Formcarry vs Orbeon Forms

Formcarry is a cloud form API that receives submissions from HTML, React, Vue, and other frameworks without requiring backend code for form processing. It can email users when a form receives a submission, with configurable autoresponses and email templates. The dashboard supports backend field-validation rules, and Google reCAPTCHA is available alongside default spam detection, which Formcarry says detects 99.8% of spam submissions. The API uses an API key to manage forms, submissions, webhooks, and related resources. Formcarry advertises more than 3,000 integrations, including Twilio, Discord, Slack, Notion, Mailchimp, Airtable, and Google Sheets. Paid plans support file uploads, with a documented 10MB limit per file. The free Baby plan costs nothing and allows one form, 50 submissions per month, and one team member. Paid plans start at $5/mo when billed annually; Starter is listed at $60 a year and includes 500 submissions per month. If a monthly submission limit is exceeded, submissions are held until the next month and become viewable after upgrading. Formcarry says personal data is stored in Frankfurt, Germany, with encryption at rest and in transit.

Orbeon Forms manages web forms from design and testing through publication, data capture, validation, and submission. Its Form Builder supports validation and visibility or editability rules, calculations, repeating sections and grids, and multi-page forms. Forms can collect attachments and produce PDF and Excel files. Deployment can be on-premises or in the cloud, with the server running in a Java servlet container. Integrations include Liferay, server-side and JavaScript embedding, React and Angular components, and HTTP and database service endpoints. Supported databases include Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and DB2, with an API for other databases or backends. Selected fields can be encrypted at rest and in transit to and from the persistence API; the search API cannot search those fields or return decrypted values. The Community Edition is available at no charge. Paid PE subscriptions start at $1,300 a year per server, and a 90-day trial is listed. Silver and Gold include different support-hour and response-time provisions.