Akismet vs YOP Poll
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | YOP Poll v7.0.13 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.4/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5M+ | 10,000+ |
| Last updated | August 18, 2026 | October 5, 2026 |
| Editions | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · Akismet paid plan ($) | YOP Poll · YOP Poll Pro ($) |
| 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 | Single and multiple choice polls with optional voter-added answers; Scheduled start and end dates for time-limited polls; Bans by cookie, IP or username and captcha support on votes |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Several features, including templates and multi-question polls, need the paid Pro version; Recent major rewrite; upgrade from older versions needs testing; Some captcha and email integrations depend on your own API keys |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| 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 | Scheduled start and end dates for polls, Ban voters by cookie, IP or username, Vote log with search and sorting, Upgrade to Pro admin screen |
| Integrations | ||
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Elementor |
| Other | Akismet | Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.5 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | admin.yoppoll.com, www.google.com, hcaptcha.com, challenges.cloudflare.com |
| Blocks | — | 1 |
| Shortcodes | — | 4 |
| Custom tables | — | 8 |