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WordPress migration cost report

your WordPress site · generated 2026-05-19
5-year WordPress cost
$49,447
Hosting, plugin licences, dev hours, plugin overhead, and tech-debt tax compounded over 60 months.
5-year Modern Jamstack cost
$19,339
Migration cost (median) plus 60 months of Jamstack hosting and ongoing dev.
5-year savings
$30,108
Difference between the two stacks over 60 months.
Break-even month
Month 20
When the WordPress run-rate has paid for the migration itself.
$0 $12,362 $24,724 $37,085 $49,447 Yr 0Yr 1Yr 2Yr 3Yr 4Yr 5 WordPress Modern Jamstack

Plugin attack surface

Across 18 active plugins, we counted 116 known CVEs published in the last 24 months. Source: Patchstack public WordPress vulnerability database snapshot, 2026-05-06.

Estimated Lighthouse delta

Today: 2.94s LCP, modelled from your plugin count and hosting tier. After migration: 0.90s LCP (Jamstack flat target). Improvement: 2.04s (69% faster).

Migration cost band

5-week sprint: £10,318 - £12,139
12-week full rebuild: £12,139 - £15,173
Pricing matches what we quote in real discovery calls.

Inputs

Domainyour WordPress site
Pages on site250
Active plugins18
Monthly traffic100k
Hosting / month$30
Plugin licences / year$400
Dev hours / month6h
Has WooCommerceNo
Has WPML / PolylangNo
Has membership / LMSNo
Site age (years)4

Methodology

Every formula and constant behind these numbers is published at socialanimal.dev/tools/wordpress-migration-cost/methodology/. Updated quarterly. Source code on GitHub.

Blended dev rate: $75/h. Plugin overhead: 2h/plugin/yr. Tech debt tax (5+yr sites): $1200/yr. Licence inflation: 8%/yr. Jamstack hosting: $540/yr base, $2400/yr at 1M+/mo.

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