Title: Difference between Pro and Free?
Last modified: November 25, 2019

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# Difference between Pro and Free?

 *  Resolved [jishimi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jishimi/)
 * (@jishimi)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-pro-and-free/)
 * Hi, I was evaluating Redis Object Cache for a Woocommerce site and I’m wondering
   about the expectations I could have on the Pro version. The information on the
   site is very sparse.
 * * Is the Pro a completely different codebase?
    * Will the Pro version cache more“
   stuff” than the free version? Right now I’m seeing a drop of about 70% of the
   SQL queries. Would the Pro version do better, especially with the woocommerce
   part? * Do you need to adapt implementation of custom data-fetching in order 
   to benefit from this caching, or will it actually intercept the wordpress datalayer
   and cache stuff automatically?
 * Thank you in advance!

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 *  Plugin Author [Till Krüss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tillkruess/)
 * (@tillkruess)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-pro-and-free/#post-12173473)
 * Hi [@jishimi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jishimi/),
 * You’re not the first to ask that question. I’ll make a separate page for it going
   into detail.
 * > Is the Pro a completely different codebase?
 * Yes. Written from the ground up, optimized and unit tested with 100% coverage.
 * > Will the Pro version cache more “stuff” than the free version? Right now I’m
   > seeing a drop of about 70% of the SQL queries. Would the Pro version do better,
   > especially with the woocommerce part?
 * The early testing of the Pro version showed up to a 35% increase in cache hits
   for WC subscriptions renewals, but on average it’s about 10%. That number highly
   depends on your setup, tho.
 * The major advantage of the Pro version is that it’s reliable, I can’t say that
   about the free version sadly.
 * > Do you need to adapt implementation of custom data-fetching in order to benefit
   > from this caching, or will it actually intercept the wordpress datalayer and
   > cache stuff automatically?
 * The plugin provides an object cache interface for the `wp_cache_*` functions 
   that WordPress and plugins like WooCommerce use. You can use those functions 
   for custom data-fetching as well.
 *  Thread Starter [jishimi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jishimi/)
 * (@jishimi)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-pro-and-free/#post-12174126)
 * Thank you very much for this answer! I guess I should just evaluate the paid 
   version to see how it fares.

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