10 Best Formidable Forms Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Formidable Forms sits at #10 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Formidable Forms
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Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
4.8 (2,139) 600,000+ active installsBest WordPress form builder plugin. Create contact forms, payment forms & order forms with 1000+ integrations.
#3 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About 2 times the installs, last updated 8 days ago.
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Fluent Forms
Paid version availableFluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder
4.8 (806) 800,000+ active installsGet a fast contact form plugin. Create advanced forms using drag and drop form builder with all smart features.
#4 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About 2.7 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
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WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More
4.8 (14,385) 5 million+ active installsThe best WordPress contact form plugin. Drag & Drop form builder to create beautiful contact forms, payment forms, & other custom forms.
#2 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About 17 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz
4.9 (98) 500,000+ active installsAI form generator and WordPress form builder for contact and Stripe payment forms, with surveys and quizzes in SureForms Business.
#7 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About 1.7 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 8 days ago.
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Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder
4.4 (1,397) 500,000+ active installsFree WordPress form builder with calculations, signatures, star ratings, unlimited submissions stored on your site, and an AI form builder.
#6 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About 1.7 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.8, last updated 7 days ago.
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4.8 (107) 60,000+ active installs50+ Essential Addons for Contact Form 7 - Conditional Fields, Multi Step, Redirection, Columns, WooCommerce, Mailchimp & more
#8 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Conditional Forms, Form Templates & Custom Form Builder for Elementor
4.7 (510) 600,000+ active installsElementor forms builder to create WordPress forms like contact form, booking form, feedback form, survey form, application form & 40+ form templates.
#5 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.8, last updated 2 days ago.
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Everest Forms
Paid version availableEverest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI
4.9 (375) 90,000+ active installsAI form builder for WordPress. Build contact forms, payment forms, quiz, survey & conversational forms with built-in AI or drag & drop builder.
Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 7 days ago.
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4.0 (2,184) 10 million+ active installsJust another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
#1 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About 33 times the installs, rated 4.0 against 4.8, last updated today.
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4.8 (166) 100,000+ active installsAdds conditional logic to Contact Form 7.
#9 in the WordPress.org Contact Form Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, last updated today.
Formidable Forms against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Formidable Forms vs Forminator Forms300,000+ vs 600,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.8
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Formidable Forms vs Fluent Forms300,000+ vs 800,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.8
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Formidable Forms vs WPForms300,000+ vs 5 million+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.8
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Formidable Forms vs SureForms300,000+ vs 500,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.9
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Formidable Forms vs Ninja Forms300,000+ vs 500,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.4
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Formidable Forms vs Ultra Addons for Contact Form 7300,000+ vs 60,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.8
Switching from Formidable Forms: common questions
What is the best alternative to Formidable Forms?
Forminator Forms is the closest match: it shares the Contact Form Plugins top 10 with Formidable Forms and has 600,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Formidable Forms alternative has the most users?
Contact Form 7, with 10 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Formidable Forms alternative is rated highest?
Everest Forms, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 375 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Formidable Forms alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Formidable Forms score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Formidable Forms on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Forminator Forms is the closest match to Formidable Forms by the data we track, and Contact Form 7 has the widest reach with 10 million+ active installs. Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 shipped the most recent release, on October 21, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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