Free for realNo server · No signup

Your form’sgot mail.The free, open-source form backend

Point any HTML form at sendm8 and the submissions land in your inbox, Discord, Slack or wherever you like. No server to run, no signup to start, no catch.

The whole setup, give or take:

<form action="https://sendm8.com/f/you@example.com">

Get your endpoint How it works

↓ Meanwhile, at sendm8

Waiting for post. Fill in the docket and hit send.

01
Received
POST /f/demo
02
Spam-checked
score 0.00
03
Stored
Dashboard inbox
04
Delivered
Email · Discord
SM8

Inbox Your email

Nothing new yet. Go on, send something.
Octopus EnergyYour September statement is ready09:12
MumSunday lunch? Dad’s doing the lamb againSat

form-submissionsYour Discord

Quiet in here. For now.

02 The 30-second setup

Paste one URL.
That’s the setup.

1
Point your form at sendm8
Set the action to sendm8.com/f/ plus your email. Keep your own HTML, styling and fields.
2
Send a test
Fill it in yourself. We email you once to check the address is really yours.
3
Click confirm. Done.
That first submission is delivered, and so is every one after it. Sign in later if you want the dashboard.

contact.html

<form action="https://sendm8.com/f/you@example.com" method="POST">
  <label>Email <input name="email" type="email" required></label>
  <label>Message <textarea name="message"></textarea></label>
  <button>Send</button>
</form>

ContactForm.jsx

export function ContactForm() {
  return (
    <form action="https://sendm8.com/f/you@example.com" method="POST">
      <input name="email" type="email" required />
      <textarea name="message" />
      <button>Send</button>
    </form>
  );
}

ContactForm.vue

<template>
  <form action="https://sendm8.com/f/you@example.com" method="POST">
    <input name="email" type="email" required />
    <textarea name="message" />
    <button>Send</button>
  </form>
</template>

src/components/Contact.astro

---
const endpoint = "https://sendm8.com/f/you@example.com";
---
<form action={endpoint} method="POST">
  <input name="email" type="email" required />
  <textarea name="message" />
  <button>Send</button>
</form>

app/contact/page.tsx

export default function Contact() {
  // Plain HTML post: works with JavaScript off, no API route needed
  return (
    <form action="https://sendm8.com/f/you@example.com" method="POST">
      <input name="email" type="email" required />
      <textarea name="message" />
      <button>Send</button>
    </form>
  );
}

Want JSON back instead of a redirect? Send Accept: application/json. AJAX guide

Moving from Formspree? Our field names match (_replyto, _next, _gotcha). Change the URL and you’re done.

03 What’s in the box

Everything’s included.
Declared value: nothing.

No feature grid, no locked padlock icons. Here’s the full manifest, the same for everyone.

Customs declaration

sendm8 · May be opened officially

Gift
Commercial sample
Free trial
Upsell

sendm8 features, limits and cost
No.	Detailed description of contents	Qty / limit	Value
001	Forms & a dashboard inboxOne per site, per page, per whim. Search, star, filter and bulk-tidy, with spam kept to one side so you can double-check it.	100 forms1,000/form/mo	0.00
002	Email notifications & digestInstant up to the daily cap, then one tidy digest instead of forty pings. Reply-To is whoever wrote in.	10 instant/day∞ with BYOK	0.00
003	Discord, Slack, Telegram & webhooksSigned webhooks, automatic retries, and a “send test” button on every channel.	∞	0.00
004	Spam protectionHoneypot, rate limits, heuristics, a Turnstile challenge page and optional AI scoring.	5 layers	0.00
005	File uploadsCVs, screenshots, the lot, with sensible size caps.	5 MB/file	0.00
006	CSV & JSON exportIt’s your data. There’s no export fee to get it back.	∞	0.00
007	Redirects & thank-you pagesSend people to your own page, or use our quiet default one.	Yours or ours	0.00
008	The source codeAll of it, AGPL-3.0. Self-host on Cloudflare in one click.	100%	0.00
Signature of senderThe sendm8 contributors		Total0.00

04 Postage

Use our stamps,
or bring your own.

Use our sender for free, or plug in your Resend key and go unlimited. Your notifications, your quota, your domain in the From line.

Connect Resend in 2 minutes

Option A

Our sender

10instant emails
a day

Free, zero setup, from notify@sendm8.com
Hit the cap and the rest arrive in tonight’s digest. Nothing is dropped.
Discord, Slack, Telegram and webhooks don’t count towards it

Sent today6 / 10

Option B · BYOK

Your Resend key

∞emails
a day

From your own domain, e.g. forms@yourstudio.com
Uses your Resend quota. Their free plan covers 3,000 emails a month.
Encrypted at rest, never shown in full again

05 Sorting office rules

Spam gets
returned to sender.

Five layers, cheapest first. Most bots fall at the first one. The rest never make it to your inbox or your Discord.

1
Honeypot
A hidden field only bots fill in. Fill it, and you’re out. Costs your real visitors nothing.
2
Rate limits & blocklists
10 a minute per visitor, per form. Repeat offenders get blocked by hashed IP, never stored raw.
3
Heuristics
Link-stuffing, known spam phrases, throwaway email domains, keyboard-mash gibberish.
4
Turnstile challenge
Borderline? The visitor gets a quick Cloudflare Turnstile check on our page. No puzzles about traffic lights.
5
AI score
Optional. Runs after we store the submission, so it never slows anyone down.

We don’t delete spam straight away. It sits in your spam folder for 30 days, and one click on “Not spam” delivers it as normal.

06 Open source

Run your own post office.

sendm8 is open source, all of it. The code on sendm8.com is the code on GitHub. There’s no “enterprise edition” hiding the good bits.

One Worker + one D1 database
Fits Cloudflare’s free plan
AGPL-3.0
Your limits, one config file
Or one Docker container on your own server

Deploy to Cloudflare View the source

terminal

git clone https://github.com/m8team/sendmate
cd sendmate && npm install
npx wrangler d1 create sendm8
npm run deploy
# ✓ Deployed to https://forms.yourdomain.com

If we ever vanish, your forms don’t have to.

07 Honest comparison

How we stack up.
No trash talk.

Free plans only, taken from each service’s own pricing page and docs. Plans change, so if something’s out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it.

Free plan comparison of sendm8 with other form backends
Free plan	sendm8	Formspree	Web3Forms	FormSubmit	Getform (Forminit)Renamed Forminit, Jan 2026	Basin
Free submissions / month	1,000 per formEmail: 10 instant a day, then a daily digest	50	250	No cap stated	100Forms pause when it’s used up	50
Forms	Up to 100	Unlimited	Unlimited	No cap stated	1	1
Works without signing up	Yes, email in the URL100/month until you claim the form	No, account needed	Verify your email for a key	Yes, email in the URL	No, account needed	No, account needed
Stored submissions + export	Dashboard, CSV + JSON	30-day archiveExport on paid plans	30-day history, CSV	30 days, API onlyNo dashboard; API 5 calls a day	Unlimited archiveCSV export on Pro	30-day retentionExport from Starter
Webhooks + chat apps	Webhooks, Discord, Slack, TelegramUnlimited	Discord, Slack, TelegramWebhooks and Zapier from Professional	Paid plansWebhooks, Slack, Discord and Telegram are PRO	WebhooksNo chat apps listed	Pro planWebhooks, Slack and Discord on Pro	From GrowthWebhooks, Slack and Discord
File uploads	5 MB a file10 MB a submission	Paid plans	Paid plans	Yes10 MB a submission	Yes100 MB storage, 25 MB a submission	Yes100 MB storage
Custom redirect	Yes	Paid plans	Same domain onlyOther domains on paid plans	Yes	Yes	Paid plans
Open source, self-hostable	Yes, AGPL-3.0	—No source or self-hosting listed	—No source or self-hosting listed	—No source or self-hosting listed	—No source or self-hosting listed	—No source or self-hosting listed
Cheapest paid plan	There isn’t one	$15/mo$10/mo billed yearly	$16/mo, billed yearly$191 a year	None listed	$19/moPro; or $190 billed yearly	$12.50/mo, billed yearlyStarter

yes partly no, or paid only← swipe the table →

Checked 28 Oct 2026 · sources

Formspree (checked 28 Oct 2026): plans, file uploads, redirects, email URLs phased out
Web3Forms (checked 28 Oct 2026): pricing, install docs, redirects, Slack (PRO), file uploads (PRO)
FormSubmit (checked 28 Oct 2026): home, docs
Getform (Forminit) (checked 28 Oct 2026): pricing, rename, docs
Basin (checked 28 Oct 2026): pricing, FAQ, redirects

Fair’s fair. What they do well:

FormSubmit needs no account at all and states no submission cap: email in the URL, confirm once, done.
Formspree runs a machine-learning spam filter on every plan, supports reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile, and free forms can post to Discord, Slack and Telegram.
Web3Forms adds hCaptcha to free forms with no setup at all.
Getform (Forminit) keeps an unlimited submission archive and accepts file uploads on its free plan.
Basin supports reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile, and allows files of up to 100 MB on every plan.

Full write-up: sendm8 vs Formspree · sendm8 vs Web3Forms · sendm8 vs FormSubmit · sendm8 vs Getform (Forminit) · sendm8 vs Basin

Your form’sgot mail.The free, open-source form backend

Received

Spam-checked

Stored

Delivered

Paste one URL. That’s the setup.

Point your form at sendm8

Send a test

Click confirm. Done.

Everything’s included. Declared value: nothing.

Use our stamps, or bring your own.

Spam gets returned to sender.

Honeypot

Rate limits & blocklists

Heuristics

Turnstile challenge

AI score