Comparison
PressyPress vs InstaWP
Both let you get a WordPress site running quickly. Theirs is built for creating and throwing away sites; ours is built for one site you intend to keep.
Short version
InstaWP is cheaper than us and better than us at spinning up disposable WordPress — demos, client review, development. PressyPress is the better answer once a site stops being disposable and you want predictable resources, published limits and a container of its own.
InstaWP figures are their own published list prices, read off their site on 1 September 2026. We have no affiliation with them, and product names belong to their owners.
Where InstaWP is the better answer
If one of these is your situation, we would rather you went there than churned out of here in month three.
Cheaper, and it is not close
Their Starter is $5 a month and their Sandbox tier is $2. We start at €12. If price is the deciding factor and the site is small, they win the row.
The fastest way to a throwaway WordPress
Creating, cloning and binning instances is what the product is for, and it is genuinely excellent at it. Nothing we have is as quick for that job.
$25 in credits instead of a trial
New accounts get credits on adding a card rather than a time-limited trial, so evaluating costs approximately nothing. Our answer is a 30-day money-back guarantee after you buy.
At a glance
What you are actually buying, on both sides, in the units each of us sells in.
| What you are buying | PressyPress | InstaWP |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | €12/moVAT included, and the renewal invoice says €12. | $5/moTheir Sandbox tier sits below at $2/mo for dev and staging sites. |
| What it is built for | one site you keepProduction hosting with backups, staging and a support queue behind it. | sites you create fastTheir own page describes the lower tier as staging for dev sites, client builds and demos. |
| Published limits | every number statedMemory, vCPU, storage, IOPS, processes and the fair-use bandwidth figure are all on /pricing. | 10 GB storageBandwidth and visit limits are not stated on the pricing page, so the running cost of a busy site is harder to predict. |
| Features by tier | all of them, every tierBackups, staging, SSL, malware protection, SFTP, SSH, PHP and Node control. | tieredPlans run from $2 to $45 with the platform scaling across them. |
| Tax in the price | included€12 is what leaves your account, at any of our terms. | not statedCurrency and tax treatment are not given on the pricing page. |
| Leaving | export and transfer codeFull export over SFTP or one archive; the domain transfer code is one click away. | export toolingMoving sites in and out is a core part of what the product does. |
Which one fits you
Pick PressyPress if
- You have one site that matters and a budget that should not surprise you.
- You want every feature on the plan you can afford, not the plan above it.
- Your traffic moves, and you would rather size memory than buy the next bundle.
- You want the renewal price in writing before you sign up.
- You are in Europe and want VAT-inclusive prices and European data centres.
Pick InstaWP if
- You are building, demoing or reviewing sites rather than running one.
- You want the cheapest possible way to keep a small site online.
- Creating and destroying instances quickly is the workflow you need.
- You would rather evaluate on credits than on a money-back guarantee.
Trying us without stranding yourself
Your site keeps serving visitors wherever it is now. Nothing happens to it until you point the domain, and that is your move to make.
- 30 days money-back
- If it is not right, ask within the window and we return what you paid.
- Staging on every plan
- Build the copy and click through it on a real URL before anything public changes.
- An export that takes one click
- Everything over SFTP, or as one archive. Your database and your media, whenever you want them.
- The transfer code, one click away
- If we registered your domain, the code to take it elsewhere is on the screen. We do not hold it.
Try the €12.00 version of the same job
One site, its own container, every feature on the plan, and the same number on the renewal invoice.