Contact Form 7 vs Elementor Pro
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Elementor Pro v4.3.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10M+ | — |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Contact Form 7 | Elementor Pro ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Forms with actions such as Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign and webhooks; Popups and WooCommerce widgets; Licence and updates handled through the vendor |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs a paid licence key to receive updates; Licence is tied to a site domain; a domain change triggers a licence error |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Forms with submission actions ($), Popups with form actions ($), WooCommerce widgets module ($), Atomic form submissions and webhook action ($), Licence key stored and checked against the vendor ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | Mailchimp ($), MailerLite ($) | |
| CRM | — | ActiveCampaign ($) |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce ($) |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | Discord ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 6.8 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | 7.4 |
| 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 | go.elementor.com, my.elementor.com, www.google.com, vimeo.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, developers.facebook.com, graph.facebook.com, www.paypal.com, sandbox.paypal.com, api.stripe.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |