Flywheel versus WP Engine

Price

• Flywheel From $300/yr
  • Starter: $300.00 annual ($25/mo equivalent)
  • Freelance: $1,150.00 annual
  • Agency: $2,900.00 annual
• 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

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

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

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

WP Engine Essential: 10–50 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

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

Commitment

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

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

Backups

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

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

Restores

Flywheel Nightly backups can be run and restored.

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

Migration

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

WP Engine Free automated migration pluginCore: Managed migration services

Staging

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

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

Support

Flywheel 24/7/365 chat support

WP Engine Essential: 24/7 technical support

Overage charges

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

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

Limits to check

• Flywheel Sites are not throttled or shut off; visits and storage above the plan are charged as overages.
• 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: introductory rate and 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 Flywheel about introductory rate and renewal rate; our sources do not establish them yet.

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