Form builder · updated October 11, 2026

Zoho Forms pricing explained, from Free to Premium

Zoho Forms sells five tiers: Free, Basic, Standard, Professional and Premium. The numbers below come from the vendor's plan comparison page, read in US dollars on 2026-10-11, with both the monthly and the yearly billing rows. Local taxes such as VAT are charged on top, according to a note at the top of that page.

What separates the tiers is mostly volume and a long list of ticks. Free keeps you to 3 forms and 500 submissions a month. Every paid tier lifts the form cap, so the real question is which monthly submission ceiling you need, how many logins you need, and which specific features sit behind which tier. Many of them are cheaper than you might expect, and a few that sound basic are not on the free tier.

What Zoho Forms costs

Prices from Zoho Forms's public pricing page, in USD, checked on October 11, 2026. Taxes excluded. Vendors change prices; follow the source links to see today's.

Plan	Billed monthly	Billed yearly	What you get
Freesource, 2026-10-11	$0/mo	$0/mo	3 forms, 1 user and 500 submissions a month, with 200 MB of storage. Payments, SMS alerts, file upload fields and webhooks are all ticked. 3 forms, 1 user and 500 submissions a month. 200 MB of storage for uploaded files. Up to 10 payments, according to the payment section heading. PDF generation is capped at 50 PDFs, a one-time limit. One availability field per form, with 50 submissions per form shared with choice availability.
Basicsource, 2026-10-11	$12/mo	$10/mo	Unlimited forms and 10,000 submissions a month for one user, with 500 MB of storage and a first set of rules, themes and spam tools. Billed yearly it is shown as $10 a month, which is $120 a year. Unlimited forms, 1 user, 10,000 submissions a month and 500 MB of storage. Form data export is limited to 10 exports a month. PDF generation is capped at 2,000 PDFs, a one-time limit. Ticks that start here include custom themes, a welcome page, edit response, WhatsApp alerts, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, advanced field and form rules, and a custom domain in the form link.
Standardsource, 2026-10-11	$30/mo	$25/mo	25,000 submissions a month, 10 users and 2 GB of storage, and the first tier with collaborators, permissions and multilevel approval. Billed yearly it is shown as $25 a month, which is $300 a year. Unlimited forms, 10 users, 25,000 submissions a month and 2 GB of storage. Form data export is limited to 20 exports a month. Adds collaborators, multilevel form approval, permissions, filters, private sharing, task assignment and report approvals.
Professionalsource, 2026-10-11	$60/mo	$50/mo	75,000 submissions a month, 25 users and 5 GB of storage, with higher caps on exports and large choice lists. Billed yearly it is shown as $50 a month, which is $600 a year. Unlimited forms, 25 users, 75,000 submissions a month and 5 GB of storage. Form data export is limited to 50 exports a month. Large list fields are allowed on 10 fields per form.
Premiumsource, 2026-10-11	$110/mo	$90/mo	150,000 submissions a month and 10 GB of storage, and the only tier with HIPAA compliance, form encryption, record audit, SMTP and a report scheduler. Billed yearly it is shown as $90 a month, which is $1,080 a year. Unlimited forms, 150,000 submissions a month and 10 GB of storage. Form data export is limited to 75 exports a month. Auto-trash and the report scheduler appear only on this tier.

What forces an upgrade

Each row links to the Zoho Forms page it comes from.

From	To	What pushes you there
Free	Basic	You need a fourth form, more than 500 submissions in a month, a custom domain in the form link, edit response, WhatsApp alerts, custom themes or the advanced rule types, which the table ticks from Basic.source, 2026-10-11
Basic	Standard	You pass 10,000 submissions a month or need more than one login, or you want approval chains, permissions and filters, collaborators or private sharing.source, 2026-10-11
Standard	Professional	You pass 25,000 submissions a month, need more than 10 users or 2 GB of storage, or run into the 20 exports a month cap on form data.source, 2026-10-11
Professional	Premium	You pass 75,000 submissions a month or 25 logins, or need HIPAA compliance, form encryption, record audit, SMTP or the report scheduler, which the table lists only on Premium.source, 2026-10-11

What you pay over 1 to 3 years

Computed from the prices above, assuming they never go up. Taxes excluded.

Scenario	1 year	2 years	3 years
Basic, yearly billingBasic, billed yearly	$120	$240	$360
Basic, monthly billingBasic, billed monthly	$144	$288	$432
Standard, yearly billingStandard, billed yearly	$300	$600	$900
Standard, monthly billingStandard, billed monthly	$360	$720	$1,080
Professional, yearly billingProfessional, billed yearly	$600	$1,200	$1,800

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What Zoho Forms does well

Payments are on every tier

The table ticks PayPal, Stripe, Square, Razorpay, Authorize.Net and more on all five plans, with the Free plan limited to 10 payments. If your form takes money, that alone settles the choice.

Zoho apps and approvals

Zoho CRM, Books, Desk, Sign, Campaigns and Writer document merge are all ticked from Free, and multilevel approval starts at Standard. For a business already living in Zoho, the form is a front door to its other tools.

Alerts, offline mobile and PDFs

SMS notifications are ticked on every plan and WhatsApp from Basic. The iOS and Android app is on all tiers and is described as working without an internet connection, and submissions can be turned into PDFs.

Security options at the top

Field encryption starts at Basic. Premium alone adds form encryption, HIPAA compliance and record audit, which regulated teams may be required to have.

Submissions per month set the ladder

Forms are unlimited from Basic upward, so the monthly submission ceiling is what you actually buy: 500 on Free, 10,000 on Basic, 25,000 on Standard, 75,000 on Professional and 150,000 on Premium. Reports are listed as unlimited on every plan.

The jumps are uneven. Basic to Standard multiplies the yearly price by 2.5 for 2.5 times the submissions, and also brings 10 users. Standard to Professional roughly doubles the price for three times the volume. A small team that rarely tops 500 responses a month never needs to leave the first row.

Monthly or yearly billing

The comparison page has two billing rows. Basic is $12 on monthly billing and $10 a month on yearly billing, so $144 against $120 across twelve months. Standard is $30 against $25, which is $360 against $300. Professional is $60 against $50, or $720 against $600, and Premium is $110 against $90, or $1,320 against $1,080.

Yearly billing saves roughly one sixth at every tier. Committing for twelve months only pays off if the form will actually be live that long.

Users and who the price applies to

The table lists users per plan: 1 on Free and Basic, 10 on Standard, 25 on Professional and more on Premium. It does not say whether the prices are charged per user or per organization, so the cost scenarios here use a single seat and the listed monthly price as it appears. Check with the vendor before budgeting for a larger team.

What a plan costs over one, two and three years

Basic on yearly billing comes to $120 after one year, $240 after two and $360 after three. On monthly billing it is $144, $288 and $432. Standard on yearly billing is $300, $600 and $900, and on monthly billing $360, $720 and $1,080. Professional on yearly billing is $600, $1,200 and $1,800.

These totals hold only if the vendor keeps its current prices and you stay inside the submission ceiling of the plan you picked.

Who should stay, and who can look elsewhere

Stay on Zoho Forms if you take payments, run approvals, send SMS or WhatsApp alerts, collect forms offline on a phone, merge answers into PDFs or Writer documents, feed Zoho CRM, or need encryption. The Free plan is also enough for plenty of people: 500 submissions a month is a lot for a contact form.

The group worth a second look is people paying Basic or Standard only to get past the form cap or the submission ceiling on simple forms with no payments or uploads. For them, MangoForm is a one-time $25 with no cap on forms or responses. It has no payments and no file uploads, so test your forms against that first.

FAQ

How much does Zoho Forms cost per month?

Basic is $10 a month billed yearly or $12 billed monthly. Standard is $25 or $30, Professional $50 or $60, and Premium $90 or $110. Free costs nothing. Read from zoho.com/forms/plan-comparison.html on 2026-10-11.

Does Zoho Forms have a free plan?

Yes. Free allows 3 forms, 1 user, 500 submissions a month and 200 MB of storage. The table also ticks payments (up to 10), SMS alerts, webhooks and file upload fields on it.

How many submissions are included in each plan?

500 a month on Free, 10,000 on Basic, 25,000 on Standard, 75,000 on Professional and 150,000 on Premium. Forms are unlimited from Basic upward.

Which Zoho Forms plan has approvals and encryption?

Multilevel form approval starts at Standard. Field encryption starts at Basic, while form encryption and HIPAA compliance are listed only on Premium.

Is Zoho Forms priced per user?

The comparison page does not say. It lists the number of users each plan includes, from one on Basic to more on Premium, next to a single price per plan.

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