Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 vs Contact Form 7
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| Feature | Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 v2.8.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 100,000+ | 10M+ |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | October 21, 2026 |
| Editions | Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 · Conditional Fields PRO ($) | Contact Form 7 |
| Pros | Show or hide field groups based on other field values; Hidden fields skip validation and are left out of emails; Configured from the existing CF7 form editor | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in |
| Cons | Requires Contact Form 7; Advanced features sit in the paid PRO version | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 1 |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | No |
| Conditional logic | Yes | No |
| Multi-step forms | — | No |
| Payments | No | Yes |
| File upload | — | Yes |
| Calculations | No | No |
| Entries in admin | No | No |
| Spam protection | No | Yes |
| Free version | Yes | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Conditional fields group tag in CF7, Skip validation for hidden fields, Remove hidden fields from notification emails, Conditions editor screen | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | Stripe |
| — | Brevo (Sendinblue) | |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7 | Akismet, Flamingo |
| Other | — | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Requires WordPress | 5.9 | 7.1 |
| Requires PHP | 7.0 | 8.3 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | — | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com |
| Blocks | — | 1 |
| Shortcodes | — | 2 |