Alternatives

Form services compared with Mailiy

Most form backends are based in the USA. For a website with visitors from the EU that means third-country transfers, standard contractual clauses and often no DPA. For each service you'll find where its servers are, what it costs and how to switch to Mailiy. We also say when the other service is the better fit.

• Mailiy instead of Formspree

  Formspree and Mailiy compared: server location, pricing, spam protection, uploads and DPA. Plus how to switch in five minutes and when Formspree fits.

• Mailiy instead of Web3Forms

  Web3Forms and Mailiy compared: operator, server location, storage and GDPR. Same field names, so you switch by changing one URL.

• Mailiy instead of FormSubmit

  FormSubmit and Mailiy compared: account, a key instead of your email in the URL, spam protection, uploads and DPA. With a field table for the switch.

• Mailiy instead of Netlify Forms

  Netlify Forms and Mailiy compared: hosting lock-in, server location, spam protection and DPA. Mailiy works on any host, Netlify included.

• Mailiy instead of Getform (Forminit)

  Getform is now called Forminit. Compared with Mailiy: pricing, limits, webhooks and DPA, plus the field table for moving your forms.

• Mailiy instead of Basin

  Basin and Mailiy compared: servers in Canada and the USA versus Germany, pricing, webhooks and DPA. With a field table for the switch.

As of 2 November 2026. Every figure comes from the providers' public pages, and each comparison page lists its sources.

How a switch works

With almost every service your form HTML stays as it is. You point the action address at the Mailiy endpoint and put your access key into a hidden field. Your field names stay, because Mailiy accepts every field with a name attribute. Control fields such as subject or redirect have a different name at each provider; the table on each comparison page lists them.

Mailiy can't import old submissions. Export them from your current service before you cancel. Let both services run side by side for a few days until the first real messages arrive through Mailiy, and remember webhooks or Zapier connections that you need to set up again.

Mailiy is free for one website with 100 submissions a month, so you can test the switch on a real form without paying anything.

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