Akismet vs WooCommerce Custom Product Addons Free
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | WooCommerce Custom Product Addons Free v3.1.9 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5M+ | 30,000+ |
| Last updated | August 18, 2026 | October 20, 2026 |
| Editions | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · Akismet paid plan ($) | WooCommerce Custom Product Addons Free · WooCommerce Custom Product Addons Pro ($) |
| 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 builder for product page fields; Customer answers are saved on the order line items; Works with WPML and Polylang for field strings |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Pricing options, uploads and conditional logic need the paid version; Field display is tied to the product page and order meta; Pro upgrade prompts appear in the admin |
| 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 | Product Addons tab on the product editor, Forms and Designs admin menu, Date, textarea, colour, select and group fields, Customer answers saved on order line items, WPML and Polylang language handling, Hides Stripe and WooPayments express buttons on add-on products |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | Stripe, WooPayments |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | WPML, Polylang |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.2 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | — |