Akismet Anti-spam vs EchoFilter

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.

EchoFilter protects your WordPress forms from bots and spam using behavioral biometrics — analyzing mouse movement, typing patterns, and timing to distinguish real users from automated submissions. How it works: Install the plugin and enter your EchoFilter API key EchoFilter silently analyzes every visitor’s behavior On form submit, it scores the session (0–100 TrustScore) Bots get blocked. Real users get through instantly. No CAPTCHAs. No friction. No false positives. Compatible with: Contact Form 7 WPForms Gravity Forms Elementor Forms Ninja Forms Any standard HTML form Three protection modes: Block — Bot submissions are rejected with an error message (recommended) Flag — Bot submissions go through but with a hidden _echofilter_bot=1 field Log — Monitor mode: all submissions allowed, bots logged in your dashboard External Services This plugin connects to echofilter.com to analyze form submissions and load the detection SDK. This is the core functionality of the plugin and cannot be disabled while the plugin is active. What is sent: * Behavioral signals: mouse movement patterns, keystroke timing, form fill duration * Whether a paste action was detected * A one-way hash of the visitor’s IP address (raw IP is never stored or transmitted) * User-agent string What is NOT sent: * Form field values or any user-submitted content * Names, emails, or any personally identifiable information from your visitors When data is sent: Data is transmitted only when a visitor submits a form on your site and you have entered a valid API key. External service links: * Service: echofilter.com * Terms of Service: echofilter.com/terms * Privacy Policy: echofilter.com/privacy