Akismet vs Gravity Forms HubSpot Add-On
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms HubSpot Add-On v3.0.4 · 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 ($) | Gravity Forms HubSpot Add-On ($) |
| 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 | Creates or updates HubSpot contacts per feed; Maps fields to HubSpot contact properties; Optional HubSpot tracking script that can be turned off |
| 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 tracking script is loaded from HubSpot unless disabled; Depends on the HubSpot account plan for some features |
| 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 or update HubSpot contacts per feed ($), Submit to a HubSpot form by name ($), Map fields to HubSpot contact properties ($), Choose contact creation behaviour for new email addresses ($), Optional HubSpot tracking script on the front end ($), Exclude HubSpot tracking cookie per feed ($), OAuth token refresh with rate-limit lock ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| CRM | — | HubSpot ($) |
| Analytics | — | HubSpot tracking script ($) |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Gravity Forms ($) |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.5 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | api.hubapi.com, js.hs-analytics.net |