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Cloudways pricing
Someone who already has, or will build, a WordPress site and wants it on a managed cloud server they size themselves, paying by the hour for the server rather than per site.
What Cloudways actually costs
The monthly figure at that many sites, which is what Cloudways charges by. Same engine the shortlist quiz uses, so these cannot disagree with it.
- 1 site
- $14Micro (DigitalOcean 1GB)
- 2 sites
- $14Micro (DigitalOcean 1GB)
- 5 sites
- $14Micro (DigitalOcean 1GB)
- 10 sites
- $14Micro (DigitalOcean 1GB)
Every published plan
Read off Cloudways’s own pricing page, last checked 22 Oct 2026.
You pay for a server, not a site: every plan says Unlimited Websites and Unlimited Visits, and the price moves with the server's RAM, vCPU, storage and bandwidth. Billed hourly in arrears on a monthly invoice, so the monthly figure is the published rate for a full month; there is no annual price. Email is a paid add-on ($1.50 a mailbox a month), offsite backup storage $0.033 a GB per server, and the Autonomous (Kubernetes) plans are a separate product ($35 to $995 a month) not recorded here. 3-day free trial, no card.
| Plan | Per month | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micro (DigitalOcean 1GB) | $14 | unlimited sites | not published |
| Small (DigitalOcean 2GB) | $28 | unlimited sites | not published |
| Medium (DigitalOcean 4GB) | $54 | unlimited sites | not published |
| Large (DigitalOcean 8GB) | $99 | unlimited sites | not published |
Before you sign up
- Free trial
- 3 days
- Contract
- Pay as you go, billed hourly in arrears on a monthly invoice; cancel any time
Who it suits
Built for: Someone who already has, or will build, a WordPress site and wants it on a managed cloud server they size themselves, paying by the hour for the server rather than per site.
Weak at: It builds nothing: there are no templates or design tools, no free domain, email is a paid add-on, and a single small site still pays for a whole server.
Cloudways compared, head to head
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
Is it the right one for you?
Cloudways is one of 17 website builders and WordPress hosts on this site. The shortlist asks 7 questions and gives you four honest picks priced at your own client count, including every platform that beats this one outright at your size.
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