How the price grid works
Liquid Web's plan selector asks for two things: how many sites and how many monthly visits each. The prices below are the monthly-billing figures in the page's plan data on 29 October 2026; the page displays a placeholder until you pick options, so confirm the figure in the checkout. Annual billing is labelled Save 10%, which the page data reflects (one Pro site at 50,000 visits drops from $19 to $17.10 per month).
Pro plans, monthly billing, US dollars per month:
| Sites | 50,000 visits | 150,000 visits | 400,000 visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $19 | $39 | $79 |
| 3 | $39 | $79 | $149 |
| 5 | $59 | $119 | $229 |
| 10 | $99 | $219 | $429 |
| 25 | $199 | $399 | $799 |
Elite prices and what the extra money buys
Elite plans use the same grid. On the plan cards, the only listed difference from Pro is backup retention: 30-day daily backups instead of 14-day daily backups. Storage, bandwidth, staging, migration help and the security items are listed identically.
For one site at 50,000 visits, Elite costs $10 more per month, or $120 a year, for 16 extra days of daily backups. If you already keep an independent off-site backup with longer retention, that difference buys little. If you rely only on the host and you have ever discovered a broken lesson, a deleted user or a bad plugin update more than two weeks after it happened, the longer window is the point of Elite.
The 25-site Elite figure at 400,000 visits appears in the page data as $1,079.10, which does not follow the pattern of the other tiers. Treat it as unconfirmed and check the checkout total.
| Sites | 50,000 visits | 150,000 visits | 400,000 visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $29 | $59 | $119 |
| 3 | $59 | $119 | $229 |
| 5 | $89 | $179 | $349 |
| 10 | $169 | $349 | $649 |
| 25 | $329 | $649 | Unconfirmed (see above) |
What every plan lists
The page lists a set of items as included in every plan, a set repeated on each Pro and Elite card, and storage and bandwidth that rise with the visit tier. Storage and bandwidth are labelled shared, which suggests they are pooled across the sites on a multi-site plan; confirm that reading before you buy a 5-site or 10-site plan.
- Included in every plan: DDoS protection, a web application firewall, an edge CDN powered by Cloudflare, Object Cache Pro and Kadence Security Pro.
- On every Pro and Elite card: automatic WordPress updates, a self-serve migration tool, migration by a human, staging sites, visual comparison, Stencils and virtual patching from Patchstack.
- 50,000-visit tier: 15 GB storage and 2 TB bandwidth (shared).
- 150,000-visit tier: 40 GB storage and 3 TB bandwidth (shared).
- 400,000-visit tier: 100 GB storage and 5 TB bandwidth (shared).
- Not stated on the plan page: email hosting, how a visit is counted (the plan cards say monthly visitors while the selector says monthly visits), and the per-unit price of overages. The page says optional add-ons (such as Performance Shield) and usage-based extras (autoscaling, CDN overage) are listed in plan details.
The visit tier is the real pricing lever
Moving up a visit tier roughly doubles the price at every site count, so estimating visits honestly matters more than choosing Pro or Elite. Course sites behave differently from blogs: a small number of people come back many days a month.
Worked example with labelled assumptions. Suppose 600 enrolled students each log in on 15 days a month, and marketing pages bring 20,000 visitors. If the host counts a visit as one visitor per day, students alone account for 9,000 visits and the total is about 29,000, inside the 50,000 tier. If you run a launch that triples marketing traffic to 60,000 in one month, you are past 50,000 and into overage or the 150,000 tier. Liquid Web's page does not define how a visit is counted, so ask for the definition in writing and plug your own analytics into the same arithmetic.
Media is the other driver. 15 GB of storage fills quickly if lesson videos or large PDFs live in the WordPress media library. Hosting video elsewhere keeps you on the cheaper tier for longer.
Cost per site on multi-site plans
Multi-site plans lower the per-site price, which matters if you run a course site plus a marketing site, a members-only community and a staging copy you keep long-term.
- The visit allowance on multi-site plans is described as up to that many monthly visits each; confirm whether the cap is per site or pooled before relying on it.
- Staging sites are listed on every card, so you may not need to buy an extra site slot just for staging. Confirm whether staging copies count toward the site total.
| Pro plan at 50,000 visits | Monthly price | Per site | Annual billing per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 site | $19 | $19.00 | $17.10 |
| 3 sites | $39 | $13.00 | $35.10 |
| 5 sites | $59 | $11.80 | $53.10 |
| 10 sites | $99 | $9.90 | $89.10 |
When a managed VPS starts to compete
Liquid Web's managed VPS page lists a 4 GB managed VPS at $72 per month (2 vCPU, 80 GB SSD, 3 TB bandwidth) and an 8 GB plan at $100 per month. A one-site Pro plan at 400,000 visits is $79 per month. Those are not like-for-like products: the WordPress plan bundles staging, WordPress updates and security tooling, while the VPS gives you a whole server and a control panel with no visit tier listed. The comparison becomes worth making when you run several sites, need server-level control, or expect traffic beyond 400,000 visits.
Who gets value and who overpays
- Good value: a single course site with steady enrolment under 50,000 visits that wants staging, managed updates and a WAF for $19 a month without running a server.
- Good value: a creator running three to five related sites who would otherwise pay for three to five separate plans.
- Overpays: someone choosing Elite while already keeping independent backups with longer retention than 14 days.
- Overpays: a site that jumps to the 150,000 tier for one launch month a year instead of checking what the overage would cost for that month.
- Poor fit: a site storing lesson video in WordPress, which will press against 15 GB of storage before it presses against the visit cap.
- Poor fit: anyone who needs a guarantee of no visit metering; these plans are visit-capped.
Questions to ask before checkout
- How do you count a visit, and are logged-in student page views counted the same way as anonymous visitors?
- What is the overage price per unit for visits and CDN bandwidth, and is autoscaling on by default?
- Is storage pooled across sites on multi-site plans, and do staging copies count as sites?
- Is the annual 10% discount applied to renewals as well as the first term?
- Can I move between Pro and Elite, or between visit tiers, mid-term without a migration?
- What does Performance Shield cost and what problem does it solve that the included CDN and WAF do not?
Questions before you decide
What is the cheapest Liquid Web managed WordPress plan?
On 29 October 2026 the page data listed Pro for one site at 50,000 monthly visits at $19 per month on monthly billing, or $17.10 per month on annual billing. Confirm the checkout total, which may add taxes.
Is Liquid Web managed WordPress unmetered?
No. Every Pro and Elite plan shown has a monthly visit cap of 50,000, 150,000 or 400,000, and the page mentions usage-based extras such as autoscaling and CDN overage.
What is the difference between Pro and Elite?
On the plan cards, Elite lists 30-day daily backups and Pro lists 14-day daily backups. The other listed features are the same.
Sources & verification
Product details and prices can change. Check the linked provider before buying.
- Liquid Web: Managed hosting for WordPress plans Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Liquid Web: Managed VPS hosting Accessed 29 Oct 2026
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