Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms HubSpot 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 HubSpot Add-On v3.0.4 · 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 HubSpot Add-On ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Creates or updates HubSpot contacts per feed; Maps fields to HubSpot contact properties; Optional HubSpot tracking script that can be turned off |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs a Gravity Forms licence key for updates; Front-end tracking script is loaded from HubSpot unless disabled; Depends on the HubSpot account plan for some features |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Create or update HubSpot contacts per feed ($), Submit to a HubSpot form by name ($), Map fields to HubSpot contact properties ($), Choose contact creation behaviour for new email addresses ($), Optional HubSpot tracking script on the front end ($), Exclude HubSpot tracking cookie per feed ($), OAuth token refresh with rate-limit lock ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| CRM | — | HubSpot ($) |
| Analytics | — | HubSpot tracking script ($) |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Gravity Forms ($) |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 6.5 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | 7.4 |
| 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 | api.hubapi.com, js.hs-analytics.net |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |