Best Akismet Anti-spam alternatives

8 captcha & anti-spam plugins compared with Akismet Anti-spam on features, pricing and WordPress.org stats.

CleanTalk Spam Protection

Site owners and agencies who want invisible spam protection across every form, comment and WooCommerce page for a small annual fee.

+ Has Login & password reset, Registration, Block and allow lists and 19 more − Lacks Scripts load only where needed $12/yr

85feature scorevs Akismet Anti-spam

hCaptcha for WordPress

Sites that want a privacy-focused CAPTCHA across WordPress core, WooCommerce and many form, builder and community plugins.

+ Has hCaptcha, Login & password reset, Registration and 20 more − Lacks Cloud spam filtering, Spam review & false-positive recovery $1,188/yr

84feature scorevs Akismet Anti-spam

Advanced Google reCAPTCHA

Sites that want a free built-in or Google CAPTCHA plus basic login lockouts on core, WooCommerce and EDD forms.

+ Has Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha and 20 more − Lacks REST API & XML-RPC protection, Spam review & false-positive recovery $59/yr

81feature scorevs Akismet Anti-spam

Simple Cloudflare Turnstile

Sites that want free, low-friction Cloudflare Turnstile protection across WordPress, WooCommerce and many form plugins.

+ Has Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, Login & password reset and 16 more − Lacks Honeypot fields, Cloud spam filtering Free

73feature scorevs Akismet Anti-spam

WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam

Sites that want invisible, zero-setup bot protection with no third-party services or visible CAPTCHA.

+ Has Login & password reset, Registration, Block and allow lists and 17 more − Lacks Cloud spam filtering, Skip for logged-in users $19.99/yr

67feature scorevs Akismet Anti-spam

CAPTCHA 4WP

Sites that want one paid plugin to switch between reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile with country-based rules.

+ Has Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha and 15 more − Lacks Honeypot fields, Cloud spam filtering $39/yr

67feature scorevs Akismet Anti-spam

Antispam Bee

Blogs and EU-based content sites that want free, self-hosted comment spam filtering without sending data to a spam service.

+ Has Block and allow lists, Country & language filters, Works without an external service − Lacks Cloud spam filtering, WooCommerce checkout & account Free

25feature scorevs Akismet Anti-spam