Better Search vs YITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter
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| Feature | Better Search v4.5.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.4/5 Visit Details | YITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter v5.24.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 3.5/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5,000+ | 70,000+ |
| Last updated | October 16, 2026 | October 1, 2026 |
| Editions | Better Search · Better Search Pro ($) | YITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter · YITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter Premium ($) |
| Pros | Relevance-ranked search with weighting for titles and content; Live search, popular-search heatmap and search widgets | Free, with AJAX filtering on taxonomy terms; Filters placed by widget, shortcode or Elementor widget; Saved filter presets; Works with YITH colour and label variations |
| Cons | Some options and features are reserved for the paid Pro edition; Extra settings and tables can take time to tune | Requires WooCommerce; Premium tab and upgrade notes promote the paid version; Only the taxonomy filter type is supported in this free code |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Relevance-ranked search results, Live search as visitors type, Popular searches heatmap shortcode, Search form shortcode, Search box widget, Search heatmap widget, Language-aware search for Polylang and WPML, Freemius upgrade and account prompts | AJAX filtering without a full page reload, Filters on taxonomy terms, Saved filter presets, Navigation widget with term links and counts, Filters widget, Filters shortcode, Elementor filters widget, Cached filter results |
| Integrations | ||
| Analytics | Freemius | — |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | Polylang, WPML, Yoast SEO | WPML, Elementor, YITH WooCommerce Colors and Labels Variations |
| Requires WordPress | 6.9 | 6.9 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 8.0 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | api.freemius.com | support.yithemes.com, yithemes.com |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |