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Oleh KemWordPress.com Pricing in August 2026: Personal, Premium, Business, Commerce and Enterprise Costs per Site
WordPress.com costs $10.50 a month on Personal, $21 on Premium, $46 on Business and $80.50 on Commerce as of , each for one site. A free tier sits under them on a wordpress.com address, and Enterprise is sold on an annual contract with no published rate.
Every paid tier carries two prices and only one of them lasts. The term you sign is an opening rate: twelve months brings Personal to $4.50 a month and renews it at $7.50, and the same shape repeats at $9 renewing $15.50, $29 renewing $41.50 and $52 renewing $75. Two-year and three-year terms open lower again and renew lower with them. The monthly column never moves.
What the published lineup leaves out is where the money actually moves: which tier lifts the storage, what the domain costs once its free year ends, what the platform takes from each sale, and how $10.50 compares with the 21 builders we price the same way. Nine charges sit outside the advertised rate. Every figure was read off the vendor's own plans in , in euro, converted at the European Central Bank rate of that day.
WordPress.com is the hosted service that sells these plans. WordPress itself is free software anyone can download and run on a server of their own.
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The annual column is a first-term rate on every paid tier. What it becomes afterwards is in the renewal table below.
Month to month, cancel any time. Free does not move with the cycle.
The six tiers, the caps that end each one, and what the annual cycle saves.
WordPress.com pricing plans: $10.50 a month on Personal, $80.50 on Commerce
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The annual column is an introductory rate on all four paid tiers, and from the second term it reads $5, $10, $33 and $60 a month. The vendor also advertises longer commitments at up to 63 percent off for two years and up to 69 percent for three.
Vendor pricing pageWordPress.com renewal price: Business reaches $41.50 a month in year two
Every paid tier carries two numbers: what the first term costs and what each term after it costs. WordPress.com publishes both, and only one of them is on the button.
| Tier | First term | From renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | $4.50 | $7.50 |
| Premium | $9 | $15.50 |
| Business | $29 | $41.50 |
| Commerce | $52 | $75 |
The lower rate holds for first 12 months, paid in front.
The table reads a twelve-month term, the shortest one carrying an offer. Two-year and three-year terms open lower and renew lower with them. Month to month there is no discount and no jump: $10.50, $21, $46 and $80.50 hold from the first bill to the last.
WordPress.com plan steps: Premium to Business is a $240 a year move
Five moves up the lineup, priced on first-term annual rates across twelve months. The first four open a gate each: the domain, the checkout, the support desk, then the store.
At the renewal rates the first three steps cost $60, $276 and $324 a year instead. That is the version of this table you live with from the second term.
WordPress.com cost for one site: the term decides more than the tier
What your line costs on the published rates
Personal is $10.5 a month billed monthly, which comes to $126 for a year of one site. The tier decides what the site can do; the term decides what the site costs.
These rates have been read six times since June 2026, and every tier held through all of them.
Where the bill sits above the advertised rate
$36 of the year is the term by itself. That gap is an introductory offer rather than a standing discount, and it narrows the day the term renews.
What is in your bill that the advertised rate does not price
6 GB on Personal, 13 GB on Premium, 50 GB on Business. Pages, posts, users and visitors carry no cap at all, which leaves the gigabytes as the only counter in the lineup that can stop you.
Every paid plan includes one for the first year and none of them prints the second year's price. It renews at standard registrar rates on its own anniversary, which is a date with no relationship to your plan's.
From the second term Personal is $7.50 a month, Premium $15.50, Business $41.50 and Commerce $75, each billed a year in front. A two-year term renews at $6.50 to $59 and a three-year term at $5 to $52. The saving badges describe the first term only.
Business and Commerce include a professional email address for twelve months through Titan. What it costs afterwards is not on the pricing page, and it bills apart from the plan, so the site and the mailbox run on two clocks.
Our European read of this same page returned the identical numerals with a euro sign in front of them. The figures follow the visitor rather than the dollar, so confirm which currency the charge lands in before you sign a term.
Where your rate sits against the category
$10.5 a month puts this tier below the $19 middle for the 21 builders we price the same way.
The lineup spans that middle rather than sitting on one side of it. The first paid tier lands under it and the shop tier well above, and both of them buy one site.
The configuration we would sign off
Personal is the tier that covers what you ticked: $8 a month, $90 across a year, for the one site.
Personal costs $3 a month above that, and the extra opens gates nothing on your list needs open.
One site, on the term shown. The figure holds for the first term, and the renewal table says what follows it.
Open wordpress.com pricingWhich WordPress.com plan: storage and the checkout settle it
| Your case | Plan | Why this one |
|---|---|---|
| A site that can live at a wordpress.com address with ads on itA personal blog nobody has to find twiceA draft of something you have not committed to | Free Free | Nothing to pay and two things to accept. The address stays yoursite.wordpress.com, and the platform shows its own advertising to your visitors. There is no bundled domain on this line and no clock on it either, which makes it a decent place to build before you buy. |
| A first site on a domain you own, without somebody else's adsA freelance portfolioA small business page with a contact form | Personal $10.50 a month, or $4.50 on a twelve-month term | The cheapest line that carries a custom domain and turns the platform's advertising off, with 6 GB of storage behind it. The domain comes free for twelve months and then bills at the registrar's rate, around $15 a year for a .com. Month to month the tier holds at $10.50. Signed for a year it opens at $4.50 and renews at $7.50; three years opens at $3 and renews at $5. |
| A site that has to take money, or one that needs the whole theme libraryA studio selling a handful of sessionsA publication that cares how it looks | Premium $21 a month, or $9 on a twelve-month term | 13 GB against Personal's 6, every premium theme rather than a subset, payment buttons on the page and the fuller stats. Payments are the real reason, and the cut the platform takes falls from 8 percent to 4 on the way. The step is $10.50 a month at the published monthly rates, and $8 once both tiers are renewing. |
| A business site that needs 50 GB and somebody answering at three in the morningA company site with a real media libraryA site whose downtime costs an appointment | Business $46 a month, or $29 on a twelve-month term | 50 GB of storage, priority support around the clock instead of the standard free support, a business mailbox free for the first year, real-time backups and the developer tools: SFTP and SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands, GitHub deployments and a staging site. This is the biggest single step in the lineup, $25 a month over Premium and $26 once both tiers renew, and it is also where the platform's cut drops to 2 percent. |
| A shop with inventory rather than a page with a payment buttonA store selling into several countriesA catalogue that needs shipping and tax rules | Commerce $80.50 a month, or $52 on a twelve-month term | WooCommerce running natively rather than through plugins, the store themes, selling into 60+ countries and 135+ currencies, and no platform cut on standard payments at all. It runs $34.50 a month over Business, or $33.50 once both are at their renewal rates. For a handful of products the payment buttons two tiers down do the same job for a quarter of the money. |
| Publishing at a scale these plans are not drawn forA newsroom with a security reviewProcurement that will not use a card | Enterprise annual only | There is no month-to-month price for this line anywhere in the published lineup, and the vendor says almost nothing about what the contract covers. Everything below it can be bought online. Commerce at $80.50 a month is the last figure a buyer can verify without a conversation. |
WordPress.com cost by storage: what 6 GB, 13 GB and 50 GB cost a year
Each column prices one site on its tier’s annual rate, and on this product that rate belongs to the first term. Storage is the axis because it is the counter that runs out first.
WordPress.com hidden costs: nine charges outside the advertised rate
Price check history
Each read of the published rates is on the record with its date. Across 6 of them the three plans held.
We watched from spring 2026 onward and claim nothing about the years before that. six reads, no movement.
Where this rate sits in the category
21 website builders tools priced by one method. Entry rates run $4.50 to $97 a month, and the middle sits at $19.
Every calibration point was read the same way and on the same pass, August 2026.
Nine charges that sit outside the advertised rate
Sorted by how much each one adds once the site is live.Every advertised annual rate is an opening rate
The percentages beside each term describe the first one and nothing after it. From the second term Personal is $7.50 a month, Premium $15.50, Business $41.50 and Commerce $75, each billed a year at a time. Longer terms renew lower, $5 to $52 a month on three years, but they lock the money up for that long. Compare two vendors at their intro figures and you have compared one year of each.
The bundled domain is bundled for twelve months
A domain comes with each paid tier for its first twelve months, and no tier prints the second year's figure. It renews at standard registrar rates on its own anniversary. The charge lands on a date unrelated to your plan, from a line item most people have forgotten by then.
The free tier carries WordPress.com's own advertising
Visitors to a free site see ads you did not sell and are not paid for. Turning them off is the first thing Personal does. That single fact is what moves most people off the free line, and it is worth knowing before you build a client's site on it.
The business mailbox stops being free after twelve months
Business and Commerce include a professional email address for twelve months, provided through Titan. The renewal price does not appear on the pricing page. It bills apart from the plan. The site and the mailbox end up on two different clocks.
Email marketing stops at 500 subscribers
The bundled MailPoet allowance caps at 500 subscribers, on a lineup that says unlimited about pages, posts, users and visitors. It is a real ceiling in the middle of generous language. A list that grows past it needs its own tool and its own invoice.
The $200 advertising credit arrives once
It is a promotional credit rather than a yearly allowance, so it belongs in the first-year arithmetic and nowhere else. Budget the second year without it.
The price follows where you are standing
Read from a European connection, the same numerals arrive with a euro sign in front of them. The figures follow the visitor rather than the dollar, so a quote seen from one country is not the quote seen from another. Ours are converted at the European Central Bank reference rate of the day and rounded to the nearest half dollar.
The platform takes a cut of what you sell
On standard payments the platform keeps 10 percent on the free tier, 8 on Personal, 4 on Premium and 2 on Business, on top of whatever the payment processor charges. Commerce is the only tier at zero, and WooCommerce payments are zero on Business as well. On a site selling $2,000 a month, the gap between Premium and Commerce is $80 a month in fees alone, which is more than the difference in subscription.
Storage above the plan is sold by the block
Business and Commerce both include 50 GB and both sell more, billed yearly: another 50 GB runs $53 a month, 100 GB $88.50, and the steps climb to $309.50 a month for 350 GB. Personal and Premium cannot buy it at all, so 6 GB and 13 GB are hard ceilings rather than starting points.
What WordPress.com leaves without a number
Three costs the vendor creates and never prints. All three land in the second year, which is exactly when nobody is re-reading the plans.
- 01What the bundled domain renews at in year two. Four paid tiers give it away for twelve months and not one of them prints the figure that follows.
- 02What the business mailbox costs once its free year ends. The upper tiers include it; nothing on the page prices it.
- 03What the Enterprise contract covers. It is annual only, and it is the one line here nobody can check without a conversation.
WordPress.com billing and commitment terms
| Intro rate | The annual figure the vendor advertises. It applies to the first term only. |
| Renewal rate | What each term after the first costs: $7.50, $15.50, $41.50 and $75 a month. |
| Site | The unit a plan is sold in. One plan covers one site. |
| Storage | 6 GB, 13 GB, then 50 GB. The one counter here that can stop a site. |
| Bundled domain | Included with every paid plan for twelve months, then billed by the registrar. |
| Business mailbox | Free for a year on the upper tiers. No renewal price is published. |
| Longer terms | Two and three-year plans, advertised at up to 63 and 69 percent off. |
WordPress.com against Wix, Carrd and Shopify: $10.50 buys a hosted site
Three jobs a buyer might actually have, with every rival read at the rate it prints today. This vendor sells one site with the hosting under it, which is what makes the rows uneven.
| The job | WordPress.com | The rival | Our verdict on this job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building a marketing site without touching codetemplates, a domain, and the updates handled for you | Personal $10.5/mo= $10.50 a month for you$10.50 a month at the standing rate, one site. | Wix n/a a month at its cheapest paid plan. | WordPress.com, on money aloneThe rival's entry plan costs more every month and hands over a stricter editor with more of the work already done. WordPress.com is cheaper and asks you to learn its blocks. On money alone this row is not close. |
| Putting one page on the interneta single scrolling page, a domain, nothing else | Personal $10.5/mo= $10.50 a month for you$10.50 a month, which is $126 across a year. | Carrd n/a for a whole year rather than a month. | CarrdCarrd takes this by an order of magnitude, and it should: one page is the entire product. The moment a second page, a blog or a shop enters the conversation, the comparison stops meaning anything. |
| Running a shop with real inventorycheckout, shipping, taxes and a catalogue | Commerce $80.5/mo= $80.50 a month for you$80.50 a month at the top of the lineup, WooCommerce included. | Shopify $39/mo= $39 a month for you$39 a month at its entry plan, plus transaction terms. | Shopify on the shopShopify is built around the checkout and this product is built around the site. If the shop is the business, buy the specialist. If the shop is a sideline to the writing, one invoice wins. |
Switching to WordPress.com: move the domain last, and read the renewal
Three places people come from, with both sides read at the rates they print today. What costs you is never the subscription. It is the domain and the renewal behind it.
Wix
Wix runs n/a a month against $11 on WordPress.com Personal, or $126 across a year.Sites built in a rival's editor do not export. Every page is rebuilt here, and what really travels is the domain and the words inside it.
- Pull the text and the images out first. A page that exists only in somebody's editor has no file to hand over.
- Rebuild on the free tier before paying anything, since nothing on it expires while you work.
- Point the domain last, once the new site answers at its temporary address.
Carrd
n/a there against $11 a month here, which is $126 once the year is counted.You are trading a page for a platform. The bill rises every month and what it buys is the ability to have a second page at all.
- Decide whether a second page is genuinely coming. If it is not, this move costs money for nothing.
- Carry the copy across before the design. Blocks here are not sections there, and rebuilding beats translating.
- Buy Personal on the day the domain moves, not before. The free tier holds the rebuild at no cost until then.
Shopify
Shopify bills $39 a month against $81 for one WordPress.com site.Products, orders and customers all have to move, and the payment provider has to be reconnected on the far side. Price the hours before the plans.
- Export the catalogue first and check what the importer on this side actually accepts.
- Keep the old store live until a real order has been through the new checkout.
- Read the renewal column before committing: the shop tier opens at one rate and settles at $60 a month.
Is WordPress.com worth it: cheap for a term, ordinary after that
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4.5 of 5
At $10.50 a month Personal sits under the $18.50 middle of the twenty-one builders we price the same way, and for a first site that is genuinely cheap. Honest about its tiers, quiet about its renewals. Read the right-hand column of the renewal table before the left one, and the product looks like a different purchase.
What you buy at every tier is a gate. Payments, storage, priority support, developer access and the store each sit on one specific line, and none of them is sold on its own. That makes the lineup easy to read and expensive to climb: $25 a month between Premium and Business, for support, gigabytes and a shell. Here is where the logic inverts. If the site is a shop, the top of the lineup can be the cheaper answer once the platform's cut is counted. A cheaper builder plus a separate store plus separate hosting is three invoices in the same month.
- You want one page and nothing moreCarrd's cheapest paid tier is $9 for a whole year, against $10.50 a month here.
- You want the software rather than the serviceWordPress itself is free to download, and these plans are hosting with a support desk attached.
- You will not be here past the first termyear two is $7.50, $15.50, $41.50 or $75 a month depending on where you landed.
- The shop is the businessShopify starts at $5 a month and sells the checkout first, the page second.
WordPress.com pricing questions: renewals, storage and the free tier
11.1How much does WordPress.com cost per month?
11.2How much does WordPress.com cost after the first year?
11.3Is WordPress.com free?
11.4What is the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?
11.5Does WordPress.com include a free domain?
11.6What is the difference between Personal and Premium?
11.7When is WordPress.com Business worth $46 a month?
11.8Can you sell products on WordPress.com?
11.9How much storage does each WordPress.com plan include?
11.10Does WordPress.com put ads on free sites?
11.11Is WordPress.com expensive?
11.12Does WordPress.com give a discount for a longer commitment?
11.13How much does WordPress.com Enterprise cost?
WordPress.com pricing: where the euro figures came from and when
Three documents, and what each one was read for.
- wordpress.com/pricingEvery tier on both cycles, each intro rate with its renewal printed underneath, and the storage behind each plan
- ComparEdge open pricing dataWhat the other twenty-one builders charge at entry
- our dated price recordEvery dated check recorded against this product
Last verified August 7, 2026. Rates change without notice, so confirm at wordpress.com/pricing before you commit.
ComparEdge is an independent platform and is not affiliated with WordPress.com. We take no payment for placement and no payment from the vendors we check. Rates change without notice, which is exactly why we date every read and keep the ones that came before.
More on WordPress.com: the review, the alternatives and the changelog
Looking for what each plan actually includes? The WordPress.com review goes through the tiers feature by feature. Want every rival in this category priced the same way? The Website Builders rankings price them all by one method. Still weighing another option? The alternatives page puts WordPress.com next to each of them.