FlyWP Alternative and FlyWP Pricing Compared at 1 to 25 Servers

FlyWP is a WordPress server panel from weDevs that runs every site in its own Docker container. You can bring your own server and pay FlyWP per server, or rent a server through FlyWP with the panel included. People who go looking for a FlyWP alternative usually have one of four reasons: the per-server fee has grown with the fleet, the repository lives on GitLab or Bitbucket, a client project is not WordPress, or they want a deploy they can roll back.

This page prices FlyWP against five alternatives at 1, 5, 10 and 25 servers, then goes through each of those reasons. Prices are each vendor's own published monthly price in USD, read between September and October 2026. Cloud server cost is separate everywhere except FlyWP's managed plans.

FlyWP pricing and plans

FlyWP charges per server when you bring your own: $5 a month per server for 1 to 3 servers, $4 for 4 to 9 and $3 for 10 or more, with unlimited sites on each. Managed plans, where FlyWP supplies the server too, cost $8 a month for 1 GB, $16 for 2 GB, $30 for 4 GB and $68 for 8 GB. There is a free plan for 1 server and 1 site, and paid plans carry a 14-day refund policy.

FlyWP says volume discounts apply automatically as the server count rises. Its pricing page does not spell out whether the lower rate covers every server or only the ones above each threshold, so the totals below assume it covers every server, which is the cheaper reading. Uptime monitoring and FlySecurity Pro are add-ons and are not part of the per-server fee.

What is the best FlyWP alternative?

For a WordPress agency with more than about six servers, RunCloud or ServerAvatar is the best FlyWP alternative on price, because both charge a flat fee instead of a fee per server. For a single WordPress server, xCloud is free for 1 server and 10 sites. For teams that also deploy Laravel or other PHP apps and want atomic releases with rollback, DeployManage, at a much higher fee.

If you only run WordPress on one to five servers and like the Docker isolation, FlyWP is already one of the cheapest options and there is little reason to leave.

FlyWP alternatives compared by price at fleet size

FlyWP is the cheapest paid panel here for one to three servers. At five it is level with RunCloud and above ServerAvatar. From ten servers the flat-fee panels pull away: $30 on FlyWP against $19 on RunCloud, and $75 against $19 at twenty-five. DeployManage is the most expensive row at every size. Billed yearly it is half the monthly figure ($29, $64 or $149 a month), which still does not make it a price play against FlyWP. The reasons to pay it are further down.

Does FlyWP support Git deployment?

Yes, from GitHub. FlyWP's docs describe connecting a GitHub account, picking a repository, branch and web directory, and turning on push to deploy, with a deployment script you can edit. The same page says support for GitLab and Bitbucket is coming soon, and it does not describe release directories, an atomic switch or a rollback.

That matters less for a classic WordPress site, where the code that changes is a theme or a plugin and a bad push is fixed with another push. It matters more for Bedrock projects and anything with a Composer install or a build step, where a deploy that fails halfway leaves the live site half updated. If your repositories are on GitLab or Bitbucket, FlyWP's Git deployment is not available to you today.

DeployManage connects GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. On Growth and Business each deploy is built in a new release directory with shared uploads and environment file, switched in with one symlink change, and the last five releases stay on the server for a one-click rollback. Our page on WordPress git deployment shows how that works for themes, plugins and Bedrock.

Can FlyWP host Laravel or other PHP apps?

Only with manual work. FlyWP's own FAQ says it is primarily optimized for WordPress, and that other PHP applications can be deployed but advanced configurations may require manual setup. Its docs also cover Next.js, Nuxt and Astro deployments, but there is no Laravel site type with queue workers and a scheduler.

This is the most common reason an agency outgrows a WordPress-only panel. The eleventh client wants a booking system or a customer portal, it gets built in Laravel, and now there are two panels and two ways to deploy. A general PHP panel such as RunCloud, Laravel Forge, Ploi or DeployManage runs both from one place. If WordPress is still most of your work, our WordPress VPS control panel page compares the panels that handle both.

Which alternative fits which FlyWP customer

The deeper comparisons are on their own pages: SpinupWP pricing and alternatives, RunCloud pricing and alternatives, the xCloud per-server fee worked out, ServerAvatar alternatives and GridPane pricing.

Is the Docker setup a reason to leave FlyWP?

For most people, no. Running each site in its own container is a real security benefit: a compromised plugin on one client site cannot read another client's files. FlyWP also lets you pick Nginx or OpenLiteSpeed per site, and you keep root and SSH access.

The cost is one more layer between you and the problem. When PHP runs out of memory or a cron job does not fire, you are debugging inside a container, not on the host, and server-wide tools you already know behave differently. A container per site also adds some memory overhead compared with one shared PHP-FPM pool, which you notice first on 1 GB servers. If you are comfortable with Docker this is routine. If your team is not, a panel that runs sites directly on the host is easier to support at two in the morning.

How to move sites off FlyWP without downtime

Your servers stay yours on the bring your own server plans, but a FlyWP server is built around its Docker layout, so do not try to adopt it with another panel. Build a new server with the new panel and move sites one at a time.

For each site, take a database export and a copy of wp-content, restore them on the new server and test with a hosts file entry pointing the domain at the new IP. Check the things that break quietly: scheduled posts and WP-Cron, outgoing email, page cache rules and any redirect that lived in the old Nginx config. Lower the DNS TTL a day before, switch the record, and leave the old site running for a week before you delete it. If you resell hosting as a care plan, a move the client never noticed is also a good moment to ask for a quote you can use, and a short form that lets them record a client testimonial in a couple of minutes gets a far better response than an email asking for a paragraph.

If you are on a FlyWP managed plan the server is FlyWP's, so plan for a full copy to a server in your own cloud account, and cancel only after the last site is live elsewhere.

Who should stay on FlyWP

If everything you host is WordPress, your code is on GitHub, you run fewer than six servers and container isolation is a selling point for your clients, FlyWP is good value and the alternatives here cost the same or more. The case for switching is specific: a fleet large enough that a flat fee wins, repositories outside GitHub, PHP apps that are not WordPress, or client work that needs rollback and a record of who deployed what. If the last two describe you, start a one-time demo from the DeployManage pricing page with 1 server, 1 site and 1 deployment, no card, and run a real deploy before you decide.