Contact Form 7 vs MailerLite - Signup forms (official)
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | MailerLite - Signup forms (official) v1.7.26 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 2.9/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10M+ | 100,000+ |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | June 26, 2026 |
| Editions | Contact Form 7 | MailerLite - Signup forms |
| 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 | Embed MailerLite forms with a shortcode, block or widget; Popups and form styling set up in the MailerLite account; Free plugin for existing MailerLite users |
| 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 MailerLite account and API key; Popups and tracking load MailerLite's universal script on the front end; Forms and subscriber data live outside WordPress |
| 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 | Sign-up form shortcode, Gutenberg sign-up form block, Sign-up form widget, Embedded webform editor linked to MailerLite forms, Popups and visitor tracking through MailerLite universal script |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | MailerLite | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 3.0.1 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | 7.2.5 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.8.2 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com | api.mailerlite.com, connect.mailerlite.com, static.mailerlite.com |
| Blocks | 1 | 1 |
| Shortcodes | 2 | 1 |