ActiveLayer blocks form and comment spam in milliseconds using AI, with no CAPTCHAs. WordPress plugin plus REST API for any framework.
ActiveLayer is an AI-powered spam protection service, built by Awesome Motive (the team behind WPForms and other software powering 30M+ websites). It analyzes content patterns and sender behavior server-side to block spam submissions with claimed 99.5%+ accuracy, returning confidence scores and detection signals for transparency, without CAPTCHAs or client-side scripts that affect visitors.
It ships as a native WordPress plugin with integrations for 9+ form and comment tools including WPForms, Contact Form 7, Elementor Forms, Formidable Forms, Ninja Forms, Fluent Forms, Forminator, Sure Forms, and WordPress Comments. A REST API is also available for any framework, with documented support for Node.js/Express, Next.js, Django, FastAPI, Laravel, NestJS, Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot, ASP.NET Core, and PHP. All plans include unlimited sites, and the service is designed to automatically fall back to allowing submissions if it becomes unavailable, so forms never go down because of it.
No. ActiveLayer detects spam server-side by analyzing content patterns and sender behavior, with no client-side scripts or visitor-facing challenges.
Yes. The Free plan includes 1,000 one-time spam checks with unlimited sites and full API access, no credit card required.
ActiveLayer offers a native WordPress plugin supporting WPForms, Contact Form 7, Elementor Forms, and other form/comment tools, plus a REST API with documented support for frameworks like Next.js, Django, Laravel, and Ruby on Rails.
Submissions automatically pass through if the service is unavailable, so forms don't go down because of ActiveLayer.