Contact Form 7 vs Avada Core
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Avada Core v5.11.2 · 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 | Avada Core ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Portfolio, FAQ and slider content types; Contact form element with reCAPTCHA; Slider export and import tool |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Paid product from ThemeFusion; Built to work next to Avada Builder; Pulls language files from a GitHub repository |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Portfolio content type and element ($), FAQ content type and element ($), Avada slider with export and import ($), Contact form with reCAPTCHA settings ($), Privacy policy element ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Polylang ($) |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | Google reCAPTCHA ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 4.5 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | 5.6 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com | raw.githubusercontent.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | 5 |