WP ENGINE VS KINSTA — PORTFOLIO COST COMPARISON
Prepared 2026-10-01. Fill with your own account quotes and usage.
USD before tax in the published examples; use one currency for your comparison.
Guide: https://hostdealradar.com/guides/wp-engine-vs-kinsta/

Use one column for staying and one for each destination plan.
Do not copy an existing Scale renewal into a new Essential quote.

1. CONTRACT / BILLING PERIOD
Provider and exact plan:
Quote source and date:
First amount due:
Service months purchased:
Next renewal amount, date and service months:
Monthly equivalent = amount / service months (not monthly cash payment).
Tax shown separately:
Refund / cancellation / prepaid balance treatment:

2. PORTFOLIO AND RECURRING COSTS
Production sites / included staging / paid environments:
Storage, server bandwidth, CDN, visits from each billing dashboard:
Selected traffic meter and included allowance:
Monthly base + usage + required add-ons + administration hours x rate:
Backup retention and recovery requirements:
Update licences / enabled environments:
Peak workload and capacity confirmed by destination:
Keep visits and server-bandwidth billing alternatives separate.
Do not convert Google Analytics sessions into billing units.

3. MOVE COST AND DECISION
Migration service quote (check included credits):
Staff hours x hourly cost:
Subscription overlap and other necessary setup:
One-time total:
Monthly savings = current complete recurring cost - destination complete cost.
Payback months = one-time total / positive monthly savings.
No positive savings means no cost-saving payback.
Record operational reasons separately from financial savings.

ILLUSTRATIONS — NOT CUSTOMER BILLS
Kinsta Lead monthly: 299 + 25 x 0.50 server GB + 15 x 2 storage GB
+ 100 x 0.05 CDN GB = 346.50.
Assumes 300 GB server usage, 75 GB live storage all month, 1100 GB CDN.
With full-month 20 GB storage add-on: 299 + 12.50 + 20 + 5 = 336.50.
No visit overage added to Lead. No other extras included.

Assumed migration: 6 hours x 50 + 100 overlap = 400.
At sustained complete savings of 31/month: 400 / 31 = 12.90 months.
The 31 base-price difference alone is not complete savings.

Before cancellation: independent backup, destination checks, final content
sync, DNS/HTTPS, forms, email, scheduled jobs, restore and billing dates.