Papias vs Typeform
Papias as a Typeform alternative
People leave Typeform for one reason more than any other: the response limits. Typeform’s paid plans start at 100 responses a month and the price climbs with volume, which is fine for a lead form and painful for a club, a school or a shop. Papias offers the same one-question-at-a-time experience Typeform made popular, drafts the form from a sentence, and never counts responses on any plan. It does not have Typeform’s video questions, research tools or contact automation, and this page says so.
Stay with Typeform if
- You use video questions and video answers, AI-moderated research, lead enrichment or the contacts and automations add-on. Papias has none of these.
- You need many seats with workspaces, single sign-on or a dedicated account manager.
- You want Salesforce, HubSpot or a large catalogue of direct integrations. Papias has Slack, Teams and Discord messages, Zapier, Make and n8n, email and signed webhooks.
Side by side
Typeform’s figures are as published on its own site, read on 27 October 2026; check them there before you decide. Papias’s are its pricing page. Prices before VAT where it applies.
| Typeform | Papias | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Basic features with a limited number of responses a month. | Free: unlimited forms and responses, never counted. One person, 10 AI credits a month, 100 MB of uploaded files, a small “Made with Papias” badge on the form. |
| Paid plans | Basic $39 a month for 100 responses, Plus $79 for 1,000, Business $129 for 10,000 (1, 3 and 5 users); $28, $56 and $91 a month paid yearly. Typeform says it is testing prices, so your account may be offered other figures. | Pro €19 a month (€15 a month paid yearly): 200 AI credits a month, 5 people, 10 GB, no badge, your own domain. Business €49 (€39 yearly). Prices before VAT. |
| What you pay for | Responses per month. | Room: AI credits, people, file space, the badge off, your own domain. Responses are never counted. |
| One question at a time | Yes, the house style. | Yes, or a classic layout, per form. |
| Draft a form from a description | AI-powered form creation, from the Basic plan. | Yes, on every plan: describe the form, get the draft, then change it in words. |
| Logic | Logic jumps, recalled answers, scores and calculations, multiple endings. | Show a question only if earlier answers call for it (one condition, or several with and/or), calculations, prices per option with a live total, answers piped into later text, repeating groups, a different ending per answer, redirect after sending. |
| Question types | A full set, including video, payment and file upload on some plans. | Text, email, phone with a country picker, number, amount, date, time, choice, checkboxes, dropdown, picture choice, rating, scale, NPS, ranking, grid, file upload, signature, address, consent, hidden fields, repeating groups, calculations, headings and pictures between questions. |
| Branding removal | Plus and above. | The badge is on Free and off on Pro. |
| Your own domain | Enterprise. | Your own domain for form links, on Pro. |
| Where people stop | Drop-off rates on Business. | On every plan. |
| Integrations | A large catalogue, Zapier, webhooks. | Each response to Slack, Microsoft Teams or Discord, to Zapier, Make or n8n, to your own system as signed JSON, or by email; a row in a Google Sheet on Pro. |
| Company and hosting | Typeform SL, Barcelona, Spain. | GestureLoop Limited, Ireland. Servers and backups in the EU (Finland), on every plan. |
| Trackers on your form | Conversion tracking on Business. | None from Papias: no analytics, no pixel, fonts served from our own server. On Pro an organiser can add their own Google Analytics or Meta Pixel tag, which is told the form was opened and sent, never the answers. |
| AI and your data | See Typeform’s AI terms. | Drafting sends your description and the form’s questions to an AI model (Anthropic’s Claude, through Yohanun). Respondents’ answers go to it only on a form its organiser sets to a conversation, and they’re told first; nothing is used to train models. |
Where Papias is different
- Volume is not the bill.
Papias never counts responses, on Free or on Pro. A form with ten thousand answers costs the same as one with ten. What Pro adds is room: more AI credits, more people, more file space, the badge off, your own domain.
- The first draft is written for you.
Describe the form in a sentence, or paste the questions you have, and it is built with the right kinds of question and the conditions. Then change it in words.
- Nothing runs on the form but the form.
No analytics, no pixel, no external fonts from Papias. Answers are stored and backed up in the EU by an Irish company and are never used to train AI.
Switching
Download your Typeform results as CSV or Excel first. Then paste your questions into “Draft with AI” as the description; one question at a time is a switch on the form’s Design settings. Replace the embed or link, and close the old form so nothing arrives in two places.
Twenty-four templates are there to start from, each one a real form you can try first.
Questions
Can Papias do the one-question-per-screen style?
Yes, per form, with your colours, cover image, logo and fonts. Enter moves on, and a single choice moves on by itself.
Does it have a free plan?
Yes: unlimited forms and responses, one person, 10 AI credits a month, 100 MB of files and a small badge. Pro is €19 a month.
Will my Typeform logic carry over?
Not automatically. Show-if conditions, calculations and endings per answer cover the common cases; rebuild and test in the preview.
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