Kinsta versus WP Engine

Price

• Kinsta From $35/mo
  • Single 20GB: $35.00 monthly
  • Single 20GB: $350.00 annual
  • Launch: $35.00 monthly
  • Launch: $350.00 annual
  • Single 35k: $35.00 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

Kinsta Each plan includes a set number of WordPress installs; Single 35k supports 1 site and WP2 supports 2.Single 20GB: 1 WordPress install; extra sites USD 30 a month eachLaunch: 1 WordPress install; extra sites USD 30 a month each

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

Kinsta Disk space add-on: USD 20 a month per 20 GB, shared between all sites in the account.Single 20GB: 10 GB storageLaunch: 15 GB storage

WP Engine Essential: 10–50 GB

Traffic or visits

Kinsta A visit is each unique IP address within 24 hours, totalled across your sites for the month.Single 20GB: 20 GB server bandwidth and 125 GB CDN bandwidth a monthLaunch: 15 GB server bandwidth, an estimated 75,000 visits and 125 GB CDN bandwidth a monthSingle 35k: 35,000 visits a month

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

Kinsta First month free on select plans for new customers

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

Commitment

Kinsta 30-day money-back guarantee after any free period; plans can be changed at any time with prorated billing.

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

Backups

Kinsta Automatic backups every 24 hours; Every 6 hours: USD 20 per site a month; Every hour: USD 100 per site a month; External backups to AWS or Google Cloud Storage, weekly or monthly: USD 2 per site a month plus USD 1 per GB of bandwidthSingle 20GB: 14 days backup retentionLaunch: 14 days backup retention

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

Restores

Kinsta Automatic, manual and system-generated backups restore from MyKinsta to the environment you choose, and each restore first saves the current state. External add-on backups cannot be restored there directly.

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

Migration

Kinsta Unlimited free migrations handled by Kinsta’s team

WP Engine Free automated migration pluginCore: Managed migration services

Staging

Kinsta Staging environments are part of the managed platform.

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

Support

Kinsta 24/7 human support in 8 languages

WP Engine Essential: 24/7 technical support

Overage charges

Kinsta Disk space: USD 2 per GB a month, prorated dailySingle 20GB: Server bandwidth: USD 0.50 per GB above the planSingle 35k: Visits: USD 0.50 per 1,000 visits

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

Limits to check

• Kinsta Sites stay online above the visit, storage or CDN limits, and overage fees are charged on the actual overage.
• 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 Kinsta about renewal rate; our sources do not establish it yet.

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