🆚 Akismet vs. CleanTalk
- 📈 Akismet is noticeably more popular than CleanTalk.
- 🌎 Akismet is more popular in the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 CleanTalk is more popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
AkismetType
Spam protection software
Spam protection software
About
Akismet is a comment spam filtering service originally developed for 
WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums.
CleanTalk is a cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Carson City, Nevada, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Personal use only
$14.95/month
Free version ❌
Anti-Spam
1 website$12/year
Unlimited websites$25/month
Blacklists Database
10K checks$3/month
50K checks$11/month
100K checks$20/month
Categories
Spam Protection › Rank #5
Spam Protection › Rank #6
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Akismet spam protection software is 1.3 times more popular than CleanTalk.
Total websites
Market share
Spam Protection
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Akismet is more popular in the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands, while CleanTalk is more popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Spain
Germany
France
Italy
Brazil
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Vietnam in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Switzerland in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Denmark in the Spam Protection category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Akismet is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while CleanTalk is more commonly used on online shopping and general news sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Health
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.