Overview
UpdraftPlus is developed by Team Updraft, led by David Anderson, and was first listed on WordPress.org on 22 May 2012. It had more than four million active installations in November 2026, second only to All-in-One WP Migration, and version 1.26.14 was released on 26 October 2026.[3]
Its core strength is scheduled backup to remote storage, available in the free version: backups can be sent to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 and compatible services, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, OpenStack Swift or email, on schedules from every two hours to monthly.[3] Restores let users choose components such as plugins, themes or the database.[3] The paid edition adds Microsoft OneDrive, Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV and UpdraftVault storage, along with automatic backups before updates, one-click migration, incremental backups and staging.[3][4] Team Updraft also develops the All-In-One Security plugin and, according to the BackUpWordPress plugin page, now recommends UpdraftPlus to BackUpWordPress users.[13] Premium licences are sold per number of sites and include 1 GB of UpdraftVault storage.[4]
UpdraftPlus features
- Scheduled backups every 2 hours to monthly
- Free backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, S3 and FTP
- Selective component restore
- Incremental backups (Premium)
- Automatic backup before updates (Premium)
- Staging (Premium)
- Login lockout and two-factor authentication
- PHP, .htaccess and 6G firewall rules
UpdraftPlus pricing
Free plugin. Premium annual plans: Personal $70 (2 sites), Business $95 (10 sites), Agency $145 (35 sites), $195 (unlimited sites), and $399 (unlimited sites with built-in storage and staging). Each includes 1 GB of storage and a year of updates.
UpdraftPlus strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Free scheduled cloud backups
- Many storage destinations
- Granular restores
- Very broad free feature set
- Includes audit log
- Same team as UpdraftPlus backups
Limitations
- Incremental backups and pre-update backups are paid
- Large-site backups run on the site's own server
- Premium storage allowance only 1 GB
- Many settings to configure
- Some firewall rules depend on Apache .htaccess
- Renewal at double the first-year price
Appears in
- Best WordPress Plugins in 2026 #13
- Best WordPress Backup Plugins in 2026 #2
- Best WordPress Security Plugins in 2026 #5
UpdraftPlus alternatives and competitors
Alternatives to UpdraftPlus: companies ranked in the same lists.
- Wordfence Security
Jetpack VaultPress Backup
All-in-One WP Migration- Contact Form 7
- Total Upkeep
WP Database Backup
Patchstack
Sucuri
Kadence
MalCare
BlogVault
WPMU DEV
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