Constant Contact Forms vs Contact Form 7
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| Feature | Constant Contact Forms v2.22.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 2.6/5 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 | 20,000+ | 10M+ |
| Last updated | October 9, 2026 | October 21, 2026 |
| Editions | Constant Contact Forms for WordPress | Contact Form 7 |
| Pros | Forms feed directly into Constant Contact lists; Block and widget to place forms anywhere; Choice of reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile or Akismet | 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 a Constant Contact account to work; Submissions are sent to Constant Contact rather than stored locally; Limited to Constant Contact as the mailing service | 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 | 1 |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | — | No |
| Conditional logic | — | No |
| Multi-step forms | No | No |
| Payments | No | Yes |
| File upload | No | Yes |
| Calculations | — | No |
| Entries in admin | No | No |
| Spam protection | Yes | Yes |
| Free version | Yes | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form builder stored as a custom post type, Constant Contact list selection, Gutenberg block for the contact form, Widget for placing a form in sidebars, Hourly refresh of the Constant Contact token | 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 |
| Constant Contact API | Brevo (Sendinblue) | |
| Plugins | — | Akismet, Flamingo |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, Akismet | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Requires WordPress | 6.4.0 | 7.1 |
| Requires PHP | 8.1 | 8.3 |
| Tested up to | 7.1.3 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | www.google.com, api.wordpress.org, hcaptcha.com, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.cc.email | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com |
| Blocks | 1 | 1 |
| Shortcodes | — | 2 |