# Jotform vs Paperform (slim)

> Paperform scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Jotform's 52.9 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Jotform leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do forms responses. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Paperform scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Jotform's 52.9 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Jotform leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do forms responses.

- Jotform: D 52.9, rank #556 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jotform.min.md
- Paperform: C 56, rank #496 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperform.min.md
- Jotform, good for An owner who already keeps forms in Jotform and wants an agent to build forms, read submissions and register webhooks, including EU and HIPAA accounts on their own hosts. Ahead on Security & auth, 56 against 40; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25; Transparency & trust, 68 against 54.
- Paperform, good for An agent that reads submissions from forms a person has already built, keeps field options, products and coupons in step with another system, or sends Papersign documents. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 69 against 30; Maintenance & community, 41 against 25.

| Category | Jotform | Paperform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 30 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 60 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 25 | 41 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jotform | Paperform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Jotform Inc. | Paperform Pty Ltd |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.jotform.com` | `https://api.paperform.co/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Jotform's terms of use. The MCP server repository (docs and a Gemini CLI extension, no server code) and the Node client are MIT | Proprietary service under Paperform's General Terms and Conditions of Use |
| Tools exposed | 6 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.jotform/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-02-26 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-09-24 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-07-10 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 3.6k npm/wk | none |