SiteGround vs WP Engine: one begins where the other's middle plan already sits
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Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Plan
United States USD · 2026-08-31
United Kingdom GBP · 2026-08-31
EU USD · 2026-08-31
Startup
$30
£25
$30
Professional
$55
£42
$55
Growth
$109
£84
$109
Scale
$276
£217
$276
Core Hosting
$400
£312
$400
What the record says
The two ladders cross at one figure. SiteGround's middle plan is £23.99 and WP Engine's cheapest is £25 — £1.01 apart in this market. A buyer at that price point is choosing between one vendor's mid-tier and another's entry tier for effectively the same money, which is the most useful thing on this page and also the least representative of it.
How close they land depends on where you read from, which is worth knowing before treating it as a fact about the products. In the United States the same two plans are $29.99 and $30, $0.01 apart — a single cent. In Britain they are £23.99 and £25, £1.01 apart. Both vendors convert for British readers, and their conversions do not preserve the coincidence.
Below that crossing point the comparison is one-sided. SiteGround publishes £13.99 and £23.99; WP Engine publishes nothing beneath £25. If your budget is under WP Engine's entry price, there is no WP Engine plan to weigh and the question answers itself.
Above it, the one-sidedness reverses and then goes much further. SiteGround has a single rung left at £34.99. WP Engine has four: £42, £84, £217 and £312 — the last of which is £277.01 above the top of SiteGround's ladder. These are not two ladders of different heights so much as two ladders built for different buildings.
One practical note on reading either page. WP Engine converted for both British and French readers in our reading, while SiteGround converted for British readers only and returned dollars to Germany, France and Spain. So a French visitor sees euros from one of these vendors and dollars from the other, on the same afternoon.
Beyond the price tag
The crossing point
£23.99 against £25 — £1.01 apart. One vendor's middle plan and the other's entry plan, at what is effectively the same price.
The near-identity is an American coincidence
$29.99 against $30 is $0.01. The same two plans in Britain are £23.99 and £25, £1.01 apart.
Below the crossing, only SiteGround is present
£13.99 sits £11.01 below WP Engine's cheapest plan. In our reading WP Engine publishes nothing at that level at all.
Above it, WP Engine keeps going for four more rungs
£42, £84, £217, £312 — the top one £277.01 beyond SiteGround's ceiling of £34.99.
Different conversion behaviour
WP Engine returned pounds to Britain and euros to France. SiteGround returned pounds to Britain and dollars to Germany, France and Spain. Two hosts, five markets, two different patterns.
Questions people actually search
Which is cheaper, SiteGround or WP Engine?
SiteGround, and by more than the crossing point suggests. Its middle plan is £1.01 below WP Engine's cheapest in the United States, and its entry plan is £11.01 below it. WP Engine publishes nothing in that lower range.
Why do the two plans land closer together in the US than in Britain?
Because both vendors convert for British readers and their conversions land differently. In the United States it is $29.99 against $30, $0.01; in Britain £23.99 against £25, £1.01. The near-identity belongs to the American figures, not to the plans.
What is WP Engine's most expensive plan?
£312 in our reading — £277.01 above the top of SiteGround's ladder, which is £34.99.
Do both charge in euros in Europe?
Not in our readings. WP Engine returned euros to France; SiteGround returned dollars to Germany, France and Spain, and pounds only to Britain. A French visitor is quoted in different currencies by the two vendors on the same day.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
For a site that fits inside its range, SiteGround runs from £13.99 to £34.99 — and its middle plan costs £1.01 less than WP Engine's cheapest.
Below WP Engine's entry price SiteGround publishes two plans and WP Engine publishes none. The meeting point is a coincidence of a single cent, not a range where the two genuinely compete.
Both ladders were read from the vendors' own pricing pages, from five countries in turn, each table dated. Cross-vendor figures on this page are pinned to a named market, because the two vendors do not quote the same currency in every country: comparing a dollar figure with a euro one would be an exchange rate rather than a price. What each plan includes — storage, visits, sites — is a product question and not one this page settles. The method →
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