WordPress.com plans and pricing explained (October 2026)

WordPress.com has six plans as of October 2026: Free, Personal, Premium, Business, Commerce and Enterprise. Paid plans cost $9, $18, $40 and $70 per month if you pay monthly, or $4, $8, $25 and $45 per month if you pay yearly. Two- and three-year terms are cheaper still, and Enterprise is custom-priced through WordPress VIP.

The biggest change in 2026 is that plugins are no longer a Business-plan feature. Since 2 April 2026, every paid plan, starting with Personal, can install plugins. Developer tools (SFTP, SSH, WP-CLI, staging and GitHub deployments), real-time backups and 24/7 priority support remain on Business and Commerce.

Below is every plan with its prices, storage, features and limits, taken from wordpress.com/pricing and WordPress.com's support pages on 1 October 2026. Prices are in US dollars, exclude taxes and can change, so confirm at checkout.

WordPress.com prices at a glance

Yearly and multi-year plans are billed up front. For example, Personal at $4 per month billed yearly is $48 for the year, and Business at $17.50 per month on a three-year term is $630 up front. Business and Commerce can add extra storage in 50 GB steps.

What every plan includes

According to WordPress.com's pricing FAQ, every plan, including Free, includes hosting with a global CDN, SSL, DDoS and brute-force protection, and managed WordPress core updates. The FAQ also says every plan includes malware detection and removal and a web application firewall at no extra cost.

Every paid plan adds:

• Plugin installation (from the WordPress.com marketplace or by uploading a plugin)
• A free custom domain for the first year on annual and multi-year billing
• No WordPress.com ads shown to visitors
• Unlimited pages, posts, users and visitors
• Global Styles, font uploads and custom CSS (on all paid plans since April 2026)
• Free support from WordPress.com's support team

Each plan in detail

Free plan

Price: $0, with no expiration date.

The Free plan gives you a site at a WordPress.com subdomain (yoursite.wordpress.com), 1 GB of storage, unlimited pages and posts, and basic stats for the last 7 days. It does not include a custom domain or plugin installation, and WordPress.com shows ads to your visitors. Payment blocks carry a 10% transaction fee.

Good for: trying WordPress, personal journals, class projects. Not a fit for a business that needs its own domain.

Personal plan

Price: $9 per month billed monthly, $4 per month billed yearly, $2.75 per month on a three-year term.

Personal removes ads, adds a custom domain (free for the first year on annual billing), raises storage to 6 GB, and includes a guided AI website builder (usage limits apply), "dozens of premium themes" and plugin installation. Payment blocks carry an 8% transaction fee.

Good for: blogs, portfolios and simple small-business sites that need a few plugins, such as a form or SEO plugin.

Premium plan

Price: $18 per month billed monthly, $8 per month billed yearly, $5.50 per month on a three-year term. WordPress.com labels it "Most popular."

Premium adds access to all premium themes, 13 GB of storage, premium stats and analytics (including UTM tracking and device insights), video uploads, and payment buttons for collecting payments and donations with PayPal and Stripe. The payment-block fee falls to 4%.

Good for: creators and small businesses that want more design choice, better analytics or simple payments and donations.

Business plan

Price: $40 per month billed monthly, $25 per month billed yearly, $17.50 per month on a three-year term.

Business is where WordPress.com becomes a managed host for professionals. It adds:

• 50 GB of storage, with paid add-ons available
• 24/7 priority support
• SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands and GitHub deployments
• A free staging site
• Real-time backups and one-click restores, plus uptime monitoring
• VideoPress with 250 GB of dedicated storage
• Advanced SEO tools
• A built-in AI site assistant
• A free business email account for one year (powered by Titan)
• Email marketing to 500 subscribers through the MailPoet Business plan
• $200 in Blaze advertising credits

The payment-block fee drops to 2%, and WooCommerce payment features carry a 0% platform fee. Standard payment processing fees still apply.

Good for: businesses and agencies that want developer access, staging and real-time backups without running their own hosting.

Commerce plan

Price: $70 per month billed monthly, $45 per month billed yearly, $31.50 per month on a three-year term.

Commerce includes everything in Business plus a fully integrated WooCommerce setup with premium store themes and built-in store extensions. WordPress.com's FAQ lists unlimited products, abandoned cart emails, dynamic upsells, bulk discounts, inventory management and selling in 60+ countries. Payment-block and WooCommerce payment platform fees are 0%, though your payment processor still charges its own fees.

Commerce is also where WooCommerce now points former Woo Express users, since Woo Express has been discontinued.

Good for: online stores that want WooCommerce without managing hosting, updates and extension licensing separately.

Enterprise plan

Enterprise is WordPress VIP, Automattic's enterprise WordPress platform. There is no public price: WordPress VIP's pricing page describes custom quotes on annual contracts, with Standard, Enhanced and Signature tiers. Real-time backups and one-click restores are included. It is aimed at large publishers and organizations with security, compliance and scale requirements.

Feature comparison: which plan has what

Payment-block fees apply to WordPress.com's own payment blocks; card processing fees are always extra.

Monthly vs yearly billing

Monthly billing costs more than twice as much per month on Personal and Premium, and it does not include the free first-year domain. Yearly billing saves 55% on Personal and Premium and 37% on Business compared with monthly, according to the pricing page; three-year billing saves up to 69% on Personal.

Refund windows also differ. According to WordPress.com's refund page (reviewed 4 September 2026), monthly plans are refundable within 7 days of purchase or renewal, annual and multi-year plans within 14 days, and domains within 96 hours of registration or renewal.

A practical approach: start monthly if you are unsure the platform fits, then switch to yearly once you are committed. WordPress.com says you can upgrade or downgrade at any time, with unused time credited toward the new plan.

How to choose a WordPress.com plan

• You just want to publish: Personal.
• You want all premium themes, better stats or simple payments: Premium.
• You need SFTP, staging, real-time backups or a developer's workflow: Business.
• You're running a WooCommerce store: Commerce, or Business if you'll add your own store extensions.
• You need custom contracts, compliance or very high scale: Enterprise (WordPress VIP).

If you're weighing WordPress.com against self-hosting, compare these plans with hosting prices in WordPress hosting types and the overall comparison in WordPress.org vs WordPress.com. For a whole-site budget, see WordPress cost.

Migrating to or from WordPress.com

WordPress.com's built-in importer supports moves from Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Medium, Blogger and self-hosted WordPress. It also offers free assisted migration for self-hosted WordPress sites. Moving out is possible too: the export tool covers posts, pages and comments, and a migration plugin moves the full site. Our guide to migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org walks through it, and our Wix to WordPress and Squarespace to WordPress guides cover moving in from those builders.

Conclusion

As of October 2026, WordPress.com plans run from free to $70 per month on monthly billing, with large discounts for yearly and multi-year terms. Since plugins arrived on every paid plan in April 2026, Personal and Premium cover far more sites than before; Business remains the plan for developer tools, staging and real-time backups, and Commerce for stores. If you need help choosing between WordPress.com and self-hosting, or optimizing a site once it's live, eSEOspace offers WordPress SEO services. For more guides, visit our WordPress hub.

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