A FatLab alternative with SEO and speed work included
FatLab hosts and maintains WordPress from $99 a month and is the closest care company to us on price. What its plans don't list is ongoing SEO or speed work. TopSyde is $89 a site with both running every week.
What it costs
$89 a site, with the SEO and speed work FatLab doesn't list.
For the plan that comes closest to ours in scope, read from FatLab's pricing page on 21 October 2026.
One site, per month
TopSyde
$89/mo
Hosting, malware removal, weekly Auto SEO and Auto Speed, AI edits and an hour of developer time, with senior developers on call 24/7 for a site that's down.
FatLab
$99 to $199
Starter ($99) has no dev hours; Professional ($199) adds one a month. Hosting included, no SEO listed.
Ten sites, per month
TopSyde
$890/mo
$89 a site on Standard (1 to 10 sites), hosting included. From 11 sites it drops to $71.
FatLab
$774 to $874
Starter or Professional plus $75 for each extra site. Professional's one dev hour is shared by all ten.
FatLab's $75 extra-site price applies only to sites in the same organization, and neither FatLab total includes SEO or speed work.
Side by side
TopSyde vs FatLab, line by line
What each plan lists, and which FatLab plan you need for it.
| Feature | TopSyde | FatLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price for one site | TopSyde $89/mo, hosting included | FatLab $99 Starter to $599 Enterprise, hosting included |
| Hosting | TopSyde Included: Kinsta (Google C3D) + Cloudflare | FatLab Included, with Cloudflare Enterprise CDN and firewall |
| Malware removal | TopSyde Included on every plan; scanned daily from outside the site | FatLab Included |
| Ongoing SEO | TopSyde Auto SEO weekly: titles, descriptions, alt text, schema | FatLab Not listed |
| Speed work | TopSyde Developer tune-up at move-in, Auto Speed weekly | FatLab Not listed beyond dev hours |
| Content edits & dev time | TopSyde 10 AI edits + 1 hour of developer time a site a month; bigger builds $150/hr | FatLab 0, 1, 3 or 8 hours a month by plan, shared across sites; then $150/hr |
| Update safety | TopSyde Backup before, health check and automatic rollback, then a person checks your pages | FatLab Weekly updates |
| Backups | TopSyde Daily, kept 30 days | FatLab Daily |
| Built-in tools: 2FA, cookie consent, form spam, 404s, DB cleanup | TopSyde All included, one switch per site | FatLab Not listed |
| Premium plugin licenses | TopSyde $1,000+/yr: Elementor Pro, Gravity Forms, ACF Pro and more | FatLab Not listed |
| Support | TopSyde Senior developers by call, text or chat; site down: 15 min, 24/7 | FatLab 24/7 monitoring and emergency response; response times not published |
| Ten sites, per month | TopSyde $890, hosting included | FatLab $774 on Starter (no dev hours) or $874 on Professional (1 hour shared by all ten), $75 a site after the first |
| Contract & guarantee | TopSyde Month to month or yearly (10% off); 30-day money-back | FatLab Month to month, 30 days' notice |
Source: fatlabwebsupport.com/pricing, read 21 October 2026. Prices in USD per month. "Not listed" means the pricing page doesn't mention it, not that FatLab never does it. TopSyde's side matches our spec sheet and SLA.
Why people switch
Where TopSyde is ahead
SEO and speed every week
Auto SEO and Auto Speed apply safe fixes weekly with one-click rollback. FatLab lists neither; performance work comes out of dev hours.
An hour for every site
1 hour of developer time a month per site, never pooled, plus 10 AI edits. On FatLab Professional, one hour is shared by all your sites, then $150 an hour.
Tools and licenses included
Two-factor login, cookie consent, form spam, 404s and database cleanup are one switch each, and $1,000+ a year of premium plugin licenses come with the plan.
Frequently asked
TopSyde vs FatLab FAQ
How does TopSyde's price compare with FatLab's?
One site is $89 on TopSyde against $99 on FatLab Starter, which has no developer hours, or $199 on Professional. Every TopSyde site gets weekly Auto SEO and Auto Speed, 10 AI edits a month, eight built-in tools and $1,000+ a year of plugin licenses, none of which FatLab's pricing page lists at any price. On FatLab, ten sites share at most one developer hour a month on Professional; on TopSyde each of the ten gets its own.
Does FatLab include SEO?
FatLab's pricing page doesn't list SEO. Performance optimization is listed as one of the things the included dev hours can be spent on, so it comes out of the same pool as every other change.
How does TopSyde's support compare with FatLab's?
FatLab doesn't publish response times, and a dedicated contact starts on its $349 Business plan. TopSyde puts every customer through to senior developers by call, text or chat, with a site-down ticket answered in 15 minutes, 24/7, an hour of developer time for every site each month and a 99.9% uptime SLA with service credits.
Can I leave FatLab mid-month?
FatLab asks for 30 days' notice to cancel, so plan the move with that in mind. Our migration is free and the old site keeps running until DNS switches, so there's no gap.
Can I move from FatLab to TopSyde without downtime?
Yes. Migration is free: we copy the site to our hosting while the old one keeps running, test forms, logins and checkout, and switch DNS once the copy checks out. Plans are month to month with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can overlap the two services for a month and cancel the old one when you're satisfied.
Zero risk to switch
We move the site. You keep the 30 days.
Free migration, no contract, and every penny back if it isn't right in the first 30 days.