Akismet vs Gravity Forms Product Add-Ons for WooCommerce
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms Product Add-Ons for WooCommerce v3.8.5 · 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 Product Add-Ons for WooCommerce |
| 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 | Reuses existing Gravity Forms fields on any product; Form entries are linked to WooCommerce orders; Price updates from form choices without a page reload |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Requires the Gravity Forms plugin, which is paid; Depends on Gravity Forms hooks, so Gravity Forms updates can affect it |
| 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 | Gravity Forms form attached to a product, Price updated from form choices via AJAX, Form values kept in the cart and checkout, Edit form values for a cart item, Gravity Forms entries linked to WooCommerce orders, Validation of form submissions before add to cart, Product offer structured data from form pricing, Plugin settings page |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | Stripe |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Gravity Forms |
| Other | Akismet | Google reCAPTCHA, Zapier |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.5 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | — |