Quote form builder: six options for a quote request form, with free plans

Quote form builder shortlist: six tools and the two free picks

The quote form builders worth shortlisting are Fillout, Tally, Cognito Forms, Paperform, Typeform and involve.me, and for a plain quote request form the first two cost nothing. A quote form collects the details of a job (service, size, timing, contact) so you can reply with a price; a builder with calculations can also show a total before the visitor submits. Free plans and entry prices in the table below are as read on 3 October 2026.

Six quote form builders compared

Typeform's and Tally's pricing pages served euro prices when we read them, so we quote no dollar figure for their paid plans. Typeform showed Basic at 25 euros a month, billed yearly. Typeform's help center also says its plan prices are being tested.

Quote form builder free: Fillout, Tally and Cognito Forms

A free quote form builder with room for a small firm's requests exists in three of the six: Fillout, Tally and Cognito Forms. Their caps differ. Fillout allows 1,000 responses a month, Tally sets no submission cap inside its fair use policy, and Cognito Forms allows 100 entries a month. Paperform's free plan stops at 30 submissions a month and Typeform's at 10 responses a month.

On those three free plans the vendor's branding appears on the form. involve.me's Free plan has 2 live funnels and no calculator. Its monthly lead cap differs by source, 50 submissions on involve.me's pricing page and 25 contacts in its help center, and visits stop at 500 a month; the involve.me free plan page covers the difference. See involve.me vs Fillout for the free-versus-paid case.

Request a quote form for a website: what to ask and how to embed it

A request-a-quote form for a website needs five things: the service wanted, the size or quantity of the job, the timing, a way to reply, and a place for photos or files. Fillout and Tally include file uploads on their free plans; on Typeform, file upload questions need Basic.

Fillout and Typeform both list embedding on their free plans, and involve.me's embed code creates a responsive iframe. Our guide to required vs optional form fields covers which of the five to make mandatory.

Form builder with calculations: rules in Fillout, Tally and Typeform, formulas in involve.me

A form builder with calculations lets the quote form show a total, and all six tools do arithmetic in some way:

• Fillout: step-by-step rules, each doing one operation; results show up to 2 decimal places, with no currency symbol.
• Tally: calculated fields, available for free to all users, with add, subtract, multiply and divide plus formula expressions.
• Typeform: rules that change a score or price variable; the price variable needs a Payment question, which is on Basic or higher.
• Paperform and Cognito Forms: a paid-only Calculation field in Paperform; calculations that total costs and set field values in Cognito Forms.
• involve.me: a formula builder with operators, IF conditions and VLOOKUP against a data table, on Start and above.

Example: a cleaning quote of a $60 call-out plus $0.12 per square foot. For 1,500 square feet the total is 60 + 180 = $240. In Fillout that is two rules (multiply the area by 0.12, then add 60); in involve.me it is one formula.

Which quote form builder to pick

• Fillout for a free quote request form with a running total and up to 1,000 responses a month.
• Tally for a free form when you do not want a monthly submission cap.
• Cognito Forms for order-style forms with calculated totals, at 100 entries a month free or Pro at $19 a month billed annually.
• Typeform or Paperform if you already pay for one. Both take a quote request; neither has a free plan above 30 submissions a month.
• involve.me when the form should show the price on a result page and send follow-up emails. That is a calculator job more than a form job: see what is a quote calculator for the difference and the involve.me review for its plans.

involve.me is the wrong tool for a five-field quote request form that shows a total: Fillout and Tally do that sum free. Its calculator starts on Start at $29 a month, charged annually, and is worth paying for when the form has to show the price on a result page and email the lead afterwards.