Best anti-spam plugins for WordPress
The most popular anti-spam plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Akismet Anti-spam leads with 5M+ active installs, ahead of Antispam Bee (700K+) and WP Armour (400K+). All 232 plugins tagged “anti-spam” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 anti-spam plugins
- 1.
Akismet Anti-spamThe most installed anti-spam plugin, with 5M+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 1,187 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Antispam Bee700K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 226 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
WP Armour400K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 1,477 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
CF7 Apps300K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 135 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 5.
Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk200K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 3,224 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 6.
CloudSecure WP Security200K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 7.
Gravity Forms Zero Spam100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 24 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Email Encoder90K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 94 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Spam Protection30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 87 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.
Blackhole for Bad Bots30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 148 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
All 232 plugins tagged “anti-spam”

Akismet Anti-spam
#8by Automattic2 months ago
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
- Installs
- 5M+
- Rating
- 4.7(1.2K)
- Downloads
- 41.8K/day

Antispam Bee
#84by pluginkollektiv2 months ago
Sophisticated antispam plugin for effective daily comment and trackback spam-fighting. Built with data protection and privacy in mind.
- Installs
- 700K+
- Rating
- 4.8(226)
- Downloads
- 2.3K/day

WP Armour
Up in the last 7 days:1#141by Dinesh Karki2 months ago
Fastest growing Anti Spam plugin. No API calls, subscriptions, captcha or puzzle. Full GDPR complaint. For comments, contact form, login, registration
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1.5K)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day

CF7 Apps
#156by Saad Iqbal11 days ago
Add hCaptcha, Honeypot, Redirection, and AI-powered form generation to Contact Form 7.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 3.8(135)
- Downloads
- 4.8K/day

Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk
Down in the last 7 days:1#239by CleanTalk Inc11 days ago
Advanced antispam for comments, registrations & contact forms. No CAPTCHA, plus email validation and honeypot. We catch spam others miss!
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.8(3.2K)
- Downloads
- 5.3K/day

CloudSecure WP Security
Up in the last 7 days:3#281by XServer26 days ago
CloudSecure WP Securityは、管理画面とログインURLをサイバー攻撃から守る、国産・日本語対応のセキュリティ対策プラグインです。 簡単な設定だけで、不正アクセスや不正ログインからWordPressを保護し、サイトのセキュリティを高めます。
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 980/day

Gravity Forms Zero Spam
#453by GravityKit2 months ago
Block form spam in Gravity Forms with an invisible token check, email rejection rules, and optional AI review. No CAPTCHAs for your visitors.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(24)
- Downloads
- 533/day

Email Encoder
Up in the last 7 days:3#464by Online Optimisation1 month ago
Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.9(94)
- Downloads
- 411/day

Spam Protection
Up in the last 7 days:4#989by yonifre12 days ago
Blocks spam the moment you activate it. No CAPTCHA, no setup, no API key. Multi-Layer. Just install and forget.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(87)
- Downloads
- 519/day

Blackhole for Bad Bots
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,042by Jeff Starr3 days ago
Blackhole is a WordPress security plugin that detects and traps bad bots in a virtual black hole, where they are denied access to your entire site.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(148)
- Downloads
- 159/day

Stop Spammers Classic
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,106by Web Guy4 days ago
A simplified, restored, and preserved version of the original Stop Spammers plugin.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.4(243)
- Downloads
- 130/day
Zero Spam for WordPress
#1,203by Highfivery Studio5 days ago
Free anti-spam for WordPress comments, logins, registrations and forms. No captchas, no moderation queue. Blocks bots before they post.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.1(143)
- Downloads
- 426/day
Honeypot Anti-Spam
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,701by RaiolaNetworks5 months ago
Stop comment spam in WordPress with the honeypot technique. No captcha, no setup, lightweight and invisible to your visitors.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 50/day
WPBruiser Security
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,790by WPZOOM2 days ago
Security and anti-spam without CAPTCHA. Blocks bots on forms, comments and logins, limits login attempts and hardens WordPress. No outside service.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(213)
- Downloads
- 417/day
ActiveLayer Anti-Spam
Up in the last 7 days:41#1,855by Syed Balkhi1 month ago
Intelligent spam protection for WordPress forms, comments, and reviews. No CAPTCHA needed. Works with WPForms, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, and more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(10)
- Downloads
- 239/day

Forget Spam Comment
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,207by Gulshan Kumar1 year ago
The ultimate solution to stop spam comments in the default commenting system of WordPress
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 5.0(46)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,334by QuantumCloud1 month ago
Remove Comment Author Link & Links from Comments, Unlink, Disable Comments, Delete All Pending Comments. AI Auto Comment Reply, Voice, Attachments
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.1(15)
- Downloads
- 79/day

oopspam Anti-Spam
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,718by oopspam Team4 days ago
Protect your forms from spam with 99.9% accuracy - no CAPTCHA, no JavaScript, no tracking. Trusted by 3.5M+ websites.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.9(51)
- Downloads
- 273/day

Spam Destroyer
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,967by Ryan Hellyer6 months ago
Kills spam dead in it's tracks. Be gone evil demon spam!
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.6(54)
- Downloads
- 36/day

Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA
Up in the last 7 days:6#3,201by Matthias Nordwig5 days ago
Invisible spam protection for every form, login and checkout. No puzzles, no checkboxes, no lost visitors — a CAPTCHA your users never see.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.8(50)
- Downloads
- 171/day

Dam Spam
Up in the last 7 days:50#3,677by Web Guy5 days ago
Spam protection for WordPress registration, login, comments, and contact forms.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 61/day

BotBlocker Security
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,696by Yevhen Leonidov2 days ago
Complete security platform for everyday: block bots, brute-force, viruses, spam, fake crawlers. WAF, 2FA, no-malware, proactive defense.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 116/day

La Sentinelle antispam
Down in the last 7 days:14#3,974by Marcel Pol20 days ago
Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(22)
- Downloads
- 42/day

Email Address Obfuscation
Up in the last 7 days:5#4,477by Neotrendy1 day ago
Protects email addresses and phone numbers from harvesting bots by encoding them as HTML entities, while keeping them readable for visitors.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day
IP Ban
Down in the last 7 days:13#4,807by Sandor Kovacs9 years ago
Simple IP Ban is a lightweight ip / user agent ban plugin.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Universal Honey Pot
Up in the last 7 days:13#5,089by Ludwig You1 year ago
Universal Honey Pot is a powerful and user-friendly WordPress plugin that provides a plug-and-play solution for protecting your forms against unwanted …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 15/day

Anti-Spam Protection
Up in the last 7 days:5#5,421by fullworks20 days ago
Block spam on Contact Form 7, WPForms & comments. No API key. GDPR compliant. Free for commercial use. No configuration needed.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 50/day
Restrict Usernames Emails Characters
Down in the last 7 days:17#5,451by Benaceur26 days ago
Restrict the usernames, email addresses, characters and symbols or email from specific domain names or language in registration ...
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(25)
- Downloads
- 37/day

Disable WP Registration Page Spam
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,913by Subodh Ghulaxe2 years ago
Disable default WordPress registration page, remove register link and stop registration spam, without disabling user registration.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Easy Spam Filter
Up in the last 7 days:24#6,105by WPPOOL5 months ago
Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, WPForms, BuddyPress & Elementor. A CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA alternative for WordPress.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(7)
- Downloads
- 18/day

Human Presence
Down in the last 7 days:52#6,389by humanpresence2 years ago
The #1 Plugin for Blocking Form Spam on WordPress
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Anti-Captcha (anti-spam botblocker)
Down in the last 7 days:2#6,630by filiw9 years ago
Anti-Captcha is a transparent spam solution that does not require any end-user interaction.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 10/day

Kitgenix CAPTCHA for Cloudflare Turnstile
Up in the last 7 days:71#7,608by Kitgenix10 days ago
Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce and popular forms with server-side verification and anti-spam controls.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 40/day

CM E-Mail Blacklist
Down in the last 7 days:26#7,649by CreativeMindsSolutions27 days ago
Block unwanted email registrations on your site with this email blacklist plugin. Protect your site by preventing spam sign-ups.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 25/day

WP referrer spam blacklist (fight 2040+ Referrer Spammers in (Google/Matomo) Analytics)
Down in the last 7 days:34#8,213by Umbrovskis.com5 years ago
WordPress plugin to fight with 2040+ referrer spammers (like semalt, buttons-for-website and many more).
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 8/day
OpenPorte Spam Protection
Up in the last 7 days:453#8,389by J-C Berthontoday
Stop spam without CAPTCHAs. Proof-of-Work protection for your forms and logins. Open-source, self-hosted, privacy-first.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 105/day

Essential Form
Down in the last 7 days:15#8,519by Jose Mortellaro3 days ago
The lightest contact form for WordPress. It's so essential you'll either love it or hate it. Ultra lightweight and no spam.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 12/day

En Spam
Up in the last 7 days:24#8,965by hatul1 month ago
Block spam with cookies and JavaScript. All Spambots will remain away from your blog. Without settings or Captcha, install and forget the spam.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.1(7)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Comments
Up in the last 7 days:17#9,337by graphcomment1 month ago
Don't disable comments — fix them. AI-assisted moderation, zero spam, ad-free — syncs back to your WordPress database. The Disqus alternative.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(30)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Antispam
Up in the last 7 days:42#9,526by Eugen Bobrowski10 years ago
Anti-spam check the robots by behavior. No captcha. Antispam let robots do so as a human can't do.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 5/day

EZ Anti-Spam Comments with reCAPTCHA
Up in the last 7 days:10#10,741by Eli1 year ago
A simple yet effective Spam Filter. A Widget and Shortcode to display Comments with Good Karma as Testimonials. Plus the ability to Move comments and …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Send Denial
Up in the last 7 days:22#11,066by Julian Lang1 year ago
Anti-Spam protection for the most popular and widly used formbuilders and plugins. GDPR compliant.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Security Check
Up in the last 7 days:29#11,373by Shea Bunge8 years ago
Combat spam registrations for a BuddyPress-powered site using Google's reCAPTCHA
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.1(14)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks
Up in the last 7 days:8#11,515by Ajay6 days ago
Auto-Close keeps your site clean by automatically closing comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks—so you can focus on content, not cleanup.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam
Up in the last 7 days:15#11,749by Peter1 year ago
Stop a lot of spambots from polluting your site by making visitors identify a custom word displayed as an image before commenting.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
MP Spam Be Gone
Up in the last 7 days:13#11,783by MikesPickz5 years ago
MP Spam Be Gone is the simplest, most effective Spam blocker.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
BuddyPress reCAPTCHA
Up in the last 7 days:268#12,068by algorhythm15 years ago
This plugin utilizes reCAPTCHA to help your blog stay clear of spam-registrations.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

I don't like Spam!
Up in the last 7 days:65#12,298by them.es9 months ago
Use the Comment Blocklist feature to protect your contact form.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)
Up in the last 7 days:11#12,437by wp-buy1 year ago
Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP. Fully customizable.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

LH Zero Spam
Down in the last 7 days:54#12,995by shawfactor4 years ago
Zero Spam makes blocking spam comments and registrations easy.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day