Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce vs WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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

Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce

by Mercado Pago

Health A90

WooCommerce PayPal Payments

by WooCommerce

Health B72

Active-install trajectory

Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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	Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce	WooCommerce PayPal Payments
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100K–200K	800K–900K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	A · 90 ✓	B · 72
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	72/100 ✓	46/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	100/100 ✓	64/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.90★ ✓	2.87★
Reviews	691 ✓	577
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	92/100 ✓	85/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	yesterday ✓	21d ago
Downloads · 30d	104.9K	509.1K ✓
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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.