The best WordPress backup and migration plugin. Quickly and easily backup ,migrate, copy, move, or clone your site from one location to another.
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.9 (4.9K)
- Updated
- 4 days ago
UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin
Backup, restore or migrate your WordPress website to another host or domain. Schedule backups or run manually. Migrate in minutes.
- Active installs
- 4+ million
- #14 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 172.5M
- 172,489,024
- Downloads, 30 days
- 6M
- 1.4M in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 8,706 reviews
- Last updated
- 5 days ago
- Oct 26, 2026
- Version
- 1.26.14
- 378 releases
What UpdraftPlus's own page says
Read from teamupdraft.comon
| Plan | Price | Billed | Renews at | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $70.00 | per year | Not shown | Up to 2 sites |
| Business | $95.00 | per year | Not shown | Up to 10 sites |
| Agency | $145.00 | per year | Not shown | Up to 35 sites |
| Enterprise | $195.00 | per year | Not shown | Unlimited sites |
| Gold | $399.00 | per year | Not shown | Unlimited sites |
The page's own words around each price
- Personal:
Up to 50GB of storage Choose your plan - Personal Up to 2 sites + Basic staging $70.00 / year - Business Up to 10 sites + Standard staging $95.00 / year - Agency Up to 35
- Business:
Up to 2 sites + Basic staging $70.00 / year - Business Up to 10 sites + Standard staging $95.00 / year - Agency Up to 35 sites + Advanced staging $145.00 / year - Enterprise Unlim
- Agency:
p to 10 sites + Standard staging $95.00 / year - Agency Up to 35 sites + Advanced staging $145.00 / year - Enterprise Unlimited sites + Ultimate staging $195.00 / year - Gold Unlim
- Enterprise:
5 sites + Advanced staging $145.00 / year - Enterprise Unlimited sites + Ultimate staging $195.00 / year - Gold Unlimited + Ultimate staging + 50GB storage $399.00 / year [Get Per
- Gold:
ites + Ultimate staging $195.00 / year - Gold Unlimited + Ultimate staging + 50GB storage $399.00 / year [Get Personal Now](https://teamupdraft.com/cart/?qty=1&add-to-cart=1350)
- Money-back period mentioned: 10 days
Who it is for
UpdraftPlus is for anyone who wants full control over their WordPress backups, not just reliance on host-level backups.
Use cases the vendor names
- Freelancers managing client sites
- Agencies handling migrations and maintenance
- WooCommerce store owners
- Bloggers who can’t afford downtime
- Developers who need WP-CLI control
Features it lists
- Automatic backup before updates
- One-click site migration
- Incremental backups – keep backups small and fast
- Restore individual parts of your site
- Backups stored in multiple locations
- Premium support
- Ultimate staging
- Advanced retention rules
- Backup individual database tables
- Direct site-to-site migration
A script read this page, and kept only what the page's text backs up. These are the vendor's list prices and its own words, not a deal and not my review. Prices change and can differ by country, so confirm on the vendor's page before you buy.
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 26, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 3.9 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | May 22, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | 26 of 50 threads resolved (52%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 8,706 reviews
| 5 stars | 8,195 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 166 |
| 3 stars | 54 |
| 2 stars | 44 |
| 1 star | 247 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world.
Backup with UpdraftPlus
UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks.
Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email.
The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus.
Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly.
Restore with UpdraftPlus
Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error.
Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen.
Migrate with UpdraftPlus
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
How do I install the UpdraftPlus backup & migration plugin?
Here are the installation guidelines from our YouTube channel or from our website.
What if I have a problem / need support ?
If you’re struggling to backup, migrate or restore there’s help available.
Search existing topics on the WordPress support forum or post a new one. Our support and development teams check and respond to queries everyday.
UpdraftPlus Premium customers can log a ticket directly with our support and development teams via the UpdraftPlus support hub.
When it comes to migration, what does the premium plugin do that the free plugin can’t?
Migrating in the free plugin involves downloading the backups from the source site then uploading these to the destination site.
To find the backup log: there are links to download the logs on the UpdraftPlus settings page- or you may be emailed it. Failing that, FTP into the directory wp-content/updraft and look for it there.
UpdraftPlus runs out of time when it’s trying to backup, after I have left it for some time to give it a good chance. What can I do?
This problem is probably caused by your account being starved of resources by your (cheap) web host provider. This is far from ideal; although UpdraftPlus supports resuming backup runs right from the beginning to avoid everything having to be done at once, it has its limits. The best thing is to choose a more reputable web host.
Latest changelog entry
- FEATURE: SFTP/SCP remote storage now supports modern host key algorithms like Ed25519 and also new cryptographies
- FEATURE: Improve the restoration of the ‘uploads’ entity to be more efficient, and add the ‘UPDRAFTPLUS_RESTORE_DELETE_OLD_UPLOAD_FILES’ constant to allow the deletion of leftover files in the ‘uploads’ directory that are not part of the backup file
- FIX: Fixed a JS error and incorrect checkbox state handling on the auto-backup before update prompt.
- FIX: Prevent a fatal TypeError on PHP 8+ when an admin URL contains an “action” query argument as an array.
Screenshots
Main dashboard - screenshots are from UpdraftPlus Premium, so may reference some features that are not part of the free version 
Configuring your backups 
Take a backup 
Choose which components to restore
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.