Advanced Database Cleaner Pro

Advanced Database Cleaner Pro costs $78 once for 1 site. The annual plan costs $39 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 24 months. Over five years you save $117 compared with renewing every year.

Yes, if your WordPress database has grown over the years and you have removed plugins that left tables, options and cron jobs behind. The longer you keep the site, the more the one-time license pays off compared with renewing a yearly plan, because database cleanup is a job you repeat after every plugin you test and remove. The cloud scan that names the plugin behind each leftover is the part that saves the most time.

Keep one point in mind: the vendor page sells the license as a one-time payment but does not state how long updates and support run. If that matters to you, ask before you buy. The refund window is 30 days, which leaves enough time to run a first scan on a staging copy.

The free Advanced Database Cleaner on wordpress.org has been around since 2015 and runs on 100,000+ sites. It handles the basic cleanup, such as revisions, auto drafts and expired transients. For a quick cleanup of a young site that is often enough.

Advanced Database Cleaner Pro goes further where the free plugin has to guess. It finds orphaned tables, options and cron jobs, and the cloud scan tells you which plugin created them, so you know what is safe to delete. It also checks the autoload size of the options table and runs scheduled cleanups with logs.

Database cleanup is not a one-off job. Every plugin you test and remove leaves something behind, so you come back to the tool again and again. A yearly plan keeps charging for that, while the lifetime license from SigmaPlugin is paid once and never renews.

The lifetime tiers for 5 and unlimited sites in the table above make sense for agencies that maintain many client databases. On a multisite network the whole network counts as one activation. Note that the number of cloud scans per day grows with the tier.

You download the Pro plugin from your account, install it and activate it with your license key. Before you delete orphaned tables, make a full backup and run the scan on a staging copy if you can. Then schedule regular cleanups so the database stays lean without manual work.

Sites

1 site

Updates

Not stated

Support

Not stated

Money back guarantee

30 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

On the market since

2015

Active installs

100,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

4.9 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

4.2.0

Last update

Aug 20, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 4, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)