Partner Pricing

Unlimited traffic. No overages. Ever.

WP Cloud bills per site, per month, based on the resources you configure – PHP workers and storage. Not traffic, not bandwidth, not pageviews. No upfront costs, no minimums. Your exact rates and a pricing calculator are in the partner portal.

Reduce costs by up to 60% with volume discounts – tiers shown in your partner portal.

Billing

You set the plans. We handle the infrastructure.

Every site you create on WP Cloud is billed monthly based on four things: how many PHP workers + CPUs it’s allocated, how much storage it uses, PHP memory units, and whether bursting is enabled. That’s it.

You set these per site, you can change them anytime, and you’re never locked into a plan structure we invented. You decide how to package and price hosting for your customers. We don’t dictate your plans, your margins, or your go-to-market. Some partners sell $10/month starter plans. Others sell $700/month enterprise tiers. Same platform underneath.

PHP workers

Each worker gets its own CPU core. Configure 1–10 per site; higher counts available on request.

Storage

DB size, backups, failover replicas, and CDN image sizes don’t count against your quota. Only what you actually store.

Bursting

Let a site scale to 110+ workers during traffic spikes, then scale back down. Toggle it on or off per site, anytime.

PHP memory

Allocated in 512 MB units – 1 unit per worker by default, upgradeable to 2, 3, or 4 units (up to 2,048 MB) for more demanding applications. Worker fees scale linearly with memory allocation.

What you’re paying for

Volume pricing kicks in as your site count grows. Your portal shows the tiers that apply to your account.

Resource	Default	Range	Notes
PHP workers	10 per site	1–10 higher on request	Each worker gets its own CPU core. Primary cost lever.
Storage	200 GB	1 GB min, billable from 25 GB	DB size, backups, failover replicas, and CDN image sizes don’t count against quota.
PHP memory	512 MB per worker	Up to 2,048 MB	Most sites never need to touch this. Available if they do.
Bursting	Enabled	On/off per site	Lets a site scale to 110+ workers during traffic spikes.

Included

What you’re not paying for

All of this is included in every site, at every tier, with no add-on fees.

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Real-time automated failover – redundant replica in a separate data center, synced continuously

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Global edge CDN – 27+ points of presence, edge caching, automatic image resizing

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Automated backups – hourly DB, daily filesystem, 30-day retention

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DDoS mitigation and WAF – always on

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Managed WordPress core updates

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SSL certificates – auto-provisioned via Let’s Encrypt

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Unlimited bandwidth and visits – no surprises

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One free staging site per production site

Site Types

You only pay for production sites

WP Cloud recognizes four site types. You control which type each site is via the API or your panel.

Billable

Production sites. This is what you’re invoiced for.

Staging

One free per billable site. Not invoiced.

Internal

Your dev, demo, and testing sites. Not invoiced.

Canary

Ours, not yours. WP Cloud deploys these for monitoring. Ignore them; don’t delete them.

⚠ Common pitfall: If you don’t set a site type, it defaults to billable. Make sure your integration sets the _data site meta correctly or you’ll overpay. This is the single most common billing mistake new partners make.

FAQ

Common questions

Can I set my own retail prices?

Yes. We bill you wholesale. What you charge your customers is entirely your business.

What happens if a site gets a traffic spike?

If bursting is enabled, the site scales automatically – up to 110+ workers – and scales back down when traffic normalizes. You’re billed for the workers you’ve configured, not the burst capacity used.

Is there overage billing for bandwidth or pageviews?

No. Unlimited visits, unlimited bandwidth. No surprises.

What if I need more than 200 GB of storage on a site?

Coordinate with us. We can raise the quota. Storage above 200 GB is billed at a per-GB rate.

How do I see what I’ll actually owe?

Additional Reading

New Partner Guide →

See your pricing in the partner portal

Your rates, your volume tier, and a pricing calculator – all in one place.

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