Akismet vs WPForms MailerLite
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | WPForms MailerLite v1.3.0 · 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 ($) | WPForms MailerLite ($) |
| 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 | Subscribe, unsubscribe and delete actions per form; Map form fields to MailerLite fields; Choose MailerLite groups from the form builder |
| 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 MailerLite account and an API connection; Updates need a WPForms licence key; Only covers MailerLite, not other email services |
| 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 | Subscribe a form submitter to MailerLite ($), Unsubscribe a contact from MailerLite on submit ($), Delete a MailerLite subscriber on submit ($), Map form fields to MailerLite fields ($), Connect a MailerLite account from WPForms settings ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| — | MailerLite ($) | |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | WPForms ($) |
| Other | Akismet | — |
| 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 | connect.mailerlite.com, api.mailerlite.com |