Payment Gateway Stripe for Easy Digital Downloads vs WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway

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

Payment Gateway Stripe for Easy Digital Downloads

by Mithun Biswas

Health D41

WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway

by WooCommerce

Health B80

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 Stripe for Easy Digital Downloads	WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	700K–800K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-50%	0% ✓
Overall health	D · 41	B · 80 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100 ✓	53/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	85/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★ ✓	3.14★
Reviews	0	236 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	90/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	6.7y ago	14d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	57	599.1K ✓
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.