Add up what your plugins actually cost
7 jobs on by default, 7 licences, 7 renewal dates, plus a few more you can add if you actually buy them. Set your fleet size, add or remove anything, and every figure comes from the vendor's own pricing page.
A premium plugin stack
7 of 8 selected- $145
- $2,980
- $299
- $300
- $119.88
- $119
- $600
- $1,249.75
WPMgr
1 line- Incremental, client-side encrypted, to storage you own
- Hardening, file integrity and vulnerability matching, built in
- Page cache, object cache and Core Web Vitals from real visitors
- AVIF and WebP conversion with originals kept as a fallback
- Orphan classification with a preview before anything is deleted
- Built in, with TLS expiry checks
- White label reports and a client portal, built in
- Bulk updates, one dashboard and one login across the whole fleet
$3,854.88 less per year at 25 sites.
How these figures were put together
A comparison is worth nothing if the reader suspects the total was chosen first. Three rules kept it honest, and each one made the number smaller.
- No product counted twice
- Every product here sells one of these 8 categories and little else. Suites that bundle caching with image compression and database cleaning are excluded on purpose, because including one would put the same licence on two lines.
- Renewal price, not first-year price
- Where a vendor advertises an introductory discount, the figure used is what you pay in year two. One vendor's own pricing page carries the footnote that all renewals are at full price.
- Read in a browser, on a date
- Several of these pricing pages build their prices with JavaScript, and fetching the HTML returns a stale fallback: in one case a discount banner that no visitor ever sees. Each figure was read from the rendered page, and the date is published below.
Sources
Prices change. Each link goes to the page the figure was read from, with the date it was read. If one of these is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- UpdraftPlus PremiumBackups and restore, checked 2026-08-07
Annual licence by site tier. Each of these tiers includes 1 GB of the vendor's own storage; backups to your own remote storage are separate.
- Wordfence PremiumSecurity and malware scanning, checked 2026-08-07
Priced per site, with published volume brackets. The figure shown is the per-site price at your bracket, multiplied by your site count.
- WP RocketPage caching and performance, checked 2026-08-07
Annual licence by site tier, renewing automatically.
- Imagify InfiniteImage optimization, checked 2026-08-17
$9.99/month billed yearly, unlimited websites and unlimited images. This line does NOT grow with fleet size: a 1-site reader and a 200-site reader pay the same figure, which is unfavourable to the plugin-stack total but is what the vendor publishes. ShortPixel, the previous product here, is not used because its pricing page ships empty price containers filled in at runtime by a third-party billing widget, and the figure could not be independently confirmed.
- Advanced Database Cleaner ProDatabase cleaning, checked 2026-08-07
Chosen over the better known alternatives on purpose: it sells database cleaning alone, so it cannot double count against the caching or image lines above.
- ManageWP Uptime MonitorUptime monitoring, checked 2026-08-17
$1/site/month up to 25 sites. Above 25 sites, ManageWP sells this add-on in bundles covering up to 100 sites for $25/month, and bundles stack. This is now the default over UptimeRobot because it is the cheaper of the two at every fleet size on this page's slider.
- UptimeRobotUptime monitoring, checked 2026-08-07
Priced per monitor and billed monthly; the annual figure is the monthly rate multiplied by twelve. A free tier covering 50 monitors exists at a 5-minute check interval; the paid tiers above buy a shorter interval, more monitor types and alert routing.
- ManageWP Advanced Client Reports + White LabelClient reporting, checked 2026-08-17
Two add-ons on top of a ManageWP plan, each $1/site/month up to 25 sites. Above 25 sites, ManageWP sells each add-on in bundles covering up to 100 sites for $25/month, and bundles stack, so the two add-ons together cost $50/month per bundle of up to 100 sites.
- WP Remote PremiumFleet management and updates, checked 2026-08-17
$19.99 (Essential), $49.99 (Premium, used here) or $199.99 (Advanced) per site per year. This row uses Premium because Essential is a bare update runner and does not include the staging, uptime and testing features that make Premium comparable to a fleet manager.
Questions
Why is my favourite plugin not on the list?
Because it sells more than one of these categories. WP-Optimize and Perfmatters are both widely used and both deliberately absent: WP-Optimize covers caching, image compression, minification and database cleaning under one licence, so counting it in two rows would charge you twice for one purchase. Every product here sells the category it is listed under and little else, which is the only way the total means anything.
Are these the prices I would pay today?
They are the prices you would pay in year two. Several vendors in this market advertise a large first-year discount and renew at full price, and one states that in a footnote on its own pricing page. A calculator built on introductory prices would understate the stack by a third and be wrong for every year but the first, so the figures here are the recurring ones.
Does WPMgr really do everything on the list?
Every job the calculator counts, yes, and the free tier does not withhold any of it. "The list" is the 8 categories the calculator bills for, not every feature of every product sitting in a row: a few of those vendor products sell more than the job they're listed under, such as an application firewall bundled with malware scanning, or staging and sandbox updates bundled with fleet management. Those extras were never on the list to begin with, so WPMgr not shipping them isn't a gap in it, which is exactly what the "Partial" chip on those rows means. What the paid tiers add is site count, managed backup storage and how often backups run. If you self-host, you get the same feature set on any number of sites for nothing, and the trade is that you run a Postgres database, a control plane and an encoder, and you keep them patched.
What is not included in this total?
Storage and your own time, and on a few rows, part of the vendor's own product. Backups have to land somewhere, and most of these plugins bill remote storage separately or expect you to bring your own bucket, which is also true of WPMgr on the free and self-hosted tiers. Rows marked "Partial" sell something beyond what WPMgr ships too, such as staging or a managed firewall; the row's price is still the vendor's full price, not a discounted one, because no vendor publishes a "just the overlapping part" figure. The total also excludes the hours spent renewing 8 licences on 8 dates and updating 8 plugins across every site, which is real but not something we can put a number on honestly.
Where did each number come from?
Each product name links to the vendor's own pricing page, and the date it was checked is listed under the calculator. Several vendors in this market render prices with JavaScript, and a plain fetch of those pages returns different, stale figures, so each one was read in a real browser.
One licence, one renewal date, one dashboard.
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