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Forms that do the work, not just collect it

Jotform, Typeform and Google Forms collect answers and send them somewhere. FasterOS forms price as people type, show and hide what matters, and turn every answer into a record your team can report on, edit and hand to an agent. No monthly response limits, and no exporting to a spreadsheet.

• More powerful Calculations, decisions and actions on every field, built by clicking.
• No response caps Pay for the people who build and use it, and hosting by use, not by response.
• Data that works Every answer is a record: reports, stats, related records and agents.
• Faster A cake order form that prices itself, shown start to finish in narrated how-tos.

What's different underneath

Logic that thinks as people type

Google Forms can only jump to a section based on an answer: no calculations, and no showing or hiding single questions. Jotform and Typeform add conditions and calculated values, set up rule by rule in their builders; past those rules, you need another service.

Every field has events (on change, on click, on enter) and Jade logic picked from explained functions: totals, discounts, tax, dates and finance, decisions with if, else if and nesting, and actions that show, hide, require or message. Or write the same logic as text.

Every answer becomes a record

Responses land in a results table, a spreadsheet or an inbox. Reporting on them, linking them to other data or acting on them usually means a spreadsheet or an automation service.

Every submission is a record in your team’s database. Reports filter, total and average it, related records hang off it (an order’s shipments, a client’s requests), people with access edit it in place, customers can see their own, and agents act on it.

Priced by people, not responses

Jotform and Typeform price by responses a month: Jotform’s Bronze plan allows 1,000, Typeform’s Basic 100. A busy month means a bigger plan. Google Forms is free, but has no payments and no calculations.

$5 a month for each person who builds, $1 for each team member who uses the records, and hosting by use. The public fills in your forms free, and there’s no monthly response limit to plan around.

A form is the start of an app

A form builder makes forms. The site around them, bookings, a store, the follow-up process and the team’s conversations live somewhere else.

Put forms, reports, docs and sheets together as an app with its own link, run approvals with agents, take bookings, sell in a store, tell the team in chat when a form comes in, and answer customers from your own knowledge base.

Side by side

What it takes, and where each one comes from.

Build the same cake order form

A bakery wants an order form that prices a custom cake as people choose, takes the order in steps, tells the team when one comes in, and gives them a report of every order. Here’s what each takes.

FasterOS: 6 steps, every one a how-to

1. Create your team and invite the staff1:34 how-to
2. Build the cake order form1:56 how-to
3. Make it price the cake as people choose1:45 how-to
4. Split it into steps1:49 how-to
5. Tell the team in chat when an order comes in1:47 how-to
6. Turn its orders into a report1:49 how-to

Each step is shown start to finish in a narrated how-to. About 11 minutes of video in all.

Jotform or Typeform: the form, then the rest

1. Pick a plan by how many orders you expect each month
2. Build the form and its conditions
3. Set up calculated fields for the price
4. Connect a payment integration
5. Connect a chat or email alert for the team, or an automation service
6. Report on orders in the results table, or export them to a spreadsheet
7. Move up a plan in a busy month

On Google Forms the price can’t calculate as people choose, and there are no payments: both need a different form service.

Your first year, priced

Our own published prices, and theirs as published or benchmarked. Change anything to match your quotes.

Each of these is one tool for one job, with its own bill. FasterOS is a platform: the first solution pays for your team’s seats, and every one after it (a site, a store, a support desk, agents) adds only its hosting and any add-on.

Beyond a form

What a form builder leaves to spreadsheets, automation services or other tools, FasterOS does itself.

Your first year with each

Form builders

• Watch the monthly response count, and move up a plan as it grows
• Export responses to a spreadsheet to report on them
• Pay for an automation service to act on them
• Keep the form, the site and the follow-up in separate tools

FasterOS

• No response count to watch
• Report on every order where it already is
• Agents and chat alerts act on each one
• The form, the site, the store and the team in one place

When a form builder is the better fit

• A one-off survey or quiz, where free and familiar Google Forms is all you need.
• A conversational, one-question-at-a-time form whose look is the point, with no data or process behind it (Typeform).
• A form that needs one of Jotform’s particular templates, integrations or HIPAA-ready plans.

Questions

Sources, as published in 2026: Jotform pricing (Bronze $408, Silver $468, Gold $1,188 a year; 1,000, 2,500 and 10,000 responses a month); Typeform pricing (Basic $25, Plus $50, Business $83 a month billed yearly; 100, 1,000 and 10,000 responses); Rework: Google Forms limits in 2026 (no payments or calculated fields; section branching only).