Kinsta vs WP Engine
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Kinsta and WP Engine built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Kinsta if…
WordPress sites that want each install in its own isolated container with a Cloudflare-backed CDN included, and a data centre chosen from thirty locations. Cron jobs run on the server rather than on page visits.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose WP Engine if…
WordPress teams that deploy with Git rather than SFTP — GitPush works over SSH — and want bandwidth overages handled by a conversation rather than an automatic charge on shared plans.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Kinsta: The entry plan is $35 a month for a single site, which is a large step up from shared hosting if you do not need the isolation.
- WP Engine: Scripts must finish inside 60 seconds; the execution limit can be lowered but not raised.
Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Kinsta alternatives · WP Engine alternatives
20 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Kinsta 0
WP Engine 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Kinsta | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | No — Only free offer is a first month free for new customers on select plans, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee. | No — Plans page advertises only paid tiers; no free plan or free trial is listed on it. |
| Kind of free offer | No free offer | No free offer |
| Entry paid plan | $35/month for the entry single-site plan (first month $0, then $35/month); $30/month if paid annually. | Starting at $28.00/month for the Managed Hosting Platform, quoted in USD; $336.00 if billed annually. On 14 September 2026 the same URL also served a euro-priced variant at €25.60/month, to roughly one request in eight; thirty consecutive samples on 15 September returned only the dollar-priced body, so that behaviour is recorded as observed and not as current. |
| Pricing model | Fixed monthly or annual plan tiers, each including a set number of WordPress installs; annual billing gives two months free, and visit/storage/CDN usage above the plan limits is billed as overage fees. | Tiered subscription plans (Essential, Core, Enterprise) configured by capacity - sites, visits and storage - billed monthly or annually, with 20% off annual Essential; additional sites are $20 (USD) per month each. |
| When you exceed a cap | Sites stay online and are billed an overage fee of $0.50 per 1,000 visits; disk space overage is prorated at $2 per GB per month | Not throttled or cut off; billed $2 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors |
| Limits | ||
| Storage (entry plan) | 10GB storage on the Single 20GB plan (cheapest paid WordPress hosting plan) | 10 GB storage on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tier (1 site, 25,000 visits a month) |
| Sites or apps included | 1 WordPress install on the Single 20GB plan (cheapest paid WordPress hosting plan) | 1 site on the entry Essential tier (1–30 across Essential capacity tiers); additional sites $20/month each |
| Monthly visits cap | No visit cap on the entry plan: Single 20GB is billed on bandwidth, at 20GB a month. Kinsta offers visits-billed plans as the alternative, where the Business Launch tier estimates 75,000 visits a month. | 25,000 visits/mo on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tier |
| Included bandwidth | 20GB server bandwidth a month on the Single 20GB plan, plus 125GB of CDN bandwidth. | 75 GB per month on Essential plans, 550 GB on Core and 550 GB+ on Enterprise, measured as gigabytes transferred per month. |
| Max request duration | 300 seconds (default PHP max_execution_time) | 60 seconds |
| Deployment | ||
| Git deployment | Limited | Supported — Via GitPush, WP Engine's own tool, over SSH keys rather than a connected repository. |
| Scheduled jobs | Supported — Real server cron jobs per site container; the minimum interval is 5 minutes. | Supported — Alternate Cron is server-based and checks for due events every minute; default wp-cron fires on page visits. |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Edge network | Supported | Limited — Global Edge Security is a paid add-on: Cloudflare CDN, WAF, DDoS mitigation and SSL, not included by default. |
| Regions | 30 data centers | Google Cloud: Iowa (us-central1), South Carolina (us-east1), Montreal (northamerica-northeast1), Belgium (europe-west1), London (europe-west2), Frankfurt (europe-west3), Netherlands (europe-west4) and others; some regions carry upgraded pricing. |
| Support | ||
| Support on entry paid plan | 24/7 human support in 8 languages, on every plan including the cheapest. | 24/7 technical support on Essential, the entry plan; Core adds priority support alongside dedicated infrastructure. |
| Compliance | ||
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II report, audited by BARR Advisory with Vanta as the GRC platform; copy requested under NDA from the Trust Report page. | SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports are available on request from an Account Manager or WP Engine Sales; they are not published on the site. |
| ISO 27001 | Trust Center compliance list shows ISO 27001:2022 alongside ISO 27017 and ISO 27018; the ISO 27001 certificate is a requestable document there. Page renders client-side (Vanta portal); text read with a rendering fetch. | ISO 27001:2022 certified; the certification is available on request via an Account Manager or WP Engine Sales. |
| HIPAA | No HIPAA-compliant hosting product and no Business Associate Agreements; Kinsta says PHI should not be stored or transmitted on the platform. | No - the Acceptable Use Policy forbids using the Services to store or process Protected Health Information as defined under HIPAA. |
| GDPR / data residency | DPA: the customer selects the data center region its applications are hosted in; some parts of the Services still require international transfers, covered by the SCCs and UK Addendum. | Hosting region is customer-selectable and includes EU locations (Belgium, London, Netherlands, Finland, Frankfurt); moves between regions by Support request. |
| PCI DSS | PCI compliance is not guaranteed and Kinsta does not audit customer sites; customers have passed third-party PCI scans while hosted on Kinsta. | WP Engine does not store, process or transmit cardholder data, and its Acceptable Use Policy prohibits customers from doing so on the platform. |
| Encryption at rest | DPA Annex II: all Customer Personal Data stored in data centers — all Customer Applications and access logs — is encrypted at rest. | All data on WP Engine servers is encrypted at rest and in transit by default; backup media is encrypted as well. |
| Role-based access control | MyKinsta roles: a single Company Owner plus three company-level roles (Administrator, Developer, Billing), and Site Administrator or Site Developer granted per site. | User Portal roles - Owner, Full (with/without billing) and Partial (with/without billing) - scope environment, billing and user-management actions. |
| Dedicated infrastructure | Dedicated virtual server with dedicated CPU and RAM, sold as an add-on to a hosting plan starting at $300 a month. | Premium plans are fully self-contained environments not shared with other WP Engine customers; other customers get logically separate environments. The plans page separately marks Core and Enterprise environment type as "Isolated" and Essential as "Shared". |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- Kinsta
- $35/month for the entry single-site plan (first month $0, then $35/month); $30/month if paid annually.
- WP Engine
- Starting at $28.00/month for the Managed Hosting Platform, quoted in USD; $336.00 if billed annually. On 14 September 2026 the same URL also served a euro-priced variant at €25.60/month, to roughly one request in eight; thirty consecutive samples on 15 September returned only the dollar-priced body, so that behaviour is recorded as observed and not as current.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Managed WordPress Hosting — Kinsta ↗
“Business Single 20GB $0 $35 USD for the first month $0 $30 USD for the first month Save $70 by paying annually”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Starting at Regular price Discounted price $28.00 /month Build your plan [...] Billed annually. Pay $336.00 today.”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing · Report a correction
Pricing model
- Kinsta
- Fixed monthly or annual plan tiers, each including a set number of WordPress installs; annual billing gives two months free, and visit/storage/CDN usage above the plan limits is billed as overage fees.
- WP Engine
- Tiered subscription plans (Essential, Core, Enterprise) configured by capacity - sites, visits and storage - billed monthly or annually, with 20% off annual Essential; additional sites are $20 (USD) per month each.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- WordPress hosting plans - Kinsta® ↗
“Each plan includes a set number of WordPress installs. [...] Annual billing gives you two months free compared to paying monthly. [...] apply overage fees based on your actual overage”
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- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Step 1: Choose your plan [...] Monthly Monthly Annual Annual Save 20% on Essential [...] Add an additional site for $20 (USD) per month. [...] Step 2: Choose your capacity”
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When you exceed a cap
- Kinsta
- Sites stay online and are billed an overage fee of $0.50 per 1,000 visits; disk space overage is prorated at $2 per GB per month
- WP Engine
- Not throttled or cut off; billed $2 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- WordPress Hosting Plans - Overages - Kinsta Docs ↗
“If you hit your plan's visitor cap, we'll keep your sites running but charge you an overage fee ($0.50/1,000 visits)”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction
- Overage Pricing & Visitor Limits | WP Engine Support ↗
“We never throttle customers or cut their sites off for getting a traffic spike.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction
Storage (entry plan)
10GB storage on the Single 20GB plan (cheapest paid WordPress hosting plan)
10 GB storage on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tier (1 site, 25,000 visits a month)
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Managed WordPress Hosting — Kinsta ↗
“Server bandwidth 20GB bandwidth / month Storage space 10GB storage CDN bandwidth 125GB CDN Bandwidth / month Backup Retention 14 days backup retention”
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- WP Engine Plans ↗
“Choose your capacity 1 site 25,000 visits /mo per month 10 GB storage Regular price Discounted price / per Best Value Up to 3 sites 75,000 visits /mo per month 15 GB storage”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
Sites or apps included
1 WordPress install on the Single 20GB plan (cheapest paid WordPress hosting plan)
1 site on the entry Essential tier (1–30 across Essential capacity tiers); additional sites $20/month each
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Managed WordPress Hosting - Kinsta ↗
“1 WordPress install”
Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Managed Hosting Plans for WordPress | WP Engine ↗
“Add an additional site for $20 (USD) per month. 1-30”
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Monthly visits cap
- Kinsta
- No visit cap on the entry plan: Single 20GB is billed on bandwidth, at 20GB a month. Kinsta offers visits-billed plans as the alternative, where the Business Launch tier estimates 75,000 visits a month.
- WP Engine
- 25,000 visits/mo on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tier
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Managed WordPress Hosting — Kinsta ↗
“Number of sites One Multiple Billing based on Bandwidth Visits Resources WordPress installs 1 WordPress install Server bandwidth 20GB bandwidth / month [...] Business Launch $0 $35 USD for the first month [...] Server bandwidth 15GB bandwidth / month Estimated monthly visits 75,000 estimated visits / month”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Managed Hosting Plans for WordPress | WP Engine ↗
“25,000 visits/mo”
Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing · Report a correction
Included bandwidth
20GB server bandwidth a month on the Single 20GB plan, plus 125GB of CDN bandwidth.
75 GB per month on Essential plans, 550 GB on Core and 550 GB+ on Enterprise, measured as gigabytes transferred per month.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Managed WordPress Hosting — Kinsta ↗
“Server bandwidth 20GB bandwidth / month Storage space 10GB storage CDN bandwidth 125GB CDN Bandwidth / month Backup Retention 14 days backup retention”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Bandwidth Measured in Gigabytes transferred per month of data from your site(s) or your environments. 75 GB 550 GB 550 GB+”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
Max request duration
300 seconds (default PHP max_execution_time)
60 seconds
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- PHP — Kinsta Docs ↗
“post_max_size 128M upload_max_filesize 256M [...] max_input_vars 10000 max_execution_time 300”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction
- Platform Settings ↗
“Default max_execution_time for scripts is set to 60 seconds. This setting can only be decreased, and cannot be increased.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction
Git deployment
- Kinsta
- Limited
- WP Engine
- Supported — Via GitPush, WP Engine's own tool, over SSH keys rather than a connected repository.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Git ↗
“We have the Git client available at Kinsta, so you can access your site with SSH and pull your Git repo down from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or any other third-party. SSH access is available on all of Kinsta's hosting plans. We don't yet have the feature of using git push kinsta my_site to automatically deploy, but you can still use Git at Kinsta by following the instructions below.”
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- Git Version Control System — WP Engine Support ↗
“Key Takeaways Git Version Control System enables secure code deployment. WP Engine's GitPush tool facilitates code transfer from local machines to websites, enhancing development efficiency.”
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Edge network
- Kinsta
- Supported
- WP Engine
- Limited — Global Edge Security is a paid add-on: Cloudflare CDN, WAF, DDoS mitigation and SSL, not included by default.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Kinsta CDN ↗
“We're proud to offer a premium CDN powered by Cloudflare at no additional cost. [...] With a network that spans 300+ cities in more than 100 countries, Cloudflare operates one of the largest CDN networks in the world.”
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- Global Edge Security (GES) — WP Engine Support ↗
“Key Takeaways Global Edge Security (GES) enhances website performance and security. GES offers a Web Application Firewall, DDoS Mitigation, Cloudflare CDN, and SSL Installation, protecting sites from common attacks and improving s”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction
Regions
- Kinsta
- 30 data centers
- WP Engine
- Google Cloud: Iowa (us-central1), South Carolina (us-east1), Montreal (northamerica-northeast1), Belgium (europe-west1), London (europe-west2), Frankfurt (europe-west3), Netherlands (europe-west4) and others; some regions carry upgraded pricing.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Data Center Locations ↗
“When creating your site, you can choose from 30 data centers:”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction
- Server locations — WP Engine Support ↗
“Below are all of the Google datacenter locations that a WP Engine website can be located in. [...] Region Location Region ID North America Iowa us-central1 North America South Carolina us-east1 North America Montreal northamerica-northeast1 Europe Belgium europe-west1 Europe London europe-west2”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction
Support on entry paid plan
- Kinsta
- 24/7 human support in 8 languages, on every plan including the cheapest.
- WP Engine
- 24/7 technical support on Essential, the entry plan; Core adds priority support alongside dedicated infrastructure.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Kinsta Plans ↗
“unlimited migrations unlimited free migrations expert support 24/7 human support in 8 languages”
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- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Shared resources 24/7 technical support Free automated migration plugin Managed WP, PHP & MySQL [...] higher-demand sites with dedicated infrastructure and priority support.”
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SOC 2
- Kinsta
- SOC 2 Type II report, audited by BARR Advisory with Vanta as the GRC platform; copy requested under NDA from the Trust Report page.
- WP Engine
- SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports are available on request from an Account Manager or WP Engine Sales; they are not published on the site.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Service Information - SOC 2 - Kinsta® Docs ↗
“BARR Advisory is Kinsta’s auditor, and Vanta is our GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance) Management Software. [...] A Type II report (the type of report we have at Kinsta) assesses the effectiveness of those security measures over a period of time.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Understand WP Engine's Security Environment | WP Engine Support ↗
“WP Engine has a SOC2 Type II, SOC3 reports, and an ISO 27001:2022 certification available. Please reach out to your Account Manager or WP Engine Sales for more information.”
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ISO 27001
- Kinsta
- Trust Center compliance list shows ISO 27001:2022 alongside ISO 27017 and ISO 27018; the ISO 27001 certificate is a requestable document there. Page renders client-side (Vanta portal); text read with a rendering fetch.
- WP Engine
- ISO 27001:2022 certified; the certification is available on request via an Account Manager or WP Engine Sales.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Kinsta Trust Center ↗
“ISO 27001:2022 ISO 27017 ISO 27018 SOC 2 Type II CSA STAR Level 1 GDPR CCPA [...] SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 Certificate ISO 27017 Certificate ISO 27018 Certificate”
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- Understand WP Engine's Security Environment | WP Engine Support ↗
“Do you maintain reasonable security precautions consistent with industry best practices, similar to those documented in standards such as ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A? Yes, we are ISO 27001:2022 certified.”
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HIPAA
- Kinsta
- No HIPAA-compliant hosting product and no Business Associate Agreements; Kinsta says PHI should not be stored or transmitted on the platform.
- WP Engine
- No - the Acceptable Use Policy forbids using the Services to store or process Protected Health Information as defined under HIPAA.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Reference - Technical FAQ - Kinsta® Docs ↗
“Kinsta does not offer a HIPAA-compliant hosting product, and we do not enter into Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with our customers. [...] You should not store or transmit protected health information (PHI) on Kinsta”
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- Acceptable Use Policy - WP Engine ↗
“You are not permitted to use or cause the Services to store or process sensitive or otherwise regulated health or financial information, including Protected Health Information (as that term is defined under HIPAA), cardholder data protected under PCI DSS regulations (such as credit or debit card data), or other financial data (including any financial account details).”
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GDPR / data residency
- Kinsta
- DPA: the customer selects the data center region its applications are hosted in; some parts of the Services still require international transfers, covered by the SCCs and UK Addendum.
- WP Engine
- Hosting region is customer-selectable and includes EU locations (Belgium, London, Netherlands, Finland, Frankfurt); moves between regions by Support request.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Kinsta Inc. Data Processing Addendum - Kinsta® ↗
“You may select the data center regions where your Customer Applications will be hosted. Notwithstanding Customer’s data center region, certain aspects of the Services may require International Transfers.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
- Change a Website Data Center Location | WP Engine Support ↗
“However, sometimes data privacy laws require sites to be located on servers in specific regions. [...] All shared plans are created by default on Google Cloud Services in the region closest to your location at signup. Your website can be migrated to another region by Support request.”
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PCI DSS
- Kinsta
- PCI compliance is not guaranteed and Kinsta does not audit customer sites; customers have passed third-party PCI scans while hosted on Kinsta.
- WP Engine
- WP Engine does not store, process or transmit cardholder data, and its Acceptable Use Policy prohibits customers from doing so on the platform.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Reference - Technical FAQ - Kinsta® Docs ↗
“We do not guarantee PCI compliance, and we are not able to audit your site to verify that you’re doing things right, either. [...] we have many clients who have worked with third-party auditors to pass PCI compliance scans”
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- Configure PCI Compliance Settings | WP Engine Support ↗
“WP Engine does not store, process, or transmit cardholder data on our platform, and our Acceptable Use Policy prohibits you from doing the same. [...] WP Engine's Acceptable Use Policy prohibits you from using our Services to store, process, or transmit cardholder data.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Encryption at rest
- Kinsta
- DPA Annex II: all Customer Personal Data stored in data centers — all Customer Applications and access logs — is encrypted at rest.
- WP Engine
- All data on WP Engine servers is encrypted at rest and in transit by default; backup media is encrypted as well.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Kinsta Inc. Data Processing Addendum - Kinsta® ↗
“All Customer Personal Data stored in data centers (all Customer Applications and access logs) is encrypted at rest. [...] All Customer Personal Data transferred by Kinsta is encrypted in transit.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
- Understand WP Engine's Security Environment | WP Engine Support ↗
“Is data on WP Engine servers encrypted at rest? Yes. All data on our servers is encrypted at rest and in transit, by default. [...] Do you encrypt backup media? Yes.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Role-based access control
- Kinsta
- MyKinsta roles: a single Company Owner plus three company-level roles (Administrator, Developer, Billing), and Site Administrator or Site Developer granted per site.
- WP Engine
- User Portal roles - Owner, Full (with/without billing) and Partial (with/without billing) - scope environment, billing and user-management actions.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Company Settings - User Management - Kinsta® Docs ↗
“We offer a number of roles to allow you to fine-tune user access. [...] There are three company-level user roles to choose from, each with varying levels of access based on their role.”
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- Manage User Portal Users and Roles | WP Engine Support ↗
“The role a user is assigned will determine which information they can see, actions they can perform and information Technical Support can assist with. [...] Owner Full ( with Billing ) Full ( without Billing ) Partial ( with Billing ) Partial ( without Billing ) Access All Environments”
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Dedicated infrastructure
- Kinsta
- Dedicated virtual server with dedicated CPU and RAM, sold as an add-on to a hosting plan starting at $300 a month.
- WP Engine
- Premium plans are fully self-contained environments not shared with other WP Engine customers; other customers get logically separate environments. The plans page separately marks Core and Enterprise environment type as "Isolated" and Essential as "Shared".
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Dedicated WordPress Hosting - Kinsta® ↗
“Starting at $300 a month [...] billed as an add-on to your hosting plan. [...] Dedicated resources with ample CPU and RAM to deal with high-traffic sites and complex applications.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
- Understand WP Engine's Security Environment | WP Engine Support ↗
“Yes. We offer dedicated environments for customers of various profiles. Our Premium hosting solutions are fully self-contained environments, not shared with other WP Engine customers. [...] We offer fully segregated hosting environments for all of our customers, both shared and Premium.”
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When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Kinsta or WP Engine?
Kinsta: $35/month for the entry single-site plan (first month $0, then $35/month); $30/month if paid annually.
WP Engine: Starting at $28.00/month for the Managed Hosting Platform, quoted in USD; $336.00 if billed annually. On 14 September 2026 the same URL also served a euro-priced variant at €25.60/month, to roughly one request in eight; thirty consecutive samples on 15 September returned only the dollar-priced body, so that behaviour is recorded as observed and not as current.
When you exceed a cap: Kinsta or WP Engine?
Kinsta: Sites stay online and are billed an overage fee of $0.50 per 1,000 visits; disk space overage is prorated at $2 per GB per month
WP Engine: Not throttled or cut off; billed $2 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors
Included bandwidth: Kinsta or WP Engine?
Kinsta: 20GB server bandwidth a month on the Single 20GB plan, plus 125GB of CDN bandwidth.
WP Engine: 75 GB per month on Essential plans, 550 GB on Core and 550 GB+ on Enterprise, measured as gigabytes transferred per month.
Should I choose Kinsta or WP Engine?
Pick Kinsta if WordPress sites that want each install in its own isolated container with a Cloudflare-backed CDN included, and a data centre chosen from thirty locations. Cron jobs run on the server rather than on page visits.
Pick WP Engine if WordPress teams that deploy with Git rather than SFTP — GitPush works over SSH — and want bandwidth overages handled by a conversation rather than an automatic charge on shared plans.
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