Akismet vs Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On v1.6.2 · 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 ($) | Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On ($) |
| 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 | Maps title, content, excerpt, taxonomies, custom fields and featured images; Front-end post editing through a form page; Posts list output for posts created by 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 a Gravity Forms licence key for updates; Front-end editing needs a form page set up per feed; Many feed settings to configure for each post type |
| 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 | Create WordPress posts and custom post types from submissions ($), Map title, content and excerpt from form fields ($), Map form fields to post custom fields ($), Assign taxonomy terms from form fields ($), Featured image from a file upload field ($), Front-end post editing through a form page ($), Posts list output via the apc_posts_list Gravity Forms shortcode action ($), Create a post after a user registration feed runs ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Gravity Forms ($), Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On ($) |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | — |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | — |