# Discourse Akismet **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet/109337 **Category:** Plugin **Tags:** akismet, official **Created:** [February 18, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet/109337 "2019-02-18T05:32:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 51
### Author: ![Saif](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saif/32/318253_2.png) [@Saif](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Saif) #### Post date: [March 13, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet/109337/51 "2025-03-13T15:12:54Z")
Akismet plugin is officially removed, see below for more details > [@Discourse AI spam detection replaces Akismet plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-spam-detection-replaces-akismet-plugin/354602): > > Starting today, we will be removing the [Discourse Akismet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet/109337) plugin and will instead enable [Discourse AI - Spam detection](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-spam-detection/343541) by default for hosted customers on Pro and Standard plans. Why are we making this change? Over the past few weeks, we’ve found our AI spam detector to deliver a superior performance over Akismet. We’ve had over 126 sites extensively using it and within Meta, we’ve personally seen over 96% success rate in detecting spam. On top of the performance, the setup would now be a defa… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet/109337)._