AcyMailing vs Contact Form 7
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| Feature | AcyMailing v11.1.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5,000+ | 10M+ |
| Last updated | October 6, 2026 | October 21, 2026 |
| Editions | AcyMailing Starter · AcyMailing Essential ($) · AcyMailing Enterprise ($) | Contact Form 7 |
| Pros | Campaigns, lists and sign-up forms in the admin; Sign-up form shortcode, block and widget; Works with several email sending services | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in |
| Cons | Queue, captcha, automations and bounce handling need a paid licence; Automations and bounce handling need the Enterprise level; Sending depends on cron and the chosen mail service | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | — | No |
| Conditional logic | — | No |
| Multi-step forms | — | No |
| Payments | — | Yes |
| File upload | — | Yes |
| Calculations | — | No |
| Entries in admin | — | No |
| Spam protection | — | Yes |
| Free version | — | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Newsletter campaigns, Contact lists, Sign-up form shortcode, Sign-up form Gutenberg block, Newsletter archive block and widget, Elementor widgets, Sending queue configuration ($), reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha on forms ($), Automations with triggers ($), Custom subscriber fields ($), Bounce handling mailbox ($) | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | Stripe |
| Brevo, Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun, AcyMailer sending service ($) | Brevo (Sendinblue) | |
| Plugins | Elementor | Akismet, Flamingo |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA ($) | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 7.1 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 8.3 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.brevo.com, api.postmarkapp.com, api.elasticemail.com, api.mailgun.net, api.eu.mailgun.net, api.sendgrid.com, api.acymailer.com, api.acymailing.com | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com |
| Blocks | 3 | 1 |
| Shortcodes | 1 | 2 |