Akismet vs PowerPack for Beaver Builder
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | PowerPack for Beaver Builder v2.42.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5M+ | — |
| Last updated | August 18, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · Akismet paid plan ($) | PowerPack Lite · PowerPack for Beaver Builder ($) |
| Pros | Checks comments and contact form submissions against a shared spam database; Works with Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms; Stats through a dashboard widget and REST endpoints | Many extra Beaver Builder modules and templates; Contact, subscribe and login forms with hCaptcha or Turnstile |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Needs a paid licence for updates and Beaver Builder to run; Large module set adds plugin weight |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Checks comments before they are saved, Spam checks for Gravity Forms and Contact Form 7 submissions, Scheduled deletion of old spam and orphaned comment meta, Block statistics dashboard widget, REST endpoints for key, settings and stats, Webhook endpoint for Akismet account updates, Stats ability for the WordPress Abilities API | Contact form module ($), Subscribe form module ($), Login form with Facebook login ($), Video module with Dailymotion thumbnails ($), Contact Form 7 module ($), Licence-based plugin updates ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Social | — | Facebook Login ($), Dailymotion API ($) |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Beaver Builder ($), Contact Form 7 ($) |
| Other | Akismet | hCaptcha ($), Cloudflare Turnstile ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 4.6 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.0 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.9 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | hcaptcha.com, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.dailymotion.com, wpbeaveraddons.com, graph.facebook.com |