# Pressable

> Managed WordPress hosting from Automattic, built on its WP Cloud

Pressable is a managed WordPress host owned by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WooCommerce, and runs on Automattic's WP Cloud platform. Its Signature plans are priced by WordPress sites, monthly visits and storage, and each includes staging and sandbox copies, hourly database backups and a Jetpack Security license. An API and an MCP server let developers and AI tools manage sites.

- **Category:** Web Hosting
- **Made by:** Pressable (since 2010)
- **Website:** https://pressable.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Pressable is a paid product, starting at $20.83 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($25 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Signature 1 | $20.83 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($25 billed monthly) | Up to 30,000 visits a month and 20 GB storage, with one staging and one sandbox site. Billed at $250 a year. |
| Signature 2 | $37.50 per month for 3 sites, billed annually ($45 billed monthly) | Up to 50,000 visits a month and 30 GB storage. Billed at $450 a year. |
| Signature 3 | $50 per month for 5 sites, billed annually ($60 billed monthly) | Up to 75,000 visits a month and 35 GB storage. Billed at $600 a year. |
| Signature 4 | $75 per month for 10 sites, billed annually ($90 billed monthly) | Up to 150,000 visits a month and 50 GB storage. Billed at $900 a year. |
| Signature 5 | $129.17 per month for 20 sites, billed annually ($155 billed monthly) | Up to 400,000 visits and 80 GB. Signatures 6 to 8 go up to 100 sites and 2 million visits at $562.50 a month, billed annually. |
| Premium | $350 per month and up | Sold through sales for sites that need dedicated capacity, starting at 10 vCPUs per site, with a Jetpack Complete license and overage protection. |

Read from https://pressable.com/pricing/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pressable before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Paying yearly is shown as two months free: Signature 1 costs $250 a year against $25 a month billed monthly, a $50 saving. Source: https://pressable.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Staging and sandbox sites:** Each WordPress install comes with a staging copy and a sandbox site for testing, and DupliKits saves a configured site as a template to clone.
- **Hourly and daily backups:** Databases are backed up every hour and full sites every day, on servers spread across data centers with automatic failover.
- **Jetpack Security included:** Every Signature plan includes a Jetpack Security license, alongside malware monitoring and threat response from Pressable.
- **Dedicated PHP workers:** Each site gets 5 dedicated PHP workers with 512 MB of memory each, plus burst capacity, edge caching and a global CDN.
- **API and MCP server:** A documented API and the Pressable MCP server, included on every plan, let AI tools create sites, clear caches, read logs and manage collaborators.
- **Plugin update scheduler:** Plugin updates run on a schedule you set, and collaborators can be given access to chosen sites with their own permissions.

## Good for

- Agencies hosting many client WordPress sites under one account
- WooCommerce stores that want hosting from the company that makes WooCommerce
- Developers who manage hosting through an API or AI tools

## Worth knowing

- Visits and storage beyond the plan are billed at $1.20 per 1,000 visits and $1 per GB.
- Email at your domain is a paid add-on (Professional Email), not part of the hosting plan.
- It hosts WordPress only, and the Premium plans start at $350 a month through sales.
- New plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee; there is no free trial.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Pressable is Automattic's managed WordPress host, so it comes from the company behind WordPress.com and WooCommerce. Each site gets a staging and a sandbox copy, hourly database backups and a Jetpack Security license, and it's among the cheaper managed hosts here. It's WordPress only, email costs extra and there's no free trial.

- **Value for money: B.** Graded against the other managed WordPress hosts. Signature 1 is $250 a year for one site, so two years cost $500, about $20.83 a month, the second cheapest of that group. Monthly is $25, and visits over 30,000 are $1.20 per 1,000.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no free trial, and the listing says so plainly. New plans get a 30-day money-back guarantee, which isn't a trial.
- **Features: B.** A staging and a sandbox site per install, hourly database and daily site backups, Jetpack Security, 5 PHP workers per site, edge caching and a CDN, and a plugin update scheduler. Email is extra, but the managed WordPress job is covered.
- **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. Staging and sandboxes make changes safer, but it's still WordPress hosting with plans and limits to learn.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web dashboard with no app on record, plus a documented API and the Pressable MCP server on every plan, with Jetpack and WP-CLI.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Pressable's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among web hosts

- Pressable's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $20.83 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 12 of the 16 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Pressable you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade. It costs $249.96 a year.

- You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you.
- You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, WooCommerce and Jetpack among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions.
- You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, WP-CLI

**Tags:** Managed WordPress, Public API, AI features, Malware protection

## Alternatives

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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://pressable.com/pricing/
- https://pressable.com/mcp/
- https://pressable.com/company/
- https://my.pressable.com/documentation/api/v1

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pressable
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).