Antispam Bee vs OOPSpam
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| Feature | Antispam Bee v2.11.13 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details | OOPSpam v1.2.88 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 700,000+ | 6,000+ |
| Last updated | August 23, 2026 | October 23, 2026 |
| Editions | Antispam Bee | oopspam Anti-Spam · oopspam API plans ($) |
| Pros | No captchas, so visitors do not solve puzzles; Local spam database and regular expression rules; IP addresses anonymised before country lookups | Background spam checks with no captcha; Works with WooCommerce and many form plugins; Spam and ham logs kept on the site |
| Cons | Country, language and Gravatar checks call external services; Blunt rules can catch legitimate comments; No readme in the package, so documentation is thin | Needs an oopspam API key and a plan once the free calls run out; Each submission is sent to the oopspam API; IP location lookups use a third-party geolocation service |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Filters comments and trackbacks before they are saved, Comment timing check, Regular expression and spam word checks, Local spam database check, Country allow and deny rules, Comment language check, Gravatar presence check, IP address anonymisation before lookups | Background spam check for comments and forms, Spam and ham entry logs in admin, Scheduled cleanup of old log entries, Setup wizard |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | — | Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Fluent Forms, Formidable Forms, Forminator, Elementor Pro Forms, BuddyPress |
| Other | pluginkollektiv language API, IPLocate, Gravatar | — |
| Requires WordPress | — | 4.6 |
| Tested up to | — | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.pluginkollektiv.org, www.iplocate.io, www.gravatar.com | reallyfreegeoip.org, api.oopspam.com |