WP Engine pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
WP Engine (wpengine.com) is a web host. Monthly or annual subscription tiers priced by WordPress site count, monthly visits and storage, with Enterprise quoted by sales.. No free plan.
What WP Engine costs
- 1 site: $35/mo (1-site option at monthly USD 35.00 from the plans page's structured data. The annual rate ($336/yr, $28/mo) is marked as including a promotional discount, so the monthly rate is used. Includes 25,000 visits/mo, 10GB storage and free SSL; no setup fee is listed; custom domain and plugin installs are not itemized on the page.)
- 10 sites: $130/mo (10-site option at monthly USD 130.00: 10 WordPress sites, 100,000 visits/mo and 20GB storage, covering the 50,000 visits and 20GB needed. The 3-site option has only 15GB, and no extra-site add-on prices are listed, so no cheaper combination qualifies.)
- Busy store: $130/mo (Same 10-site option at monthly USD 130.00: 100,000 visits/mo and 20GB storage meet the store threshold exactly. WooCommerce installs are not itemized on the plans page, so this assumes they are allowed.)
Plan compared: Managed Hosting Platform 1-site plan (Essential): 1 WordPress site, 25,000 visits/mo, 10GB storage, at $35/mo monthly bi. Prices are USD per month at the regular rate a plan renews at, on month-to-month billing where offered (otherwise the shortest term sold, divided by its months), for WordPress sites on your own domain. Introductory promos, setup fees, domains and taxes are not included.
What WP Engine does
Core: WordPress management, Staging sites, 24/7 expert support (partly).
Important: Many sites per plan (partly), Automated site backups (partly), CDN & page caching (partly), Firewall & malware protection (partly), SSH, Git & WP-CLI (partly), Store-ready performance (partly), Agency & reseller tools (partly), Compliance & certifications (partly).
Also has: VPS & cloud upgrades (partly), Free site migrations (partly), Application performance tracing (partly).
WP Engine price hikes
No price hikes on record for WP Engine.
Cheaper alternatives to WP Engine
At one WordPress site, WP Engine costs $35/mo. 3 web hosts cost less:
- Bluehost: $9.99/mo (Starter), covers 79% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites (partly), Compliance & certifications, Free site migrations
- Hostinger: $10.99/mo (Premium plan, renewal rate on its 48-month term ($10.99/mo)), covers 79% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites (partly), Compliance & certifications, Free site migrations
- SiteGround: $17.99/mo (StartUp at its $17.99/mo regular renewal rate on a 12-month term), covers 82% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites (partly), Compliance & certifications
WP Engine alternatives: 3 cheaper web hosts compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of WP Engine
- WordPress.com (Website builders): covers 71% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites (partly), Many sites per plan, Compliance & certifications, Application performance tracing
- GoDaddy (Domains, DNS & SSL): covers 68% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites (partly), CDN & page caching, Compliance & certifications, Free site migrations
- Plesk (Server control panels): covers 66% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites, Store-ready performance, Compliance & certifications, VPS & cloud upgrades
- Netlify (Hosting): covers 55% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management, Staging sites (partly), Automated site backups, Store-ready performance, Compliance & certifications
- cPanel (Server control panels): covers 52% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites, Many sites per plan, CDN & page caching, Store-ready performance
- Namecheap (Domains, DNS & SSL): covers 45% of WP Engine; missing or partial: WordPress management (partly), Staging sites, CDN & page caching, Firewall & malware protection, SSH, Git & WP-CLI
Sources
Pricing page: wpengine.com/plans. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from the official plans page's structured data (USD monthly and annual offers for the Managed Hosting Platform 1, 3, 10 and 30 site options, matching the Essential table) and its Business starting price. ComparEdge and Pulse Signal changelogs conflict with each other and with the official page, which still lists monthly offers, so no price change is recorded; custom domain, plugin and WooCommerce allowances are not itemized on the page.