NerdTools Bad Bots Spam Defender vs Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

NerdTools Bad Bots Spam Defender

by NerdKey

Health D41

Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

by CleanTalk Inc

Health A97

Active-install trajectory

NerdTools Bad Bots Spam Defender Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	NerdTools Bad Bots Spam Defender	Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	200K–300K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 41	A · 97 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100	95/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	93/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★	4.75★ ✓
Reviews	0	3,209 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	34/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	12.1y ago	13d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	74	320.0K ✓
Category	Security	Security

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

NerdTools Bad Bots Spam Defender Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.