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 HR Lead
Runs the yearly engagement survey and pulse checks for a German company of six hundred, with the works council reading every question. Wants anonymity that is real and stated, results hidden below a minimum group size, reports per department that managers can read, and answers that are deleted when the agreement with the works council says so.
Jotform
Typeform
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Form & survey building
Jotform
A drag-and-drop builder with our own logo, fonts and colours, twenty thousand templates, conditional show/hide logic, answer piping, hidden fields, custom CSS, translations and conversational one-question-per-page forms is documented. We found no public information on calculations, reusable question libraries or a named accessibility standard such as WCAG or BITV, which a works council will ask about.
Typeform
The builder is drag-and-drop with 28 question types, conditional logic and branching, piping through the Recall Information feature, multilingual forms and a 3,000+ template library that includes anonymous survey templates, plus brand kits for logo, colours and fonts. We found no public information on calculations or scoring inside the form, hidden fields, randomisation of question order, or a stated accessibility standard such as WCAG or BITV, which my works council will ask about first.
Distribution, response collection & workflows
Jotform
Links, embedding, QR codes, email notifications per response, file uploads, offline collection with later sync, payments across forty-plus gateways, electronic signatures and over a hundred and fifty integrations are documented, with workflow automation and approval automation pages present. We found no public information on invitation lists with reminders and unique links, response quotas, or a documented API with webhooks.
Typeform
Sharing as a link or embedded in email and website, email notifications, follow-up emails and text messages, file uploads up to 4 GB, payments, a 25,000-contact database with CSV import, Zapier and hundreds of integrations, plus webhooks and a public API cover what our yearly distribution needs. Managed invitations with reminders on unique links, response quotas with automatic closing rules, and offline or kiosk collection are not described on the captured pages.
Survey analysis & reporting
Jotform
Automatic bar charts, pie charts, submission grids, PDF reports, secure sharing and exports to CSV, Excel and PDF are documented, and pages exist for sentiment analysis and flow reports. We found no public information on filters and segments, cross-tabulation, NPS or hiding results below a minimum group size, which is what per-department reporting under a works council agreement needs.
Typeform
Live reporting shows completion rate, drop-off per question, performance over time, auto-generated shareable reports, auto-calculated NPS, and AI topic and sentiment detection on open answers. I found no public information on cross-tabulation, weighting, trend reports across survey waves, exports to SPSS or R, or the filters, per-department report views and minimum group-size suppression that would let me hand each manager their own department results safely.
Consent, GDPR & respondent data
Jotform
The captured pages show a linked privacy policy, a security page, PCI compliance for payments and a GDPR compliance page. We found no public information on a data processing agreement, an anonymous mode that drops IP addresses, retention periods or automatic deletion, so I cannot verify deletion when the works council agreement requires it.
Typeform
Surveys are anonymous by default and anonymous mode collects no IP addresses or identifiers, the data processing agreement is published with Annex II measures and a named data protection officer, encryption in transit and at rest is stated, data is deleted or returned on termination, and an optional GDPR cookie consent widget exists. Missing for me are a retention period with automatic deletion I can align to the works council agreement, per-respondent access and erasure tooling, and field-level masking; the service terms also grant a worldwide sublicensable licence over respondent data for service improvement, and the Quantitative Insights feature is activated by default and governed by OpenAI's terms — that alone will cost me a long meeting.
Hosting choice, teams & portability
Jotform
European storage exclusively on servers in Germany is stated, forms export as HTML, submission data as CSV, Excel and PDF, uploads as a zip, and pages exist for single sign-on and white-labelling. We found no public information on team roles and permissions per form, an audit log, or a documented format for moving forms and responses to another tool.
Typeform
The choice between a US or an EU data center, single sign-on, a custom domain and the top support tier sit on Enterprise only, while shared workspaces with roles, branding removal and a custom subdomain come with the paid plans, and workspace administrators can access and export activity logs. We found no public information on granular roles per form or folder, SAML or user-provisioning detail, or a documented export and migration path — and the terms state the company is not obligated to keep a copy of our submissions.
European sovereignty
Jotform
The vendor is Jotform Inc. of San Francisco, while European data can be kept exclusively on servers in Germany. We found no public information on ownership, the contracting entity, subprocessors such as hosting, email delivery or analytics, or a published data processing agreement, so the chain beyond the database is unverified.
Typeform
The contracting entity is Typeform, S.L. of Barcelona with a Spanish tax identity, the data processing agreement is published under Spanish law, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications are stated, and subprocessor categories with a published list are referenced, though the named list itself sits behind an external help-centre link. The captured pages give different statements on hosting — EEA processing and an Enterprise EU data center choice on one hand, customer data located in AWS and the San Francisco affiliate acting as joint controller for sales on the other — so the exposure through AWS and the US affiliate is mitigated by standard contractual clauses and Annex II measures rather than removed.
Pricing transparency
Jotform
A free sign-up is documented, but we found no public information on plan prices, user or response limits, what happens above them, or which features need a higher plan. The real annual cost for six hundred employees cannot be computed from these pages.
Typeform
Basic, Plus, Business and Growth Flow carry public monthly prices in euros with user counts and monthly response limits, a 30% yearly saving, priced automation add-ons and a free tier. But single sign-on, the EU data center and the custom domain sit on Enterprise at "contact sales", the price of extra responses and additional users is not stated, the free tier's response limit is not shown and VAT treatment is not described — so for a company of six hundred the real annual cost is not computable from public pages, and the legal notice reserves price changes at any time without notice.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Jotform
Typeform
Legal entity
Not determined
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Hosting location
Not determined
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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.