Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms User Registration 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 User Registration Add-On v5.5.1 · 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 User Registration Add-On ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Creates or updates users from form feeds; User activation with a pending activations screen; Login widget and custom registration page |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs a Gravity Forms licence key for updates; Large set of feed settings to configure; Multisite site creation only applies on multisite installs |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Create a WordPress user from a form feed ($), Update an existing user from a feed ($), Username, name, display name, role and password fields ($), User activation with pending activations screen ($), Scheduled removal of stored passwords ($), Create a new multisite site on registration ($), Login widget ($), Custom registration page option ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | PayPal ($) |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | BuddyPress ($), Gravity Forms ($) |
| 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 | — |