Guides and comparisons
Shortlists for one situation, side-by-side comparisons, alternatives and plain-language guides to how vendors price their products.
Roundups
Comparisons
Squarespace vs Wix: online selling, plans and exports compared
How Squarespace and Wix compare on selling online, plan structure and what you can export if you leave.
Framer vs Webflow: pages, CMS limits and what growth costs
Framer and Webflow both sell per-site plans. The difference is how a growing site is billed: what each entry plan includes, and what a step past its limits costs.
Shopify vs WooCommerce: what a small store really pays
A hosted platform against free software on your own hosting: subscription, hosting, payment fees, extensions and who does the upkeep.
Make vs Zapier for lead management
The two meter usage differently, so the same lead workflow lands on different plans. Price your own workflow in each platform's unit before comparing the headline plans.
Brevo vs Mailchimp: paying per email sent or per contact
Brevo prices by the emails you send, Mailchimp by the contacts you store. What each costs for five real list-and-frequency scenarios.
Kinsta vs SiteGround: plans, billing and cost as traffic grows
Kinsta sizes plans by visits or bandwidth, SiteGround by suggested visits and a first-term promotion. What each costs at several traffic levels.
Hostinger vs Cloudways for WordPress: term pricing or pay-as-you-go
Hostinger sells WordPress plans by term, Cloudways sells servers by the hour. What each costs, what is and is not published, and which situations suit which.
Cloudways vs Kinsta for a 25,000-visit WordPress site
Cloudways bills for a server, Kinsta for a plan sized by visits or bandwidth. What each costs for one WordPress site, and what the pages do not say.
Hostinger vs SiteGround: first-term price, renewal and four-year cost
Both advertise a low first-term price and a higher renewal. What each plan costs by term, what it renews at, and what four years adds up to.
Pipedrive vs ActiveCampaign for a small team: what each plan costs
Pipedrive charges per seat and ActiveCampaign by the number of contacts. What a small team pays for each, and where the comparison is not like for like.
Klaviyo vs Omnisend for Shopify and WooCommerce stores
Two store-focused email and SMS platforms read from their own pages: what each costs as the list grows, what it counts and which store events it documents.
ShipStation vs Shippo for a small online store
Two US shipping platforms compared on plan price at four volumes, own carrier accounts, trials, refunds and store connections.
HubSpot vs Pipedrive for a small sales team
Both are sold per seat, but the free tier, the one-time fees and the point at which follow-up automation starts differ. Compare them on your seat count, not on the entry price.
Kinsta vs WP Engine: pricing, limits and terms compared
Two WordPress-only platforms read from their own pages: what each states, and what neither makes easy to compare.
Alternatives
ShipStation alternatives for a small online store
Shippo for the US, Sendcloud for Europe and the built-in label tools of Shopify and WooCommerce, with the regions and limits stated.
Shopify alternatives for a small online store
Four real alternatives, who each suits, and the costs and limits that decide it. Moving platforms comes last.
Klaviyo alternatives for a small online store
Four platforms read from their own pricing, plan and help pages: how each counts contacts, limits sends and handles Shopify and WooCommerce events.
Guides
Elementor pricing: plans, renewal, hosting and the alternatives
Elementor's plan price is the smaller part of the bill: it is a WordPress plugin without hosting. This guide lays out the plans, the renewal rules and the builders that include hosting.
HostArmada vs SiteGround vs Cloudways: Price After Year One
HostArmada and SiteGround advertise a low first-term price, and Cloudways showed a time-limited offer. This guide puts the regular price, the year-two step and the stated limits side by side, read on 6 November 2026.
Make, Zapier and n8n for an agency: what 5, 10 and 20 client workflows cost
One defined workflow run for 5, 10 or 20 clients, counted in Make credits, Zapier tasks and n8n executions, with one pooled account against one account per client.
Workflow automation pricing: credits, tasks and executions
A plan's headline number means something different on every platform. Convert your workflow into the vendor's unit first.
WordPress hosting for agencies: what 5, 10 and 20 client sites cost
Kinsta, Cloudways, Hostinger and SiteGround priced for 5, 10 and 20 client sites, first year and renewal, without assuming capacity the vendors do not state.
Website builder or WordPress: what the first and third year cost
WordPress hosting is cheaper in the first term, but its renewal price changes the picture. This guide sets list prices side by side for year one and year three.
Make vs n8n: what 4,000 orders a month cost
The two platforms count different things. Count your workflow in each one's unit before you compare a single price.
WordPress hosting prices: promo vs renewal rates
The price on the pricing page is rarely the price of the second term. How six providers present renewal, billing term, limits and overages.
What a website builder really costs: Webflow, Wix, Squarespace and Framer
The price on the plan card is only the start. Billing terms, plan limits, paid add-ons and store fees decide the real bill.
Ecwid plans by catalogue size: what each tier unlocks and when to move up
Ecwid separates its plans by product count and by features. This guide shows what each tier unlocks, what the page leaves open and what a growing catalogue costs.
BigCommerce plan caps: what a growing store pays as sales rise
BigCommerce moves a store to a higher plan as trailing sales cross a cap. This guide sets out the caps, what counts toward them and what each step costs.
Moving a WordPress site to a new host: what free migration covers
Kinsta, Hostinger, SiteGround and Cloudways each offer a free way to move a WordPress site in. Here is who does the work, what each page excludes, and what stays your job.
Moving a store between Shopify and WooCommerce: what a CSV moves and what you rebuild
What Shopify's and WooCommerce's own pages say a CSV moves in a store migration, which parts need apps or APIs, and what you rebuild by hand.
Automating lead follow-up: website form to CRM to email
The automation itself is simple. What decides whether it helps is the duplicate rule, the stop condition and the consent record, so design those first.
Moving from one CRM to another: a migration checklist for a small team
What to export, how two real CRMs treat your import file, what has to be rebuilt by hand and what to check afterwards. No price, because it depends on your data.
Ecommerce email automations on Shopify and WooCommerce: what to set up first
The first automations a store needs, what Klaviyo and Omnisend state they need from Shopify and WooCommerce, and how to budget sends and test before going live.
Email sender domain setup: SPF, DKIM and DMARC explained
What each record does, what Gmail requires of bulk senders, the order to set them up in, and the mistakes that break delivery.
CRM and email for an agency: what 5, 10 and 20 client accounts cost
One defined client profile, priced on its own account for 5, 10 and 20 clients, across Pipedrive, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, Brevo, Mailchimp and Klaviyo.
Moving between email marketing platforms: export, consent and checks
What a Mailchimp export carries and leaves behind, how consent has to travel, what to rebuild and what to check before your first send from the new platform.
HubSpot CRM pricing in euros: free limits, Starter, Professional and onboarding
What HubSpot charges per seat in euros, where the free plan stops, and when Professional's required onboarding changes the maths.
Mailchimp pricing by contact volume: 500 to 50,000 contacts
Every Mailchimp contact tier for Essentials, Standard and Premium, with the 50% first-year offer against list price and what each plan caps.
Klaviyo pricing for a growing online store: 500 to 150,000 profiles
What Klaviyo's email plan costs as the list grows, the odd steps between 10,000 and 20,000 profiles, and a year of cost at each size.
Zapier pricing by task volume: 1,000, 10,000 and 50,000 tasks a month
What Zapier Professional and Team cost at each task size, how much yearly billing saves, and which size a given workload lands on.
ActiveCampaign pricing by number of contacts: 1,000 to 50,000
What each ActiveCampaign plan costs as your contact list grows, how the price per contact falls, and what the pricing page does not say.
Switching between Zapier, Make and n8n: a cost-first migration checklist
Moving platforms changes what you are billed for. Recount before you rebuild.
Self-hosting n8n or paying for Cloud: where the economics actually change
A free licence is not a free system. Here is what you take on, and a ceiling you can test your own numbers against.
Which Pipedrive plan does a small team need?
The price difference between Pipedrive's plans is easy to read. What the plan lets you do is not, so this guide starts from what you need and works back to the plan.
Make pricing by credit volume: Core, Pro and Teams
Verified Make prices from 10,000 to 500,000 credits a month, what each plan adds, and how to estimate the size you need.
Shipping software pricing: subscription, labels and postage
What you pay the software, what you pay per label and what you pay the carrier, with stated examples at four volumes.
Email marketing pricing for online stores: units and limits
Five platforms price the same list in different units. How each counts, limits sends, handles growth and ends its promotions, read from official pages.
Full cost of running an online store: fees and extras
Required costs, scenario costs and costs the platforms do not state, read from official pages on 29 October 2026.
Choosing a CRM for a small B2B service business
A team that gets enquiries by web form or email loses them without a follow-up routine. Decide whether a CRM fixes that, then price the shortlist the way each vendor actually charges.