One price. It's free.
Google Forms is free but ugly. Typeform is pretty but pricey. ChaiForm is free, open source, and ships every feature to everyone. No tiers, no metering, no “contact sales.”
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Hosted
₹0/ forever
The instance you're looking at right now. Sign up and start building.
- ✓Unlimited forms & responses
- ✓All 10 themes + theme gallery
- ✓Conditional logic & multi-page forms
- ✓CSV / Excel / PDF export
- ✓Password protection & custom slugs
- ✓QR sharing & analytics dashboards
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Self-host
₹0/ your server
One Docker image, one Kamal service. Own your data end to end.
- ✓Everything in Hosted
- ✓Ships as a single container
- ✓Deploy with Kamal in minutes
- ✓Bring your own Postgres
- ✓API endpoint forms + signed webhooks
- ✓MIT licensed — fork it freely
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Buy me a chai
₹99/ one-time, optional
Nothing unlocks. It just keeps the maintainer caffeinated.
- ✓A warm fuzzy feeling
- ✓Genuine gratitude
- ✓Zero feature gates
- ✓No card stored
- ✓No login required
- ✓Still 100% open source
“What's the catch?”
There isn't one. ChaiForm is a side project that got out of hand. Every paid form-builder feature you can think of — conditional logic, exports, password protection, analytics — is included on day one, for everyone.
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