Palform
by Palform · End-to-end encrypted form and survey builder, open source under AGPL
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Overview
Palform is a form and survey builder that encrypts responses end to end, so the operator cannot read submitted data. Forms are built in a visual editor with conditional branching, recall, reusable branding schemes and question types including e-signatures, address search and file uploads. Responses trigger email and webhook notifications, and the platform generates graphs and correlation analysis.
- Best for
- Teams collecting sensitive form data who want encrypted, EU-hosted surveys on a small budget.
- Pricing
- Free plan at £0, then Pro at £2.50/month (£30 a year) and Business at £6.50/month (£78 a year) on annual billing, each with a 7-day free trial; GBP, EUR, USD and CHF can be selected.
- Runs on
- Web
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Responses encrypted end to end; servers hosted in the EU
- Open source under AGPL, developed in public
- Free tier allows unlimited responses and file uploads
- Paid plans start at £2.50/month with unlimited users
Trade-offs
- Free plan caps at 10 forms, 20 questions per form and 1 user
- Form-filling interface only in English and German
- Custom domain is listed as "coming soon" on the Business plan
- Audit logs, OIDC and auto-delete only on the top tier
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Palform’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Palform pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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