Akismet Anti-spam vs MentoGuard

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.

MentoGuard protects your WordPress forms from spam bots using behavioral analysis and server-side token verification — completely GDPR-compliant with no data sent to Google or any third party. Currently supports Contact Form 7, with more form builders coming in future releases. How It Works MentoGuard uses three independent protection layers: Signed token — every form load generates a one-time server-side token. Bots submitting without loading the page are instantly blocked. Page time check — measures time between page load and submission entirely server-side. Bots submit in milliseconds; real users take seconds. Behavioral score — JavaScript tracks how the visitor interacts with the form (timing, mouse movement, keyboard vs paste, field order) and assigns a spam score. Key Features GDPR compliant — zero external servers, zero Google, zero third parties Contact Form 7 native tag support — place [mentoguard] inside your CF7 form editor Scripts load only on pages with active forms — zero SEO or page speed impact on other pages Spam log dashboard — see every blocked submission with IP, score, and signals Top Spammers page — aggregate view of worst offenders with one-click blacklisting IP Blacklist — manually block IPs or CIDR ranges Test Mode — see live spam scores without blocking anyone Debug Log — step-by-step validation log for diagnosing issues Preset modes — Relaxed, Balanced, Strict Page time protection — configurable minimum time in seconds or milliseconds Fully adjustable — enable/disable each signal, adjust point values No tracking, no upsells, no phone-home Privacy MentoGuard reads your local WordPress database only. It logs the IP address and behavioral score of blocked submissions. No data is sent to any external server at any time. Usage with Contact Form 7 Add [mentoguard] inside your CF7 form editor, before the submit button: [text* your-name] [email* your-email] [mentoguard] [submit “Send”]