Charitable vs GiveWP
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| Feature | Charitable v1.8.13.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details | GiveWP v4.19.0.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10,000+ | 100,000+ |
| Last updated | October 19, 2026 | October 22, 2026 |
| Editions | Charitable · Charitable Pro ($) · Charitable Recurring Donations ($) | Give - Donation Plugin · Give - Recurring Donations ($) |
| Pros | Stripe, PayPal and Square gateways plus offline donations in the free edition; Campaign builder with templates, goals and progress bars; Donor database, reports and CSV export; Built-in reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile spam protection; Usage tracking is opt-in | Donation forms and campaigns in the free core; Stripe and PayPal payment gateways included; Donor records, receipts and a donor export |
| Cons | Lite card payments carry a 3 percent fee on top of gateway fees; Recurring donations and many integrations need Pro or extensions; Heavy admin with many upsell screens and menus; Large codebase of almost 5,000 files | Recurring donations need a paid add-on; Many advanced features are split into separate paid add-ons; Large plugin with many admin screens to learn |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Campaign and donation post types, Drag-and-drop campaign builder, Donation form, donate button and donor list shortcodes, Donor and donation records in custom tables, Donation receipts and admin notification emails, CSV export of donations and campaigns, Reports screen and reports REST endpoint, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile on forms, Campaign, donor and donation blocks and widgets, Recurring donations ($), No 3 percent platform fee on card donations ($) | Donation forms, Visual form builder, Fundraising campaigns, Donor records and statistics, Donor dashboard for logged-in donors, Donor export, Donation spam filtering, Donation receipts, Recurring donations via the Give - Recurring Donations add-on ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe, PayPal, Square | Stripe, PayPal |
| Plugins | Elementor | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile | GiveWP add-on license server |
| Requires WordPress | 5.9 | 6.9 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1.3 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | Only if you agree |
| External services | wpcharitable.com, nonprofitscore.org, squareupsandbox.com, squareup.com, connect.wpcharitable.com, paypal-sandbox.wpcharitable.com, api-m.sandbox.paypal.com, api-m.paypal.com, www.sandbox.paypal.com, www.paypal.com, plugin.wpcharitable.com, usage.wpcharitable.com, tracking.wpcharitable.com, challenges.cloudflare.com, www.google.com, hcaptcha.com, connect.squareup.com, api.stripe.com | telemetry.givewp.com, connect.givewp.com, www.google.com, givewp.com, relations.givewp.com, chart.apis.google.com, plugins.svn.wordpress.org, survey.givewp.com, www.howsmyssl.com, www.paypal.com, woocommerce.com, licensing.nexcess.com, software.liquidweb.com, herald.nexcess.com, www.liquidweb.com, api.stripe.com |
| Blocks | 8 | 19 |
| Shortcodes | 13 | 19 |
| Custom tables | 7 | — |