RoutePost vs Web3Forms

Free email-only forwarding vs a real backend.

Web3Forms is genuinely free forever and sends form submissions to email — that's the whole product. RoutePost is a paid product with a dashboard, multi-destination routing, and submission logs.

Who wins for what

Pick RoutePost if…

✓ You want submissions going to Slack or a custom webhook, not just email
✓ You want a dashboard to see every submission, not just inbox-mail
✓ You want spam blocking via honeypot AND a quota cap on submissions
✓ You're comfortable paying $9.99/mo for $9.99/mo worth of features
✓ You need predictable infra (uptime SLA, observability) for a production form

Pick Web3Forms if…

✓ You only need a static site contact form that sends to email — nothing more
✓ You're building a hobby project and want zero spend
✓ You're testing if your site even gets contact requests before paying anyone
✓ You don't need a dashboard, integrations, or analytics — just an email

Feature comparison

Feature	RoutePost	Web3Forms
Email destination RoutePost's email is always a bundled digest. For real-time delivery use a Slack or webhook destination.	Digest (real-time via Slack/webhook)	Real-time email
Email delivery cadence	Free daily · Starter hourly · Pro every 10 min	Per submission
Submission retention	Free 30d · Starter 180d · Pro 365d	Not stored (email only)
CSV export	Yes	—
Autoresponder emails	Starter & Pro · per-form, template vars	Yes (basic)
Slack destination	Real-time, every plan	—
Custom webhook	Real-time, every plan	—
Multiple destinations per form	Yes	—
Submission dashboard	Yes	—
Submission inbox / log Web3Forms doesn't store submissions — emails only.	Last 100	—
Honeypot spam blocking	Yes	Yes
ReCAPTCHA	—	Yes
File uploads	Pro plan only · 10 MB/file, 20 MB total	Pro tier
Conditional routing rules	Native, every plan	—
Free tier submissions/mo	500	250
Requires account signup Web3Forms generates a key from your email; no dashboard.	Yes	—

Pricing side by side

Tier	RoutePost	Web3Forms
Free	$0 / 500 subs · 30d retention	$0 / 250 subs / forever
Entry paid	$9.99 / 3,000 subs · 180d retention	$14 / Pro tier (file uploads, more forms)
Higher	$29.99 / 15,000 subs · 365d retention	Not offered

Bottom line

The straight answer.

For a personal site contact form that just needs to land in your inbox, Web3Forms is the right answer — it's free forever and works fine. RoutePost is overkill for that. But the moment you need to route to Slack, see submissions in a dashboard, set up multiple destinations, or treat the form as a business-critical pipeline: Web3Forms doesn't do those things, and RoutePost does. Different products for different lifecycle stages.