Fillin Forge is an alternative to Contact Form 7 with 168 templates, plus AI form generation and Typeform-style conversational forms on paid plans.
Contact Form 7 and Fillin Forge side by side: what each one lists, with sources and dates, and how to move your forms over.
Updated October 2026
Contact Form 7 is a free plugin on WordPress.org, listed with more than 10 million active installations in October 2026. Fillin Forge is a WordPress form builder with a Free plugin and paid plans that differ by the number of sites.
This page puts the two side by side. What it says about Contact Form 7 comes from its WordPress.org page; what it says about Fillin Forge comes from the plugin code.
The Fillin Forge column comes from the plugin code. The Contact Form 7 column comes from its page on WordPress.org (https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/), read in October 2026.
| Fillin Forge | Contact Form 7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free plugin; paid plans per year, see below | Free |
| WordPress.org | Fillin Forge Free plugin | More than 10 million active installations |
| What the Free plugin has | Free plugin: 24 of 28 field types, all 168 templates, conditional logic, webhooks, file uploads | See its WordPress.org page |
| Moving forms | Contact Form 7 migrator (Fillin Forge → Migration) | Not applicable |
Contact Form 7 is free. Fillin Forge has a Free plugin, and its paid plans cost, per year: Personal $54/year (1 site), Professional $154/year (5 sites), Agency $224/year (unlimited sites). Current prices and terms are on avakode.com/pricing.
From the Fillin Forge code: the Free plugin has 24 of the 28 field types, all 168 templates, conditional logic, webhooks, file uploads, CSV export and the migrators. The paid plans add the Page Break, Repeater, Calculation and Payment (Stripe) fields, multi-step forms, conversational mode, AI form generation and AI summaries of submissions, form analytics, and the Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Google Sheets and Google Calendar connections. The paid plans differ by the number of sites ($54/year for 1 site, $154/year for 5 sites, $224/year for unlimited sites). AI features run on credits: a one-time 100-credit welcome bonus is added to your account at its first paid license activation, and credit packs are sold separately (see avakode.com/pricing).
Fillin Forge has a Contact Form 7 migrator (Fillin Forge → Migration in the WordPress admin).
[contact-form-7 id="X"] with [formforge id="X"]Scope: the migrator reads the form fields. Contact Form 7 does not store submissions by default, so there is no entry history to import, and add-ons that you use with it have to be rebuilt in Fillin Forge by hand.
14-day refund on paid plans. The Contact Form 7 migrator is part of the Free plugin.
Fillin Forge has a Free plugin: 24 of the 28 field types, all 168 templates, conditional logic, webhooks and file uploads. AI, multi-page forms, Stripe payments, conversational mode and the branded integrations need a paid plan.
The migrator creates new Fillin Forge forms from your Contact Form 7 forms. Contact Form 7 stays active until you deactivate it.
Replace each [contact-form-7 id="X"] with [formforge id="X"], using the id of the imported Fillin Forge form.
WordPress 6.5 or later and PHP 7.4 or later (plugin header of the Free plugin).
Yes. They are separate plugins, so you can run both while you move forms one at a time.
Every feature is in every paid plan. Starting at $54/yr.
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