Should you choose Kinsta or WP Engine for your managed WordPress hosting? In this comparison of Kinsta vs WP Engine, we take a detailed look at two of the best options for premium WordPress hosting. Let’s see which host is the better choice for your WordPress websites.

Kinsta vs WP Engine: Differences

Advantages of Choosing Kinsta over WP Engine:

• More Data Center Location Choices
• Cloudflare Integration Security
• Auto Wildcard SSL

Advantages of Choosing WP Engine over Kinsta:

• Lower Cost
• Proprietary EverCache Technology
• More Data Backup Retention Included
• Phone Support Included with Advanced Plans
• 60 Day Money-Back Guarantee

Kinsta vs WP Engine: Details

Category	Kinsta	WP Engine	Comments
Setup
Control Panel
Data Centers			Kinsta has data centers in 34 different locations.
Website Speed			See Below
Security Features			Tie. Both include excellent security features.
Data Backup and Restore			WP Engine includes automatic and on-demand data backups. Data retention is 30 copies.
Automatic Updates			Tie
Servers
Network
WordPress Development			WP Engine includes Development, Staging, and Production environments.
SSL			Kinsta includes Auto Wildcard SSL.
Resources
Staging			Tie. Both offer excellent and easy to use website staging features.
Customer Support
Money Back Guarantee			WP Engine offers 60 Day Money-Back Guarantee.
Price/Value

Kinsta vs WP Engine: Features

Kinsta and WP Engine both get very high marks for the features they include with your hosting plans. In addition to automatic backups, website staging, CDNs, and proactive security features, these two excellent WordPress hosts provide all of the managed hosting functionality that serious WordPress websites should have.

While you great features with both of these hosts, WP Engine gets the advantage in this category based on their Development, Staging, and Production Environments, Free Premium Themes, and 60 Day Money-Back Guarantee.

Kinsta vs WP Engine: Speed and Performance

Website speed and performance is outstanding with both Kinsta and WP Engine. Both our separate testing and my personal experience using WP Engine and Kinsta produced similar results. Kinsta and WP Engine provide excellent website speeds and page loading times.

Since it’s such a close call here, we have to take a deeper look at the test result data. Structurally, Kinsta is just a tick better. And, while Kinsta’s LCP is better, the fully loaded times favor WP Engine.

This category is extremely close. While in my personal experience I would call it a tie, because the numbers slightly favor WP Engine for fully loaded page times, they get a very slight advantage here.

Here are some sample speed test results from GTmetrix:

Kinsta vs WP Engine: Website Staging

Both Kinsta and WP Engine do an outstanding job with their website staging. Staging is available in all of the hosting plans, and both function as one-click operations that let you easily create a staging environment and then copy your website changes back to your live site. This category is a tie—totally even.

Kinsta vs WP Engine: Data Backup

WP Engine provides daily automatic backups and lets you restore from your last 30 backup copies. You can also perform manual snapshot backup whenever you want to. Kinsta also includes daily automated backups, but you are limited to the last 14 backup copies for restores (unless you pay for additional backup services). Kinsta also limits you to 5 manual backup copies (again unless you opt for additional services).

One area where Kinsta does get an edge is that you do get automatic system backups when you perform tasks such as upgrading themes and plugins, etc.

This category is very close, but here WP Engine gets a slight edge based on more data retention copies being included with your hosting plan.

Kinsta vs WP Engine: Customer Support

WP Engine and Kinsta both offer 24/7 expert WordPress customer support. Again, here things are very close when comparing the two hosts. I’ve had great interactions with both support teams. Live chat response times are very good, and the support staff at both Kinsta and WP Engine have been able to answer any questions and resolve issues promptly when needed.

In this customer support comparison, WP Engine gets the edge based on their including phone support (as well as chat and email) with their Professional and higher level hosting plans.

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Recommendation

If you need premium managed WordPress hosting, then both of these hosts more than qualify. While both Kinsta and WP Engine will do an excellent job allowing you to create and maintain your websites with success, overall in this comparison WP Engine is the winner based on our finding above and currently more affordable prices.

See our WP Engine Review Ratings below:

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