Alternatives to Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Snapshot
Rating: 4.7/5 (1,176 reviews)
Downloads: 387,165,667
Active installs: 6,000,000
Maintenance score: 50/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.8
Tested up to: 6.9.4
Requires PHP: 7.2
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Antispam Bee(225)•Updated 48d ago
Sophisticated antispam plugin for effective daily comment and trackback spam-fighting. Built with data protection and privacy in mind.
700,000 installs11,593,299 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
CF7 Apps – Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, and Addons for Contact Form 7(131)•Updated 108d ago
Addons for Contact Form 7 — Honeypot, Database Entries, Redirection, Spam Protection, Webhooks, ACF integration for Contact Form 7, and more.
300,000 installs5,613,377 downloads62/100 • Maintained
Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk(3,177)•Updated 32d ago
Blocks spam comments, fake users, contact form spam and more. No impact on SEO. Privacy focused. CAPTCHA free, premium Antispam plugin.
200,000 installs23,384,473 downloads81/100 • Actively maintained
Email Address Encoder(160)•Updated 36d ago
A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.
100,000 installs1,606,515 downloads68/100 • Actively maintained
Gravity Forms Zero Spam(24)•Updated 31d ago
Enhance your Gravity Forms to include anti-spam measures originally based on the work of David Walsh's "Zero Spam" technique.
100,000 installs1,216,749 downloads73/100 • Actively maintained
Maspik – Ultimate Spam Protection(83)•Updated 33d ago
No more fake leads or unwanted submissions — Maspik blocks spam instantly across all forms without using CAPTCHA.
30,000 installs862,187 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam}(213)•Updated 2042d ago
An extremely powerful antispam plugin that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images.
10,000 installs690,034 downloads29/100 • Possibly abandoned
AntiSpam for Contact Form 7(12)•Updated 55d ago
A trustworthy antispam plugin for Contact Form 7. Wave goodbye to spam and keep your inbox clean!
10,000 installs88,851 downloads66/100 • Actively maintained
OOPSpam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA)(45)•Updated 49d ago
Protect your forms from spam with 99.9% accuracy - no CAPTCHA, no JavaScript, no tracking. Trusted by 3.5M+ websites.
6,000 installs236,415 downloads75/100 • Actively maintained
6,000 installs98,988 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
Anti-spam, Spam protection, ReCaptcha for all forms and GDPR-compliant(46)•Updated 350d ago
Anti-spam - CAPTCHA that protects all forms against spam and brute-force. Invisible and GDPR-compliant.
4,000 installs53,845 downloads34/100 • Stale
La Sentinelle antispam(20)•Updated 118d ago
Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way.
3,000 installs50,164 downloads44/100 • Maintained
Human Presence – Stop Form Spam Without ReCaptcha(15)•Updated 815d ago
The #1 Plugin for Blocking Form Spam on WordPress
1,000 installs33,529 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Anti-Spam Protection – No API Key, GDPR Friendly(11)•Updated 34d ago
Block spam on Contact Form 7, WPForms & comments. No API key. GDPR compliant. Free for commercial use. No configuration needed.
1,000 installs59,125 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Disable WP Registration Page Spam(5)•Updated 694d ago
Disable default WordPress registration page, remove register link and stop registration spam, without disabling user registration.
1,000 installs11,530 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP referrer spam blacklist (fight 2040+ Referrer Spammers in (Google/Matomo) Analytics)(3)•Updated 1967d ago
WordPress plugin to fight with 2040+ referrer spammers (like semalt, buttons-for-website and many more).
700 installs19,756 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
CloudFilt Bot & Spam Protection(3)•Updated 90d ago
Prevent and stop bots traffic. This plugin inserts in your website the CloudFilt codes for the security tracking available on https://cloudfilt.com/.
600 installs19,217 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
I don't like Spam!(2)•Updated 97d ago
Use the Comment Blocklist feature to protect your contact form.
200 installs9,376 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Turbo Ecommerce(0)•Updated 882d ago
Turbo plugin helps you integrate your WooCommerce website with the Turbo shipping system.
30 installs1,848 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for Forms & Comments(0)•Updated 31d ago
Intelligent spam protection for WordPress forms and comments. No CAPTCHA needed. Works with WPForms, Contact Form 7, Elementor Forms, and more.
0 installs44 downloads59/100 • Actively maintained