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Imperva vs MalCare
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Imperva if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you're in its core audience: enterprise security teams, financial services firms
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Choose MalCare if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: wordpress site owners, web agencies
Side by side
Feature Imperva MalCare
Pricing modelContact for pricingFreemium
Starting price—$8.25/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CategoryDDoS protection & WAFWebsite malware scanning
CompanyImperva, Inc.MalCare · since 2014
Full feature lists
I Imperva
- Cloud web application firewall
- DDoS protection with guaranteed uptime
- Advanced bot and account takeover protection
- API discovery and threat mitigation
- Client-side JavaScript protection for PCI DSS 4.0
- Data discovery, classification and database auditing
- Compliance reporting for SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR
- 260+ integrations including Splunk and SOAR
M MalCare
- Off-server deep malware scans of files and database
- One-click malware removal with backup first
- Firewall that learns from a 400,000-site network
- Virtual patching for 39,000+ known vulnerabilities
- Login protection, CAPTCHA and two-factor authentication
- Country geoblocking and bot protection
- Searchable activity log of logins and changes
- Post-cleanup report showing how attackers got in
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
Imperva
Data AssureCustom
Data SecureCustom
Data 360Custom
MalCare
Free$0
Protect$99/yr per site ($299 for 5 sites), about $8.25/mo
Repair$299/yr per site ($899 for 5 sites)
Fortify$499/yr per site ($1,499 for 5 sites)
Strengths and limitations
Imperva
- Covers application, API and data security in one portfolio
- Data Security Fabric supports 100+ data repositories
- More than 260 built-in integrations
- Free trial available
- No public pricing; all plans require contacting sales
- Some Data Assure capabilities are on-premises only
- Encryption and key management need the separate Thales CipherTrust product
MalCare
- Free plan includes weekly scans, basic firewall and 2FA
- Scans run on MalCare servers, not the host
- Published 0.2% false positive rate
- 14-day refund window and prorated plan changes
- Free and Protect plans do not remove malware
- Plans are billed yearly only
- Activity logs only on Repair and Fortify
- Works only with WordPress
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 10, 2026. Editorial policy