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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.
- Active installs
- 5+ million
- #8 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 408.3M
- 408,340,880
- Downloads, 30 days
- 1.3M
- 321.6K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5
- 1,187 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 months ago
- Aug 18, 2026
- Version
- 5.7.2
- 94 releases
What Akismet Anti-spam's own page says
Read from akismet.comon
| Plan | Price | Billed | Renews at | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $9.95 | per month, billed yearly | Not shown | up to 1 site |
The page's own words around each price
- Pro:
cing/) Select your plan 500 spam calls/mo, up to 1 site 500 spam calls/mo, up to 1 site$9.95 per month, billed yearly 1000 spam calls/mo, up to 2 sites$19.90 per month, billed
Who it is for
For professional or commercial sites and blogs.
Use cases the vendor names
- Spam protection for personal sites and blogs
- Spam protection for commercial sites
Features it lists
- For personal sites
- Email support
- 500 monthly spam checks
- For commercial sites
- Priority email support
- 5000 monthly spam checks
- Unlimited sites
- Dedicated support
- Custom spam check allowance
A script read this page, and kept only what the page's text backs up. These are the vendor's list prices and its own words, not a deal and not my review. Prices change and can differ by country, so confirm on the vendor's page before you buy.
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | August 18, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.8 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.2 or newer |
| First published | October 20, 2005 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 1 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
4.7 / 5 from 1,187 reviews
| 5 stars | 1,034 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 67 |
| 3 stars | 16 |
| 2 stars | 13 |
| 1 star | 57 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Major features in Akismet include:
- Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.
- Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.
- URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
- Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.
- A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.
PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Latest changelog entry
Release Date – 19 August 2026
- Fix Fluent Forms integration on WordPress versions older than 6.1.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.