WordPress.com versus WP Engine

Price

• 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
• 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

Storage

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

WP Engine Essential: 10–50 GB

Traffic or visits

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

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

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

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

Backups

WordPress.com Business and higher list real-time 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

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

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

Migration

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

WP Engine Free automated migration pluginCore: Managed migration services

Staging

WordPress.com Business: Staging site on Business and higher

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

Support

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

WP Engine Essential: 24/7 technical support

Overage charges

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

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

Limits to check

• WordPress.com Real-time backups and one-click restores are only on Business, Commerce and Enterprise.
• 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: websites, 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 WordPress.com about websites, introductory rate and renewal rate; our sources do not establish them yet.

• WordPress.com profile and plans · View WordPress.com pricing
• WP Engine profile and plans · View WP Engine pricing