Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce vs Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce

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

Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce

by Easy Payment

Health A94

Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce

by Payment Plugins

Health A97

Active-install trajectory

Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce

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 PayPal on WooCommerce	Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10K–20K	80K–90K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-11%
Overall health	A · 94	A · 97 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	84/100	95/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	100/100 ✓	93/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.33★	4.78★ ✓
Reviews	74	125 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	96/100 ✓	95/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	3d ago ✓	5d ago
Downloads · 30d	24.2K	77.7K ✓
Category	Payments	Payments

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

Release activity

Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce

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.