Akismet Alternatives
Akismet is described as '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'. There are more than 10 alternatives to Akismet for a variety of platforms, including Wordpress, Online / Web-based, Self-Hosted solutions, Contact Form 7 and SaaS. The best alternative is CleanTalk, which is free. Other great apps like Akismet are StopForumSpam (Free), Antispam Bee (Free, Open Source), Mollom (Freemium) and OOPSpam API (Free Personal).
- Anti-Spam Features. CleanTalk protects your website from spam bots and spam in Comments, Orders, Widgets, Registrations, Bookings, And any custom web form, Contact Emails, Subscriptions, Checks the existing comments and users for spam.
- Your favorite and most trusted "one stop shop" for the prevention of forum & blog spam, trusted by over 200,000 forums... All for free! Nothing beats free! WHAT?No screenshots yet
- Say Goodbye to comment spam on your WordPress blog or website. Antispam Bee blocks spam comments and trackbacks effectively, without captchas and without sending personal information to third party services. It is free of charge, ad-free and 100% GDPR compliant.
- Mollom is a freemium web service to get rid of spam, unwanted content and fake users on your Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla site or blog.
Discontinued
"The Mollom content moderation service is no longer available … as of 2 April 2018."
No screenshots yet - OOPSpam API is a powerful machine learning based spam filter service for any content exchange. OOPSpam API allows developers to make an accurate decision based on 4 different inputs: - A trained machine learning algorithm checks whether the content is spam or not.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Open-source implementation of server-side spam filtering of blog comments and forum posts. It's available as a free web service. It's open source, so you can set up your own server if you prefer.No screenshots yet
- Defends WordPress against hacker attacks, spam, trojans and malware. Mitigates brute force attacks by limiting the number of login attempts through the login form, XML-RPC / REST API requests or using auth cookies.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Self-Hosted
- Wordpress
- Anti-spam plugin blocks automatic spam in comments section. No captcha. Plugin is easy to use: just install it and it just works. Blocked comments can be stored in the Spam area if needed. This can be enabled/disabled via Settings page.
- This simple addition to the wonderful Contact Form 7 (CF7) plugin adds basic honeypot anti-spam functionality to thwart spambots without the need for an ugly captcha.No screenshots yet
- A lightweight (~217 bytes vanila JS at frontend) and privacy-friendly plugin to prevent spam comment in the default commenting system of WordPress. Works instantly. No settings required. No captcha.