Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium vs WP Login Lockdown PRO

In Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium vs WP Login Lockdown PRO, the shared job is WordPress brute force protection: limit login attempts, lock out IP addresses that guess passwords and add a second factor for logins. The free Limit Login Attempts Reloaded counts 1,000,000+ active installs on wordpress.org with a rating of 4.8 out of 5, the free Login Lockdown counts 100,000+ with a rating of 4.3, as the product facts on both deal pages show.

The difference is where the work happens. Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium sends lockouts to a cloud login firewall, throttles IP addresses with enhanced lockout logs, enriches IP data and logs successful logins; country blocking and a global denylist are part of its Business plan, and cloud requests are capped per month. WP Login Lockdown PRO stays on your site: lockouts for as long as you set, captcha, two-factor authentication, country blocking, a cloud blacklist of known attackers, temporary access links and a log of every attempt. Its deal page names the limit as well: there is no firewall and no malware scanner.

Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium suits a single site or shop that sees a steady stream of failed logins, often on shared hosting, where every blocked request still eats into the limits. Its deal page names the limits: one lifetime license covers one domain, agency plans are yearly only, cloud requests are capped per month and sites that want a full firewall with malware scanning look elsewhere.

WP Login Lockdown PRO suits membership sites, shops and client sites where many people log in, and agencies that want one lifetime license for up to 100 sites. Its deal page names the limits too: there is no firewall or malware scanner, the single site tier costs almost as much as the one for 5 sites, and a site with one admin may already be fine with the free version.

Both vendors sell lifetime licenses on their own website, so you pay once instead of renewing. Limit Login Attempts Reloaded offers this lifetime tier: 1 site for €104.99, with a Business lifetime plan for one domain next to it. WebFactory offers these lifetime tiers: 1 site for $89, 5 sites for $99, 100 sites for $179; besides lifetime, it only sells a monthly plan.

Both include updates for For life and support for For life, which matters for a security plugin, because attack patterns change and two-factor methods must keep working with new WordPress versions. The refund windows are short on both sides: 7 days for Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium, 7 days for WP Login Lockdown PRO. The prices are listed in different currencies, so compare them on the day you buy and keep the purchase confirmation.

Both free versions are on wordpress.org, so you can limit login attempts on your own site before you pay. Run only one of them at a time: two plugins that both count failed logins and lock out IP addresses make it hard to see which one blocked a user. Keep a second logged in browser session open while you set the lockout rules, so a typo in your own password does not lock you out of the dashboard.

Then test what only the paid version adds inside the short refund window: the cloud login firewall, enriched IP data, the log of successful logins and two-factor authentication with Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium, captcha, country blocking, temporary access links and two-factor authentication with WP Login Lockdown PRO. Switch on the second factor for admin accounts first and watch the lockout log for a few days before you tighten the rules.