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Cognito Forms

Calculations, approvals and save-and-resume, free to a hundred entries a month.

Last verified 2026-08-26

Ratings

Ease of building4/5
How the form looks3/5
How much you can change it2/5
Logic and question types5/5
What happens after submit4/5
Value for money4/5

At a glance

Cheapest plan

$0 a month

Individual

Kind of tool

You build it in an editor

Where it runs

A service of its own

Built forApplications and intakePayments and order formsRegistrations and bookings

About Cognito Forms

Cognito Forms treats a form as the front of a process rather than the end of one, and prices that on scale instead of on capability.

What follows is logic and question types: calculations that run across answers, conditional fields, save-and-resume for anything too long to finish in one sitting, and approval routing are all present on every tier including the free one — the combination an intake, application or registration process actually needs, rather than a contact form with extras.

The cost is in looks and in headcount. Styling control is thin next to design-led builders, the free tier allows a single user and a hundred entries a month with Cognito Forms branding on the page, and the paid plans charge for people as well as for entries, so a small team can reach the second tier before the volume does.

Features

  • Supported
  • Paid
  • Not supported
  • Not recorded
  • Free plan, not a trialSupported
  • Asks one question at a timeNot supported
  • Splits a long form across stepsNot recorded
  • No builder branding on the formPaid
  • Host it on your own domainPaid
  • Conditional logicSupported
  • Calculations and scoringSupported
  • Take paymentsSupported
  • File uploadsSupported
  • Save and resume a part-filled formSupported
  • Signature fieldSupported
  • Connects to other tools without codeSupported
  • Filters spam submissionsNot recorded
  • Fetch your responses from an APINot recorded
  • AI drafts the formNot supported
  • Talk to a humanPaid

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