Relevanssi Premium vs Search Regex
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| Feature | Relevanssi Premium v2.26.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details | Search Regex v3.5.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | — | 100,000+ |
| Last updated | — | October 6, 2026 |
| Editions | Relevanssi Premium ($) | Search Regex |
| Pros | Click tracking and query log insights; Related posts shortcode and did-you-mean suggestions; Multilingual stopword handling for Polylang and WPML | Regex search across posts, comments, users, terms, options and meta; Saved presets for repeat searches; WP-CLI command available for scripted runs |
| Cons | Needs a licence key and updates come from the vendor; Click tracking adds a database table that is trimmed by cron; Some features call Relevanssi services servers | Bulk replacements write to the database; mistakes are hard to undo; Only the core WordPress data sources are covered |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Click tracking for search results ($), Query log and tracking insights in the post editor ($), Related posts shortcode ($), Did you mean suggestions from successful searches ($), Licence-checked automatic updates ($), PDF file indexing through the services server ($) | Regex search and replace, Choose sources: posts, comments, users, terms, options and meta, Save and import search presets, Tools screen for running searches, WP-CLI search-regex command |
| Integrations | ||
| Plugins | Polylang ($), WPML ($) | — |
| Other | Relevanssi services servers ($) | — |
| Requires WordPress | 4.9 | 6.6 |
| Requires PHP | 7.0 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 6.6 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | eu.relevanssiservices.com, us.relevanssiservices.com | — |
| Shortcodes | 1 | — |
| Custom tables | 1 | — |