WPShift vs RunCloud: WordPress only or web applications in general
RunCloud's plans cover web applications in general, with Git deployment from the first plan and a WordPress Toolkit on its Business plan. WPShift manages WordPress only, and includes mailboxes on your own domains and DNS hosting on every plan.
Free plan available. Paid plans include a 7-day trial. Server costs are separate.
WPShift
The dashboard
- Team access
- Copilot · Scale
WPShift bills the plan
sets up and manages
- Site
- Site
- Staging copy from Solo
Also managed in WPShift
- Backups stored off the server
- DNS records for domains you point at WPShift
- Mailboxes on your own domain
- Uptime checks from outside the serverfrom Solo
- PageSpeed tests against the live sitefrom Studio
Both include an amount of backup storage.
What this page says about RunCloud comes from runcloud.io/pricing, read on 30 September 2026. An earlier version of this page said their pricing could not be read; that was wrong and has been corrected. Check runcloud.io for the current state.
Costs
How each one charges
WPShift
WPShift charges for a plan: Free €0, Solo €5,99, Studio €14,99 or Scale €29,99 a month, excluding VAT, with mailboxes, backup storage and DNS hosting included. A server in your own cloud account is billed by your provider, with nothing added by WPShift. A WPShift Cloud server is billed by WPShift.
RunCloud
Four plans, each limited by a number of servers and each with unlimited web applications. Every plan includes an amount of backup storage, and more is sold as an add-on. There is a free trial.
per runcloud.io/pricing, 30 September 2026
The differences
How the two differ
RunCloud: per runcloud.io/pricing, 30 September 2026
What it manages
WPShift
WordPress only: plugins and themes, staging clones from Solo, cache rules for WooCommerce, a PHP version per site.
RunCloud
Web applications in general, with Git deployment. A WordPress Toolkit is part of the Business plan.
Mailboxes on your own domain
WPShift
Included on every plan, including the free one.
RunCloud
Not mentioned on the pricing page.
DNS
WPShift
DNS hosting is free on every plan.
RunCloud
A Cloudflare DNS integration on the Business plan.
Backup storage
WPShift
Included on every plan, from 512 MB on Free to 10 GB on Scale, or your own S3-compatible storage.
RunCloud
Included on every plan, with more sold as an add-on.
Staging
WPShift
Cloning to a staging copy from the Solo plan.
RunCloud
Staging environments from the first plan.
Free tier
WPShift
One WordPress site on one server, with a mailbox and 512 MB of backup storage.
RunCloud
A free trial.
Which one
Both lists are WPShift's own view.
When RunCloud suits better
- You host more than WordPress. Git deployment from the first plan suits a mixed set of applications.
When WPShift suits better
- You want mailboxes on your own domains and DNS hosting without a second vendor.
- Everything you run is WordPress.
Free plan available. Paid plans include a 7-day trial. Server costs are separate.
In the dashboard
Questions
Questions about WPShift and RunCloud
- Does RunCloud include email hosting?
- Mailbox hosting is not mentioned on their pricing page as read on 30 September 2026. WPShift includes mailboxes with webmail on your own domains on every plan, including the free one.
Test a copy before you decide
Copy a site to a WPShift-managed server and check it on a temporary address. Your current setup keeps serving the live site until you move DNS.
Free plan available. Paid plans include a 7-day trial. Server costs are separate.