Breeze vs WP-Optimize
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| Feature | Breeze v2.6.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.6/5 Visit Details | WP-Optimize v4.7.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 300,000+ | 1M+ |
| Last updated | October 20, 2026 | September 21, 2026 |
| Editions | Breeze | WP-Optimize · WP-Optimize Premium ($) |
| Pros | Completely free with no upsell; Page cache, minify, CDN rewrite and DB cleanup in one plugin; Built-in Varnish purge and WooCommerce-aware cache rules; WP-CLI commands and a REST endpoint to clear cache; Version rollback screen | Page, browser and minified-asset caching in the free edition; Database cleanup for revisions, spam, tables and more; Image compression and WebP conversion |
| Cons | No object cache backend of its own; it only flushes an existing one; Cloudflare and Varnish features depend on Cloudways hosting; Browser cache and gzip rules are written to .htaccess, so Apache only | Unused CSS, Google Fonts hosting and Cloudflare purge are paid; Image compression relies on the reSmush.it service; Many scheduled background jobs run on the site |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 1 |
| Features (Speed Optimization plugins checklist) | ||
| Page cache | Yes | Yes |
| Browser cache | Yes | Yes |
| Minify CSS/JS | Yes | Yes |
| CDN | Yes | Yes |
| Object cache | No | No |
| Database cleanup | Yes | Yes |
| Free version | Yes | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Varnish cache purge, Lazy loading for images and iframes, Delay and defer JavaScript, Font preload, link prefetch and cache preloader, WordPress heartbeat control, Host Google Fonts locally, Refreshes product page cache after WooCommerce orders, REST endpoint to clear all cache, WP-CLI commands, Roll back to an earlier plugin version | Image compression through reSmush.it, WebP conversion of compressed images, Scheduled page cache preload, 404 error log with daily pruning, Gzip compression test, Spam comment review link, Unused CSS removal ($), Local hosting of Google Fonts ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Other | Cloudflare (via Cloudways), Google Fonts, Sucuri SiteCheck (CDN URL check) | reSmush.it, checkgzipcompression.com, Cloudflare ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 6.0 | 4.9 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.2 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | sitecheck.sucuri.net, api.wordpress.org, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com | checkgzipcompression.com, api.resmush.it, plugins.svn.wordpress.org, teamupdraft.com |