Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms to Brevo 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 to Brevo Add-On v2.6.0 · 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 to Brevo Add-On (free) · Gravity Forms to Brevo Add-On ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | One feed per form with field-to-attribute mapping; Adds contacts to one or more Brevo lists; Optional double opt-in with a Brevo template |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Requires Gravity Forms and a Brevo account; Updates and licence checks go through the vendor site; Only covers creating and updating contacts, not campaigns |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | One Brevo feed per Gravity Forms form ($), Map form fields to Brevo attributes ($), Add contacts to selected Brevo lists ($), Double opt-in with a Brevo template and redirect ($), E.164 phone number validation on form submit ($), Brevo sync details shown on the entry screen ($), Update the Brevo contact when a partial entry changes ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Marketing | — | Brevo ($) |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Gravity Forms ($) |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | WP connect licence server ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 5.5 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | 7.0 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.7 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com | wpconnect.co, api.sendinblue.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |