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xCloud vs Levamo (formerly Rapyd Cloud): Pricing, Hosting Model, and Features Compared
Levamo rents managed WordPress hosting metered by site count and monthly visits. xCloud manages a server you own, with root access and no visit cap, from $5/month.
- From $5/month against Levamo' $29/month, with no visit cap
- Root access on a server that stays yours
- Unlimited sites per server, not $20 per extra site
- Redis object caching on every plan, not gated to a higher tier
- Bulk site and server migration, included on every plan
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- 14-day money-back guarantee
- No migration fee, ever
- 4.8 · 390+ reviews on TrustpilotRated by the people already running WordPress on xCloud
Quick verdict
Choose xCloud if…
- You do not want traffic metering — xCloud bounds you by your server's resources, not a monthly visit cap.
- You want root access, custom NGINX and multiple PHP versions on a server that stays yours.
- You run many sites: unlimited sites per server, rather than $20 per extra site.
- You want Redis object caching on every plan, including the cheapest one.
- You need agency tooling built in — team roles, white-labelling, bulk site and server migration.
- You want lower entry pricing: $5/month against Levamo's $29.
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Pick How You Pay. Levamo Meters How You Grow.
Levamo sells one thing: a managed plan metered by sites and monthly visits. xCloud sells two: managed, or bring-your-own-server with no metering either way.
1Managed by xCloud
| What the managed plan includes |  xCloud$5/moManaged 1 GB, billed monthly |  Levamo$29/moStarter, 1 site, 25K visits, billed annually |
|---|---|---|
| Managed plan | ||
| What the price covers | Yes. The panel and the server, one bill. xCloud provisions and manages the infrastructure for you. | Yes. The server and the management as one package too, with no root access to hand over. |
| Hosting type | Cloud servers, provisioned for you. | Managed WordPress hosting, provisioned for you. |
| Sites per plan | Yes. Unlimited, bounded only by the server size you pick. | Limited. Capped per tier: 1 (Starter) to 30 (Enterprise); extra sites are $20 each. |
| Monthly visits | Yes. Not metered. Bounded by your server's resources, not a visit cap. | Limited. Metered per tier: 25K (Starter) up to 1.8M (Enterprise). |
| Root access | Yes. Yes. Still yours, even on a plan we manage. | No. Not offered. The instance stays under Levamo's control. |
| Migration included | Yes. Bulk site and server migration, at no extra cost. | Yes. Free migrations offered on every plan. A genuine tie. |
| Money-back guarantee | Yes. 14 days, cancel any time. | Yes. 14 days too, plus a 3-day free trial. A tie, with a trial Levamo has and xCloud doesn't. |
2Bring your own server
| What the free panel includes | xCloudFree/moPanel only, provider billed separately | LevamoN/A/moNo bring-your-own-server tier exists |
|---|---|---|
| Bring your own server | ||
| What the price covers | Yes. The panel only, free. You keep and pay your own cloud provider directly. | No. Not possible. Levamo provisions and bills the server itself; there is no bring-your-own-server tier. |
| Root access | Yes. Full root on every server you connect. | No. Not offered at any tier. |
| Supported providers | Yes. Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, GCP, Linode, or any Ubuntu host over SSH. | No. None. Levamo only runs servers it provisions itself. |
| Vertical scaling | Yes. Resize at your provider, in their sizes and regions. | No. Not applicable. Upgrade the plan tier instead, which also raises the visit cap. |
| Custom NGINX | Yes. Full server-level NGINX access. It is your server. | Yes. Custom NGINX is available on the managed stack too. A tie, without root underneath it. |
Pricing
xCloud vs Levamo: Pricing by Tier
Levamo meters by site count and monthly visits; xCloud doesn't meter visits at all. Matched here by RAM tier, not by an invented visit-cap equivalent — the two measure different things, stated plainly rather than forced into false parity.
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| Levamo tier | Levamo (annual / regular, per month) | Sites / monthly visits |  xCloud equivalent (RAM) | xCloud (per month) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29 / $35 | 1 site / 25K visits | 1 GB, unlimited sites & visits | $5 |
| Business | $99 / $119 | 3 sites / 75K visits | 2 GB, unlimited sites & visits | $12 |
| Performance | $299 / $359 | 20 sites / 500K visits | 8 GB, unlimited sites & visits | $45 |
| Enterprise | $649 / $779 | 30 sites / 1.8M visits | 16 GB, unlimited sites & visits | $88 |
Is the Server Really Yours?
Root access decides everything else on this table. Levamo keeps the server: no root, no bring-your-own-server. xCloud hands you both.
| Server control | xCloud | Levamo |
|---|---|---|
| Control and configuration | ||
| Custom NGINX | Yes. Edit the server's NGINX configuration directly. | Yes. Custom NGINX available, without root underneath it. A tie on this row specifically. |
| Multiple PHP versions in the same server | Yes. Run several PHP versions side by side on one machine. | Yes. Also supported. A tie. |
| External Database | Yes. Point a site at a managed or remote database. | No. The bundled database is the database. |
| Add existing database | Yes. Attach a database that already exists. | No. Not offered. |
| Vertical scaling | Yes. Resize at your provider, in their sizes and regions. | No. Not applicable. Upgrade the plan tier, which also raises the visit cap. |
| Blueprints | Yes. Save a site setup and stamp it out repeatedly. | No. No equivalent published. |
| Deploy from Git | Yes. Clone and deploy straight from a Git repository. | No. Not offered. |
| Command Runner | Yes. Run one-off commands from the panel. | Yes. Also offered. A tie. |
| Full Server Clone | Yes. Clone the entire server, not just one site. | No. Not offered. |
The Stack Underneath: Caching, Redis and the CDN
Both run NGINX and OpenLiteSpeed. Levamo' Cloudflare CDN is a genuine plan-wide strength; its Redis object cache is gated to the Business tier and up.
| Performance stack | xCloud | Levamo |
|---|---|---|
| Stack and caching | ||
| Web server | Yes. NGINX and OpenLiteSpeed. | Yes. NGINX and OpenLiteSpeed. |
| Full-page and Redis cache | Yes. Both, on every plan. | Limited. Both, but KeyDB and Redis object cache only from the Business tier up — not on Starter. |
| Object Cache Pro Integration | Yes. Supported. | Yes. Also supported. A tie. |
| CDN | Yes. Cloudflare integration included. Point any CDN at the server yourself. | Yes. Cloudflare CDN included on every plan, alongside the managed cache. A genuine Levamo strength. |
| PHP 8.3 | Yes. Supported and managed from the panel. | Yes. Supported. |
| WP-CLI | Yes. Available on every server. | Yes. Available. |
| Automatic cron | Yes. Set up automatically for WordPress. | Yes. Set up automatically for WordPress. |
| Custom cron jobs | Yes. Add your own, per site. | Yes. Add your own, per site. |
Moving Off Levamo Is Two Routes, Not a Rebuild
Migration is where a comparison page usually goes quiet, because the answer is normally "contact sales". Here it is a feature of the panel.
Who runs the migration
xCloud- Yes. Bulk site and server migration, included on every plan
- Yes. cPanel Site Migration path for sites hosted elsewhere
- Yes. Full server clone and server-to-server migration
Levamo- Yes. Free migrations offered on every plan
- Limited. No cPanel migration path published
What it costs
xCloud- Yes. Nothing, on either route. No migration fee
- Yes. Unlimited number of sites migrated
Levamo- Yes. Free migrations, as part of the plan
- Limited. Sites beyond your plan's allowance still cost $20 each once migrated
What moves
xCloud- Yes. Files and database together, in one pass, in bulk
- Yes. Migrate Guru, a free WordPress plugin documented as compatible with xCloud
Levamo- Yes. WordPress sites move onto the managed stack
- Limited. The server underneath is provisioned by Levamo, not carried across
Before you start
xCloud- Limited. Disable 2FA on the source site first
- Limited. Disable Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode on the source site first
- Yes. Then migrate, test while DNS still points at your old host, and cut over
Levamo- Limited. Confirm the current migration process and any site-count limits with Levamo support
Firewalls, Backups and What You Can Restore
Both cover the baseline: free SSL, vulnerability scanning, automated backups. Levamo' offsite-by-default daily backups are a genuine strength; only xCloud lets you download a backup or point it at your own S3 storage.
| Security and backups | xCloud | Levamo |
|---|---|---|
| Protection and recovery | ||
| 7G / 8G firewall | Yes. Both rule sets, managed from the panel. | No. Not published. Levamo lists a WAF and DDoS protection instead. |
| Fail2Ban | Yes. Integrated. | No. Not published. |
| Firewall management | Yes. Managed from the panel. | Yes. Managed as part of the platform's WAF and DDoS protection. |
| Vulnerability scanning | Yes. Built in. | Yes. Built in too, plus malware protection. A genuine tie, with Levamo naming malware protection explicitly. |
| Custom SSL/TLS | Yes. Bring your own certificate. | No. Free SSL only; no custom certificate option published. |
| IP Whitelist/Blacklist | Yes. Per-site allow/deny lists. | No. Not offered. |
| Full site backup | Yes. Automated, with restore. | Yes. Automated daily backups to offsite cloud storage, with restore. A genuine Levamo strength: offsite by default, no setup required. |
| Incremental site backup | Yes. Yes. Restore granularity without a full copy each time. | Yes. Daily full backups; not described as incremental. |
| Downloadable backups | Yes. Download any backup for offsite storage. | No. Not offered. Backups stay on Levamo's own offsite storage. |
| Bring your own S3 storage | Yes. Send backups to your own S3-compatible bucket. | No. Not offered. Storage is Levamo's, not yours to point elsewhere. |
WordPress Tooling and Agency Features
Both ship one-click WordPress staging with push/pull. The gap opens around white-labelling, one-click app hosting and managed AI agent hosting, none of which Levamo publishes.
| Panel and tooling | xCloud | Levamo |
|---|---|---|
| Day-to-day WordPress work | ||
| Theme / plugin / core updates | Yes. Managed from the panel across every site. | Yes. Managed as part of the fully WordPress-focused stack. A tie. |
| Staging push / pull | Yes. Promote a tested change rather than redoing it by hand. | Yes. Included on every plan too. A tie. |
| Clone a site | Yes. To the same server or a different one. | No. Not offered; no clone to another server. |
| 1-click magic login | Yes. Into any site's admin. | Yes. Also offered. A tie. |
| cPanel Site Migration | Yes. Import sites hosted on cPanel elsewhere. | No. No cPanel migration path. |
| Team accounts and roles | Yes. Included, unlimited sites per server. | Yes. Included too, but every site beyond the plan's allowance costs $20. |
| White label | Yes. Included. | No. Not offered. Levamo's own captured page states no white-labelling. |
| Managed AI agent hosting | Yes. One-click hosting for OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Paperclip, Buzz and more, each on a managed server with backups and monitoring included. | No. Not offered. The managed stack is WordPress-only, the same limit that rules out general app hosting. |
| One-click app library | A curated open-source app library, deployed in one click. | No. Not published. WordPress-only stack. |
Support, and a Dedicated Account Manager on Enterprise
Both answer around the clock. Levamo' Enterprise tier adds a dedicated account manager and priority support, a genuine strength xCloud does not offer at any price.
| Support and alerting | xCloud | Levamo |
|---|---|---|
| Getting hold of someone | ||
| Support channels | Yes. Live chat and ticketing on every plan, including the free bring-your-own-server tier, plus documentation. | Yes. 24/7 expert support via live chat on every plan, plus a dedicated account manager and priority support on Enterprise. A genuine Levamo strength. |
| Live chat support | Yes. Included. | Yes. Included too, around the clock. A tie. |
| Server and site monitoring | Yes. Built in. | Yes. Built in. |
| Server and site logs | Yes. Viewable from the panel. | Yes. Viewable from the panel. |
| Slack alerts | Yes. Native integration. | No. Not published. |
| WhatsApp alerts | Yes. Native integration. | No. Not published. |
| Telegram alerts | Yes. Native integration. | No. Not published. |
The full table
Every xCloud and Levamo Feature, Side by Side
Every published feature, side by side. 58 of 93 differ.
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| xCloud | Levamo | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting type | Managed | Managed |
| Lowest plan | Starts at $5/month | $35/Month |
| Web Server – NGINX & OLS | Yes | Yes |
| Integrate Your Own Provider ( Vultr, DigitalOcean, GCP, Hetzner, AWS, Linode or any Ubuntu) | Yes | No |
| Root access to server | Yes | No |
| Vertical Scaling | Yes | No |
| Unlimited websites creation | Yes | Yes |
| External Database | Yes | No |
| WordPress Multisite ( support for sub-domain and sub-folder ) | Yes | Yes |
| Site Disable | Yes | No |
| Blueprints | Yes | No |
| Custom NGINX | Yes | Yes |
| Full page & Redis cache | Yes | Yes |
| Object Cache Pro Integration | Yes | Yes |
| Transactional email service | Yes | Yes |
| Easy integration with Mailgun, SendGrid, ElasticEmail, or any SMTP provider | Yes | Yes |
| Fully WordPress focused | Yes | Yes |
| WordPress theme, plugin, & core update | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic security updates | Yes | Yes |
| 7G & 8G Firewall | Yes | No |
| Fail2Ban Integration | Yes | No |
| Firewall Management | Yes | Yes |
| Vulnerability Scanner | Yes | Yes |
| Accounts & roles management for team | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic FREE Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates | Yes | Yes |
| Custom SSL/TLS certificates | Yes | No |
| Advanced Cron job | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple PHP versions in the same server | Yes | Yes |
| Compatibility & easy management for PHP 8.3 | Yes | Yes |
| WP-CLI | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk site & server migration | Yes | Yes |
| cPanel Site Migration | Yes | No |
| Full Site Backup | Yes | Yes |
| Incremental Site Backup | Yes | Yes |
| Site Backup download option for remote backups | Yes | No |
| Full Server Backup Management | Yes | No |
| Remote Site Backup on any of your own s3 storage | Yes | No |
| File Manager | Yes | Yes |
| Reset File & Folder Permissions | Yes | No |
| Server & Site monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Slack Integration | Yes | No |
| WhatsApp Integration | Yes | No |
| Telegram Integration | Yes | No |
| Server and Site Log | Yes | Yes |
| Add existing database | Yes | No |
| Clone site to same & another server | Yes | No |
| 1-click Demo Site | Yes | No |
| Staging With Pull Push | Yes | Yes |
| 1-click magic login | Yes | Yes |
| Magic Login Disable | Yes | No |
| Clone & deploy from GIT | Yes | No |
| Command Runner | Yes | Yes |
| IP Whitelist/Blacklist | Yes | No |
| Database Server – MySQL & MariaDB | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Cron Jobs | Yes | Yes |
| Restore site from backup | Yes | Yes |
| Multilingual Dashboard | Yes | No |
| Search Engine Visibility | Yes | No |
| Full Server Clone | Yes | No |
| White label | Yes | No |
| Live chat support | Yes | Yes |
| Moneyback guarantee | 14 days | 14 days |
| AI and agent control | ||
| MCP server — drive servers and sites from Claude, Cursor or any AI agent | Yes | No |
| Installable AI agent skills (servers, sites, WordPress, SSL, account) | Yes | No |
| AI bot blocker — block AI crawlers and scrapers at the server | Yes | — |
| Public REST API with scoped tokens | Yes | — |
| Security and WordPress integrity | ||
| Virtual patching for known vulnerabilities (Site Security PRO) | Add-on, $2/site | — |
| WordPress integrity monitor — verifies core files against checksums | Yes | — |
| Custom security headers (HSTS, CSP) from the panel | Yes | — |
| HTTP basic auth and per-site IP allow/deny | Yes | — |
| SSH lockdown — restrict SSH to trusted IPs, custom port | Yes | No |
| Performance and caching | ||
| Edge full-page cache on a global PoP network | Yes | Yes |
| Cloudflare Enterprise (330+ PoPs, Enterprise WAF) | Add-on, $5/domain | Included |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) and Brotli compression, one click | Yes | — |
| Per-site PHP-FPM worker tuning and PHP extension manager | Yes | No |
| Auto-healing — restarts MySQL, NGINX, Redis or PHP if it stops | Yes | — |
| MySQL/MariaDB auto-tuning and OPcache control | Yes | No |
| Monitoring and observability | ||
| Broken link monitoring with one-click 301 redirect | Yes | No |
| Site Insights — PHP, MySQL and traffic analytics per site | Yes | — |
| Scheduled PageSpeed / Core Web Vitals monitoring with history | Yes | — |
| Telegram alerts for site, server and team events | Yes | — |
| Native macOS menu-bar app (xCloud Pulse) | Yes | No |
| Developer and deployment | ||
| Browser SSH terminal and command runner | Yes | No |
| One-click deploy from Git with stack auto-detection | Yes | — |
| Docker and Docker Compose application hosting | Yes | No |
| Node.js, Laravel and Next.js hosting with queue workers | Yes | No |
| One-click app library | 387 apps | No |
| Supervisor process management and site snapshots | Yes | — |
| Backups, migration and agency tooling | ||
| Off-site backups to your own S3, R2, Backblaze, Wasabi, Google Drive or pCloud | Yes | — |
| Full server clone and server-to-server migration | Yes | — |
| Branded client maintenance reports (PDF) | Yes | — |
| White-label reseller programme with Stripe billing and your own plans | Yes | — |
| Business mailboxes on your own domain | Add-on, $1/mo | — |
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xCloud vs Levamo: Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers to what people ask before moving between xCloud and Levamo.
Is Rapyd Cloud the same as Levamo?
Yes. Rapyd Cloud rebranded to Levamo; same product, same team, new name.
rapyd.cloud now 301-redirects to levamo.com, and that page states "Rapyd Cloud is now Levamo". Everything compared on this page reflects the current Levamo plans, re-read from levamo.com/pricing/ on 23 September 2026. This page leads with Levamo and keeps Rapyd Cloud in brackets, because both names are still searched and only one of them is current.
What is the difference between xCloud and Levamo?
The difference is who owns the server and how you are metered.
Levamo (formerly Rapyd Cloud) sells managed WordPress hosting on infrastructure it operates, priced per plan by how many sites you run and how many visits they get. xCloud is a WordPress hosting control panel for a server you own on any provider — with root access, unlimited sites and no visit metering — and it also sells its own managed plans if you would rather not hold a provider account.
Is xCloud cheaper than Levamo?
Yes, at every tier: xCloud starts at $5/month against Levamo's $29/month (annual) for the Starter plan.
xCloud's managed Newcomer plan is $5/month (1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD, 1 vCPU, 1 TB bandwidth), and connecting your own server is free; Levamo's Starter plan is $29/month billed annually, $35/month at the regular rate, for one site and 25,000 visits. Compare total cost carefully: with xCloud's self-managed route you pay your cloud provider separately, while Levamo's price includes the infrastructure.
Which is better for WooCommerce?
It depends on traffic: Levamo is purpose-built for high-traffic stores but caps monthly visits; xCloud has no visit cap.
Levamo is aimed squarely at high-traffic WooCommerce, with a performance-tuned managed stack, Cloudflare CDN on every plan and nothing for you to administer — but its plans are capped by monthly visits, and a sale that spikes traffic counts against that cap. xCloud has no visit metering, gives you Redis object caching on every plan, custom NGINX and vertical scaling of the server. Neither is benchmarked here — we publish no head-to-head store performance test.
Which is better for WordPress?
Both are WordPress-only platforms; xCloud ships more configuration tooling, Levamo ships more managed defaults.
xCloud adds tooling Levamo does not ship: blueprints, the 7G/8G firewall, Fail2Ban, custom SSL certificates, cloning to another server, Git deployment and downloadable backups to your own S3 storage. Levamo's advantage is that the server is never your problem, and Cloudflare CDN and offsite daily backups are included by default.
Can I use my own VPS with xCloud or Levamo?
With xCloud, yes. With Levamo, no.
xCloud connects Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, GCP, Linode or any Ubuntu server over SSH and you keep root access. Levamo runs its own managed infrastructure; there is no bring-your-own-server option and no root access to the instance.
Can I migrate from Levamo to xCloud?
Yes. xCloud includes bulk site and server migration at no extra cost, plus a cPanel import path.
The usual approach is to migrate, test on the new server while DNS still points at Levamo, then cut over.
Does either platform include backups?
Both do; only xCloud lets you download backups or send them to your own S3 storage.
Levamo runs automated daily backups to offsite cloud storage on every plan, with restore. xCloud offers full and incremental site backups with restore, full server backup management, and the option to download backups or send them to your own S3 storage — which Levamo does not.
Do xCloud and Levamo support Redis or object caching?
Both do, but Levamo gates it by plan; xCloud includes it from the cheapest tier.
xCloud includes Redis object caching and full-page caching on every plan, plus Object Cache Pro integration. Levamo's KeyDB and Redis object cache starts at the Business tier — the $29-$35/month Starter plan does not include it.
Which platform is better for agencies?
xCloud, in most cases, on cost and control.
Unlimited sites per server rather than $20 per additional site, white-labelling, team accounts with roles, and bulk site and server migration for onboarding clients in batches. Levamo also has team accounts and roles, and its higher tiers cover 20-30 sites with no server administration, but it has no white-labelling and every site beyond the plan's allowance is billed.