Comparisons

How Formala compares

We wrote these, so read them knowing that. What we can do is be straight with you: every page below starts with what the other product does better than Formala, because on several of these the answer is quite a lot, and on one of them the honest advice is to buy theirs.

Every price carries the billing term it comes with, since an annual headline rate next to a monthly one is the easiest way to be misled. Prices were read off each vendor’s own pricing page by hand on 26 August 2026. Where we could not confirm something, the page says so rather than filling the gap with a sensible-looking number.

Pricing

Simple pricing. Every core feature included.

Start with 30 free conversations over 30 days, no card. Every plan has every core feature. Bigger plans add volume, and Growth and up learn from real chats, Pro adds the AI follow-up engine, and Business adds auto-sent replies plus seats for your team. How billing works →

Starter

$19/mo

 

150 conversations / month

about 13¢ per conversation

  • Every core feature
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Growth

$39/mo

 

400 conversations / month

about 10¢ per conversation

  • Every core feature
  • Learns from real chats
  • Team seats
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Pro

$79/mo

 

1,000 conversations / month

about 8¢ per conversation

  • Every core feature
  • Learns from real chats
  • Team seats
  • AI follow-up engine
  • Send from your own domain
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Business

$149/mo

 

2,500 conversations / month

about 6¢ per conversation

  • Every core feature
  • Learns from real chats
  • Team seats
  • AI follow-up engine
  • Send from your own domain
  • Auto-sent AI replies
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And it never switches off

$0 a month

No card to start. Your first 30 conversations are answered by the AI, over 30 days. After that the AI stops answering and the rest of it keeps working, for nothing, for as long as you like, carrying a small “Powered by Formala” line that any paid plan removes.

  • The contact formThe widget falls back to your own form, so a visitor who wants to reach you still can, and the lead still lands in your inbox.
  • Direct messagesVisitors can still leave a message for you or for a named person on your team, and reply to yours from the same thread.
  • BookingYour booking page keeps taking appointments, with the reminders and the calendar sync that go with them.

Add voice: let visitors talk to it out loud

A microphone in the chat. Visitors speak instead of typing and hear the answer back, and you get the same transcript and the same lead as any other conversation. Works with any plan, on as many forms as you like.

$59/mo200 spoken minutes a month

Not sure what something does? Every feature, explained in plain English →

Every plan starts with a free 30-day trial: no card required, cancel anytime. If Formala catches one job you'd have missed, it's paid for itself.

Priced for small businesses, not enterprises.

You get the qualifying, structuring, and follow-up you'd expect from tools that cost far more, at pennies per conversation.

FormalaA plain contact formChat / chatbot suites
Turns vague visitors into qualified leadsLimited
Clean, structured leads, no transcripts to readLimited
Answers 24/7 and follows up on its ownLimited
Live in minutes. One line, no code or setup feesLimited
Your brand, no “powered by” badge (any paid plan)Limited
Typical costFrom $19/mo · ~6–13¢ a chatFree, but converts like a form~$30–130/seat + ~$1 per AI chat

You pay less at every size

Chats / moA comparable AI form toolFormala
250$59/mo$39/moGrowth · 400 included
500$98/mo$79/moPro · 1,000 included
2,000$330/mo$149/moBusiness · 2,500 included

Up to ~2.5× cheaper per conversation, and it does more.

Other tools' prices reflect major providers' publicly listed rates (AI form tools by conversation tier; live-chat suites per seat plus a per-AI-answer fee) and may change, so compare current plans before deciding.

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