Pressable versus WP Engine

Price

• Pressable From $25/mo
  • Signature 1: $250.00 annual
  • Signature 1: $25.00 monthly
  • Signature 3: $600.00 annual ($50/mo equivalent)
  • Signature 3: $60.00 monthly
  • Signature 5: $1,550.00 annual
  • Signature 5: $155.00 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

Pressable Tiers with 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 80 or 100 WordPress installs, each with the same number of staging and sandbox sitesSignature 1: 1 WordPress installSignature 3: 5 WordPress installsSignature 5: 20 WordPress installsSignature 8: 100 WordPress installs

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

Pressable 5 dedicated PHP workers (5 vCPUs) per site on Signature plansSignature 1: 20 GB storageSignature 3: 35 GB storageSignature 5: 80 GB storageSignature 8: 325 GB storage

WP Engine Essential: 10–50 GB

Traffic or visits

Pressable A visit is counted once per visitor per UTC day.Signature 1: Up to 30K visits a monthSignature 3: Up to 75K visits a monthSignature 5: Up to 400K visits a monthSignature 8: Up to 2M 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

Commitment

Pressable Monthly or yearly billing (the yearly option is labelled "2 Months Free"), with a 30-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

Pressable Filesystem backed up daily at 00:00 UTC and database hourly, only when changes are detected

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

Restores

Pressable Self-service restore from the Backups & Restores tab, including a cross-site restore of one site's backup onto another

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

Migration

Pressable Unlimited WordPress site migrations

WP Engine Free automated migration pluginCore: Managed migration services

Staging

Pressable Staging and sandbox sites equal to the number of WordPress installs

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

Support

Pressable 24/7 expert support, about 4 minutes average first response

WP Engine Essential: 24/7 technical support

Overage charges

Pressable Visits: USD 1.20 per 1,000; Storage: USD 1.00 per GB; Pre-bought visits: USD 8 per 10,000; Pre-bought storage: USD 0.50 per GB a month, up to 200 GB

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

Limits to check

• Pressable Visits and storage above the plan are charged automatically 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 Pressable about introductory rate and renewal rate; our sources do not establish them yet.

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