Akismet vs Constant Contact Forms
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Constant Contact Forms v2.22.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 2.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5M+ | 20,000+ |
| Last updated | August 18, 2026 | October 9, 2026 |
| Editions | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · Akismet paid plan ($) | Constant Contact Forms for WordPress |
| 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 | Forms feed directly into Constant Contact lists; Block and widget to place forms anywhere; Choice of reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile or Akismet |
| 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 a Constant Contact account to work; Submissions are sent to Constant Contact rather than stored locally; Limited to Constant Contact as the mailing service |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Multi-step forms | — | No |
| Payments | — | No |
| File upload | — | No |
| Entries in admin | — | No |
| Spam protection | — | Yes |
| 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 | Form builder stored as a custom post type, Constant Contact list selection, Gutenberg block for the contact form, Widget for placing a form in sidebars, Hourly refresh of the Constant Contact token |
| Integrations | ||
| — | Constant Contact API | |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | — |
| Other | Akismet | Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, Akismet |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.4.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 8.1 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1.3 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | www.google.com, api.wordpress.org, hcaptcha.com, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.cc.email |
| Blocks | — | 1 |