Akismet vs Elementor Pro
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Elementor Pro v4.3.2 · 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 ($) | Elementor Pro ($) |
| 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 | Forms with actions such as Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign and webhooks; Popups and WooCommerce widgets; Licence and updates handled through the vendor |
| 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 key to receive updates; Licence is tied to a site domain; a domain change triggers a licence error |
| 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 | Forms with submission actions ($), Popups with form actions ($), WooCommerce widgets module ($), Atomic form submissions and webhook action ($), Licence key stored and checked against the vendor ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| — | Mailchimp ($), MailerLite ($) | |
| CRM | — | ActiveCampaign ($) |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce ($) |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | — |
| Other | Akismet | Discord ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.8 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | go.elementor.com, my.elementor.com, www.google.com, vimeo.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, developers.facebook.com, graph.facebook.com, www.paypal.com, sandbox.paypal.com, api.stripe.com |