<p>The performance of stiffened steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) with two different types of behavior is investigated. The SPSWs with aspect ratios ranging from 0.8 to 2.5 were designed according to AISC seismic provisions. Then the stiffeners with different arrangements were designed with two different methods. The first method is per codes and design guidelines, which usually lead to the low-stiffness stiffeners design, which does not prevent global buckling of the web plate. In the second method, stiffeners are designed in a way that prevents the global buckling of the web plate and converts the global buckling to the local buckling mode in each sub-panel. A group of SPSWs with 9 different aspect ratios and three types of stiffener arrangements, including horizontal, vertical, and horizontal-vertical, were designed with both design methods. A total of 54 numerical models of SPSWs were simulated and subjected to push-over and cyclic analysis. The strength, stiffness, and dissipated energy of the SPSWs were thoroughly investigated. The results show that the SPSWs with high-stiffness stiffeners have much better performance and concerning the amount of steel used for the stiffeners, the use of SPSWs with vertical or horizontal-vertical high-stiffness stiffeners is more appropriate and economic.</p>