10 Best Database Cleaner Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Database Cleaner has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Database Cleaner
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Easy WP Cleaner
Closest match5.0 (41) 2,000+ active installsEasy WP Cleaner is user friendly plugin to clean unnecessary data from WordPress database and also allows you to optimize your WordPress database.
Shares the clean, cleaner, database tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated October 8, 2025.
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Advanced Database Cleaner
Paid version availableAdvanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance
4.9 (1,955) 100,000+ active installsClean database by deleting orphaned data such as 'revisions', 'expired transients', optimize database and more...
Shares the clean, database, Optimize tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 5.0, last updated 17 days ago.
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WPSSO Core – Complete Schema Markup and Meta Tags
4.6 (306) 4,000+ active installsPresent your content at its best for social sites and search results, no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.
Shares the Optimize tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.6 against 5.0, last updated today.
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Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup)
4.4 (92) 10,000+ active installsFind and delete unused database tables belong to deactivated or deleted plugins directly from WP dashboard.
Shares the cleaner, database tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.4 against 5.0, last updated 25 days ago.
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Database Manager – WP Adminer
5.0 (28) 20,000+ active installsManage the database from your WordPress Dashboard using Adminer.
Shares the database, sql tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated March 30, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 1,000+ active installsClean expired transients from your options table. The original and best!
Shares the clean, database tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 10,000+, last updated 17 days ago.
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Advanced WordPress Reset – Debug, Recover & Reset WP
4.9 (1,233) 10,000+ active installsThe ultimate solution for resetting your WordPress database or specific components to their default settings using the advanced reset features.
Shares the clean, database tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.9 against 5.0, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.4 (95) 60,000+ active installsManages your WordPress database.
Shares the database, Optimize tags on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 5.0, last updated 28 days ago.
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4.7 (138) 100,000+ active installsWP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It also optimizes your database tables.
Shares the database, Optimize tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 5.0, last updated 13 days ago.
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4.5 (252) 100,000+ active installsSchema & Structured Data adds Google Rich Snippets markup according to Schema.org guidelines to structure your site for SEO.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.5 against 5.0, last updated 11 days ago.
Switching from Database Cleaner: common questions
What is the best alternative to Database Cleaner?
Easy WP Cleaner is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Database Cleaner alternative has the most users?
Advanced Database Cleaner, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Database Cleaner alternative is rated highest?
Advanced Database Cleaner, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,955 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Database Cleaner alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Database Cleaner score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Database Cleaner on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Easy WP Cleaner is the closest match to Database Cleaner by the data we track, and Advanced Database Cleaner has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. WPSSO Core shipped the most recent release, on September 6, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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