BookPress runs with no database server and no cache tier beside it. The comparison is your own infrastructure bill rather than a competitor's rate card. Metered on sites up to 500, on vCPUs above that, where a site count stops measuring anything a host cares about. Billed annually.
BookPress is in early access. It is for people who run their own server and want to try it on a site of their own. It is not yet for a shop that earns your living. What early access means →
One site, one month, the whole engine: your theme, your admin, your content, served by the native engine. Cancel any time; nothing auto-upgrades. The cheapest way to see BookPress on a site of your own before you move a book of clients across.
$1.00€0.85 / site / month
Up to 40 sites
For the agency running a handful of client sites. Pay per site from the first one.
Talk to us$0.75€0.64 / site / month
Up to 150 sites · minimum $40€34 a month
For the studio consolidating a growing book of client sites onto one stack.
Talk to us$0.45€0.38 / site / month
Up to 500 sites · minimum $90€76.50 a month
For the agency or small host running hundreds of sites on shared infrastructure.
Talk to usFor hosts past ~500 sites, who plan in machines rather than clients. Priced per vCPU against what we measure you saving on your own fleet.
During early access the one-site licence is the plan you buy yourself, on account.bookpress.io: one site, paid by the month, not refunded. For Starter, Studio and Agency, talk to us. Prices are per site per month, billed annually. Studio and Agency carry a monthly minimum. Platform (and larger, negotiated fleets) is priced per vCPU against what we measure you saving on your own fleet: tell us your fleet and we come back with a number against your numbers rather than a table.
We measured the saving. WooCommerce and Elementor pages render faster on BookPress than on a tuned WordPress. Under full load on the same 4-vCPU server, four BookPress workers use about 0.6 GB of memory, against 0.55 GB for a right-sized WordPress that serves fewer pages and 1.8 GB for a tuned 64-child pool. The Technology page has every number and the stacks behind them, and the speed page breaks the numbers down by site type.
Your themes, your admin, your URLs, your content, served from a compiled native engine instead of the PHP stack, with no page cache in front of it. A licence never stops your site serving: we count it and report it, and we lock nobody out. BookPress is a WordPress-compatible engine and does not reimplement everything WordPress does yet. The Technology page says what is missing.
Tell us how many sites you run, which plugins are on them, and where you host them today, and we will size it against your own bill.