Cognito Forms builds online forms with payment collection, electronic signatures and workflow automation, and meters its plans by how many form entries an organization receives each month rather than by how many people fill the forms out. There are five plans: a permanently free Individual plan, then Pro, Team, Business and Enterprise, each billed yearly at a discount or billed monthly at the full rate.
Every current figure here was read on cognitoforms.com/pricing on 4 October 2026, and every older one on the Internet Archive's copies of the same page.
What does Cognito Forms cost?
| Individual | Pro | Team | Business | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billed yearly, a month | $0 | $19 | $49 | $99 | $149 |
| Billed monthly | $0 | $24 | $62 | $129 | $199 |
| Users | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| Entries a month | 100 | 2,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 | Unlimited |
| Included guests | None listed | None listed | None listed | 5 | 20 |
Every plan includes unlimited forms and payments. Individual carries Cognito Forms branding. Pro adds electronic signatures, save and resume and removes the branding. Team adds workflows, approvals and data lookups. Business adds folder permissions, a year of audit log history and 50,000 API requests a month. Enterprise adds HIPAA compliance, single sign on and custom document templates.
Each paid plan can add users at $5 a user a month. Guests are people outside the organization who are given access without a full seat, and on Business and Enterprise more of them are sold in tiers: up to 50 for $25 a month, 100 for $50, 250 for $100, 500 for $150, 1,000 for $200 and 2,500 for $250, with each 1,000 above that another $100. The FAQ says usage beyond the plan during a yearly term, such as guests, storage or API requests, is drawn from a usage wallet.
Is there a free plan or a trial?
Individual stays free permanently, with no credit card needed, one user and 100 entries a month. Every paid plan runs a 14 day free trial with no card required, and a trial that ends without billing information on file drops the organization back to the free Individual plan rather than cutting it off. The page lists no refund terms for any plan. It offers discounted rates on any plan to tax exempt nonprofits outside education and government, on application to support.
How has Cognito Forms' price changed?
| Archive copy | Plans and prices a month |
|---|---|
| March 2015 | One plan, entirely free, with unlimited forms, fields, submissions and storage, and a 1 percent fee on payments collected |
| November 2017 | Individual free for 1 user and 500 entries; Pro $10 for 2 users and 2,000 entries; Team $24 for 5 users and 10,000 entries; Enterprise $99 for 50 users and unlimited entries |
| April 2019 | Unchanged from November 2017 |
| April 2021 | Pro rose from $10 to $15, Team from $24 to $35; Enterprise held its $99 price while its included users fell from 50 to 20 |
| March 2023 | Unchanged from April 2021, with a 14 day free trial on every paid plan |
| April 2025 | Pro rose from $15 to $19, Team from $35 to $39, Enterprise from $99 to $129 |
| February 2026 | Prices held, but Individual's entry allowance was cut from 500 to 100 a month, and Team and Enterprise gained paid guest tiers |
| September 2026 | Monthly billing priced above yearly: Pro $24 or $19 billed yearly, Team $49 or $39, Enterprise $174 or $129, with a Business plan appearing in the same copy |
The prices moved in 2021, 2025 and twice in 2026, and the free plan shrank along the way. Pro was $10 in 2017 and is $19 billed yearly now, and since February 2026 it has also dropped from two included users to one. Team went from $24 in 2017 to $49 billed yearly. Enterprise held at $99 for years while its included users fell from 50 to 20, then rose to $129 in 2025 and $149 billed yearly now, with Business added below it at $99. Individual, free throughout, went from no limits in 2015 to 500 entries a month by 2017 and 100 since February 2026.
Does Cognito Forms run a feature voting board?
Its site navigation, footer and pricing page link to user guides, a blog and support, but none of them lead to a public roadmap, an idea submission form or a place for customers to vote on requests. Cognito Forms runs no public feature voting board of its own.
What this costs
Lite
$9 /mo
Pro
$39 /mo
Lifetime
$999 once
Fourteen day trial of Pro, card asked for at signup. Nothing here counts the people who vote, so the bill does not move when the board starts working. The long version, with what happens if you stop paying.
VoteFirst is a feature request board: customers post requests, vote and follow a public roadmap, at $9 a month for one project or $39 for unlimited projects and colleagues, with no per user add on charge. Cognito Forms collects payments, generates signatures and automates workflows inside a form, none of which VoteFirst does. Jotform and Formstack price the closest form builders by submission and builder volume, Paperform sells unlimited submissions on its paid plans, the form builder shortlist compares eleven form builders by the response, and the pricing hub groups every vendor by what it meters.
How were these prices read?
The current plans come from cognitoforms.com/pricing, read on 4 October 2026 as rendered in a browser, with its frequently asked questions. The page's markup also carries an older plan layout, without Business and with two users on Pro; the figures here are the ones the rendered page shows. The history comes from the Internet Archive's copies of cognitoforms.com/pricing taken on 14 March 2015, 16 November 2017, 23 April 2019, 3 April 2021, 13 March 2023, 4 April 2025, 21 February 2026 and 20 September 2026. Prices are in US dollars; the page states that all prices are shown in USD unless otherwise noted.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.