WP Engine Promo Codes & Deals

Professional costs $55 a month and supports 3 sites, a small step up from Startup that's only marginally pricier than paying for Startup plus one additional site separately. It's the tier WP Engine itself points anyone toward if they expect to add a second site within 12 months. Visitor allowance and storage scale up alongside the higher site count.

Growth costs $109 a month, stepping up site count, storage, and monthly visit allowance well beyond Professional for agencies or businesses running several active WordPress sites at once. It sits below Scale and Core for teams that need more headroom than Professional offers without jumping straight to enterprise-level pricing. Overage fees still apply if you exceed the included visitor allowance.

Scale sits above Growth for higher-traffic sites needing more resources, with published starting prices varying between roughly $242 and $276 a month depending on the source at the time of writing. Confirm the current rate directly on WP Engine's pricing page before committing. Aimed at established businesses whose traffic has genuinely outgrown the standard tiers below it.

Core starts around $400 a month and moves beyond the standard tiers into dedicated infrastructure resources, backed by a 99.99% uptime guarantee under a formal Service Level Agreement. It includes 24/7 access to senior support staff rather than general-tier queues. Aimed squarely at established businesses where downtime carries real financial consequences, not casual or small-site users.

WP Engine backs every standard hosting plan with a 60-day money-back guarantee, double the 30 days common at most competing hosts. That gives you real time to build a site, run performance tests, and decide whether the premium price is worth it before committing. Contact support directly to process a refund request rather than assuming cancellation triggers it automatically.

Switching any standard WP Engine plan from monthly to annual billing brings the effective monthly rate down by roughly the equivalent of four months of hosting over a full year. On Startup, that drops the effective rate from $30 to around $25 a month. Seasonal promotions occasionally extend this further, so it's worth checking for an active sale before committing to a full year upfront.

WP Engine offers free website migration for new customers moving from many other hosting providers, handled by their team rather than a fully self-service tool. Eligibility varies by your current host's setup, so contacting support before signing up to confirm the details is worth doing. This removes a common source of downtime and broken configurations that comes with a manual DIY transfer.

Global Edge Security is WP Engine's advanced DDoS protection add-on, priced separately from the base plan tiers rather than bundled in automatically. It's aimed at sites that specifically need hardened protection against distributed attacks beyond WP Engine's baseline security. Worth adding to your budget if your site has previously been targeted or handles sensitive transactions.

GeoTarget lets your WordPress site automatically deliver different content based on a visitor's location, sold as a separate add-on rather than included in any standard plan. It's most useful for multi-region ecommerce stores or content sites that need region-specific pricing, language, or promotions. Confirm current add-on pricing directly with WP Engine before budgeting it into your total cost.

Buyers on multi-year commitments or consolidating several sites under one contract commonly land below WP Engine's list price, per anonymized data from procurement platform Vendr. Negotiation leverage tends to be strongest during WP Engine's fiscal periods rather than at a random point in the year. Worth raising directly with sales if you're an agency considering a larger, longer-term contract.