Akismet vs Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On v5.5.1 · 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 ($) | Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On ($) |
| 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 users from form feeds; User activation with a pending activations screen; Login widget and custom registration page |
| 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; Large set of feed settings to configure; Multisite site creation only applies on multisite installs |
| 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 a WordPress user from a form feed ($), Update an existing user from a feed ($), Username, name, display name, role and password fields ($), User activation with pending activations screen ($), Scheduled removal of stored passwords ($), Create a new multisite site on registration ($), Login widget ($), Custom registration page option ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | PayPal ($) |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | BuddyPress ($), Gravity Forms ($) |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | — |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | — |