WordPress.com Pricing Plans & Tiers
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Pricing last verified: March 16, 2026
Pricing Analysis
WordPress.com's tiered hosting ($4 Personal, $8 Premium, $25 Business, $45 Commerce per month) competes against both free self-hosted WordPress and premium builders like Squarespace ($16-49). The Business tier ($25/month) is the minimum viable option for serious sites — Personal and Premium tiers restrict plugin installation, custom themes, and SFTP access, making them glorified blog hosting.
The freemium funnel (free subdomain blog → paid plans) captures millions of casual bloggers, but the conversion to paid plans requires crossing a capability gap — free users get a WordPress.com subdomain with ads displayed on their content. This 'ad tax' on free content is WordPress.com's primary mechanism for pushing upgrades, not feature limitations.
Strengths
- Managed WordPress hosting eliminates server management, security updates, and plugin compatibility — tasks that cost self-hosted WordPress users 2-5 hours/month in maintenance.
- Business tier ($25/month) includes 200GB storage, unlimited bandwidth, and plugin access — comparable to $50-100/month managed WordPress hosts like WP Engine or Kinsta.
Considerations
- Personal ($4) and Premium ($8) tiers are feature-crippled — no plugins, no custom themes, no SFTP access — making them unsuitable for anything beyond basic blogging.
- The gap between WordPress.com ($25/month) and self-hosted WordPress ($5-15/month on a VPS + $0 software cost) represents a 60-80% premium for managed convenience.
Non-technical bloggers and small business owners who want WordPress without server management and are willing to pay a premium for managed hosting convenience.
WordPress.com's Business tier ($25/month) is the minimum viable WordPress — the cheaper tiers are blog-only, and self-hosted WordPress saves 60-80% for anyone comfortable with servers.
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Try WordPress.com freePricing Plans (6)
Free
Personal
$4/year
- ✓6 GB storage
- ✓Unlimited pages, posts, users, and visitors
- ✓Free domain for one year
- ✓Ad-free browsing experience for your visitors
- ✓Dozens of premium themes
- ✓Support from our expert team
- ✓Stats
- ✓Install plugins
- ✓Customize fonts and colors sitewide
Premium
Popular$8/year
- ✓13 GB storage
- ✓Unlimited pages, posts, users, and visitors
- ✓Free domain for one year
- ✓Ad-free browsing experience for your visitors
- ✓All premium themes
- ✓Fast support from our expert team
- ✓Premium stats
- ✓Install plugins
- ✓Customize fonts and colors sitewide
- ✓Connect Google Analytics
- ✓Upload videos
Business
Popular$25/year
- ✓50 GB storage
- ✓Unlimited pages, posts, users, and visitors
- ✓Free domain for one year
- ✓Ad-free browsing experience for your visitors
- ✓All premium themes
- ✓Priority 24/7 support from our expert team
- ✓Premium stats
- ✓Install plugins
- ✓Customize fonts and colors sitewide
- ✓Connect Google Analytics
- ✓Upload videos
- ✓SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands, and GitHub Deployments
Commerce
$45/year
- ✓50 GB storage
- ✓Unlimited pages, posts, users, and visitors
- ✓Free domain for one year
- ✓Ad-free browsing experience for your visitors
- ✓All premium and store themes
- ✓Priority 24/7 support from our expert team
- ✓Premium stats
- ✓Install plugins
- ✓Customize fonts and colors sitewide
- ✓Connect Google Analytics
- ✓Upload videos
- ✓eCommerce tools and optimized WooCommerce experience
Enterprise
$2083/year
- ✓Unmatched scalability, security and data-driven capabilities
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