Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms Drip Add-On
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms Drip Add-On v2.1.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.7/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10M+ | 500+ |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | October 23, 2026 |
| Editions | Contact Form 7 | Gravity Forms Drip Add-On |
| Pros | 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 | Maps form fields to Drip subscriber data; Can subscribe to campaigns, add tags and record events; Keeps an API log to help with troubleshooting |
| Cons | 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 | Requires a separate Gravity Forms licence; Requires a Drip account and API token |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | 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 | Form field to Drip field mapping, Create or update subscribers, Subscribe to campaigns, Record custom events, Tag subscribers, API request log, Migrate settings and feeds from older version |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | Drip | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Gravity Forms |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 3.0.1 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1.3 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com | gravityplus.pro, api.getdrip.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |