Cloudways versus WP Engine

Price

• Cloudways From $14/mo
  • Micro: $14.00 monthly
  • Small: $28.00 monthly
  • Medium: $54.00 monthly
  • Large: $99.00 monthly
• WP Engine From $35/mo
  • Essential: $35.00 monthly
  • Essential: $336.00 annual ($28/mo equivalent)
  • Core: $400.00 monthly
  • Enterprise: Vendor quotation required

Both list prices on the same basis. Compare what each plan includes; the lower amount alone does not make the better choice.

Documented for both

Websites

Cloudways No limit on the number of applications on one server

WP Engine An additional site costs USD 20 a month.Essential: 1 site, 25,000 visits a month, 10 GB; Up to 3 sites, 75,000 visits, 15 GB; Up to 10 sites, 100,000 visits, 20 GB; Up to 30 sites, 400,000 visits, 50 GBCore: 30–50 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

WP Engine Essential: 10–50 GB

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

WP Engine Visit numbers are estimates; contact WP Engine for dynamic sites or traffic spikes.Essential: 25,000–400,000 visits a month and 75 GB bandwidth

Introductory rate

Cloudways 3-day free trial of Flexible without a credit card

WP Engine Essential: First-year pricing and coupons apply only to new customers buying Essential, once at signup.

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.

WP Engine Overages are charged monthly even when the plan is prepaid for a year.Essential: Monthly or annual billing; annual saves 20%.

Backups

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

WP Engine Daily automatic and on-demand backups on every plan, kept for no less than 30 and no more than 60 days.

Restores

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

WP Engine A restore can take from a few minutes to several hours and overwrites the whole site with the chosen backup point.

Migration

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

WP Engine Free automated migration pluginCore: Managed migration services

Staging

Cloudways Staging is listed.

WP Engine 1-click staging and development environments on Essential, Core and Enterprise

Support

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

WP Engine Essential: 24/7 technical 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

WP Engine USD 2 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors on the Startup, Professional, Growth, Scale and Agency plans

Limits to check

• Cloudways The number of sites is limited by server capacity: you can launch as many applications as the server can support.
• WP Engine WP Engine does not throttle or cut off sites during traffic spikes.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: WP Engine: renewal 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.

• Cloudways profile and plans · View Cloudways pricing
• WP Engine profile and plans · View WP Engine pricing