Breeze vs WP Smush
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| Feature | Breeze v2.6.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.6/5 Visit Details | WP Smush v4.3.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 300,000+ | 1M+ |
| Last updated | October 20, 2026 | October 20, 2026 |
| Editions | Breeze | Smush · Smush Pro ($) |
| Pros | Completely free with no upsell; Page cache, minify, CDN rewrite and DB cleanup in one plugin; Built-in Varnish purge and WooCommerce-aware cache rules; WP-CLI commands and a REST endpoint to clear cache; Version rollback screen | Bulk and on-upload image compression at no cost; Lazy loading for images and embedded video; Works with common page builders, WooCommerce and caching plugins |
| Cons | No object cache backend of its own; it only flushes an existing one; Cloudflare and Varnish features depend on Cloudways hosting; Browser cache and gzip rules are written to .htaccess, so Apache only | WebP, AVIF, resizing and the image CDN need Smush Pro; Images are sent to the WPMU DEV API for compression |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 3 |
| Features (Speed Optimization plugins checklist) | ||
| Page cache | Yes | — |
| Browser cache | Yes | — |
| Minify CSS/JS | Yes | — |
| CDN | Yes | Yes |
| Object cache | No | — |
| Database cleanup | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Varnish cache purge, Lazy loading for images and iframes, Delay and defer JavaScript, Font preload, link prefetch and cache preloader, WordPress heartbeat control, Host Google Fonts locally, Refreshes product page cache after WooCommerce orders, REST endpoint to clear all cache, WP-CLI commands, Roll back to an earlier plugin version | Bulk compression of the media library, Lazy loading for images and embedded video, WebP and AVIF conversion (Pro) ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | — | WP Rocket, Elementor, Divi, Gravity Forms |
| Other | Cloudflare (via Cloudways), Google Fonts, Sucuri SiteCheck (CDN URL check) | WPMU DEV Smush API |
| Requires WordPress | 6.0 | 6.4 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | Only if you agree |
| External services | sitecheck.sucuri.net, api.wordpress.org, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com | smushpro.wpmudev.com |
| Custom tables | — | 1 |