Flywheel versus WordPress.com

Price

• Flywheel From $300/yr
  • Starter: $300.00 annual ($25/mo equivalent)
  • Freelance: $1,150.00 annual
  • Agency: $2,900.00 annual
• WordPress.com From $2.75/mo
  • Personal: $9.00 monthly
  • Personal: $48.00 annual ($4/mo equivalent)
  • Personal: $2.75 monthly
  • Business: $40.00 monthly
  • Business: $300.00 annual ($25/mo equivalent)
  • Business: $17.50 monthly

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

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Storage

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

WordPress.com Personal: 6 GB storageBusiness: 50 GB included; storage add-ons are listed from +50 GB to +350 GB

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

WordPress.com Unrestricted bandwidth and unlimited visitors, without extra fees or slowdowns

Commitment

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

WordPress.com Annual and multi-year plans include a free domain for the first year; monthly plans do not.

Backups

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

WordPress.com Business and higher list real-time backups.

Restores

Flywheel Nightly backups can be run and restored.

WordPress.com Business and higher list one-click restores.

Migration

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

WordPress.com Built-in import tool for Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Medium, Blogger and self-hosted WordPress sites; the Website Design Services team can help.

Staging

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

WordPress.com Business: Staging site on Business and higher

Support

Flywheel 24/7/365 chat support

WordPress.com Business: Priority 24/7 support, plus SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git and GitHub deployments

Overage charges

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

WordPress.com No traffic overage: the cost does not rise with traffic.

Limits to check

• Flywheel Sites are not throttled or shut off; visits and storage above the plan are charged as overages.
• WordPress.com Real-time backups and one-click restores are only on Business, Commerce and Enterprise.

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: websites.

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 WordPress.com about introductory rate, renewal rate and websites; our sources do not establish them yet.

• Flywheel profile and plans · View Flywheel pricing
• WordPress.com profile and plans · View WordPress.com pricing