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The 5 closest of 5, each with its real monthly cost at 1 site and what it does that WP Engine does not. See all 17.
SiteGround does everything we verified about WP Engine for $17.01 a month less at 1 site, $17.99 against $35. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level. The trade: WP Engine is built for running many client sites and SiteGround is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
At $35 a month for a single site with a 25,000-visit cap and overages beyond it, it is not the cheap way to put a small site online, and nothing on the page sells a domain, email or a site builder.
It runs $35 a month at 1 site with the add-ons it forces on you included. 4 of the 5 alternatives to WP Engine cost less than that.
Ranked by how much of what we record for WP Engine each platform also does. SiteGround is the nearest, and it is $17.01 a month cheaper at 1 site. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
$17.01 a month cheaper$29.99 at 3 sites
A small business that wants one WordPress site hosted cheaply for the first year with a free domain and email, and does not mind the price stepping up at renewal.
Everything this site records for WP Engine is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 1 site. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what WP Engine is built for that they are not, and for someone who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 1 site | You save | What WP Engine does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluehost | $15.99 | $19.01 | managed WordPress hosting and running many client sites |
| SiteGround | $17.99 | $17.01 | running many client sites |
Prices are the real monthly cost at 1 site with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
$21 a month cheaper$14 at 3 sites
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.
Same money$99 at 3 sites
A WordPress site whose owner wants speed, security and support handled, from one site up to twenty on one account.
$19.01 a month cheaper$15.99 at 3 sites
A first WordPress site on a small budget, with the domain, SEO plugin and AI setup bundled, as long as you will prepay three years.
$20 a month cheaper$35 at 3 sites
Agencies and freelancers who build in Elementor and want Google Cloud hosting, staging, backups and one support desk for several WordPress sites.
A business that wants its WordPress site run for it, with a path from one site to thirty on the same platform.
On this site it is the pick for managed WordPress hosting, running WordPress and running many client sites. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
SiteGround. It is $17.01 a month cheaper at the size we compare on and gives up nothing we verify, though you should read why it exists before swapping: no two of these do exactly the same job.
Bluehost and SiteGround are cheaper and level with WP Engine on every feature we verify. Nothing here is strictly better: each one exists to do a slightly different job.
WP Engine is $35 a month at 1 site and $130 at 10 sites, read off their own pricing page and re-checked every week.
At $35 a month for a single site with a 25,000-visit cap and overages beyond it, it is not the cheap way to put a small site online, and nothing on the page sells a domain, email or a site builder.
We compare 5 of them here, every one priced at the same size off its own pricing page, and the whole list of 17 is on the website software page.
Should yours be on this list? If you make website builders and WordPress hosts and it is not compared here, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free and cannot be bought.
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a free plan and running WordPress. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other twelve are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
This page compares everything to WP Engine. The shortlist asks 7 questions about the site you need and how hands-on you want to be, and gives you four picks priced at your own numbers, which is a better question than “what is like the one I already have”.
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