WordPress plugin comparison
Surfer vs Yoast SEO
At a glance
- Yoast SEO has more active installs: 10M+, against 5K+ for Surfer.
- On a typical day, Yoast SEO is downloaded about 126,808 times, Surfer about 145.
- Yoast SEO is rated higher: 4.8 out of 5 from 27,820 reviews, against 4.7 from 10 reviews.
- Yoast SEO was updated more recently: Oct 27, 2026, against Oct 19, 2026 for Surfer.
- Both are tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.
- Yoast SEO has been around longer: since 2010, against 2022 for Surfer.
Line by line
Yoast SEO leads on 6 of 6 comparable lines.
From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.
Tags they share
More comparisons
Is one of these yours?
Track your plugin against its rivals every day: rank, installs, downloads, ratings and their releases, with alerts when anything moves.
Start free