Wordfence vs
Sucuri.
Both are legitimate. Both are on sites in my fleet. But they solve different shapes of the WordPress-security problem and picking the wrong one wastes money without moving the risk needle.
Pick Wordfence if
You want a strong free tier, granular endpoint-level control, and you can absorb the modest performance cost of a plugin-based WAF. Also the better call if you need country blocking and rate-limit rules that you'll actually tune.
Pick Sucuri if
You want the attack to die at the CDN, not on your server. High-value sites, WooCommerce, anything under active bot pressure, and any site where a slow origin is a business problem. Sucuri's cloud WAF is genuinely better architecture; you're paying for the model, not just the brand.
The honest bit nobody says
Neither one saves a site with a nulled plugin, an outdated core, and a $4/mo shared host. Security software is the last 10% of the job; the first 90% is hosting hygiene, plugin discipline, and staged updates. I've cleaned Wordfence Premium sites and Sucuri Platform sites both — the tool didn't fail; the surrounding ops did.
Currently infected?
Fixed-price cleanup, rankings preserved, 14-day reinfection guarantee. Whichever security stack you're on, I clean and harden.