Comparison
InstaWP
TasteWP
There are only a few services that offer to create online WordPress sandboxes and test sites in a few seconds. One such service is InstaWP, and another name that pops up is TasteWP.
This post will compare the offerings of two major players in this segment – InstaWP & TasteWP.
First, let’s have an overview:
InstaWP is an all-in-one WordPress online development platform offering multiple features. it provides you to create staging sites, also known as dev sites, of your live WordPress sites.
- All staging sites are created in InstaWP, so there is no pressure on your hosting
- One-Click login to your connected sites
- Regular update of your site health
- 2-way push from staging to live and vice-versa
- Instant site creation
- Easy migration to and from any hosting provider
- Access to SFTP/SSH (premium)
- Save and shared template
- Git integration and GitHub actions support
- 3rd party service configurations
- Human support
- Easily clone staging sites to create multiple copies
- Does not take any space or resources of your hosting server
- Create Templates to quickly spin up new dev sites with all necessary configurations of theme and plugins.
TasteWP focuses primarily on creating test sites for quick testing and playing around with WordPress. Both InstaWP and TasteWP have many similarities. The sites are created within seconds. On TasteWP, you also get the option to install plugins of Inisev, the parent company of TasteWP.
While both services look similar at first glance, InstaWP is quickly innovating in terms of adding new features to appeal to a larger audience of WordPress developers, designers, agencies, and even bloggers and newbies. We will list the features to understand the capabilities better.
Performance Speed Test
We have used the same PHP version (8.0) and WP Version (6.1.1) to test the performance using the default theme and plugins provided by each platform:
Tested on 9th Feb 2023*
Performance Score
100%
More is better
99%
Largest Contentful Paint
434ms
Less is better
1.4s
Structure Score
100%
More is better
93%
- InstaWP
- TasteWP
“InstaWP has been an invaluable tool for support and QA testing for our work on Google’s Site Kit and Web Stories plugins, allowing us to quickly and easily spin up new sites to test a wide variety of scenarios.”
Bethany Chobanian Lang
Community Lead, 10up
Pricing
(comparison between “most popular plans”)
Both InstaWP & TasteWP provide free accounts with temporary website support. If you need permanent sites, then you will need to upgrade to a paid plan.
Get access to powerful tools inside your InstaWP account.
$6/mo
1 Site
- 5 GB disk space
- 10 templates
- upto 15 days of site life time
- reserve sites (never expire)
- WP CLI / SSH access
- temporary sites (upto 15 days lifetime)
- permanent site
TasteWP
Only one plan available.
$4.98/mo
Per Site
- 5 GB disk space
- 10 templates
- upto 15 days of site life time
- reserve sites (never expire)
- WP CLI / SSH access
- temporary sites (upto 15 days lifetime)
- permanent site
Get access to powerful tools inside your InstaWP account.
$60/yr
5 Site
- 5 GB disk space
- 10 templates
- upto 15 days of site life time
- reserve sites (never expire)
- WP CLI / SSH access
- temporary sites (upto 15 days lifetime)
- permanent site
TasteWP
Only one plan available.
$47.76/yr
Per Site
- 5 GB disk space
- 10 templates
- upto 15 days of site life time
- reserve sites (never expire)
- WP CLI / SSH access
- temporary sites (upto 15 days lifetime)
- permanent site
InstaWP offers powerful features in other plans
Features Comparison
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TasteWP
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| Custom Site Name |  |
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| In-built Database Editor | |
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| In-built Code Editor | |
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| View Logs | |
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| Export to LocalWP | |
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| ADVANCED FEATURES | ||
| SFTP / SSH | |
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| Map Custom Domain | |
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| WP CLI Commands | |
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| Third Party integrations | |
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| Clone Sites | |
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| Save Versions | |
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| Public API | |
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| Git Integration | |
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| Github Actions Support | |
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| PHP Configuration | |
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| Post-execution Commands | |
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| TEMPLATES | ||
| Save As Templates | |
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| Template Branding | |
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| Webhooks | |
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| Instant Templates | |
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| Content in Templates | |
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| Lead Generation | |
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| Lock-down wp-admin | |
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| TEAMS | ||
| Create Team | |
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| Team Members | |
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| Whitelabel (private suffix domain) | |
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| Enterprise Infrastructure & Plans | |
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| Detailed Documentation | |
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| GENERAL FEATURES | ||
| Temporary Sites | |
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| Permanent Sites | |
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| Pre-install plugin/theme | |
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| Multiple PHP Versions | |
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| Chrome Extension | |
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| Social login | |
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Conclusion
If you are just testing a plugin or playing around with WordPress, you can use any of the service. However, InstaWP is on advantage there as it comes with a faster infrastructure and comes without any bloatware.
For more serious use cases, InstaWP will be a great choice as it comes with a fully built development platform and not just a sandbox service. Especially the 1-click WordPress staging plugin and Git Integration.
For Plugin & Theme companies, InstaWP offers a blueprint (a.k.a Templates), which can have pre-installed plugins, themes, AND content, whereas TasteWP’s concept of templates is just pre-installed plugins and themes.
The great news is that both InstaWP & TasteWP offer free plans that can be used to test the systems’ capabilities and choose according to your needs!