Easy Spam Filter vs Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile

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

Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile is the safest pick: health A · 89 against 79 for Easy Spam Filter, led by stronger rating quality.

Easy Spam Filter

by WPPOOL

Health B79

Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile

by Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP

Health A89

Active-install trajectory

Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile moved up one install band, 100K+ to 200K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Easy Spam Filter	Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	1K–2K	200K–300K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable	100K+ → 200K+ ✓
Overall health	B · 79	A · 89 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	91/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	73/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	67/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.9★	4.6★ ✓
Reviews	7	262 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	90/100	92/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	5mo ago	6d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	572	394.2K ✓
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.	+37%	-51%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	4.6%	5.8% ✓
Category	Security	Security

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

Release activity

Easy Spam FilterSimple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile

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.