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Both include the firewall and scanner. Premium adds the real-time firewall rule and malware signature feeds (the free version gets the same rules and signatures 30 days later), the real-time IP blocklist, country blocking, and more frequent scans you can schedule for specific times. For a site that handles payments or personal data, the 30-day gap is the main argument for Premium.

The scanner is the heavy part, and it runs on a schedule rather than on every page load. Premium lets you pick the scan times, so on a Premium license we normally put scans in off-peak hours. The firewall itself adds little overhead. See what slows sites down.

Yes, that's a common one. Wordfence can lock out an IP after failed logins. We can clear the block from another admin session, or via the site's files if nobody can get in. Start a ticket and see I can't log in.

No. Two firewalls or scanners running at once cause duplicate alerts, conflicting blocks, and real performance problems. Pick one. If you also use a network-level firewall like Sucuri, we'll usually configure Wordfence for scanning only.