Sucuri charges $229 and a wait. This is one click and free.

Four things you pay Sucuri for and get free here

Sucuri's free plugin audits activity, watches file integrity, scans remotely, monitors blocklists and hardens the install. Useful work, and it stops at telling you. Everything that changes the state of your site sits behind the $229 plan or the paid firewall.

• Malware cleanup. 3 files every 30 days on our free plan. On Sucuri, removal starts at $229 a year. This is the whole argument in one line.
• A firewall you control. Allow and deny rules for single IPs and CIDR ranges, in the plugin, free. Sucuri's firewall is a paid product.
• Country blocking. Free, with a confirm-or-revert step so you cannot lock yourself out. On Sucuri it needs the paid firewall.
• Security headers. Three presets plus custom values, free. On Sucuri it needs the paid firewall.

Both products ship two-factor authentication and file-integrity checks at no cost. Checked against Sucuri's own WordPress.org description on 7 August 2026.

What it costs over three years

On one site, that is $450 back over three years if you take Pro, or $687 if the free plan covers you. Most single-site owners never need more than three cleanups in a month.

Why people go looking

The price stopped matching the site. Sucuri's cheapest platform plan is $229 a year. For an agency running client sites behind a firewall, that is fair. For one WordPress site that gets hit once, it is a lot of money sitting idle between incidents.

Cleanup means waiting. Sucuri includes unlimited manual cleanups on every paid plan, and manual is the operative word. You submit a request and someone works through the queue. Your site serves the injection until they reach it.

The free plugin does not clean anything. It scans, audits, and hardens. Removal starts at $229.

Sentiment slipped. Sucuri holds 84 out of 100 across 384 ratings on WordPress.org, which is low for a product this widely installed. GoDaddy bought Sucuri in 2017.

How the cleanup actually works

Segurium hashes every file on your server and checks each hash against a cloud database of known-good and known-bad files. Around 94% of your files are settled by the hash alone and never leave the server. A lookup takes about 24 milliseconds.

When a file comes back infected, you click Fix. The injected code comes out and the file keeps working, so your theme does not break and your plugin does not white-screen. A file that is nothing but malware becomes zero bytes at the same path. When no clean version can be produced, the cleanup stops and leaves the file exactly as it found it. No request, no queue, no waiting.

The original goes into an encrypted backup on your own server before any of that happens, and one click puts it back. You can look at the malware it removed before you decide. Nothing about a cleanup is one-way.

That runs on the free plan for 3 files every 30 days, and Bulk Fix All is free too, with a preflight preview so you can see what it will touch. Pro at $79 a year lifts the limit and turns on unattended fixing, so a scheduled scan cleans without you opening the dashboard.

Side by side

Sucuri prices checked at sucuri.net on 7 August 2026. Check them again before you decide, because they are theirs to change.

What Segurium does not do

Five things, and you should read them before you switch rather than after.

• No firewall at the edge. Sucuri filters before the request reaches your host. Ours filters inside WordPress, which covers the same rules but only after your server has accepted the connection. For a normal site that difference costs you nothing. If you are under sustained attack and CPU is the bottleneck, edge filtering is the better tool and you should keep theirs.
• No DDoS absorption. For most sites this matters less than the table row suggests, because volumetric attacks are normally soaked up by your host or by whatever CDN sits in front of you, usually at no extra charge. Sucuri's version is worth paying for once you have outgrown that.
• No CDN. No caching or acceleration layer of any kind.
• No blocklist monitoring. If Google flags your domain, Sucuri tells you and handles the review submission. With Segurium you would find that out yourself.
• Nobody cleans it for you, and no track record. On every Sucuri paid plan a human cleans the site. Nobody at Segurium logs into yours. They have been at this since 2010; Segurium 1.0.0 reached WordPress.org in July 2026. The free plan exists so you can judge it on your own site rather than on our word.

Who should switch, and who should not

Switch if you run one or two WordPress sites, you handle your own hosting, and $229 a year is out of proportion to what the site earns. Switch if you want an infection gone at 2am without waiting on a queue. Switch if you would rather your files were processed inside the EEA.

Do not switch if you need edge filtering, DDoS absorption, or a person on the other end of an incident.

You can also run both. Keep the Sucuri firewall in front and use Segurium for detection and cleanup on the server.

What moving across involves

There is no settings import from Sucuri, and that is how Sucuri is built rather than a gap in Segurium. Sucuri keeps your firewall rules, country blocking, and scan configuration in its own dashboard, not in your WordPress database, so nothing local exists to copy. Segurium detects Sucuri and tells you exactly this.

You reconfigure by hand. It takes about ten minutes.

1. Install Segurium from WordPress.org.
2. Accept the service disclosure. Nothing contacts our service before you do.
3. Re-enter the countries you had blocked at Sucuri. There is a confirm-or-revert step so you cannot lock yourself out.
4. Turn on two-factor authentication and pick a security-headers preset.
5. Run a full scan.
6. Deactivate the Sucuri plugin once you are happy with what you see.

If you are keeping the Sucuri firewall, leave its DNS settings alone and deactivate only the plugin.

What leaves your server, in plain terms

Scanning is opt-in. Until you accept the disclosure on the plugin page, Segurium does not contact our service and does not scan.

Files are checked by SHA-256 first. A file has its bytes sent in two cases: when its hash is one we have never seen, which in practice is about 6% of them, and when you clean it and we build the replacement. Everything else is settled by hash.

Samples we do receive are kept for up to 365 days and then deleted by an automated purge, and an analyst can delete one sooner once it has been triaged. Our privacy policy lists every retention period we hold to.

Our servers are in the European Economic Area and Segurium is run from Spain, so GDPR applies to us directly rather than reaching us through an adequacy decision. Two subprocessors sit outside the EEA, for payments and for support email. Both are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses and both are named in the privacy policy.

We do not track your visitors. Segurium looks at files and login attempts.

Questions

Is Segurium a full replacement for Sucuri?

For finding malware, cleaning it, and hardening the site, yes. For the cloud firewall, the CDN, and DDoS protection, no. Segurium has none of those.

Can I keep the Sucuri firewall and still use Segurium?

Yes. The Sucuri firewall works at the DNS level, in front of your host. Segurium works on the server, on your files. They do not overlap and nothing conflicts.

Does the free plan really clean malware?

Yes. Three files per rolling 30 days. Detection and every hardening feature are identical on Free and Pro. Pro removes the cleanup ceiling.

What happens if Segurium flags a file that is fine?

Nothing happens to the file until you click Clean, unless you turned on unattended fixing yourself, which is off by default. Every row carries two ways to silence it: Ignore until file is the same, which brings the row back if the file changes, and Always ignore for that path. Show malware prints the file so you can read it first. If you think the verdict itself is wrong, tell us from the Support tab or the WordPress.org forum.

Why is Segurium cheaper than Sucuri?

Sucuri's price covers a global firewall and CDN network plus a team that cleans sites by hand. Segurium runs neither. You are paying for detection and cleanup and nothing else.

What if I install it and it finds nothing?

Then you have a second opinion for free and you have lost twenty minutes. There is no card to enter and no trial to cancel.