Compare - Flex Forms

External form product

Separate vendor UI and storage. You connect exports, webhooks, or paid add-ons to bring answers into your systems.

Flex Forms

Plugin inside your Filament panel. Submissions, Contacts, and Insights are rows you already back up with the rest of the app.

Delivery options

	Custom engineering	External form SaaS	Flex Forms
First published form	Depends on your roadmap	Fast vendor onboarding	Composer install → Studio → publish
Cost shape	Engineer time + upkeep	Monthly (often open-ended)	Yearly plans or Lifetime once
Answer storage	Your DB	Vendor cloud	Your DB
Operator UI	Custom	Vendor app	Filament panel
Private / restricted networks	If you build for it	Rarely	Same as your Laravel deploy

Operations checklist

Topic	External SaaS	Flex Forms
Data residency	Vendor regions / terms	Your infrastructure
Who can open the admin	Vendor seats	Existing Filament users & policies
Embeds	Usually their CDN / widget	Served from your app
CRM / webhooks	Often plan-gated	Included — Integrations
Multi-page, logic, formulas	Varies by vendor	Included — Logic & calculated
Analytics	Vendor dashboards	Insights in-panel
Commercial model	Usage / seat subscriptions	Standard $99 · Pro $ 199 · Enterprise $799 / year, or Lifetime $ 899 — Plans

Rough multi-year spend (hosted vs Lifetime)

Use this only as a planning sketch against public list prices. Your real SaaS invoice may differ (discounts, taxes, annual billing).

Option	Rough monthly list	~60 months	Notes
Hosted form SaaS (entry tier)	~$29	~$1,740	Vendor-hosted
Hosted form SaaS (business tier)	~$99	~$5,940	Vendor-hosted
Hosted form SaaS (mid tier)	~$39	~$2,340	Vendor-hosted
Flex Forms Lifetime	—	$899	In your Filament app; Pro features; 10 activations; ongoing package updates

Illustrative 2026 public tiers — verify on each vendor’s pricing page. Yearly Flex Forms subscriptions remain available if Lifetime is not the right purchase — Plans & Pricing.

No Filament panel? An external builder is usually simpler. Flex Forms assumes Filament is already your admin layer.

Can I migrate existing forms from another builder?

There is no automated importer today. Recreate the form in Studio and point traffic at the new fill link or embed.

Which field types are included?

Rating, NPS, file upload, currency, voice notes, and the rest of the Blocks catalog. Card payments use Stripe via the Payment block. PayPal and ranking fields are not included.

​Two models

External form product

Flex Forms

​Delivery options

​Operations checklist

​Rough multi-year spend (hosted vs Lifetime)

Two models

Delivery options

Operations checklist

Rough multi-year spend (hosted vs Lifetime)