Managed WP Start
US$12.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$120.00/yr billed yearly
1 site · 5 mailboxes · 20 GB storage
Managed WordPressTheir prices read 2026-09-29
WP Engine vs KapsuleHost
WP Engine sell managed WordPress, and they publish Essential at US$28.00/mo. Managed WP Start is US$12.00/mo in your own currency and it does the same things: updates handled for you, a practice copy of your site, nightly backups kept thirty nights, and malware quarantined before it spreads.
WP EngineEssential
- Entry price
- US$28.00/mo
- Renewal
- US$35.00/mo
3-year costUS$1,176.00
Managed WordPress Start- Entry price
- US$12.00/mo
- Renewal
- US$12.00/moPrice Lock Promise
3-year costUS$360.00
What you actually pay, year by year.
Ours is read live from our catalogue, in your own currency. Their years run their introductory term first, then their renewal.
WP Engine, from their published pricesUS$1,176.00
Year 1US$336.00/yrYear 2US$420.00/yrYear 3US$420.00/yr
KapsuleHost, liveUS$360.00
Year 1US$120.00/yrYear 2US$120.00/yrYear 3US$120.00/yr
Cheaper over three years
Assumes you stay on the same plan. See Terms 7.5
Five things you get by moving from WP Engine.
01Managed WordPress from US$12.00/mo
Managed WP Start is US$12.00/mo in your own currency and holds that price at every renewal for as long as you stay on the plan. WP Engine publish Essential at US$28.00/mo. Both figures are on this page, each in the currency it is charged in.
02Five managed jobs, all on Managed WP Start
Updates handled for you, a practice copy of your site, nightly backups kept thirty nights, malware quarantined before it spreads and a broken deploy put back on its own. All of it is on Managed WP Start at US$12.00/mo.
03Kora answers straight away, at any hour
Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
04One price, in your own currency
You are billed in your own currency, not converted from another one at a rate you did not choose. Each currency has its own catalogue price, and that is the price the charge is built from.
05Free tools move you here
The tools bring your site, your database, your mailboxes and your DNS across on every plan, at any size, and Kora runs them with you while you watch. For a bigger or more delicate move, one of our engineers does the whole thing for a published price.
What comes with your plan.
This is what the plan price buys, line by line.
WP EngineEntry priceUS$12.00/moUS$28.00/mo
Fast pages when you get busy
Nightly offsite backupsThirty nights
Updates handled, on a practice copy
Malware quarantined before it spreads
A broken deploy put back on its ownIncludedA paid add-on
Two step sign in for your site adminOn Pro
Support in your own working day24/7, per their plan page
An agency programmeNewerMature
The tools that move you here from WP Engine are free.
Moving from WP Engine is free. We work from your backup or your practice copy, build the site here, run your checks, and switch your DNS outside business hours. A portfolio of sites comes over together. Kora will run it with you, and for a complicated or sensitive move a person can do the whole thing for a published price.
Start on Managed WordPress Start.
US$12.00/mo, held at that price for as long as you stay on the plan. A free SSL certificate, nightly backups kept thirty nights and mailboxes on your own domain come with it, and the free migration tools bring you here from WP Engine.
Managed WP Pro
US$30.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$300.00/yr billed yearly
5 sites · 10 mailboxes · 100 GB storage
What buyers ask us about WP Engine.
These are the questions buyers send us while they are deciding between WP Engine and us, answered the way one of our own engineers would answer them.
Ways To Reach UsThe table above shows WP Engine's own published price for year one and for renewal, read on 2026-09-29, or says plainly where their page does not list a figure. Check their current rate before you decide. Ours comes from our catalogue as the page loads, and it renews at the same price, on the same plan (Terms 7.5).
The website and mailbox migration tools are free on every hosting plan, and Kora runs them with you. For a big or a delicate setup, one of our engineers can carry the whole move out for you at a price you agree first. A person from our team makes first contact within 2 New Zealand business hours of your order, and the work is finished in one to two business days. Moving your domain registration is separate. For most extensions, a transfer costs one year's renewal and adds that year to your domain. Transfers of .nz, .co.nz and .uk domains are free.
No. We build your site here on an address of its own while the one you have on WP Engine carries on exactly as it is, and your domain points here only on the day you decide. For seven days after your site goes live here, one click takes you back to your old host, or shows exactly what to restore if your DNS is at your own registrar.
Yes. You can leave the registration where it is and point the domain here by changing its nameservers, or move the registration to us too. For most domains a transfer takes five to seven days; a .nz domain usually moves the same day, often within hours.
Overnight updates, a staging copy, nightly backups with thirty nights kept, an SSL certificate, mailboxes on your own domain and a CDN, plus the managed work: whole pages served from cache, malware quarantine, and a rollback when you update WordPress from the panel.
Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
Kapsule Group Limited, a New Zealand company. Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
Ready? Let's go.
- Same price while you stay on your plan
- Free migration on every plan