Antispam Bee: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Antispam Bee still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 2 months ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Well rated. 4.8 out of 5 from 226 ratings.

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Antispam Bee alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Spam Protection. Antispam Bee itself ranks #2 of 141. How plugins are grouped.

#1

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

akismet 5M installs · 4.7 stars #3

WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam

honeypot 400K installs · 5.0 stars #4

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Standing

More installed than 99.8% of the directory

Ahead of 47,639 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

47,639 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

89 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

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