Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms reCAPTCHA 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 reCAPTCHA Add-On v1.6.0 · 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 reCAPTCHA Add-On ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Checkbox, invisible and v3 score-based modes; Server-side token check against Google, with score threshold; Can be turned off per form |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs your own Google reCAPTCHA site and secret keys; Needs a Gravity Forms licence key for updates; Hiding the badge requires you to show Google's branding yourself |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Checkbox, invisible and v3 reCAPTCHA types ($), Server-side token verification against Google ($), Spam check and submission validation hooks ($), Disable reCAPTCHA v3 for a single form ($), Hide the reCAPTCHA badge with a branding acknowledgement ($), Validate keys from the settings screen ($), reCAPTCHA details on the entry screen ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | Stripe (Gravity Forms Stripe add-on) ($) |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Gravity Forms ($) |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | Google reCAPTCHA ($) |
| 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 | www.google.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |