Akismet vs WPForms Geolocation
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | WPForms Geolocation v2.14.0 · 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 ($) | WPForms Geolocation ($) |
| 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 | Adds visitor location to form entries; Address search with Google Places or Mapbox; Shows entry locations on a map in the admin |
| 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 paid licence to use; IP lookups go to third-party services; Google Places and Mapbox need their own API keys |
| 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 | Look up visitor location from the IP address ($), Geolocation data as a smart tag on entries ($), Address search with Google Places ($), Address search with Mapbox ($), Map of the entry location ($), Elementor and Divi integration ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | WPForms ($), Elementor ($), Divi ($) |
| Other | Akismet | Google Places API ($), Mapbox Search ($), ipapi.co ($), KeyCDN geo lookup ($), WPForms geolocation service ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 5.5 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.2 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | api.mapbox.com, geo.wpforms.com, ipapi.co, tools.keycdn.com, maps.googleapis.com |