Akismet vs Fluent Forms Pro Add On Pack
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Fluent Forms Pro Add On Pack v6.2.15 · 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 ($) | Fluent Forms Pro Add On Pack ($) |
| 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 | Payment gateways including Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay and Authorize.Net; CRM and email integrations such as HubSpot, Zoho CRM and MailerLite; Repeaters, chained selects, coupons and file uploads on forms |
| 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 the free Fluent Forms plugin active; Paid add-on that uses a vendor licence and updater; Spam protection is not part of this add-on |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | — | No |
| Multi-step forms | — | Yes |
| Payments | — | Yes |
| File upload | — | Yes |
| Calculations | — | Yes |
| Entries in admin | — | Yes |
| Spam protection | — | No |
| Free version | — | No |
| 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 | Coupons on payment forms ($), Repeater fields ($), Chained select fields ($), Survey shortcode ($), Modal shortcode ($), CRM and email integrations ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | Stripe ($), PayPal ($), Razorpay ($), Authorize.Net ($) |
| — | MailerLite ($) | |
| CRM | — | HubSpot ($), Zoho CRM ($) |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | — |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.4 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
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| Shortcodes | — | 6 |