WP Engine pricing and limits
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WP Engine pricing at a glance
- Entry paid plan
- Starting at $28.00/month for the Managed Hosting Platform, quoted in USD; $336.00 if billed annually source ↗
- Pricing model
- Tiered subscription plans (Essential, Core, Enterprise) configured by capacity - sites, visits and storage - billed monthly or annually… source ↗
- Egress over allowance
- No bandwidth overage charge on Shared plans source ↗
- When you exceed a cap
- Not throttled or cut off; billed $2 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors source ↗
Who it suits
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.
Consider something else if…
Scripts must finish inside 60 seconds; the execution limit can be lowered but not raised.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
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WP Engine pricing
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- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Monthly Monthly Annual Annual Save 20% on Essential Essential Keep your sites performing, customers converting, and your team focused on growth, not site maintenance.”
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- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Monthly Monthly Annual Annual Save 20% on Essential Essential Keep your sites performing, customers converting, and your team focused on growth, not site maintenance.”
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- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Starting at Regular price Discounted price $28.00 /month Build your plan [...] Billed annually. Pay $336.00 today.”
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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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- Reduce Bandwidth & Storage Usage ↗
“Shared plans are not charged overages for bandwidth. If you exceed your bandwidth limit we'll have someone reach out to help you comply with our Acceptable use policy and to discuss options to help you reduce your usage or switch to another plan that better meets the performance needs for your account.”
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- Overage Pricing & Visitor Limits | WP Engine Support ↗
“We never throttle customers or cut their sites off for getting a traffic spike.”
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Limits
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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”
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- Managed Hosting Plans for WordPress | WP Engine ↗
“Add an additional site for $20 (USD) per month. 1-30”
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- Managed Hosting Plans for WordPress | WP Engine ↗
“25,000 visits/mo”
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- 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+”
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- Platform Settings ↗
“Default max_execution_time for scripts is set to 60 seconds. This setting can only be decreased, and cannot be increased.”
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Deployment
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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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- Event Scheduling and wp-cron — WP Engine Support ↗
“Unlike a true server cron, wp-cron relies on page visits to trigger scheduled tasks, potentially causing delays or performance issues. WP Engine Alternate Cron offers a server-based solution. Enabling this feature ensures timely execution of tasks by checking for due events every minute, improving reliability.”
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Infrastructure
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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”
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- 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”
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- WP Engine Plans & Pricing ↗
“Core Power higher-demand sites with dedicated infrastructure and priority support. [...] Isolated resources Managed migration services 99.99% uptime guarantee AI powered plugin updates”
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Support
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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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Compliance
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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.”
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- 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.”
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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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- 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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WP Engine pricing questions
How much does WP Engine cost?
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.
WP Engine Plans & Pricing · read
How does WP Engine charge?
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.
WP Engine Plans & Pricing · read
What happens if you exceed WP Engine's limits?
Not throttled or cut off; billed $2 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors.
How much does WP Engine charge for egress?
No bandwidth overage charge on Shared plans.
What uptime does WP Engine guarantee?
A 99.99% uptime guarantee from Core upward. Essential, the entry plan, does not list one.
WP Engine Plans & Pricing · read
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