Akismet vs Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 v2.8.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5M+ | 100,000+ |
| Last updated | August 18, 2026 | October 21, 2026 |
| Editions | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · Akismet paid plan ($) | Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 · Conditional Fields PRO ($) |
| 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 | Show or hide field groups based on other field values; Hidden fields skip validation and are left out of emails; Configured from the existing CF7 form editor |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Requires Contact Form 7; Advanced features sit in the paid PRO version |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | — | No |
| Conditional logic | — | Yes |
| Payments | — | No |
| Calculations | — | No |
| Entries in admin | — | No |
| Spam protection | — | No |
| Free version | — | Yes |
| 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 | Conditional fields group tag in CF7, Skip validation for hidden fields, Remove hidden fields from notification emails, Conditions editor screen |
| Integrations | ||
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Contact Form 7 |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 5.9 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.0 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | — |