Akismet vs Gravity Forms Multilingual
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms Multilingual v1.8.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free 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 ($) | Gravity Forms Multilingual |
| Pros | Checks comments and contact form submissions against a shared spam database; Works with Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms; Stats through a dashboard widget and REST endpoints | Form fields, labels and confirmations go through WPML translation; Notifications can be sent in the recipient's language; Compatibility hooks for Survey, Conversational Forms and Gravity Flow |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Needs WPML 4.6.4 or later, which is a separate paid product; Needs Gravity Forms active; Translation is managed in WPML, not in the form editor |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Checks comments before they are saved, Spam checks for Gravity Forms and Contact Form 7 submissions, Scheduled deletion of old spam and orphaned comment meta, Block statistics dashboard widget, REST endpoints for key, settings and stats, Webhook endpoint for Akismet account updates, Stats ability for the WordPress Abilities API | Form fields and labels sent to the WPML translation editor, Notifications sent in the recipient's language, Notification routing by language, Save and continue email translated, Entry field values handled per language, WooCommerce currency filter, Survey and Conversational Forms add-on support, Gravity Forms Quiz support |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | WPML (sitepress-multilingual-cms) ($), Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | — |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | — |