FlyingPress vs WP Super Cache
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| Feature | FlyingPress v5.6.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details | WP Super Cache v3.1.4 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.3/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | — | 1M+ |
| Last updated | — | September 30, 2026 |
| Editions | FlyingPress ($) | WP Super Cache |
| Pros | Page cache, minify, lazy load and font swap in one plugin; Cloudflare cache rules and purge integration; Image optimisation and page preloading built in | Serves cached static HTML, reducing PHP load; Simple and expert modes; Cache preloading and automatic expiry of old files |
| Cons | Needs a paid licence key for updates; Image optimisation runs on the vendor's service; Gains depend on the theme and plugins in use | No CSS or JavaScript minification; Cloudflare or other proxies can make the built-in test report false failures; Object cache support only applies when a persistent object cache is installed |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 2 |
| Features (Speed Optimization plugins checklist) | ||
| Page cache | Yes | Yes |
| Browser cache | Yes | Yes |
| Minify CSS/JS | Yes | No |
| CDN | Yes | Yes |
| Object cache | Yes | Yes |
| Database cleanup | Yes | No |
| Free version | No | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Image optimisation (compression, AVIF, resize) ($), Page preloading after purge ($), Lazy loading of images ($), Font display swap and Google Fonts optimisation ($), YouTube embed placeholder ($), Cloudflare cache purge on content changes ($), WP-CLI commands for purge and licence ($) | Scheduled cache preloading, Scheduled garbage collection of expired cache files, Simple and expert configuration modes, Built-in cache tester |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce ($) | — |
| Plugins | Polylang ($), WPML ($) | — |
| Other | Cloudflare ($), Google Fonts ($) | — |
| Requires WordPress | 4.7 | 6.8 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.cloudflare.com, image-optimizer.flyingpress.com, license.flyingpress.com, page-optimizer.flyingpress.com, purge.flyingcdn.com, translations.flyingpress.com, api.flyinghost.com, video-thumbnails.flyingpress.com | — |