Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XClone vs UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin

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

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XClone

by watchful

Health A85

UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin

by David Anderson / Team Updraft

Health A97

Active-install trajectory

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XClone UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin

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	Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XClone	UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10K–20K	3M–4M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	A · 85	A · 97 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	79/100	97/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	91/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	4.15★	4.84★ ✓
Reviews	129	8,623 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	82/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	3mo ago	4d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	2.2K	2.1M ✓
Category	Backup	Backup

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

Release activity

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XClone UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin

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.