Payment Gateway for WooCommerce with Stripe vs WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway

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

Payment Gateway for WooCommerce with Stripe is the safest pick: health A · 85 against 78 for WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway, led by stronger rating quality.

Payment Gateway for WooCommerce with Stripe

by Payment Addons

Health A85

WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway

by WooCommerce

Health B78

Active-install trajectory

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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	Payment Gateway for WooCommerce with Stripe	WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	80–90	700K–800K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+75% ✓	Stable
Overall health	A · 85 ✓	B · 78
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	78/100 ✓	53/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	79/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★ ✓	3.1★
Reviews	3	237 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	87/100	89/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	22d ago	21d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	391	685.5K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+61%	+7%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	1.6% ✓	1.4%
Category	Payments	Payments

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

Release activity

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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.