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 Operations Manager
Replaces paper and PDF forms at a service company: event registrations, supplier onboarding, damage reports with photos, order requests with a payment. Wants forms a colleague can build without IT, file uploads, a submission that lands in the right inbox and the CRM or spreadsheet without copy and paste, and a price that does not jump when the response count does.
Jotform
Typeform
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Form & survey building
Jotform
A drag-and-drop builder, 20,000+ templates, the customer's own logo, fonts and colours, and conditional logic that shows or hides fields are all confirmed, so a colleague can build without IT. Answer piping, hidden fields, custom CSS and multi-language translations are also documented. We found no public information on calculations and scoring, randomisation, reusable question libraries, or a named accessibility standard.
Typeform
A drag-and-drop builder with no code needed, 28 question types, conditional logic and branching, a 3,000+ template library and brand kits with the customer's logo, colours and fonts are all documented, which covers the event registrations and supplier onboarding forms my colleagues build. Recall Information pipes earlier answers into later questions and forms can be created in multiple languages, but we found no public information on hidden fields, calculations, reusable question libraries, or any accessibility standard for respondents.
Distribution, response collection & workflows
Jotform
Everything my damage reports and order forms need is confirmed: share links, embedding and QR codes, email and WhatsApp notifications on submission, file uploads of any type or size, offline collection in the mobile app, legally binding signatures, and payments through 40+ gateways. Responses can flow straight into HubSpot or Salesforce among 150+ integrations, and an approval-workflow automation page appears in the captured pages. We found no public information on managed invitation lists with reminders, response quotas and closing rules, or a documented REST API and webhooks.
Typeform
File uploads (1 GB to 4 GB depending on plan), payments and partial responses, email notifications, native Google Sheets, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce integrations, plus Zapier and webhooks, mean a damage report with photos or a paid order request lands in the spreadsheet or CRM without copy and paste. A 25,000-contact database with CSV import and automation triggers exists, but we found no public information on invitations with reminders, QR codes, form closing rules, or routing submissions for approval.
Survey analysis & reporting
Jotform
The confirmed capabilities are a report builder producing bar graphs, pie charts and submission grids, built-in form analytics, and exports to CSV, Excel and PDF; pages for sentiment analysis and automated flow reports also appear in the captured set. We found no public information on filters and segments, cross-tabulation, standard scores such as NPS, or exports to SPSS or R.
Typeform
NPS scores auto-calculate, reports can be generated and shared, completion rates and drop-off analysis are shown, responses can be downloaded, and AI detects key topics and sentiment in open text. We found no public information on cross-tabulation, weighting, trend reports across waves, or the export formats analysts use such as CSV, Excel, SPSS or R.
Consent, GDPR & respondent data
Jotform
A privacy policy and a security page are linked from the footer, a GDPR-compliance page appears in the captured set, and payment collection is stated to be PCI compliant. Beyond that we found no public information on anonymous submissions, retention periods and automatic deletion, encryption of responses, or a data processing agreement.
Typeform
A published data processing agreement with the customer as controller, AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit, a named data protection officer, technical and organisational measures in the agreement's annex, and respondent requests forwarded to the customer give a solid baseline. Anonymous surveys that do not collect IP addresses or identifying information are documented, but a cookie-consent widget needs a PRO+ account plus a separate Axeptio account, and we found no public information on customer-set retention periods with automatic deletion or field-level masking of sensitive answers.
Hosting choice, teams & portability
Jotform
EU hosting is explicit and strong — "The data will be kept exclusively in our EU servers in Germany" — and everything is portable: forms export as HTML, submissions as CSV, Excel and PDF, and uploaded files in a single zip. Single sign-on and white-labelling each have their own product pages, and an Enterprise offering exists. We found no public information on team roles and permissions, an audit log, or self-hosting.
Typeform
Team workspaces with assigned roles and real-time collaboration, removable Typeform branding, custom subdomains and a full response download are documented, with single sign-on, custom domains and a choice of US or EU data center reserved for Enterprise. Administrators can access and export workspace activity logs and public APIs exist, but we found no public information on SAML or user provisioning detail, self-hosting, or a documented format for exporting the forms themselves to another tool.
European sovereignty
Jotform
The vendor is Jotform Inc. of San Francisco, though the terms are noted to name Jotform Ltd of London as contracting entity for customers outside the listed regions, and European storage in Germany is offered with data stated to be kept exclusively on EU servers. We found no public information on ownership, the subprocessor chain behind hosting, email delivery and payments, a published data processing agreement, or security certifications.
Typeform
Typeform, S.L. of Barcelona with a Spanish tax identification number is the contracting entity, the data processing agreement runs under Spanish law with SCC module 4 for transfers outside the EEA, SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 are stated, and a subprocessor list is published behind a help-centre link. The captured pages give no confirmed default data residency, however: the data center choice is a US-or-EU option on Enterprise only and data is described as located in AWS, a US-headquartered host, while named affiliates in San Francisco, opt-in Okta authentication and AI features governed by OpenAI's terms all sit in the chain.
Pricing transparency
Jotform
A free sign-up is advertised ("Sign Up with an email IT'S FREE!") and an Enterprise tier exists, but we found no public information on plan prices, submission or user limits, overage terms, or which features sit on which plan. An operations buyer cannot compute the annual cost for a given response volume from the captured pages, and whether the price jumps with submission counts is exactly the unanswered question.
Typeform
Four plans are priced publicly in euros per month (25, 49, 84 and 242 EUR /mo) with users, included responses per month, maximum monthly response limits, file upload sizes and a feature comparison, plus a 30% annual discount and automation add-ons priced at 21 EUR /mo and 66 EUR /mo. Single sign-on, the EU data center and Enterprise are contact-sales only and extra-response add-ons are purchasable but unpriced publicly, and we found no public information on VAT treatment; the terms state responses above plan limits are simply not collected, so cost is predictable but volume is capped.
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.