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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "deftform",
 "name": "Deftform",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "deftform.com",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Hosting & websites",
 "summary": "Hosted form builder from Germany with unlimited responses and team members, conditional logic, file uploads, Stripe payments, webhooks and an API; priced per form, monthly or as a one-time lifetime licence.",
 "best_for": "small businesses, agencies and EU-based teams that want a clean hosted form builder with unlimited responses and team members, EU data storage and a choice between per-form, monthly or one-time pricing",
 "skip_if": "you need a large native integration catalogue (Mailchimp is still planned), enterprise compliance paperwork beyond ISO-certified hosting, or a published refund policy before you pay",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing is easy to misread: the home page says Deftform offers only pre-paid and lifetime options, while the pricing section also sells Complete at €25 a month, and Pre-paid forms come only in bundles of five. Lifetime does not include the Business add-on (enrichment, email verification, no backlink), which costs €18 a month on top, and a lifetime licence is only as durable as the company. Mailchimp is still listed as planned and the AI assistant as experimental. We found no published refund policy. Prices are in euros excluding VAT. We have not used Deftform ourselves.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-14 in a live browser on deftform.com, pricing section, and the legal notice) Three packages, base prices in euros excluding VAT, invoiced by a merchant of record. Pre-paid is €4 per form, bought in bulk quantities of 5, with no subscription. Complete is €25 a month with unlimited forms and the Business add-on included. Lifetime is €189 one-time for unlimited forms, or €16 a month for 12 months as an instalment plan. Every package includes unlimited responses, 3 workspaces, a custom domain with SSL, unlimited team members, unlimited file uploads (50 MB per file), payments via Stripe, custom CSS and JS, webhook and email notifications and API access. Add-ons for Pre-paid and Lifetime: Business at €18 a month (B2B data enrichment, email verification, data-retention control, selling multiple products, no backlink, no report badge, custom email domain), Extended at €19 one-time (multiple products, no backlink, no report badge, custom email domain) and backlink removal at €10 one-time. Extra workspaces are a one-time purchase. The first form is free to try.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-14",
  "source_url": "https://deftform.com/#pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Pre-paid is €4 per form, bought in bulk quantities of 5, with no subscription.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-14",
   "source_url": "https://deftform.com/#pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Add-ons for Pre-paid and Lifetime: Business at €18 a month (B2B data enrichment, email verification, data-retention control, selling multiple products, no backlink, no report badge, custom email domain), Extended at €19 one-time (multiple products, no backlink, no report badge, custom email domain) and backlink removal at €10 one-time.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-14",
   "source_url": "https://deftform.com/#pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Gravity Forms",
  "why": "Gravity Forms is in our dossiers too, re-verified on 23 September 2026: a WordPress plugin with annual licences from Basic at $59 a year for one site to Elite at $259. Deftform, read on 14 October 2026, is a hosted builder that works on any site, from €4 per form, €25 a month or €189 once, excluding VAT. On WordPress with your own hosting, Gravity Forms gives more control and add-ons; off WordPress, or if you want EU hosting handled for you, Deftform is the simpler buy. Currencies are not converted here."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/deftform.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/deftform-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/deftform/",
  "vendor_site": "https://deftform.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://deftform.com?aff=6NyDVn",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "deftform:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "deftform:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "deftform:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "deftform:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}