Akismet vs CP Contact Form With PayPal
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | CP Contact Form With PayPal v1.3.68 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5M+ | 800+ |
| Last updated | August 18, 2026 | September 21, 2026 |
| Editions | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · Akismet paid plan ($) | CP Contact Form with PayPal · CP Contact Form with PayPal (commercial versions) ($) |
| 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 | Contact, payment and donation forms in one plugin; PayPal payments with submissions stored in the database; Shortcode, block and Elementor widget placement |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Stripe, Authorize.Net, Mollie and CRM options need the commercial versions; Deactivation survey sends data to the vendor when submitted |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| 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 | Drag and drop form builder, PayPal payment forms and IPN verification, Stored submissions list, CP_CONTACT_FORM_PAYPAL shortcode, Gutenberg form block, Security code on the form, Stripe, Authorize.Net and Mollie gateways (commercial) ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | PayPal, Stripe ($) |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Elementor |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 3.0.5 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | Only if you agree |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | ipnpb.paypal.com, wordpress.dwbooster.com |
| Blocks | — | 1 |
| Shortcodes | — | 1 |