Cloudways: What It Does, Pricing and Trial Terms (2026)

What Cloudways does

Cloudways describes itself this way: “#1 SMB Hosting Provider on G2. Supercharge your websites with managed hosting trusted by 120,000+ businesses that demand high performance and reliability.”

Its homepage leads with these points: “The Modern Cloud Platform that Grows With You”, “One Platform. Smarter Ways to Build”, “AI That Builds, Fixes, and Ships for You” and “Focus on Growth.Everything Else Is Covered”.

The site’s main menu covers Claim Offer →, Pricing, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode and Aws.

Pricing and plans

The lowest published price we found was $0.50 per month, and listed plans go up to $995 per month.

Pricing page: cloudways.com/en/pricing.php

Trials, refunds and cancelling

• Free trial: 5 days, and the site says no credit card is required.

Support and company details

• Ways to get help: live chat or email or contact form.
• Social accounts linked from the site: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and X.
• The shop runs on WooCommerce.

Before you sign up for Cloudways

• Intro prices often apply to the first term only; check the renewal price.
• Look for backups, SSL and email in the plan, not as add-ons.
• Check where the servers are and whether you can pick a region.
• For domains, check the transfer-out fee and whether privacy protection is included.

Questions about Cloudways