Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 vs Fluent Forms
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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 | Fluent Forms v6.2.16 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 100,000+ | 800,000+ |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | October 16, 2026 |
| Editions | Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 · Conditional Fields PRO ($) | Fluent Forms · Fluent Forms Pro ($) |
| 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 | Conditional fields in the free version; reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile spam protection; Entries and reports kept in wp-admin |
| Cons | Requires Contact Form 7; Advanced features sit in the paid PRO version | Payments need the Pro add-on; Calculation fields are shown as Pro features; Tracking is an opt-in notice on first use |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | Yes | Yes |
| Payments | No | Paid |
| Calculations | No | Paid |
| Entries in admin | No | Yes |
| 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 | Conditional field logic, Entries list in wp-admin, Form reports page, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile modules, Payment module (Pro) ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | Stripe ($) |
| — | Mailchimp | |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7 | — |
| Other | — | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha |
| Requires WordPress | 5.9 | 6.4 |
| Requires PHP | 7.0 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | Only if you agree |
| External services | — | hooks.slack.com, challenges.cloudflare.com, www.google.com, js.hcaptcha.com, ipinfo.io, apip.cc, api.cleantalk.org, moderate.cleantalk.org, fluentform.com |
| Blocks | — | 1 |
| Shortcodes | — | 2 |