Contact Form 7 vs Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile v1.44.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10M+ | 200,000+ |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | September 29, 2026 |
| Editions | Contact Form 7 | Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile |
| 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 | Turnstile on login, registration and comments; Integrations for Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms and Elementor; Free |
| 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 | Relies on Cloudflare Turnstile service; Optional reCAPTCHA fallback contacts Google |
| 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 | Turnstile on the login form, Turnstile shortcode, Contact Form 7 integration, Gravity Forms integration, Mailchimp for WordPress integration, Elementor integration |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | Mailchimp for WordPress | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA fallback |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 4.7 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com | challenges.cloudflare.com, www.google.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | 4 |