Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms Multilingual
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms Multilingual v1.8.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10M+ | — |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Contact Form 7 | Gravity Forms Multilingual |
| 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 | Form fields, labels and confirmations go through WPML translation; Notifications can be sent in the recipient's language; Compatibility hooks for Survey, Conversational Forms and Gravity Flow |
| 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 WPML 4.6.4 or later, which is a separate paid product; Needs Gravity Forms active; Translation is managed in WPML, not in the form editor |
| 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 fields and labels sent to the WPML translation editor, Notifications sent in the recipient's language, Notification routing by language, Save and continue email translated, Entry field values handled per language, WooCommerce currency filter, Survey and Conversational Forms add-on support, Gravity Forms Quiz support |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | WPML (sitepress-multilingual-cms) ($), Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | — |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |