Cloudways
Cloud
From$99/mo
10 people: $99 a month · $1,188 a year
- No free plan
- No yearly discount listed
- No startup credits listed
- 3 plans · priced per plan
Cloudways vs Liquid Web: pricing compared
Plans, list prices and what a team of 5, 10 or 25 pays on each, from Surba's catalog of Cloud tools. Updated for 2026.
At a glance
Side by side
Cloudways starts at $99/mo (Autonomous Growth) and Liquid Web at $11/mo (Cloud VPS 2 GB). For 10 people that's $99 vs $11 a month: Liquid Web is $88 a month (89%) cheaper than Cloudways on list price.
Liquid Web
Cheaper for 10 people
From$11/mo
10 people: $11 a month · $132 a year
- No free plan
- No yearly discount listed
- No startup credits listed
- 3 plans · priced per plan
Plans
Cloudways and Liquid Web plans
Every plan with a public price, in US dollars.
Cloudways
Autonomous Growth
Autoscaling WordPress hosting · 1 baseline server · 150 GB bandwidth, 20 GB disk
$99/mo
Autonomous Scale
2 baseline autoscale servers · 250 GB bandwidth · 50 GB disk
$199/mo
Autonomous Plus
3 baseline autoscale servers · 1,000 GB bandwidth · 100 GB disk
$399/mo
Autonomous overages: disk $1/GB, bandwidth $0.04/GB, extra autoscale servers $0.07-$0.12/hour; 3-day free trial; Enterprise is custom. Cloudways Flexible (pick a DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud server) is billed hourly in arrears, e.g. DigitalOcean 2 GB/1 vCPU at $0.0357/hour; the page also showed a '30% off for 3 months' promo with an unclear $11/mo display, so Flexible tiers are not listed as plans. Add-ons: Cloudflare Enterprise from $4.99/domain/mo, Rackspace email $1.50/mailbox/mo, DNS Made Easy $0.50/domain/mo.
Prices from Cloudways's pricing page, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Liquid Web
Cloud VPS 2 GB
1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM · 60 GB storage · Hourly billing $0.015/hr
$11/mo
Managed VPS Linux
2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM · 40 GB SSD · Fully managed
$59/mo
Dedicated Server
Intel Xeon E-2134, 4 cores · 12 GB RAM · Fully managed
$154/mo
Regular monthly prices; new-account promos: Managed VPS $14.75/mo and dedicated $77/mo for the first 2 months. Other lines: Cloud Dedicated from $111/mo, Managed Cloud from $151/mo, Windows Managed VPS $65/mo, Magento XS $32.64/mo. Managed WordPress/WooCommerce prices not rendered on the page (annual billing saves 10%).
Prices from Liquid Web's pricing page, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Team cost
What each costs your team
Entry paid plans, per month and per year at list price.
| Team | Cloudways (Autonomous Growth) | Liquid Web (Cloud VPS 2 GB) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 people | $99/mo$1,188/yr a year | $11/mo$132/yr a year | Liquid Web $88 less a month |
| 10 people | $99/mo$1,188/yr a year | $11/mo$132/yr a year | Liquid Web $88 less a month |
| 25 people | $99/mo$1,188/yr a year | $11/mo$132/yr a year | Liquid Web $88 less a month |
Cloudways is priced per plan. Liquid Web is priced per plan. Per-user prices are multiplied by the team; per-plan prices aren't. Before tax; yearly discounts not applied.
FAQ
Cloudways vs Liquid Web: questions
Which is cheaper, Cloudways or Liquid Web?
Cloudways starts at $99/mo (Autonomous Growth) and Liquid Web at $11/mo (Cloud VPS 2 GB). For 10 people that's $99 vs $11 a month: Liquid Web is $88 a month (89%) cheaper than Cloudways on list price. Compare features too: the cheaper plan isn't always the closer match.
Do Cloudways and Liquid Web have free plans?
Cloudways has no free plan in Surba's catalog. Liquid Web has no free plan in Surba's catalog.
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