Comparing Staticman to Basin
Compare Staticman with Basin for adding forms to your static site.
Staticman
Static sites with superpowers
Overview
Community instance available but may be unreliable; data lives in your repo
+ Pros
- Open source
- content stored in GitHub repository
- moderation via pull requests
- no vendor lock-in
− Cons
- Requires GitHub account
- no built-in responses display
- setup complexity
- relies on GitHub API
Basin
Build forms that work; without all the work
Partial free
Overview
Made in Canada by Moonshot Ventures; AI-powered spam filtering via SpamCheck.ai; Postmark for email delivery
+ Pros
- No code form builder
- AI spam detection
- Lead Agent AI
- multi-step forms
- 35,000+ users
- spam protection
- GDPR-ready
- 10GB file storage
− Cons
- Limited free tier
- form builder may be overkill for simple HTML forms
- pricing is mid-range