Pantheon.io Basic, $ 41.67/mo. on Linux Cloud

Basic is the entry paid Site Plan for small blogs, static sites, and low-traffic production websites. It supports 25,000 monthly visits on monthly billing or 35,000 monthly visits on annual billing, plus 125,000 pages served on monthly billing or 175,000 pages served on annual billing. The plan includes 1 load balanced application container, a 256 MB application memory limit, 4 PHP workers, load balancing, high performance edge cache, manual backups, automated backups, immutable production code, and HTTPS coverage for up to 5 custom domains. Object Cache, Object Cache Pro for WordPress, Pantheon Search, and New Relic Performance Monitoring are not included on the production Basic plan. The lowest effective monthly price is $41.67 when paid annually at $500 per year; month-to-month billing is $55 per month. Basic has a 99.9% monthly availability SLO and is appropriate when the project needs a managed production workflow with limited traffic requirements.

Pantheon is a managed cloud platform for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js projects. Production site plans use separate Dev, Staging, and Production environments, Git-based deployment workflow, built-in version control, CLI access through Terminus, logs, global CDN, caching, HTTPS, immutable production code, and the Pantheon Dashboard for day-to-day operations. Backups are built into the platform, with manual and automated backups on paid site plans, 1 or 6 months of backup retention, and 7 automated backups in the plan comparison. Sites can be launched in US, AU, CA, or EU regions; application containers, database containers, Redis cache, Solr search, distributed filesystem, request routing, backups, and clone jobs stay in the selected region. Billing for self-serve online purchases uses credit card payment. Support is available through dashboard chat, helpdesk ticketing, and phone for emergency assistance, with 24x7 access on higher workspace tiers. Traffic is counted through site visits and pages served rather than a conventional GB transfer allowance. Annual Performance and Elite plans include one month of overage protection for externally driven traffic spikes or a yearly peak event, with four months for qualified nonprofits. Paid site plans are required before connecting custom domains and taking a site live. Add-ons and professional services can add extra cost, and downgrades do not receive prorated refunds or credits.