Contact Form 7 vs WPForms Geolocation
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | WPForms Geolocation v2.14.0 · 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 | WPForms Geolocation ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Adds visitor location to form entries; Address search with Google Places or Mapbox; Shows entry locations on a map in the admin |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs a paid licence to use; IP lookups go to third-party services; Google Places and Mapbox need their own API keys |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Look up visitor location from the IP address ($), Geolocation data as a smart tag on entries ($), Address search with Google Places ($), Address search with Mapbox ($), Map of the entry location ($), Elementor and Divi integration ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | WPForms ($), Elementor ($), Divi ($) |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | Google Places API ($), Mapbox Search ($), ipapi.co ($), KeyCDN geo lookup ($), WPForms geolocation service ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | 5.5 |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | 7.2 |
| 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 | api.mapbox.com, geo.wpforms.com, ipapi.co, tools.keycdn.com, maps.googleapis.com |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |