Helpie FAQ vs Ultimate FAQ
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| Feature | Helpie FAQ v1.52 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid Visit Details | Ultimate FAQ v2.6.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | — | 30,000+ |
| Last updated | — | October 13, 2026 |
| Editions | Helpie FAQ · Helpie FAQ Pro ($) | Ultimate FAQ Accordion Plugin · Ultimate FAQs Premium ($) |
| Pros | Accordion and toggle FAQ display through shortcode, block and widget; Categories, tags and groups for organising questions; Free core covers WooCommerce product FAQ tab and LearnDash, Polylang support | FAQ blocks, shortcodes and widgets in the free version; Outputs FAQPage structured data for search engines; Page-load FAQ search and categories included free |
| Cons | Premium display options and some options need the Pro licence; Freemius SDK asks for opt-in usage sharing; Docs pages are marked as coming soon in the readme | Live AJAX search, highlighting and multi-source AI generation need premium; AI generation runs through the vendor's proxy server |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | FAQ entries with categories and tags, FAQ groups taxonomy, Gutenberg FAQ block, WooCommerce product FAQ tab, Excerpt display of FAQ posts ($), Custom accordion heading tags ($), Link accordion titles to post slugs ($), Insights reporting page, Q and A settings | FAQ custom post type with categories and tags, Gutenberg FAQ display and search blocks, FAQ shortcodes (ultimate-faqs, select-faq, popular-faqs and others), FAQPage structured data output, Page-load FAQ search, AI-generated FAQs (one at a time in free), FAQ list, recent, popular, random and category widgets, Live AJAX search, highlighting and autocomplete ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | LearnDash, Polylang | WPForms |
| Other | Freemius | OpenAI |
| Requires WordPress | 6.5 | 6.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.0 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | api.freemius-local.com, sandbox-api.freemius, checkout.freemius-local.com | etoilewebdesign.com |
| Blocks | 1 | 5 |
| Shortcodes | 4 | 7 |