Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms for Klaviyo
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms for Klaviyo v1.5.2 · 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 | Gravity Forms for Klaviyo ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Profile, email list, SMS and custom event sync per feed; Failed or past entries can be resent from the entry screen; Field mapping to Klaviyo profile email, phone and name |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs both Klaviyo public and private API keys; Paid add-on; updates go through a CrossPeak licence key; Background sends wait for Action Scheduler to run |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Creates or updates Klaviyo profiles from form fields ($), Adds profiles to Klaviyo email lists ($), SMS signup list and SMS consent field ($), Sends a custom Klaviyo event per submission ($), Field map to profile email, phone and name ($), Resend failed or past entries from the entry screen ($), Background sends through Action Scheduler ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Marketing | — | Klaviyo ($) |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Gravity Forms ($) |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | CrossPeak Software updater ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 4.2 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | 7.0 |
| 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 | www.crosspeaksoftware.com, a.klaviyo.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |