Pricing

One Preventable Client Mistake Costs More Than a Year of AdminLocks

Choose the plan that matches your portfolio. Lock down your first site free. Upgrade when the chaos justifies it — which it will.

What Happens Without AdminLocks

A client deactivates WooCommerce. Emergency fix: 3 hours of your time.
A theme experiment wipes custom CSS. Rebuild: $800+ in billable work.
A permalink change tanks SEO. Recovery: weeks of lost traffic.
A “quick cleanup” deletes the lead gen page. Cost: invisible for weeks.

AdminLocks prevents all of these. The Starter plan costs less than 20 minutes of your hourly rate.

Free tier
Lite
See what control feels like
Free
Free forever
Lock down one site with basic policies. No credit card. No nags. No expiration.
1 site
Dashboard replacement
Basic policy controls (2 templates)
Audit log (14 days)
Basic client portal
Starter
Starter
For freelancers who can't afford another cleanup call
$ 19 /mo
 
Full policy engine, snapshots, rollback, and 90-day audit trail. Pays for itself the first time it prevents a broken site.
Up to 5 sites
Policy templates (full starter set)
Client Portal (content + media)
Activity & incident log (90 days)
Safety snapshots + one-click rollback
Temporary access elevation (auto-expiry)
Maintenance Reports (Agency+)
That's $3.80/site/month. Less than the cost of one emergency response.
Studio
Studio
For agencies that manage at scale
$ 99 /mo
 
100 sites. Team roles. Policy packs. 4-hour SLA. Everything in Agency, built for portfolios that need operational rigor.
Up to 100 sites
Everything in Agency
Policy packs by plugin (starter library)
Exportable audit reports (client-facing)
Team roles for agency staff
4-hour support SLA
Maintenance Reports + templates, history & on-demand
Enterprise
Enterprise
For portfolios that don't fit in a dropdown
Custom
Tailored to your needs
Unlimited sites, SSO, compliance exports, dedicated onboarding, and a custom support channel.
Unlimited sites
SSO / advanced access controls
Compliance exports
Dedicated onboarding
Custom support channel
Maintenance Reports + custom branding & scheduling
The business case

Why Agencies Pay for This

Prevent One Incident = ROI

The average agency spends 3+ hours fixing one avoidable client mistake. AdminLocks prevents the mistake. The subscription pays for itself in the first month.

Control Without Conflict

You don't have to say "don't touch anything." Policies and the client portal give clients safe access without exposing dangerous settings.

Prove Your Value Monthly

Branded maintenance reports show clients what you did, what you prevented, and why their site is safe. Turn invisible work into visible proof.

Positioning

AdminLocks Is Not Another Admin Plugin

What AdminLocks is NOT

  • Not just menu hiding (those break with updates)
  • Not just activity logging (logs don't prevent damage)
  • Not just backups (restoring takes hours, prevention takes seconds)
  • Not just reporting (reports without control are just documentation of failure)
  • Not just security scanning (security plugins don't manage client behavior)

What AdminLocks IS

  • The operational control layer between your agency and client admin mistakes
  • Policy enforcement + safe client access + instant rollback + approval workflows + proof of value
  • Built specifically for the agency-client relationship problem
Compare plans

Feature-by-Feature: Choose With Confidence

Feature Lite Starter Agency Studio Enterprise
Dashboard & Policies
Dashboard replacement
Client mode
Advanced policy engine
Policy templates 2 All All All
Fleet-wide policy sync
Forensics & Audit
Audit log retention 14 days 90 days Unlimited Unlimited
Before/after diffs
Full-text search
CSV / JSON export
Approval Gates
Approval queue
Slack notifications
Auto-expire rules
Snapshots & Rollback
Auto snapshots
One-click restore
Storage 1 GB 10 GB Custom
Client Portal
Workspace
Change requests
Maintenance reports Templates + on-demand Custom branding
White-label
Platform
Sites 1 5 100 Custom
Team members 1 2 Unlimited Unlimited
Priority support
Objections answered

Before you decide

Because one prevented incident costs more than the annual plan. This isn't a feature plugin. It's operational insurance for your client portfolio. The cloud sync, snapshots, audit trail, and maintenance reports run on infrastructure that costs money to operate — and that infrastructure is what stands between you and the next 3-hour emergency fix.
Role editors hide menu items. They don't prevent API calls, block dangerous settings changes, create snapshots before risky actions, enforce approval workflows, or generate maintenance reports. AdminLocks is a control layer, not a cosmetic filter. The moment a client finds a direct URL or a plugin exposes a settings page, role editors fail silently.
Logs tell you what happened after the damage is done. AdminLocks prevents the damage from happening. You still get a complete audit trail, but the critical difference is that dangerous actions are blocked or require approval before they execute. Logs + prevention is the combination that works. Logs alone are a post-mortem tool.
Restoring a backup is a 30–60 minute process that may overwrite recent good changes. AdminLocks snapshots roll back specific configuration changes in one click, without touching anything else. Prevention is faster than recovery. And unlike backups, AdminLocks stops the problem before it happens — so there's nothing to restore in the first place.
If you manage even 3 client sites, one bad admin change per quarter costs you more in cleanup time than the Starter plan. This isn't about size. It's about whether client admin access causes you pain. If you've ever spent a Saturday morning fixing something a client broke on a Friday afternoon, you already know the answer.
For most agencies: the first month. One prevented WooCommerce outage, one avoided theme wipe, one stopped permalink disaster. Any single incident justifies the cost. At $49/month for 25 sites, you need to prevent less than one hour of emergency work per month to come out ahead.
Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. But agencies that cancel tend to come back after the next client-caused incident reminds them why they subscribed. Your policies, audit data, and configuration are preserved for 90 days after cancellation so you can pick up right where you left off.
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