really is nothing. The catch is that it cannot take money, so donations have to happen somewhere else, and the styling is plain enough that a public-facing appeal will look like a Google form. Best for volunteer signups, event RSVPs and internal surveys rather than fundraising.

Jotform

The form builder nonprofits reach for when a Google form is not enough: a huge template library, conditional logic, and a free tier that will actually take payments, which matters when the form is a donation form. Jotform runs a standing 50 percent discount for approved nonprofits on its Bronze, Silver and Gold plans, though even at half price Bronze lands well above a ten-dollar budget, so in practice the free Starter plan is the one a small charity lives on. Its ceiling is submissions rather than forms: a hundred a month across the whole account, after which you upgrade or wait. Forms built on the free plan carry Jotform branding.

forms.app

The one option here where a published nonprofit discount actually drops a paid plan under ten dollars a month: forms.app offers 50 percent off yearly plans to nonprofits and educators, and its Basic tier is already 19 USD a month on annual billing. The free plan is unusually generous on the axis that normally bites, allowing unlimited responses and unlimited payments while capping you at five forms, which suits an organisation that runs a few long-lived forms rather than many short ones. File storage on the free tier is only 10 MB, so photo or document uploads will push you to upgrade.

Wufoo

One of the oldest hosted form builders, now part of SurveyMonkey, and the other route to a genuinely sub-ten-dollar paid plan: registered 501(c)(3) organisations get 50 percent off, which takes the Starter tier from about $16 a month to roughly $8. The free plan is tight, at five forms and a hundred entries with only ten fields per form, and payments are reserved for paid tiers, so the discount is the point rather than the free tier. The editor and templates look dated next to the newer tools in this table, which is the main reason to keep shopping.

Cognito Forms

The strongest free tier in this table for an organisation that needs to collect money, because Cognito puts unlimited forms and payments on every plan including the free one, and charges you on entries instead. A hundred entries a month is the ceiling before you pay, which is fine for a handful of donation or registration forms and not for a mailing-list-sized campaign. Its calculation and conditional-logic tools are genuinely strong, which is why treasurers like it for anything involving amounts. Nonprofit pricing exists but is not published: you have to write to support with your 501(c)(3) status.

Zoho Forms

Worth a look mainly if you already run other Zoho apps, since forms drop straight into Zoho CRM and the rest of the suite. The free plan is middling on its own terms, at three forms and 500 submissions a month for a single user, but it does include payment collection for the first ten payments, which is more than most free tiers allow. Basic is priced at exactly ten dollars a month on annual billing, so it sits right on the budget line rather than under it. Zoho runs a nonprofit programme offering credits worth up to half your subscription, but you have to apply with registration documents.

Gravity Forms

A different proposition to everything else here: a premium WordPress plugin, so the form lives on your own site and the entries stay in your own database, which some boards prefer for donor data. There is no free version and no trial, only a demo, but the Basic licence is $59 a year for one site, which works out cheaper per month than most hosted tools. The catch for a nonprofit is payments: the Stripe and PayPal add-ons are not in the Basic tier, so a donation form means stepping up a licence level. Gravity Forms also runs an application-based Nonprofit License at $129 a year.

Tally

The most generous free tier of any hosted builder in this table: unlimited forms and unlimited submissions, with payments, signatures, file uploads and conditional logic all included rather than paywalled, subject only to a fair-use policy. For a nonprofit whose budget is genuinely zero that makes it the strongest option here, and the editor works like a text document, so volunteers pick it up quickly. Paying only buys you branding removal, shared workspaces and partial submissions, at $24 a month. There is no published nonprofit discount, which is the one gap.

Fillout

Sits between Tally's everything-free approach and the metered hosted tools: unlimited forms and unlimited seats on the free plan, capped at a thousand responses a month, with payment collection included rather than paywalled. The unlimited-seats part is the unusual bit and matters for an organisation where several staff or volunteers need access without buying licences. It also does scheduling and PDF generation, so a single tool can cover registration, booking and a signed form. Stepping up to Starter at $15 a month mainly buys more responses.

Youform

A newer, cheaper alternative to Typeform with the same one-question-at-a-time style, and a free plan that puts no limit on either forms or responses. For a nonprofit that wants a survey or application to feel less like a spreadsheet, that combination is rare. The trade-off is that payments sit behind the Pro plan, so it cannot be your donation form without paying $29 a month, and free forms carry Youform branding. No nonprofit discount is published.

WPForms

The beginner-friendly WordPress plugin, and the easier of the two WordPress options here for a volunteer to drive. The free Lite version in the WordPress directory publishes no cap on forms or entries and will take Stripe, PayPal and Square payments, which makes it one of the few genuinely free ways to run a donation form on your own site. The catch is the fee: transactions on the free version carry a 3 percent platform charge on top of your processor's cut until you buy a licence. Paid licences list at $99 a year and are discounted often.

Fluent Forms

The cheapest paid licence of any option in this table, at $63 a year for a single site, and the free WordPress version already includes Stripe payments rather than holding them back for a paid tier. That combination makes it the most cost-effective way to run donation and signup forms on a WordPress site you already maintain. It is a developer-leaning plugin, so the editor assumes a little more comfort with WordPress than WPForms does. No nonprofit discount is published.