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That's scalable, open-architected, unopinionated, configurable, and provides a standardized strategy for all your data collection and data management—fully deployed in your enterprise environments.

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JSON-powered forms. JSON-powered APIs. JSON-powered databases.

What AI Is Saying

The Prompt: "I am building a form-based, business process application and I need a forms provider tool for my company to be able to build and manage the forms. What can I use to build these forms and the associated APIs? It has to be self hosted."

#1

"Form.io: Form.io is a powerful form builder that allows you to create complex forms with ease, integrate APIs, and manage workflows. It also provides an option for self-hosting."

—ChatGPT

#1

"Form.io: Open-source JavaScript form builder with a complete API. Creates both the form and the API endpoints simultaneously. Includes workflow capabilities for business processes. Can be self-hosted on your own servers. Enterprise version available with additional features."

—Claude

Form Builder Response From Google Gemini

#1

"Form.io: A powerful, open-source form and API platform. Allows you to create complex forms with drag-and-drop functionality. Generates JSON schema-based forms. Automatically creates APIs for data submission and retrieval."

—Gemini

#1

"Form.io: Form.io is a powerful, self-hosted platform designed for developers and businesses to create and manage forms and APIs simultaneously. It’s particularly well-suited for business process applications due to its flexibility and data management capabilities."

—Grok

The Fundamental Toolset For Building Apps That Make AI Work For Enterprise

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Before Writing Another Line Of Code

For When Data Collection Through Forms Is Mission Critical In The Application You’re Building

And You Need Them To Meet Complex And Demanding Requirements

Form Field Components

Common Requirements

A wide variety of form field components
Complex multi-page forms
Mobile-friendly forms out of the box
To customize and brand with CSS
PDF form intake & document exports at scale
Layout, data, and microservice components

OR

Building And Maintaining Forms Yourself Is An Intricate And Exacting Process

Which Present A Number of Non-Obvious Challenges

!

Time-Consuming & Costly

Inflexible & Ineffiecient

Difficult To Maintain

Lack Standardization

Build Complex Forms Using Drag And Drop And Embed Them In Your Application Once

And Leverage JSON Standardization In Forms, APIs, and DBs

Forms & JSON Definitions Created In 1 Step

Renders HTML And Are CSS Accessible

Changes Publish Instantly

Maintained Outside SDLC

"Speed to market using Form.io worked fantastically well. We didn't have to spend 80% of our time building our own solution and instead could focus our dev time on things proprietary to us."

—Edify.ai

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Developer Productivity Tools For Integrations

For When Data Integrations And Routing Are Mission Critical In The Form-Based Application You’re Building

So Your Data Is Always Where It Needs To Be

Integrations

Common Requirements

Conditional workflows that route data through forms
Integrated 3rd-party microservices
Integrated user authentication
Integrations with legacy systems and databases
File storage integrations
Transactional email integrations

OR

Without Form.io Developer Productivity Tools

Third-Party SaaS Solutions Don't Sufficiently Address What Happens After Data Is Submitted

Which Adds More Development Time And Cost To Build Them Yourself

!

Integration Limitations & Complexities

Siloed Data Sources

Security & Compliance Challenges

Scaling Ceilings With No Future Proofing

Get The Complete Solution That Manages The Full Lifecycle Of Data

By Connecting Everything With One Developer Productivity Tool And One Form Builder

Connect to internal systems, modern or legacy

Connect to on-premise or in the cloud systems

Standardize the interfaces across your enterprise

JSON-powered forms, APIs, and databases

"We estimate that the workload associated with data processing has been cut by 50 percent."

—TauRes

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Data Control In Developer Productivity Tools

For When Data Governance Is Mission Critical In The Form-Based Application You’re Building

Because Some Requirements Are Non-Negotiable

Data Governance

Common Requirements

Strict ownership and control of your data
Required usage of JSON format
Frontend and backend validations
Hierarchical roles and permissions for users building and managing forms
Accessibility compliance requirements
Avoidance of data duplication or managing additional databases
Automated approval workflows
Data encryption
Form revision history and historical submission data integrity

OR

Policies & Procedures Only Go So Far In Ensuring Your Data Governance Requirements

Which Require Manual Approvals And Error-Prone Methods

!

Email threads get lost or outdated

Traditional file stores lack versioning

Manual processes are abandoned at the first sign of resistance

Difficult to maintain data continuity

The Zero-Trust, Enterprise-Wide Data Governance Platform For Forms, Applications & Data Management

That's Fully Embedded In Your Environment

Data is standardized through technology workflows

JSON-powered APIs enable cross platform integrations

External data compliance approval is not required

Open-source core adopted by thousands

"Unmatched capability in its product class, particularly for complex use cases where complete ownership of your data is a must."

—Midnight Health

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Open Source Based Developer Producitvity Tools

For When Form & Platform Flexibility Is Mission Critical In The Application You're Building

Because You Need A Future-Proof Developer Productivity Solution That Won't Handcuff You Down The Road

Form & Platform Flexibility

Common Requirements

Compatibility with industry standard technology
Extensible and customizeable forms & rendering engine
Fully white-labeled & comprehensive branding via CSS
Avoidance of vendor lock-in
Doesn't cost more as you scale
Data models can adapt as things change
Immediate out-of-the-box functionality

OR

Opinionated Solutions Force Technology Commitments

That Limit Extensibility And Slows Going To Market

!

Inability to fully customize forms and rendering

Costs scale as users, api calls, submissions, etc. scale

Traps you in an ecosystem that may not be ideal in the future

May be impossible to use with strict data requirements

Go To Market In Half The Time With Your Whole Scope

With Your Branding, Your Tech Stack, And Your Sanity

Built with an open source core so you can customize and extend

Scale freely without being billed on anything usage-based

Compatible with all major industry standard tech

Fully deployed developer productivity platform in your IT environment

"Of all the systems we use to deliver our end products, Form.io has been probably the most straightforward and issue free to use, with excellent support."

—Dept. of Justice, Ireland

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Form Manager In Developer Productivity Platform

For When Form Management Is Mission Critical To Your Business

Because Building Forms Also Means Having The Developer Productivity Tools To Manage Them

Form Management

Common Requirements

Build, manage, and track banks of forms and data resources
Support multiple groups or agencies building their forms
Support your PaaS or SaaS with multi-tenancy
Hierarchical roles and permissions for users building and managing forms
Provide an enclosed, customized, and branded drag and drop form building experience to your customers
Provide unique, custom components to specific customers

OR

Building Forms Yourself Means Building The Supporting Tools To Manage Them

Which Takes Away Development Resources From Your Primary Objective

!

Build your own tool to manage your bank of forms, APIs, and integrations

Build the logic to manage users, roles & permissions

Architect how the drag and drop builder can be exposed to customers and customized individually

Out Of The Box Tools To Manage Forms, APIs, Submissions, Permissions, And Integrations

So You Can Focus On The Application You're Building

Enable non-developers to build and manage forms

Configure workflows, form actions, and webhooks without code

Set up roles and permissions integrated with your existing authentication

Enable form building in your customer-facing application

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The Reason Enterprises In , In The Most Demanding Business Verticals Such As Government, Healthcare, Insurance, And Financial Services, Have Adopted The Form.io Technology Platform Is Because:

It's The Only Third-Party Developer Productivity Solution For Forms And APIs That Stands Independently From Other Parts Of Their Technology Stack And Gives Them Total Flexibility And Control.

They're not building their own authentication schemas
They're not building their own email systems
They're not building their own databases
They're not building their own cloud environments

And neither are they building their own forms or APIs for them either because the entire platform is fully deployed in their application environment.

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Run Your Own SaaS By White-Labeling Form.io

Provide your customers with developer productivity tools for form, API, and data management, fully white-labeled under your brand or your customers' brands, in a multi-tenanted deployment operating as child-projects under your enterprise project.

Many of our customers support hundreds of their customers with thousands of forms in a white-labeled environment.

Unlimited Everything

In Each Project, API Server, PDF Server, And PDF+ Server.

“How many of [X] do I get under the pricing plans?”

With One Enterprise Project

Min. 1 required.

Multiple stages to support SDLC
Unlimited forms & resources
Unlimited developers & form builders
Unlimited submissions
No additional charges for load balancing

Each API Plus Server

Min. 1 API or 1 API Plus required.

Supports production and non-production SDLC processes
Unlimited API Calls
Unlimited submissions
Security Compliance features (See pricing page)

Each PDF Plus Server

PDF Servers are optional.

Unlimited PDF submission downloads
Unlimited PDF Uploads
Enable pixel-perfect form backgrounds
Enable digital webform overlays
Security Compliance features (See pricing page)

Multi-Tenancy

10 child projects per bucket.

Deliver a platform as a service (PaaS) to your customers
Separate forms, data, and form building on a per-tenant basis
The embedded Enterprise Form Builder Module is sold in buckets of 10. It must be turned on or off for all children.

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Did You Know...

A Quick Reference Of Some Obvious, Some Less-Obvious, Powerful Capabilities (With Use-Case Examples) Hiding In Plain Sight, That Turns "We Wish We Could" Into "We Already Can."

Discover More Features

With example use cases

Recent Blog Posts

Why Form.io Is Not Google Forms, Jotform, Typeform, or Retool, But Instead a Developer-First Approach to Form Automation

February 3, 2026

Understanding why forms as infrastructure differs fundamentally from forms as a service

Form.io is Middleware Infrastructure as a Forms Solution, Not an App Builder

January 14, 2026

Form.io provides a forms solution with APIs as middleware into the app you’re building so you don’t have to build them yourself.

Form JSON Schema vs Submission: Understanding the Two Documents That Power Form.io

December 9, 2025

How Form.io separates form structure from form data, and why this distinction matters for application architecture

Why Form.io Requires the MongoDB Document Model (And What Breaks Without It)

November 4, 2025

Form.io’s architecture depends on the MongoDB document model, flexible schemas, and query capabilities. Here is what that dependency means for your deployment.

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The Self-Hosted Developer Productivity Platform for Building Forms and APIs Within Your Applications

That's scalable, open-architected, unopinionated, configurable, and provides a standardized strategy for all your data collection and data management—fully deployed in your enterprise environments.

What AI Is Saying

The Prompt: "I am building a form-based, business process application and I need a forms provider tool for my company to be able to build and manage the forms. What can I use to build these forms and the associated APIs? It has to be self hosted."

The Fundamental Toolset For Building Apps That Make AI Work For Enterprise

If You're Building An AI-Powered App, This WILL Save You Headaches And Time

For When Data Collection Through Forms Is Mission Critical In The Application You’re Building

And You Need Them To Meet Complex And Demanding Requirements

Building And Maintaining Forms Yourself Is An Intricate And Exacting Process

Which Present A Number of Non-Obvious Challenges

Build Complex Forms Using Drag And Drop And Embed Them In Your Application Once

And Leverage JSON Standardization In Forms, APIs, and DBs

For When Data Integrations And Routing Are Mission Critical In The Form-Based Application You’re Building

So Your Data Is Always Where It Needs To Be

Third-Party SaaS Solutions Don't Sufficiently Address What Happens After Data Is Submitted

Which Adds More Development Time And Cost To Build Them Yourself

Get The Complete Solution That Manages The Full Lifecycle Of Data

By Connecting Everything With One Developer Productivity Tool And One Form Builder

For When Data Governance Is Mission Critical In The Form-Based Application You’re Building

Because Some Requirements Are Non-Negotiable

Policies & Procedures Only Go So Far In Ensuring Your Data Governance Requirements

Which Require Manual Approvals And Error-Prone Methods

The Zero-Trust, Enterprise-Wide Data Governance Platform For Forms, Applications & Data Management

That's Fully Embedded In Your Environment

For When Form & Platform Flexibility Is Mission Critical In The Application You're Building

Because You Need A Future-Proof Developer Productivity Solution That Won't Handcuff You Down The Road

Opinionated Solutions Force Technology Commitments

That Limit Extensibility And Slows Going To Market

Go To Market In Half The Time With Your Whole Scope

With Your Branding, Your Tech Stack, And Your Sanity

For When Form Management Is Mission Critical To Your Business

Because Building Forms Also Means Having The Developer Productivity Tools To Manage Them

Building Forms Yourself Means Building The Supporting Tools To Manage Them

Which Takes Away Development Resources From Your Primary Objective

Out Of The Box Tools To Manage Forms, APIs, Submissions, Permissions, And Integrations

So You Can Focus On The Application You're Building

The Reason Enterprises In document.getElementById('in2025').appendChild(document.createTextNode(new Date().getFullYear())), In The Most Demanding Business Verticals Such As Government, Healthcare, Insurance, And Financial Services, Have Adopted The Form.io Technology Platform Is Because:

It's The Only Third-Party Developer Productivity Solution For Forms And APIs That Stands Independently From Other Parts Of Their Technology Stack And Gives Them Total Flexibility And Control.

Run Your Own SaaS By White-Labeling Form.io

Provide your customers with developer productivity tools for form, API, and data management, fully white-labeled under your brand or your customers' brands, in a multi-tenanted deployment operating as child-projects under your enterprise project.

Many of our customers support hundreds of their customers with thousands of forms in a white-labeled environment.

Unlimited Everything

In Each Project, API Server, PDF Server, And PDF+ Server.

“How many of [X] do I get under the pricing plans?”

With One Enterprise Project

Each API Plus Server

Each PDF Plus Server

Multi-Tenancy

Did You Know...

A Quick Reference Of Some Obvious, Some Less-Obvious, Powerful Capabilities (With Use-Case Examples) Hiding In Plain Sight, That Turns "We Wish We Could" Into "We Already Can."

Recent Blog Posts

Why Form.io Is Not Google Forms, Jotform, Typeform, or Retool, But Instead a Developer-First Approach to Form Automation

Form.io is Middleware Infrastructure as a Forms Solution, Not an App Builder

Form JSON Schema vs Submission: Understanding the Two Documents That Power Form.io

Why Form.io Requires the MongoDB Document Model (And What Breaks Without It)

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Open Source Platform

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Documentation

Resources

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The Reason Enterprises In , In The Most Demanding Business Verticals Such As Government, Healthcare, Insurance, And Financial Services, Have Adopted The Form.io Technology Platform Is Because: