Web3Forms gives 412,000 people a free contact form. 3,232 of them pay, mostly $149 a year
A one-founder form backend from Kerala, India: a free tier with no sign-up, an annual Pro plan, and a verified revenue record that only covers the last twelve months of a product launched in 2020.
Product at a glance
Summary
What this business is
Web3Forms is a contact form service for websites that have no server of their own. A designer pastes a form into a static page, points it at Web3Forms, and the messages arrive by email. It was started in 2020 by Surjith S M, a front-end developer in Kerala, India, who also sells website templates. Anyone can use it free up to 250 submissions a month without signing up; paying customers mostly buy a $149 Pro plan for a year. Revenue on TrustMRR has been flat at about $46,000 a month since June, while MRR keeps rising. The verified record starts in late 2025, so it shows only the most recent part of a six-year-old business.
Why these scores? See the reasons in Key takeaways →
Momentum
Mixed. Revenue: last three complete months +10% on the three before; +130% on the same months half a year earlier; MRR +34% since Jul 24, 2026.Derived
Best suited for
Builder (main). A small, reliable service that has to keep delivering email and blocking spam.
Creator (second). The founder’s own open-source templates point new users to it.
What you need to start. Patience with a free tier that most people never leave, and a way to reach developers at the moment they need a form.Our read
Key findings
Product overview
A form that works on a site with no server: paste it in, and messages arrive by email.
Static sites built with tools like Next.js, Astro or Webflow have no backend to receive a contact form. Web3Forms is that backend. The form posts to its address with an access key, and the submission is emailed to the owner, with spam filtering in between[2]. The homepage states 412,000 users, 13.2 million emails delivered and 220,000 spam submissions blocked; these are the company’s own figures[2].
What the site looks like
Captured Nov 11, 2026 · Screenshot: web3forms.com. The homepage and pricing page showed a security check to our capture service, so they are not shown.
What to look for
- 1A grid of frameworks and hosts: Next.js, React, Vue, Astro, HTML, JavaScript and more.Fact
- 2Each tile is its own page, written for a developer who searches “contact form” plus their framework. See §04.Our read
- 3The page sells nothing directly. It sends each visitor to a setup guide for the stack they already use.Our read
| Plan | Price | Submissions a month | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, no sign-up | 250 | Unlimited forms and domains, spam protection |
| Starter | $49 a year | 5,000 | For startups, students and non-profits; Pro features without autoresponders or attachments |
| Pro | $149 a year (shown as $12 a month) | 20,000 | File uploads, autoresponders, webhooks, Google Sheets, Notion and Slack |
| Agency & Team | $399 a year (shown as $33 a month) | 20,000 plus 5,000 per sub-account | 20 email addresses under one account |
From the live pricing page, read Nov 11, 2026[2].
The founder, Surjith S M, is a front-end developer and designer who also sells website templates[6]. TrustMRR lists the company in India, founded on Dec 15, 2020[1]. The homepage does not name him[2].
Revenue analysis
About $1,600 a day, higher on weekdays, from developers buying a year at a time.
Hover or tap a bar. Verified daily revenue, Oct 12 – Nov 9, 2026 (UTC), from TrustMRR[1]. Blue: Saturdays and Sundays. Nov 10 is left out because the day was not complete at sync.
21 weekdays.Derived
8 weekend days.Derived
The mirror image of the consumer app in our Boothie report.Derived
$47,313 in 30 days against $44,535 MRR.Derived
Monthly revenue: flat since June
Hover or tap a bar. Monthly verified revenue from TrustMRR[1], December 2025 to November 2026. November covers Nov 1–10. The verified record barely exists before December 2025; see below.
Our arithmetic on the verified data in this report. Revenue ÷ MRR uses the last 30 days; the share of all-time revenue counts the months in the chart above; the swing is the median change between complete months.
From June to October monthly revenue stayed between $44,630 and $47,849[1]. Over the same months the subscription base kept growing.
| Date | MRR | Active subscriptions | MRR per subscription |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2026 | $33,142 | 2,415 | $13.72 |
| Aug 26, 2026 | $37,163 | 2,694 | $13.79 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $40,669 | 2,946 | $13.80 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $41,931 | 3,034 | $13.82 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $44,535 | 3,232 | $13.78 |
Earlier rows from archived copies of the TrustMRR page[3]; the last row from the live page[1]. The last column is our division.
How far back the verified record goes
98.95% of all-time verified revenue.Derived
For a product launched in December 2020.Derived
$99 a year Pro in the Feb 2023 archive.Fact
Referenced in the archived page’s code.Fact
Web3Forms had paid plans in February 2023 and its pricing page referenced Paddle in January 2025[4]. Yet the revenue TrustMRR can verify through Paddle totals $3,846 before the last twelve months[1]. The record effectively begins in late 2025. A change of payment account or of Paddle’s billing system would produce this pattern; we do not know which, if either, happened here.Our read
The practical consequence is that the chart above cannot show how the business grew. The climb from $7,917 in December to $47,141 in June may be new customers, older customers whose payments began to be recorded, or both. We draw no growth conclusion from it, and we recommend the same check for any verified revenue chart: compare where it starts with how old the product is.Our read
Market
Hosted form backends are a crowded category, and at least one rival publishes a page aimed at Web3Forms users. We found no rival with named, verified revenue, so revenue is not compared.Our read
Pricing: the annual plan does the work
The free tier has stayed generous while the paid annual plans went up by half or more.
| Archived | Pro | Agency | Starter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2023, Jun 2024 | $99 a year | $229 a year | $49 a year |
| Jan 2025, Mar 2025 | $149 a year | $399 a year | $49 a year |
| Sep 2026, Nov 2026 | $149 a year | $399 a year | $49 a year |
From archived copies of the pricing page[4] and the live page[2]. The page shows each annual price as a monthly figure, $12 and $33; we read these as the annual plans expressed per month.
$99 to $149 a year.Derived
$229 to $399 a year.Derived
No sign-up, in every capture.Fact
Unchanged since 2023.Fact
A lifetime deal was also sold on AppSumo and is now sold out[5]. Customers who bought it pay nothing further, which is one more reason the verified record may not describe everyone who uses the paid features.
Where customers come from
From developers who need a form today, through a free tier, the founder’s own templates and a page for every framework.
250 submissions a month with no account. Paying subscriptions are 0.78% of the stated user count.[1][2]
DerivedHis open-source Astro template ships a contact form that tells the builder to get a free key from web3forms.com.[6]
Fact“Web3Forms for Next.js”, for Astro, Vue, Webflow, Framer, Netlify and more.[2]
Fact15 pages on alternatives to other form services and 14 form templates.[2]
FactThe site is small, 91 pages in its sitemap, but its domain rating is 87[1][2]. A free tool that sits inside many websites and templates collects links in a way a content site cannot.Our read
What we could not read
We have no traffic data for the site and did not read the founder’s posts on X, where he has 10,152 followers[1]. We do not know how many of the 412,000 stated users are active.
Growth strategies
Four moves, each visible from outside.
Timeline
- Dec 152020ProductFounding date on TrustMRR.[1]
- Nov 12022MarketingThe founder’s Astroship template is created on GitHub; its contact form uses Web3Forms.[6]
- Feb 72023PricingPro $99 a year, Agency $229, Starter $49.[4]
- Jan 82025PricingPro $149 a year, Agency $399. Paddle referenced on the page.[4]
- Dec2025Revenue$7,917, the first full month in the verified record.[1]
- Jun2026Revenue$47,141 for the month. Monthly revenue stays near this level through October.[1]
- Jul 242026RevenueMRR $33,142 from 2,415 subscriptions.[3]
- Nov 102026RevenueMRR $44,535 from 3,232 subscriptions.[1]
Key takeaways
Web3Forms shows how a generous free tier and an annual plan can carry a one-person tool, and why a verified revenue chart has to be read against the date it begins.
Why we scored it this way
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Avoid
- Reading a verified revenue chart without checking where it starts. Here it starts in late 2025. §02
- Expecting a high conversion rate from a generous free tier. It is under 1% here. §04
- Ignoring rivals that target your name. Alternative pages are already up. §09
Our predictions
Three claims with dates. We mark each one right or wrong on its date and keep the result on the page.
Track record: the predictions in our earlier reports are still open; the first checks land Dec 1, 2026. We mark each prediction right or wrong on its date and keep the result on the page.
What could prove us wrong
Things that would change our read, and how to check them.
- The verified record may be missing older customers. If renewals from before late 2025 are paid into another account, the real business is larger than these numbers.Check: whether monthly revenue jumps a year after the record starts, as first-year annual plans come up for renewal.
- The December-to-June rise may be partly real growth. We cannot separate new customers from customers whose payments began to be recorded.Check: not public. Only the founder could say when the payment account started.
- Rivals are aiming at this product by name. At least one competitor publishes a page arguing developers should switch.Check: subscriptions on the next review.
- 412,000 users is the company’s own figure. We could not test it.Check: not public.
Appendix
FAQ
How much does Web3Forms make?
$47,313 in the 30 days to Nov 10, 2026, verified through Paddle on TrustMRR. MRR is $44,535 from 3,232 active subscriptions. The verified record covers about the last twelve months.
What does Web3Forms cost?
Free for 250 submissions a month with no sign-up. Pro is $149 a year, Agency & Team $399 a year, and a Starter plan for startups, students and non-profits is $49 a year.
Who built Web3Forms?
Surjith S M, a front-end developer in Kerala, India, who launched it in 2020 and also builds website templates, including the open-source Astroship template.
Why is Web3Forms’ revenue flat while its MRR grows?
Most customers pay for a year at once. Each annual sale counts once in that month’s revenue but adds to MRR for twelve months, so a steady pace of new sales makes MRR climb while revenue stays level.
Sources
- [1]TrustMRR: Web3Forms — revenue, MRR, subscriptions, daily and monthly data. Verified through a Paddle API key. Synced 2026-11-10 16:08 UTC.
- [2]web3forms.com — homepage, pricing page and sitemap. Read 2026-11-11.
- [3]Wayback Machine captures of the TrustMRR page for Web3Forms on Jun 15, Jul 24, Aug 26, Sep 29 and Oct 9, 2026 — MRR, subscriptions and all-time revenue on those dates. Read 2026-11-11.
- [4]Wayback Machine captures of web3forms.com/pricing — February 2023, June 2024, January and March 2025, September 2026. Read 2026-11-11.
- [5]AppSumo: Web3Forms — the lifetime deal listing, now sold out. Read 2026-11-11.
- [6]GitHub: surjithctly — the founder’s repositories, including Astroship and its contact form component. Read 2026-11-11.
Screenshot © Web3Forms, used for commentary. Oddig has no business relationship with Web3Forms. Numbers change daily; check the sources for the latest.
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