Typeform locks file uploads behind its $39/month plan. AwesomeFor.ms includes them from €9/month with 100 MB files and hosting in France. Compare pricing, limits and privacy.
Freelancers and small businesses routinely need clients to send documents: a creative brief, a scanned ID, receipts for an expense claim, a signed contract. The form tool you pick determines how easy that is — and how much it costs. Typeform is one of the best-known form builders, but its file upload feature starts at $39 per month and its free plan caps at 10 responses per month. AwesomeFor.ms, a form builder hosted in France, includes file uploads from €9 per month, accepts files up to 100 MB and hosts forms, responses and files with OVHcloud in France (EU). This comparison looks at pricing, file limits, data hosting and response quotas so you can pick the right tool for your budget and your clients' privacy.
File upload pricing: the headline difference
The most important number for anyone collecting documents is the price of the plan that unlocks file uploads.
- Typeform: file uploads are available from its $39/month plan. The free plan allows 10 responses per month and no file attachments.
- AwesomeFor.ms: file uploads are included from the Starter plan at €9 per month (€84 per year, which works out to €7 per month), with 500 responses per month and 500 MB of file storage.
For a freelancer sending a handful of intake forms per week, the difference is significant: €9 per month versus $39 per month for the same core need — letting a client attach a file. See the pricing page for the full breakdown. AwesomeFor.ms prices exclude VAT under article 293 B of the French Tax Code, so the price shown is the price paid, and payment by card (Visa, Mastercard) goes through Stancer, a PCI DSS certified French provider.
Here is how the AwesomeFor.ms plans scale once file uploads are included:
| Plan | Monthly price | Yearly price | Active forms | Responses/month | File storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | €0 | 3 | 50 | None |
| Starter | €9 | €84 | 10 | 500 | 500 MB |
| Pro | €19 | €180 | 25 | 2,000 | 2 GB |
| Business | €49 | €468 | Unlimited | 10,000 | 10 GB |
Yearly billing saves up to 22% compared with monthly billing. Monthly plans have no commitment and can be cancelled at any time; upgrades apply immediately and downgrades at the next renewal.
What the file upload field actually accepts
Price is only half the story — the file limits matter just as much when a client sends a scanned passport or a multi-page PDF.
On AwesomeFor.ms, the file upload field (available from Starter) accepts:
- Images: JPEG, PNG, WebP
- Documents: PDF, Word, Excel and CSV files
- Up to 100 MB per file
- Up to 50 files per field
Typeform enables file uploads only from its $39/month plan; its per-file size limits are set by Typeform and are not detailed in this comparison. What is clear is the entry price: more than four times the monthly cost of AwesomeFor.ms Starter for the same basic capability.
Respondents do not need an account and nothing to install: they open the form link on a computer or a phone and attach their files directly. Every field can be marked as required, with a label, placeholder and help text — for example ‘Please attach your brief (PDF or images, up to 100 MB)’.
Where your data is hosted
If you collect IDs, contracts or receipts, hosting location is a privacy question, not just a technical one.
AwesomeFor.ms hosts forms, responses and files with OVHcloud in France (EU). There are no ads and no data resale, only the cookies needed to run the service, and audience measurement uses Rybbit, self-hosted and cookie-free. This makes it straightforward to explain to clients that their documents stay in the EU under GDPR.
Typeform does not host data in France; according to publicly available information, EU hosting is available on its Enterprise plan. If keeping client files inside the EU on a small-business budget matters to you, this is a concrete differentiator.
Response limits and quotas
File uploads are useless if the form stops accepting responses.
- AwesomeFor.ms: the free plan includes 50 responses per month; Starter includes 500, Pro 2,000 and Business 10,000. On paid plans you get an email warning at 80% of a monthly quota; at 100% the feature pauses until the quota resets on the first day of the month, and upgrading lifts the limit immediately.
- Typeform: the free plan includes 10 responses per month.
If you send forms to a mailing list or run recurring client intake, 10 responses per month disappears within days, while 500 on Starter covers a typical freelance workload.
Feature comparison
| Feature | AwesomeFor.ms | Typeform |
|---|---|---|
| File uploads | From Starter, €9/mo | From $39/mo |
| File size per file | Up to 100 MB | Not specified in this comparison |
| Files per field | Up to 50 | Not specified |
| Data hosted in France | Yes | No |
| Data hosted in the EU | Yes | Enterprise plan only |
| Free plan | 3 forms, 50 responses/mo | 10 responses/mo |
| Repeatable pages | Yes | No |
| Conditional logic | Yes | Yes |
| CSV export | Yes | Yes |
| Google Sheets sync | From Pro, €19/mo | Yes |
| Webhooks | From Pro, €19/mo | Yes |
Based on publicly available information as of September 2026; features and pricing of other products may have changed since.
Beyond the table, AwesomeFor.ms adds a visual editor with steps (pages), conditional logic (show or hide fields with equals, contains, greater than, and AND/OR combinations) and repeatable pages — for example one page per household member in an association membership form, up to 10 repetitions. Responses can be searched across all answers, opened individually, downloaded as PDF and exported to CSV on every plan. From Pro you can also sync one row per response to Google Sheets, receive webhooks (3 per form on Pro, unlimited on Business), embed the form in your website and get a daily summary email instead of one email per response.
When Typeform may still be the right choice
AwesomeFor.ms is not a universal replacement. If you do not need file uploads at all and only collect a few responses, Typeform's free plan may be enough. If you need native integrations such as Zapier, Make, Slack or Notion, note that AwesomeFor.ms does not have them — it offers Google Sheets sync and webhooks from the Pro plan instead. AwesomeFor.ms also does not include payments, calculated fields, quizzes, CAPTCHA, custom domains or form templates; for those needs, use a dedicated tool alongside your forms.
But for the specific job of collecting client files on a budget while keeping data in France, the comparison is not close.
How to get started with AwesomeFor.ms
- Create an account with a magic link or a passkey — no password to manage.
- Build your form in the visual editor: add a file upload field from the palette, mark it required and add a help text such as ‘PDF or images, up to 100 MB’.
- Use conditional logic if the upload should only appear for certain answers — for example show the ID upload only when the respondent selects ‘new client’.
- Publish the form and share the public link; respondents fill it on any device without an account.
- Read responses in one place, search across all answers, download a single response as PDF or export everything to CSV. On Starter you also get a confirmation email to the respondent and an email alert to you for every new response.
Bottom line
If your work depends on clients attaching documents, Typeform's $39/month entry point for file uploads is expensive and its data is not hosted in France. AwesomeFor.ms includes file uploads from €9 per month, accepts files up to 100 MB (up to 50 per field), allows 500 responses per month on that plan, and hosts forms, responses and files with OVHcloud in France. For freelancers and small businesses that need a practical, privacy-friendly Typeform alternative for file uploads, AwesomeFor.ms is the stronger option on both price and data protection.