Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal vs Paid Membership Subscriptions

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

Paid Membership Subscriptions is the safest pick: health A · 97 against 83 for Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal, led by stronger support.

Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal

by Scott Paterson

Health B83

Paid Membership Subscriptions

by Cozmoslabs

Health A97

Active-install trajectory

Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal moved down one install band, 1K+ to 900+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal	Paid Membership Subscriptions
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	900–1K	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	1K+ → 900+	Stable ✓
Overall health	B · 83	A · 97 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	72/100	93/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	96/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.9★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	12	270 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	92/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	3mo ago	5d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	395	29.5K ✓
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.	+52%	-5%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	2.2% ✓	0.5%
Category	Membership	Membership

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

Release activity

Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPalPaid Membership Subscriptions

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.