MaintainHQ vs BlogVault
BlogVault is built around backups and security. MaintainHQ covers maintenance end to end and adds an engineer.
Facts checked on 4 November 2026. Prices taken from each vendor's own website.
The short answer
MaintainHQ
MaintainHQ is a cloud maintenance platform for agencies and freelancers. Gus, the AI WordPress engineer, diagnoses problems and fixes them with your approval, on staging or production as you choose, checked against WordPress coding standards, verified, and rolled back automatically if anything goes wrong. Around Gus you get safe updates with pre-update testing, backups, malware scanning, uptime with incident autopilot, team roles, white-label PDF reports and an API with an MCP server.
Choose MaintainHQ if
- You want Gus to diagnose and fix problems beyond backups and security
- You want flat pricing across many sites
- You want pre-update testing, incident autopilot and team roles
BlogVault
BlogVault is a WordPress backup and security service priced per site per year. Plans include backups, staging, malware scanning with clean-ups, a firewall and an agency dashboard with reports under your own name. List prices on its pricing page are $99 (Personal), $299 (Business) and $499 (WooCommerce) per site per year, often shown with a discount, with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Choose BlogVault if
- Backups and malware clean-up are your main concern
- You want malware clean-up done for you
Side by side
- Included
- Paid add-on
- Not available
| Feature | MaintainHQ | BlogVault |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A cloud maintenance platform with an AI WordPress engineer (Gus). Works with sites on any host. | Backup and security service with an agency dashboard |
| Backups | Scheduled and on-demand, incremental between full backups, retention you control with pinning, restore with a safety backup and automatic rollback | Automatic backups with restore |
| Staging | Link staging and live sites; copy down and deploy up with a backup, health check, automatic rollback and live tables (orders, forms) kept | Staging sites included |
| Security | Daily read-only malware scan of files and database, vulnerability alerts matched to installed versions, firewall, hardening, login lockout and core file integrity checks | Malware scanning, clean-ups and firewall |
| Reports and white label | PDF client reports emailed on a schedule; white-label branding, sending address and portal domain on Agency | Reports under your agency name |
| AI that fixes | Gus diagnoses and fixes: your approval for every fix, on staging or production as you choose, WordPress coding-standards checks, a backup, verification and automatic rollback | Not offered |
| Pricing model | Flat plans: Starter $2.99/mo (1 site), Starter Plus $29/mo (5), Pro $79/mo (25), Agency $199/mo (unlimited). 7-day free trial. Gus is on every plan, with an allowance that resets every 6 hours and a weekly allowance, bigger on bigger plans. | Per site per year: list $99, $299 or $499 |
Is MaintainHQ cheaper than BlogVault?
BlogVault is priced per site per year (list $99 to $499). MaintainHQ is a flat monthly plan covering every site on it.
Moving to MaintainHQ
Step 1: Paste your site addresses into the MaintainHQ importer (Sites, Import). It removes duplicates and shows a preview before anything is created.
Step 2: Each site gets a signed connector link that is valid for 24 hours. Install the MaintainHQ connector plugin with it; the connector runs alongside other management plugins, so you can keep BlogVault connected while you compare.
Step 3: Turn on backups, safe auto-updates and monitoring in MaintainHQ, then switch off the overlapping jobs in BlogVault so only one tool runs updates on each site.
Questions
Does MaintainHQ clean malware?
MaintainHQ runs a daily read-only malware scan of files and the database and gives clean-up guidance; Gus can help plan the clean-up. It does not change or quarantine files automatically. If you want clean-up done for you, BlogVault offers that.
Can I run MaintainHQ alongside BlogVault?
Yes. The MaintainHQ connector is an ordinary WordPress plugin and runs alongside other plugins, BlogVault included. The one thing to avoid is two tools auto-updating the same site, so pick one to own updates on each site.
Facts about BlogVault checked on 4 November 2026 from their public websites. Prices and features change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Product names belong to their owners.
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