Best rate limit plugins for WordPress
The most popular rate limit plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Booter leads with 7K+ active installs, ahead of Rate limiting for Contact Form 7 (400+) and Turbo Rate Limiter (60+). All 11 plugins tagged “rate limit” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 rate limit plugins
- 1.
BooterThe most installed rate limit plugin, with 7K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 12 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 2.
Rate limiting for Contact Form 7400+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 6 days ago.
- 3.
Turbo Rate Limiter60+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
CB Bot Guard20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 5.
CoCart10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 6.
MioGuard for Contact Form 710+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
ScrapeLockFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 day ago.
- 8.
Precise Expressions Checkout Abuse Protection for WooCommerceFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 9.
All-IN Crawler & AI Agent ManagerFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 day ago.
- 10.
Watrix Bot GuardFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
All 11 plugins tagged “rate limit”
Booter
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,651by uPress4 months ago
Booter - Bots & Crawlers Manager is a preventative measure (treatment in advance) and treatment of damages caused by crawlers and bots.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 30/day
Rate limiting for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:78#9,328by zazell6 days ago
Adds support to limit the number of Contact Form 7 form submissions per ip per period
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 30/day
Turbo Rate Limiter
Down in the last 7 days:106#19,683by ahriad7 months ago
Protect your WordPress site from brute force attacks, API abuse, and DDoS attacks with customizable rate limiting rules.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CB Bot Guard
Up in the last 7 days:2,099#27,858by Chris M Ybanez25 days ago
Stop spam bots, scrapers and request floods before they load WordPress and WooCommerce, and cut server RAM and CPU spikes.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
CoCart
Down in the last 7 days:235#28,873by CoCart Headless2 years ago
Enables the rate limiting feature for CoCart.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MioGuard for Contact Form 7
#30,704by seconet9 months ago
Spam and bot protection for Contact Form 7 forms with honeypot and rate limiting.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
ScrapeLock
#58,016by CodeBunny1 day ago
Block AI scrapers like GPTBot, catch fake Googlebot, rate-limit content scraping per IP and guard WooCommerce. Runs on your server, no account.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 100/day
Precise Expressions Checkout Abuse Protection for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:13,138#64,482by preciseexpressions24 days ago
Lightweight WooCommerce checkout bot and card-testing mitigation for classic and block checkout with aggregate protection metrics.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
All-IN Crawler & AI Agent Manager
#67,256by Eli Shvarzman1 day ago
Allow, rate-limit or block bots, AI crawlers and scrapers, and stay visible to search engines and AI assistants.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 103/day
Watrix Bot Guard
#69,439by wataru takahashi12 days ago
Log automated traffic with four kinds of rules, then rate-limit and block the offending IPs. Record first, block once you have seen the real data.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
JetBuilder Daily Comment Limit
Down in the last 7 days:11,838#72,640by jetbuilder7 months ago
A lightweight plugin to block comment spammers by restricting the number of comments an IP can make per day. Includes a beautiful dashboard stats widg …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day