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 Skeptic
Has seen a "free form builder" put its logo on every customer survey and charge per response the month the campaign worked. Reads "GDPR compliant" with no data processing agreement behind it, "anonymous" surveys that still log IP addresses, "EU hosting" on the enterprise plan only, and AI analysis features with no word on where the answers go — and asks whether the responses can leave with the customer.
Jotform
Typeform
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Form & survey building
Jotform
Drag-and-drop building with 20,000+ templates, conditional show/hide logic, answer piping, hidden fields, custom CSS, translations and conversational one-question-per-page forms is all documented, with the customer's own logo, fonts and colours. We found no public information on calculations or scoring, question randomisation, reusable question libraries, or accessibility output against a named standard.
Typeform
A genuine no-code drag-and-drop builder: 28 question types, conditional logic with branching and Logic Jumps, piping through the Recall Information feature, 3,000+ templates, brand kits covering themes, fonts, logos and colours, multilingual forms, signature and video questions, and an AI agent that builds the form for you. We found no public information on calculations or scoring inside the form, hidden fields, randomisation, custom CSS, question libraries, or a named accessibility standard for respondents — and those are exactly what would separate the good from the excellent here.
Distribution, response collection & workflows
Jotform
Distribution is broad: share links, embeds, QR codes, file uploads, signatures, payments through 40+ gateways with coupons and recurring billing, email notifications, autoresponders, WhatsApp alerts, offline mobile collection, and 150+ integrations into CRMs and email tools. We found no public information on invitations with reminders to managed contact lists, response quotas and closing rules, approval routing, webhooks or an API.
Typeform
Links, email and website embeds, file uploads with per-plan storage caps, payments and signature questions, contact lists up to 25,000 with CSV import and bulk management, automated follow-ups by email and SMS, lead routing and scoring, reCAPTCHA and duplicate protection, documented webhooks, a public API, Zapier and a long list of named native apps — most of what a working team needs to get answers and act on them. We found no public information on email invitations with reminders as a managed flow, response quotas or closing rules, offline or kiosk collection, or submissions routed for approval, and QR codes are not described on the captured pages.
Survey analysis & reporting
Jotform
The captures show automatic visual reports with bar graphs, pie charts and submission grids, per-submission PDFs, a built-in analytics tool with Google Analytics as an option, and submission data exported to CSV, Excel and PDF. We found no public information on filters and segments, cross-tabulation or standard scores such as NPS, and no detail on how open-text or sentiment analysis works.
Typeform
Built-in analytics show completion rate, drop-off and performance over time with aggregated answers per question, NPS auto-calculates with reports you can generate and share, and the AI detects topics and sentiment — that sentiment piece is high-end material, and Research Flow adds AI analysis, highlight reels and shareable reports. But we found no public information on cross-tabulation with significance testing, weighting, audience-specific dashboards, or exports to SPSS or R, and the response download carries no named format, so this sits just above the middle of the scale.
Consent, GDPR & respondent data
Jotform
This is a product collecting signatures, payment details and contact data, and the captures show only a privacy policy link, PCI compliance for payments and an opt-in EU storage tier. We found no public information on a data processing agreement, an anonymous mode that drops IP addresses, retention periods or deletion, encryption of responses, or consent and privacy-notice fields — while forms can be wired to Google Analytics, Tag Manager and reCAPTCHA with nothing said about cookie controls.
Typeform
More than a GDPR sticker: a published data processing agreement with technical and organisational measures, TLS 1.2/1.3 and AES-256 encryption, a named data protection officer, anonymous surveys that by the vendor's own words collect no IP addresses or identifying information, delete-or-return on termination, data subject requests forwarded to the customer, and an Axeptio cookie-consent widget. What holds it back: we found no public information on field-level encryption or masking, forms that set no tracking cookies by default, or consent records kept with each response — and the service terms take a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable licence over respondent data for providing and improving the service, aggregated, which a skeptic reads twice.
Hosting choice, teams & portability
Jotform
EU storage in Germany is a documented option ("the data will be kept exclusively in our EU servers in Germany"), submission data exports to CSV, Excel and PDF with uploads in a zip, forms export as HTML, and an Enterprise offering exists. We found no public information on team workspaces and roles, single sign-on, an audit log, white-labelling, custom domains or self-hosting.
Typeform
Teams get shared workspaces with assigned roles and real-time collaboration, single sign-on on the Enterprise plan, a custom domain on Enterprise and a custom subdomain plus branding removal from Plus, organisation administrators can access and export activity logs, and responses are downloadable with a public API alongside. But the choice between a US or EU data center is Enterprise-only rather than a per-account EU default, and we found no public information on self-hosting, SAML-based provisioning, granular per-form or per-folder roles, or a documented export format another tool could import.
European sovereignty
Jotform
Jotform Inc. of 4 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco is the company on every captured page, with EU storage an opt-in German tier the vendor describes as transferring your data to its European servers; the terms name a London entity, Jotform Ltd, for customers outside listed regions. We found no public information on subprocessors and their locations, a data processing agreement, or ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification — the security posture shown is a PCI badge and a footer link.
Typeform
The paper is genuinely European — Typeform SL in Barcelona with a registry number, Spanish law and Spanish courts for the contract clauses, a published DPA with Standard Contractual Clauses, and SOC 2 and the ISO suite named. The chain is what worries me: the hosting actually named on these pages is Amazon Web Services, a US entity, the EU data center exists only on the Enterprise plan, the general subprocessor list sits behind a help-centre link, US customers are sold by the San Francisco affiliate as joint controller under Delaware law, and the quantitative insights feature is governed by OpenAI's terms and activated by default — with nothing on the captured pages saying where respondents' answers go for that.
Pricing transparency
Jotform
The free tier is real ("Sign Up for Free", "IT'S FREE!") and that is the whole of the pricing story in the captures. We found no public information on paid plan prices, submission or user limits, overage or extra-response charges, which features need which plan, billing periods, VAT or cancellation terms.
Typeform
Unusually concrete for the category: 25, 49 and 84 EUR/mo for Basic, Plus and Business with users, included responses and maximum monthly response limits per plan, file upload, enrichment and video caps, a Growth Flow at 242 EUR/mo after a credit-card 14-day trial, automation add-ons at 21 and 66 EUR/mo, a stated 30% yearly saving, and terms that say responses above the limit are simply not collected. But single sign-on, the EU data center and HIPAA sit behind Enterprise 'contact sales', extra responses are purchasable without a public price, VAT treatment is not stated and prices may change at any time without notice — so the real annual cost is computable only up to the Enterprise door.
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
Not determined
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.