WP Engine alternatives
Every managed hosting provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers WP Engine's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from WP Engine's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- CloudwaysKind of free offer: Free trial vs No free offer
- Kinstavs WP EngineEntry paid plan: $35/month for the entry single-site plan (first month $0, then $35/month); $30/month if p…
- Flywheelvs WP EngineEntry paid plan: $25/month for Starter, billed $300 a year with two months free. Monthly billing is offere…
- Pressablevs WP EngineEntry paid plan: $20.83/month for Signature 1, billed $250 a year. Monthly billing is offered at a higher…
Where WP Engine stands against these 4
WP Engine's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- No. None of the 4 alternatives that document it has one either.
- Entry paid plan
- Starting at $28.00/month for the Managed Hosting Platform, quoted in USD; $336.00 if billed annually4th cheapest of the 5 that document it. Cheapest: Cloudways — $11/month for the cheapest Cloudways Flexible server, as the pricing page's FAQ states.
- Storage (entry plan)
- 10 GB storage on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tier (1 site, 25,000 visits a month)Joint 3rd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Cloudways — 25 GB NVMe on the 1 GB Micro server, the smallest DigitalOcean Basic size on the Premium (NVMe) option the…
- Sites or apps included
- 1 site on the entry Essential tier (1–30 across Essential capacity tiers); additional sites $20/month eachJoint highest of the 4 that document it. Level with: Flywheel — 1 site on Starter, the cheapest plan; up to 10 on Freelance.
- Monthly visits cap
- 25,000 visits/mo on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tierJoint 2nd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Pressable — Up to 30,000 monthly visits on Signature 1; 75,000 on Signature 3, rising to 2 million on the largest…
- Included bandwidth
- 75 GB per month on Essential plans, 550 GB on Core and 550 GB+ on Enterprise, measured as gigabytes…2nd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Cloudways — 1 TB of transfer a month on the 1 GB DigitalOcean Micro server, rising to 5 TB on the 8 GB Large server.
- Max request duration
- 60 seconds3rd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Cloudways — 300 seconds by default (the server's Execution Limit, which applies across the stack).
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.