Forma is free. So is the AI, if you want it to be.
Forma has no plans, no trial and no card to enter, and it will stay that way: it is open source, and the site runs on Firebase’s free plan. What you might pay for is the AI that designs your reports, and every choice has a free way in.
What each choice costs
Forma
FreeEvery feature, signed in or not. No account is needed to use it.
Google Gemini
Free tierYour own key from Google AI Studio, with daily limits per model; Settings shows today’s count. Turn on billing for the key and Google bills you directly; Forma takes no cut.
A local AI
FreeOllama or LM Studio on your own computer: no limits but your machine’s, and nothing leaves it.
OpenRouter
Free modelsIts free models with a key of your own, with daily limits; their providers may log requests.
Why it can be free
Forma does its work in your browser and with your own key, so the site has almost nothing to pay for: the pages are static, the database holds only what signed-in people save, and the AI is billed, if at all, to whoever owns the key. Even the OCR and Forma’s own models run on your machine.
Keeping within a free tier
- The AI writes the .repx alone, and Forma reads the mockup and the spec off it, which cut what each report asks the AI to write by about three quarters.
- A rate-limited model is set aside until Google says its limit lifts, and the next request starts on another model your key can reach.
- Batch runs one file at a time by default, so a folder of reports does not spend a minute’s quota in a second.