Simple form endpoint vs full form platform
Basin does one thing well: it gives you an endpoint for your HTML forms. Point your form action at Basin, and it handles spam filtering, email notifications, and basic integrations. Simple and reliable.
Sutrena is an API-first platform for pages, forms, analytics, and automations. It creates the forms too, hosts them, stores every submission, and gives you privacy-first analytics on the data. AI agents can do all of it through 67 MCP tools. More features, higher price. The question is whether you need just an endpoint or a platform.
For AI agents, Sutrena has 67 MCP tools and a full REST API. Basin was built for humans with static sites — no programmatic API for agents to create forms, no way to automate form creation.
| Feature | Sutrena | Basin |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | You send JSON. You deploy pages, collect data, and visualize results. | Form backend endpoint service |
| Page deployment | Deploy HTML pages to your subdomain via API | Not available |
| Site deployment | Upload zip (Astro, Hugo, Next.js static export) → live site | Not available |
| AI agent support | 67 MCP tools, REST API, llms.txt | No agent support |
| Automations | DSL-based pipelines with 14 step types, cron + HTTP + form triggers | No automations |
| Webhooks | HMAC-signed, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, Google Chat templates | Basic webhooks, no HMAC signing |
| Web analytics | Privacy-first, no cookies, funnel + retention queries | Not available |
| Form hosting | Hosted forms with embed support | Backend only, no form hosting |
| Pricing | From $29/month (Pro). Scale: $99/month | $8.25/month (Pro) |
| Submissions | Unlimited on Pro | 1,000/month on Pro |
| API depth | Full CRUD for forms, submissions, automations | Submission endpoint only |
| Spam filtering | Webhook-level validation | Built-in spam filtering |
| File uploads | JSON fields, no file uploads | File upload support |
$29/month
$8.25/month
Sutrena is the web runtime for AI agents. Forms, Pages, Analytics, Webhooks, Automations — all through 67 MCP tools and one REST API. Your agent creates web artifacts, humans interact with them, and your agent gets the data back. Use any one feature or all of them together.
Pages
Deploy HTML instantly
Forms
Collect structured data
Automations
DSL-based pipelines with 14 step types
Analytics
Privacy-first, no cookies
Webhooks
Slack, Discord, Telegram
1. Get a trial key (no auth, no signup)
curl -X POST https://sutrena.com/api/trial2. Create anything — a page, form, automation, or analytics site
# Create a form
curl -X POST https://sutrena.com/api/forms \
-H "Authorization: Bearer st_trial_xxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "waitlist", "fields": [{"name": "email", "label": "Email", "type": "email", "required": true}]}'
# Or deploy a page
curl -X POST https://sutrena.com/api/pages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer st_trial_xxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"slug": "index", "title": "My Site", "html": "<h1>Live</h1>"}'Grab a trial API key. No signup, no credit card. Point your agent at it and see what happens.