Best Clear Cache Chrome Extensions in 2026

Chrome ships with a "Clear browsing data" dialog that handles cache clearing globally — but it is a blunt instrument. Hit that button and you wipe your cache for every site you have ever visited, log out of everywhere, and lose months of autocomplete history in a single click. For developers debugging a single page, users troubleshooting a broken checkout flow, or support teams testing specific customer issues, a targeted per-site cache clear is what you actually want.

This is exactly what clear-cache extensions solve. The best ones let you clear cache, cookies, and site data for just the current tab with a single click or keyboard shortcut, while leaving everything else untouched. We tested six of the most popular Chrome extensions in this category — installed each one, used them on real workflows for two weeks, and ranked them by usefulness.

Quick Overview: The Contenders

These six extensions represent the best-maintained and most-used options in the Chrome Web Store for cache clearing. Installs range from a few hundred thousand to over a million users across the set.

Feature Comparison Table

The table below compares the six extensions across the features most relevant to real-world cache-clearing workflows. A green check means full support; a red cross means the feature is absent.

Detailed Reviews

1. Clear Cache for Specific Site (Peak Productivity)

Clear Cache for Specific Site is our own extension, and it exists for exactly one reason: to fix the biggest shortcoming of every other cache-clearing extension in the Chrome Web Store. Almost every other option on this list — including the long-standing, widely-installed ones — clears cache globally. You click the button and all your cached data for every site you have visited is gone. That is rarely what you actually want.

This extension is scoped to the active tab's origin. When you click the icon or trigger the keyboard shortcut, it clears cache, cookies, local storage, session storage, IndexedDB, and service worker registrations for just the current site. Everything else — your Gmail login, your saved Amazon preferences, your Slack session — stays intact. For developers debugging a caching issue on a single staging site, or for support teams helping a customer reproduce a broken checkout, this is the tool you want.

The extension auto-reloads the page after clearing so you immediately see the fresh state. You can customize which data types to clear (cache-only, or cache-plus-cookies, or full site data wipe) and you can bind a keyboard shortcut to make it a true one-gesture workflow. The permissions required are narrow — just the browsingData API scoped to the current host — which matters for users who are cautious about what their extensions can access.

2. Clear Cache (by Benjamin Bojko)

Clear Cache by Benjamin Bojko is the longest-standing and most-installed cache-clearing extension in the Chrome Web Store, with over a million users and a long update history. It offers a clean single-click clear button plus a configuration page where you can choose which data types to wipe — cache, cookies, local storage, history, downloads, passwords, form data, IndexedDB, WebSQL, and more. It also lets you pick a time range (last hour, last day, last week, everything).

The catch, and it is a big one for many users, is that the clear operation is global. Click the button and you clear that data type across your entire browser, not just for the site you are currently on. For developers who want to reload a specific staging site without losing everything else, this defeats the purpose. Bojko's extension is the right choice if you want a one-click alternative to Chrome's built-in "Clear browsing data" dialog, but it does not solve the per-site problem.

3. Clean Cache

Clean Cache offers a stripped-down single-button approach to cache clearing. Click the icon and it wipes the browser cache. There is no configuration, no data type selection, no keyboard shortcut, and no auto-reload. The entire extension is a wrapper around one Chrome API call.

This simplicity is its appeal for users who just want something that works without settings. It is fast, light, and the permissions footprint is tiny. But like Bojko's extension, Clean Cache operates globally and leaves you with the same problem — it is not a per-site clear. Also, because it does not touch cookies or storage, some caching issues persist after a "clean" if they were being served from local storage or service workers rather than the HTTP cache.

4. Click&Clean

Click&Clean is a broader privacy and cleanup suite that goes far beyond cache clearing. It includes options to wipe browsing history, download history, local storage, cached files, plugin data, form data, and more — all configurable through a detailed dashboard. It also integrates with third-party tools like CCleaner for deeper system-level cleaning.

For users who want a privacy cleanup multi-tool, Click&Clean is genuinely useful. Its dashboard is more polished than Bojko's, and it offers options like "close all windows and clean" or scheduled cleans on browser close. The tradeoff is a much larger permissions footprint and a broader scope than most users actually need. If you just want to clear cache for a specific site, Click&Clean is significantly more tool than you need, and it still does not offer per-site scoping as the primary workflow.

5. Cache Killer

Cache Killer takes a different approach: instead of a clear-on-demand button, it is a toggle you switch on to disable the cache entirely for every site you visit. When enabled, every page load bypasses the cache, so you always see the latest version directly from the server. This is useful for web developers working on a site where they want to guarantee no caching interferes with testing, without manually clearing after every change.

The main advantage is the always-fresh mode — once toggled on, you forget about it and every page loads uncached. The disadvantage is performance: browsing becomes noticeably slower because nothing is cached, which makes it impractical to leave running for general browsing. Cache Killer is best used as a temporary development mode, not an everyday tool. It also operates globally, like most of the other extensions here.

6. Super History & Cache Cleaner

Super History & Cache Cleaner combines history management with cache clearing in a single extension. It lets you view your browsing history with search and filter options, and includes one-click buttons to clear cache, cookies, history, or all of the above. It is aimed at users who want a unified privacy-cleanup tool that also lets them inspect and delete specific history entries.

For cache-clearing purposes specifically, it does what the other global-scope extensions do — clears cache for every site at once. Its history view is its real differentiator, but if cache clearing is your actual use case, there are simpler tools. And as with Click&Clean, the bundled history feature requires broader permissions than a pure cache-clearing tool would.

Which Clear Cache Extension Should You Choose?

The right choice depends on what you actually want to clear and whether you need per-site scope.

Best for developers and support teams (per-site): Clear Cache for Specific Site is the clear recommendation for anyone debugging a single site, testing a caching fix, or helping a customer reproduce an issue. It is the only extension on this list that leaves every other site's data alone.

Best for global one-click clear with fine-grained control: Clear Cache by Benjamin Bojko is the mature, trusted choice if you want to wipe every cache or cookies across your entire browser with a single button, with very granular control over exactly which data types are affected.

Best for zero-configuration simplicity: Clean Cache is the right pick if you just want a one-button HTTP cache wipe with no settings to configure and no cognitive overhead.

Best for broader privacy cleanup: Click&Clean is the right choice for users who want a comprehensive cleanup dashboard covering cache, history, storage, and downloads in one place, with scheduling options.

Best for web development testing: Cache Killer is the right tool when you need a temporary always-fresh mode that disables caching entirely while you work on a site. Toggle it off when you are done.

Why Per-Site Scope Matters

The biggest architectural difference between Clear Cache for Specific Site and every other tool on this list is scoping. A global clear wipes cache and cookies for every domain you have visited, which means every logged-in site sends you back to the login screen, every autocomplete entry is lost, and every "remember me" token is invalidated. For a casual user, this is annoying. For a developer in the middle of a debugging session with multiple tabs open across multiple sites, it is actively destructive.

Per-site clearing solves this by using Chrome's browsingData API with an origins filter that matches only the current tab's host. Under the hood, the extension asks Chrome to clear a specific set of data types (cache, cookies, storage, service workers) for only the origins matching the active tab. Everything else is untouched.

This matters because caching bugs are usually isolated to a single origin. If you are testing a fix on staging.example.com, you do not want to lose your session on github.com, gmail.com, or slack.com as a side effect. Per-site scoping gives you the surgical precision that global cache clearing lacks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Chrome have a built-in way to clear cache for a single site?

Sort of. You can open DevTools, right-click the reload button, and choose "Empty Cache and Hard Reload," which bypasses cache for the current request. But this does not actually clear stored cache, cookies, or storage for the origin — it just bypasses them for that single load. For real per-site clearing, you need either a dedicated extension or Chrome's Site Settings page (chrome://settings/content/all), which is slower and clunky.

Will clearing cache log me out of the site?

Only if the extension also clears cookies. A pure cache clear removes cached responses but leaves authentication cookies intact, so you stay logged in. If you want a complete wipe including session cookies, most extensions let you configure which data types are included.

Can these extensions clear service worker caches and IndexedDB?

Some can, some cannot. The browsingData Chrome API supports clearing service worker caches and IndexedDB as part of its clear operation, but individual extensions vary in whether they expose these options. Clear Cache for Specific Site and Clear Cache by Benjamin Bojko both include these options. Minimalist extensions like Clean Cache typically only clear the HTTP cache.

Is it safe to install cache-clearing extensions?

The core browsingData permission these extensions need is narrow and low-risk — it only allows clearing data, not reading it. However, some extensions in this category request broader permissions (tabs, history, all sites) for additional features. Always review the permissions list before installing and prefer extensions with minimal scope.

Final Thoughts

Global cache clearing was the norm for a decade because early Chrome extension APIs did not support per-origin scoping cleanly. Today, the browsingData API's origins filter makes surgical per-site clearing possible, and for many real-world workflows — developer debugging, QA testing, customer support — it is the only sensible approach.

Clear Cache for Specific Site is the only extension in this comparison built around per-site scoping as its core feature. The other tools on this list are all capable at what they do, but they solve a different problem: clearing everything at once. If clearing just one site is what you actually need, the choice is straightforward.