Formspree vs Amplitude
Form backend as a service — point your HTML form at a URL and done
vs. Digital analytics + experimentation + CDP
Pricing tiers
Formspree
Free
$0. 50 submissions/mo. 1 form. Formspree branding in emails. Basic spam filtering.
Free
Basic
$10/mo. 500 submissions/mo. Unlimited forms. Custom success redirect. Honeypot anti-spam.
$10/mo
Professional
$20/mo. 1,000 submissions/mo. reCAPTCHA, webhooks, integrations, rules engine.
$20/mo
Unlimited
$40/mo. 2,500 submissions. File uploads, team members, priority support.
$40/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, SAML, HIPAA, high volume, dedicated support.
Custom
Amplitude
Starter (Free)
10K Monthly Tracked Users, 10M events/mo. Session Replay + unlimited feature flags + Web Experimentation + AI Feedback included.
Free
Plus
$49/mo (annual). Up to 300K MTUs + 25M events. Unlimited product analytics, behavioral cohorts, feature tagging, custom audiences.
$49/mo
Growth
Custom. Causal insights, Feature Experimentation, real-time streaming, predictive audiences.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. Cross-product analysis, advanced data controls, mutual exclusion groups, multi-armed bandit.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Formspree vs starter on Amplitude.
| Metric | Formspree | Amplitude |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Formspree · 11 features
- Custom Success Redirect — Redirect after submit.
- Email Notifications — Submissions delivered to inbox.
- File Uploads — Accept attachments (Unlimited).
- IP Filtering — Block spam IPs.
- React SDK — Hooks + state management.
- Rules Engine — Conditional routing, auto-responders.
- Spam Protection — Honeypot + reCAPTCHA + keyword filter.
- Submission Analytics — Volume + source stats.
- Team Members — Multi-user (Unlimited).
- Webhooks — POST submissions to your server.
- Zero Backend — HTML <form action> → email.
Amplitude · 13 features
- AI Feedback (Asking) — Natural language questions over your Amplitude data.
- Amplitude CDP — Customer Data Platform — identify, segment, sync to 150+ destinations.
- Causal Insights — AI identifies why a metric changed — root cause.
- Cross-Product Analysis — Analyze across multiple apps/products in the same org.
- Data Governance — Taxonomies, schemas, approvals, category management.
- Data Warehouse Sync — Sync data to/from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks.
- Feature Experimentation — Server-side / SDK-level experiments. Growth+.
- Feature Flags — Targeting rules + rollouts. Unlimited in Starter.
- North Star Metric — Pre-built dashboards for key metric tracking.
- Predictive Audiences — ML-based forecasting of user behavior.
- Product Analytics — Core events + funnels + retention + segmentation.
- Session Replay — Pixel-perfect user session recording + privacy masking.
- Web Experimentation — A/B test visual changes on your site without deploy.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Formspree | Amplitude |
|---|---|---|
| SDK | @formspree/core, @formspree/react | amplitude-analytics-python, @amplitude/analytics-react-native, amplitude-android, amplitude-js / browser-sdk, amplitude-node, AmplitudeSwift (iOS) |
| REST | Formspree REST API | Amplitude HTTP API v2, Batch Event API, Export API |
| OTHER | Direct HTML Form Submit, Formspree Dashboard, Formspree Webhooks | Data Destinations (webhooks) |
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