Cloudways versus Flywheel

Price

• Cloudways From $14/mo
  • Micro: $14.00 monthly
  • Small: $28.00 monthly
  • Medium: $54.00 monthly
  • Large: $99.00 monthly
• Flywheel From $300/yr
  • Starter: $300.00 annual ($25/mo equivalent)
  • Freelance: $1,150.00 annual
  • Agency: $2,900.00 annual

These prices use different billing periods. Read each with its own unit and conditions; they do not add up to one total or a cheaper product.

Documented for both

Websites

Cloudways No limit on the number of applications on one server

Flywheel An additional site costs USD 20 a month or USD 200 a year.Starter: 1 siteFreelance: Up to 10 sitesAgency: Up to 30 sites

Storage

Cloudways Micro: 25 GB NVMe storage, 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPUSmall: 50 GB NVMe storage, 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPUMedium: 80 GB NVMe storage, 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPULarge: 160 GB NVMe storage, 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU

Flywheel Starter: 10 GB storageFreelance: 20 GB storageAgency: 50 GB storage

Traffic or visits

Cloudways Micro: 1 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsSmall: 2 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsMedium: 4 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsLarge: 5 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visits

Flywheel A visit is a unique IP address in a 24-hour period, after removing known bots.Starter: 25,000 monthly visits and 50 GB bandwidthFreelance: 100,000 monthly visits and 200 GB bandwidthAgency: 400,000 monthly visits and 500 GB bandwidth

Commitment

Cloudways Charged by the hour and invoiced in arrears in the first week of each month; plan changes show on the invoice immediately, and AWS and Google Cloud prices vary by region.

Flywheel 60-day money-back guarantee on new plansAgency: Excluded from the 60-day money-back guarantee

Backups

Cloudways Offsite backup storage costs $0.033/GB per server.

Flywheel Backups are taken every night and kept for 30 days.

Restores

Cloudways One-click restore from automated or on-demand backups

Flywheel Nightly backups can be run and restored.

Migration

Cloudways Cloudways engineers migrate your first website free from any host.

Flywheel Flywheel’s team migrates every one of your sites free.

Staging

Cloudways Staging is listed.

Flywheel Staging sites are listed among the workflow tools in the plan comparison.

Support

Cloudways 24/7/365 live chat and ticket support on every plan; paid Advanced and Premium support add-ons give quicker responses.

Flywheel 24/7/365 chat support

Overage charges

Cloudways DigitalOcean: USD 0.02 per extra GB, AWS: USD 0.12 per GB, Google Cloud: USD 0.10 to 0.17 per GB by region

Flywheel USD 1 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors; USD 1 per GB over the storage limit

Limits to check

• Cloudways The number of sites is limited by server capacity: you can launch as many applications as the server can support.
• Flywheel Sites are not throttled or shut off; visits and storage above the plan are charged as overages.

Not verified yet

No reviewed evidence for either product on renewal rate.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Cloudways: introductory rate.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask Cloudways about renewal rate; our sources do not establish it yet.
• Ask Flywheel about renewal rate and introductory rate; our sources do not establish them yet.

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