As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates Jotform 2.5/5 and Typeform 3/5 in Forms & Surveys. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Jotform and 6 pick Typeform. Jotform scores higher on 1 of 6 criteria (Form & survey building). Typeform scores higher on 5 of 6 criteria (Consent, GDPR & respondent data, European sovereignty, Survey analysis & reporting, plus 2 more). Provenance — Jotform: Rest of world; Typeform: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Jotform holds one lead: form building, 6.7 to Typeform's 6.0, with 4 judges leaning Jotform and 2 tied. Collection and workflows is the genuine split — means 6.3 and 6.7, with 1 judge leaning Jotform, 3 leaning Typeform and 2 tied. On the remaining five criteria the table favors Typeform: consent and data protection 6.3 to 2.7 (6 lean, 0 tie), analysis and reporting 5.2 to 4.0 (5 lean, 1 tie), hosting and administration 6.0 to 4.8 (5 lean, 1 tie), sovereignty 5.8 to 4.2 (5 lean, 1 tie) and pricing transparency 6.0 to 3.0 (6 lean, 0 tie), though a rubric note says pricing is not weighted in Jotform's verdict since it publishes no prices. Typeform's weighted total is higher for each of the six judges: 5.7–6.4 against Jotform's 4.2–5.5. The split is the answer: Jotform for building forms, Typeform for data protection, reporting and administration.
Choose Jotform if
You need a drag-and-drop builder with a deep ready-made library — form building is Jotform's one criterion lead (6.7 to 6.0, 4 judges lean Jotform, 2 tie), credited to 20,000+ templates, conditional logic, translations and conversational forms
You collect payments and signatures through forms — Jotform's collection and workflows evidence lists 40+ payment gateways, signatures and 150+ integrations
Your team gathers responses in the field — Jotform's collection evidence credits offline mobile collection plus links, embeds and QR codes
You want EU data residency on a standard plan — Jotform's data residency attribute reads EU optional, its captured pages state the German storage option keeps data exclusively on EU servers, and Typeform's EU data center choice is Enterprise-only per its verdict
Choose Typeform if
You need a published data processing agreement with Standard Contractual Clauses and a named Data Protection Officer — consent and data protection runs 6.3 to 2.7 with 6 judges leaning Typeform and 0 tie, and we found no public information on a data processing agreement in Jotform's captured pages
You run sensitive surveys — Typeform's surveys are anonymous by default and collect no IP addresses per its verdict, with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, while we found no public information on anonymous submissions from Jotform
Your team relies on everyday reporting — analysis and reporting runs 5.2 to 4.0 with 5 judges leaning Typeform and 1 tie, crediting AI topic and sentiment detection, though judges wanting research-grade output note no public information on cross-tabulation, weighting or SPSS and R exports
You need plan prices visible before a sales call — pricing transparency runs 6.0 to 3.0 with 6 judges leaning Typeform; Typeform's published prices exist while Jotform advertises a free sign-up with no plan prices published
You must contract with an EU-registered vendor — Typeform's legal entity jurisdiction attribute reads ES, while Jotform's reads unknown
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Data Protection Officer
Signs off every form tool a department wants to use and has found health data in a feedback form before. Wants a data processing agreement and a subprocessor list on the vendor's own pages, consent fields and an anonymous mode that drops IP addresses, retention periods that delete on their own, EU hosting the customer can choose, and roles that keep responses away from people who do not need them.
Jotform
Typeform
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Form & survey building
Jotform
The drag-and-drop builder, 20,000-plus templates, styling with the customer's own logo, fonts and colours, conditional logic to show or hide fields, answer piping, hidden fields, custom CSS and form translation are all documented on the vendor's own pages. This sits above a standard builder but short of the research-grade tier: we found no public information on calculations and scoring, randomisation, reusable question libraries or a named accessibility standard in the captured pages.
Typeform
The drag-and-drop builder offers 28 question types, conditional logic and branching, a template library of more than 3,000, brand kits with the customer's logo, fonts and themes, piping through the Recall Information feature, welcome screens with media, video and signature questions, and forms in multiple languages. It is a capable authoring toolkit, but I found no public information on calculations or scoring, custom CSS, reusable question libraries, or a stated accessibility standard for respondents.
Distribution, response collection & workflows
Jotform
Embedding, QR codes, email and WhatsApp notifications, conditional notifications driven by how the form is filled, file uploads, signatures, payments through the form with 40-plus gateways, offline mobile collection, 150-plus integrations and an approval workflow automation page are all documented. We found no public information on invitations to managed contact lists with reminders, or on documented webhooks and a REST API.
Typeform
Responses can arrive by share link, embeds in email, social and websites, in-form payments and signatures, and file uploads, backed by email notifications, a 25,000-contact database with CSV import, scheduled and contact-triggered automations, email and SMS follow-ups, webhooks, a public API, Zapier plus named native integrations, and panel access for recruiting research participants. Response caps stop collection at the plan limit rather than billing an overage. I found no public information on QR codes, offline or kiosk collection, unique single-use links, or approval routing with an audit trail.
Survey analysis & reporting
Jotform
The report builder turns submissions into bar graphs, pie charts and submission grids, PDFs can be generated for single or multiple submissions, data exports to CSV and Excel, and captured pages describe sentiment analysis and flow reports. We found no public information on filters and segments, cross-tabulation, or standard scores such as NPS in the captured pages.
Typeform
Live reporting covers completion rates, drop-offs and performance over time, NPS is auto-calculated with reports that can be generated and shared, and AI detects topics and sentiment with the ability to ask questions of the data, plus search and filter across responses. Beyond those views I found no public information on cross-tabulation with significance testing, weighting, or exports to SPSS or R; only a general download of responses is described. Good for everyday reporting, short of a research-grade analysis environment.
Consent, GDPR & respondent data
Jotform
A GDPR compliance page exists, a privacy policy and security page are linked in the site footer, payments are PCI compliant and Google reCAPTCHA protects against bots. Beyond that we found no public information on a data processing agreement, consent or privacy-notice fields, an anonymous mode that drops IP addresses, retention periods with automatic deletion, or encryption of responses — I would want every one of these before any department of mine collected personal data here.
Typeform
The data processing agreement is published on the vendor's own pages with a named data protection officer, technical and organisational measures, SCCs, audit rights capped at one per year at the customer's cost, and a subprocessor list, while the terms state AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit. Anonymous mode is real: surveys are anonymous by default and anonymous surveys collect no IP addresses or identifying information, though the cookie-consent control arrives through a third-party Axeptio widget that requires a higher-tier account. Retention deletes on its own only for inactive free accounts after 24 months, I found no public information on a dedicated consent field or field-level encryption, and the terms take a worldwide, sublicensable licence over respondent data for providing and improving the service.
Hosting choice, teams & portability
Jotform
EU hosting is documented in the vendor's own words: European user data can be transferred to and kept exclusively on servers in Germany, which is what I look for first. Captured pages describe single sign-on and white-labelling, and forms, submission data and uploads can be exported in stated formats; we found no public information on team workspaces with distinct roles, an audit log, or self-hosting.
Typeform
The choice between a US or EU data center, SSO and custom domains sits on the Enterprise plan, branding removal and a custom subdomain come from Plus, and workspaces have assignable roles, custom permissions and activity logs an administrator can access and export. Responses can be downloaded and a public API exists, but I found no public information on SAML specifically, user provisioning, a self-hosted edition, or a documented export format for moving forms to another tool. EU hosting the customer can choose exists, at Enterprise price.
European sovereignty
Jotform
EU hosting in Germany and a London contracting entity named in the terms give a European leg to stand on, but Jotform Inc. of San Francisco appears as the parent and vendor across the captured pages. We found no public information on subprocessors, a published data processing agreement, or ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certifications, so the chain that would carry respondents' answers cannot be checked from these pages.
Typeform
Contracting is with a Spanish company whose registry details and tax number are published, under a data processing agreement governed by Spanish law with SCCs for transfers, and SOC 2 plus ISO 27001-family certifications are stated. The chain still runs through a San Francisco affiliate and a joint controllership with it for US sales, hosting on AWS with no stated region, US providers for VideoAsk hosting and authentication, and the general subprocessor list behind a help-centre page. Ownership is not documented and I found no confirmation that responses are hosted in the EU by default, so I cannot place it at the top level.
Pricing transparency
Jotform
A free sign-up is offered, and the payment features state no additional transaction fees for ACH, eCheck and recurring donations. We found no public information on plan prices, submission limits, which features sit behind which plan, or the terms of the enterprise offering — a buyer cannot compute an annual cost from these pages alone.
Typeform
Four plans are priced in EUR with users, included and maximum monthly responses, file-upload limits, enrichment limits and a per-plan feature comparison, annual billing labelled "Yearly (Save 30%)", and automation add-ons at 21 EUR /mo and 66 EUR /mo, plus stated auto-renewal, non-refundable fees and a 30-day billing dispute window. Extra responses are sold as add-ons in account settings with no published unit price, Enterprise is contact sales, and I found no public information on VAT treatment. The free plan is described without a stated response cap.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Jotform
Typeform
Legal entity
Not determined
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
Not determined
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Data processing agreement
Not determined
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Transfer impact assessment
Not determined
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates Typeform higher: 3/5 against 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Jotform and 6 pick Typeform. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Jotform or Typeform European?
Jotform is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Typeform is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Do Jotform and Typeform have a free plan?
As of 29 Oct 2026, both vendors’ own pages state a free plan. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.