Hostinger versus WP Engine

Price

• Hostinger From $2.99/mo
  • Premium: $2.99 monthly
  • Unlimited: $3.99 monthly
  • Cloud Startup: $7.99 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

Hostinger Premium: 3 websitesUnlimited: Unlimited websitesCloud Startup: Unlimited websites

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

Hostinger Premium: 20 GB disk, 1 CPU core, 2 GB RAM and 400,000 inodesUnlimited: 50 GB disk, 2 CPU cores, 3 GB RAM and 600,000 inodesCloud Startup: 100 GB NVMe storage

WP Engine Essential: 10–50 GB

Traffic or visits

Hostinger Premium: Bandwidth listed as Unlimited

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

Hostinger Premium: USD 2.99 a month equivalent; USD 143.52 paid upfront for 48 monthsUnlimited: USD 3.99 a month equivalent; USD 191.52 paid upfront for 48 monthsCloud Startup: USD 7.99 a month equivalent; USD 383.52 paid upfront for 48 months

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

Renewal rate

Hostinger Premium renews at $10.99/month.Unlimited: Renews at USD 16.99 a monthCloud Startup: Renews at USD 25.99 a month

WP Engine No renewal price is published; WP Engine says renewal pricing is subject to change.

Commitment

Hostinger 48 months (the term shown on all three plan cards)

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

Backups

Hostinger Premium: Free weekly backupsUnlimited: Daily backupsCloud Startup: Daily and on-demand backups

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

Restores

Hostinger Unlimited: "Easy data restore" is listed with the daily 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

Hostinger Free with any plan: submit a request in hPanel and Hostinger transfers the site within 24 hours. Each site needs its own request; up to five requests can be active at a time and bulk migrations are not permitted.

WP Engine Free automated migration pluginCore: Managed migration services

Staging

Hostinger One-click staging tool

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

Support

Hostinger Priority 24/7 expert support

WP Engine Essential: 24/7 technical support

Limits to check

• Hostinger Every plan is paid upfront (the monthly price is the plan total divided by its months), and "Unlimited" features are subject to the Fair Usage Policy.
• 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: 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 Hostinger about overage charges; our sources do not establish it yet.

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