WordPress plugin comparison
MetaTag vs Yoast SEO
At a glance
- Yoast SEO has more active installs: 10M+, against 500+ for MetaTag.
- On a typical day, Yoast SEO is downloaded about 128,375 times, MetaTag about 6.
- MetaTag is rated higher: 5.0 out of 5 from 3 reviews, against 4.8 from 27,820 reviews.
- Yoast SEO was updated more recently: Oct 27, 2026, against Jun 28, 2020 for MetaTag.
- Yoast SEO is tested with a newer WordPress: 7.1.4, against 5.4.25 for MetaTag.
- Yoast SEO has been around longer: since 2010, against 2013 for MetaTag.
Line by line
Yoast SEO leads on 6 of 7 comparable lines.
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