Relevanssi
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy the free version if default WordPress search fails you on a content-heavy or WooCommerce site.
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Relevanssi vs AddSearch
Relevanssi and AddSearch both land on Depends.
AddSearch
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy it if you run a content-heavy site, university, or web store and want hosted search without building it.
| Compare | ||
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Content-heavy WordPress blogs | Content-heavy sites (docs, universities, banks) |
| Who it's not for | Small sites where default WordPress search already works | Small blogs . built-in or free search embeds are enough |
| Privacy | Active CVE history: unauthenticated SQL injection and stored XSS in free and Premium versions, 2024-2026.⁶ | Vendor claims SOC 2 certification and runs a public trust center; one historical WordPress plugin XSS is documented by Acunetix. |
| Support quality | Frequent 2026 releases; manual and knowledge base | Capterra notes above-average customer support |
| Public sentiment | Community reviews call it the best WordPress/WooCommerce search plugin, and shows 4.8/5 across 100K+ installs.⁴ | Reviewers on G2, Capterra, and Reddit describe it as fast, easy to customize, and well supported.15 |
| Biggest gotcha | Unauthenticated SQLi/XSS CVEs in 2025-2026; unpatched sites are exposed.⁶ | AI Answers is a separately priced add-on; AI costs stack on search plans. |
Pick Relevanssi when
- Content-heavy WordPress blogs
- WooCommerce stores
- Multisite networks (Premium)
- Budget-conscious site owners
When Relevanssi is not a fit
- Small sites where default WordPress search already works
- Teams that can't patch plugins within days of a CVE
- Anyone wanting hands-off hosted SaaS search
- Non-WordPress platforms
Pick AddSearch when
- Content-heavy sites (docs, universities, banks)
- E-commerce product search
- Teams without engineers wanting hosted search
- Associations with large archives
When AddSearch is not a fit
- Small blogs . built-in or free search embeds are enough
- Self-hosters and open-source-only shops
- Engineering teams wanting deep custom search . use Elastic
- Guess: anyone needing search inside internal tools . it crawls websites
Sources
- Relevanssi - A Better Search - WordPress pluginwordpress.orgofficial
- Why we don't offer free trialsrelevanssi.comofficial
- Relevanssi Premium 2.31 / Free 4.28 release notesrelevanssi.comofficial
review
- Relevanssi stats: 100K+ installs & 4.8 ratingpageforge.proreview
security
- SQL injection in Relevanssi 4.24.4 (Patchstack)patchstack.comsecurity
news
- SearchJet vs Relevanssi comparisonsearchjetengine.comreview
- Relevanssi vs SearchWP comparisonstackharbor.comreview
- AddSearch homepageaddsearch.comofficial
- AddSearch pricingaddsearch.comofficial
- AddSearch security pageaddsearch.comofficial
- Soka University case studyaddsearch.comofficial
- G2 reviewsg2.comreview
- Capterra reviewscapterra.comreview