The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
As of April 2026, Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection is a WordPress spam plugin with 6.0M+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 1,175 reviews. It has been downloaded 386M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2005. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 17%. Top alternative: Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware….
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:
Catches most spam without much effort. Easy to use n saves time, though a few things still require manual checks sometimes. Overall, pretty useful for daily use.
Installed Akismet on my blog, and spam comments dropped a lot. Works quietly in the background and filters most junk automatically. Didn’t need much setup either. Really helpful plugin. tnkz devs.
Akismet helped cut down spam a lot on my blog. Didn’t realize how bad it was until this filtered most of it. Runs quietly in the background. Misses a few sometimes, but still very useful. 👍
: “I’ve been using Akismet on my blog for months, and it’s been a lifesaver. It works quietly in the background and catches 99% of the spam comments that used to flood my inbox. I love that it doesn’t slow down my site or force my real visitors to solve annoying CAPTCHAs. It’s reliable, easy to set up, and a must-have for any WordPress user.”
I use Akismet from 10 years, definitively the best antispam plugin for my blogs
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
Release Date – 12 November 2025
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