Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms 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 | — |
| 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 | Drag-and-drop form builder with conditional logic; Multi-page forms, file uploads and calculations; Entries screen, notifications and merge tags |
| 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 that needs a licence key for updates; Payment gateways are separate paid add-ons; Sends weekly telemetry to the vendor without a visible opt-in |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | Yes |
| Conditional logic | No | Yes |
| Multi-step forms | No | Yes |
| Payments | Yes | Yes |
| File upload | Yes | Yes |
| Calculations | No | Yes |
| Entries in admin | No | Yes |
| Spam protection | Yes | Yes |
| Free version | Yes | No |
| 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 | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | — |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | — |
| External services | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com | — |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |