Flywheel versus Nexcess

Price

• Flywheel From $300/yr
  • Starter: $300.00 annual ($25/mo equivalent)
  • Freelance: $1,150.00 annual
  • Agency: $2,900.00 annual
• Nexcess From $9/mo
  • Essentials WordPress: $9.00 monthly
  • Pro WordPress: $19.00 monthly
  • Elite WordPress: $29.00 monthly

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

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

Nexcess Plans for 1, 3, 5, 10 or 25 sites, each with up to 50,000, 150,000 or 400,000 monthly visitsEssentials WordPress: 1 sitePro WordPress: 1 siteElite WordPress: 1 site

Storage

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

Nexcess Essentials WordPress: 15 GB storage (shared)Pro WordPress: 15 GB storage (shared)Elite WordPress: 15 GB storage (shared)

Traffic or 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

Nexcess Essentials WordPress: 50k monthly visitors; 2 TB bandwidth (shared)Pro WordPress: 50k monthly visitors; 2 TB bandwidth (shared)Elite WordPress: 50k monthly visitors; 2 TB bandwidth (shared)

Commitment

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

Nexcess Monthly or annual billing; annual is marked "Save 10%".

Backups

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

Nexcess Essentials WordPress: 7-day daily backupsPro WordPress: 14-day daily backupsElite WordPress: 30-day daily backups

Migration

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

Nexcess Self-service migration; human migration listed on Elite.Essentials WordPress: Self-serve migration toolPro WordPress: Self-serve migration tool and migration by a human

Staging

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

Nexcess Essentials WordPress: Staging sites and visual comparison listed on the cardPro WordPress: Staging sites and visual comparisonElite WordPress: Staging sites and visual comparison

Limits to check

• Flywheel Sites are not throttled or shut off; visits and storage above the plan are charged as overages.
• Nexcess Every plan includes DDoS protection, a web application firewall, a Cloudflare edge CDN, Object Cache Pro and Kadence Security Pro; optional add-ons (such as Performance Shield) and usage-based extras (autoscaling, CDN overage) cost extra.

Not verified yet

No reviewed evidence for either product on introductory rate and renewal rate.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Flywheel: restores, support and overage charges.

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 Flywheel about introductory rate and renewal rate; our sources do not establish them yet.
• Ask Nexcess about introductory rate, renewal rate and restores; our sources do not establish them yet.

• Flywheel profile and plans · View Flywheel pricing
• Nexcess profile and plans · Visit Nexcess