Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms ActiveCampaign Add-On
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms ActiveCampaign Add-On v2.2.0 · 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 ActiveCampaign Add-On ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Maps form fields to contact and custom fields per feed; Adds list membership, tags and notes per contact; Double opt-in form and instant responder options |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs a Gravity Forms licence key for updates; Needs your own ActiveCampaign API URL and API key; Only covers what the feed maps; other ActiveCampaign data is not synced |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Map form fields to contact and custom fields ($), Add contacts to an ActiveCampaign list ($), Tags and notes per contact ($), Double opt-in form selection ($), Instant responders and last broadcast options ($), Conditional logic on feeds ($), Create ActiveCampaign custom fields from the add-on ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| CRM | — | ActiveCampaign ($) |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Gravity Forms ($) |
| 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 | — |