WordPress.com Pricing: Plans and What Each One Unlocks

WordPress.com sells five plans - Free, Personal, Premium, Business, and Commerce - and on its default "Pay yearly" view, the paid tiers list at $9, $18, $40, and $70 a month before an active promotional discount. Storage, plugin access, and ecommerce tools are what actually separate the tiers, not design features. Here's what wordpress.com/pricing showed when checked in a live browser session on September 23, 2026, including which billing toggle these numbers come from.

What do the plans cost, and on which billing view?

The pricing page defaults to a "Pay yearly" toggle, labeled "up to 55% off," alongside separate "Pay monthly," "Pay every 2 years," and "Pay every 3 years" options. On that default yearly view, each paid plan shows three numbers at once: a struck-through list price, a discounted price for the first term, and a separate renewal rate. Reading the page exactly as it renders:

Each plan card states its renewal rate directly, for example: "Auto-renews at $6 per month. Billed every 12 months, excl. taxes." for Personal. That promotional discount is a live offer, not a fixed price — it can change, so treat the "list price" column above as the standing reference point and check the live page for whatever discount is running when you sign up. Monthly billing, and the longer 2-year and 3-year terms, show different numbers again: WordPress.com's own FAQ on the same page states, in the context of its longer prepaid terms, that "paid plans start at $2.75/month" — a separate, deeper-discount figure tied to the every-3-years option, not the default yearly view above. Don't mix the two: pick one billing term and use the number that page shows for it.

The prices on this page were shown in US dollars, with no currency or country selector visible during this check — WordPress.com's pricing may render differently by region, so confirm the currency shown in your own account before comparing plans.

There's also an Enterprise tier above Commerce, listed only as "Learn more" with no public price — that one requires contacting WordPress.com directly.

What does each plan actually unlock?

Per the plan cards on the pricing page:

• Free ($0): WordPress.com's FAQ describes it plainly: "The free plan gives you a WordPress.com subdomain, 1 GB of storage, unlimited pages and posts, and access to basic stats for the last 7 days. It does not include a custom domain, plugin installation, or ad-free browsing for visitors." Your site lives at a yoursite.wordpress.com address, and WordPress.com's own ads show to your visitors.
• Personal: Adds 6 GB storage, a free domain for one year, no ads for visitors, dozens of premium themes, a "Guided website builder (usage limits apply)," and — the floor for extensibility — the ability to "Install any of over 60,000 plugins from the WordPress.com marketplace, or upload a plugin directly to your site."
• Premium: Adds 13 GB storage, all premium themes (not just a select set), premium stats and analytics with UTM tracking, payment buttons for PayPal and Stripe, and video uploads.
• Business: Adds 50 GB storage, priority 24/7 support, a built-in "WordPress AI Assistant," a free business email account for the first year, $200 in advertising credits for Blaze, real-time backups with one-click restores, and — the floor for direct code access — "SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands, and GitHub Deployments."
• Commerce: Also 50 GB storage, plus premium store themes and a full WooCommerce build-out. Per WordPress.com's own comparison of the two top tiers: "Both plans include developer tools like SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands, and GitHub Deployments, plus priority 24/7 support, 50 GB storage, and all premium themes. The Commerce plan adds a fully integrated WooCommerce experience with built-in ecommerce extensions: unlimited products, abandoned cart emails, dynamic upsells, bulk discounts, inventory management, and support for selling in 60+ countries with 0% transaction fees. The Business plan also has 0% transaction fees for WooCommerce payments but does not include those premium store extensions out of the box."

That last point is worth sitting with: you can technically run WooCommerce on Business, at the same transaction-fee rate as Commerce, but Commerce is what adds the packaged store extensions (abandoned-cart emails, bulk discounts, and the rest) rather than leaving you to add them yourself.

Does WordPress.com include hosting on every plan?

Yes, on all five, including Free. WordPress.com's FAQ states: "Yes. Every WordPress.com plan, including the free plan, comes with hosting included. You do not need to purchase hosting separately. All plans include a global CDN, SSL, DDoS protection, brute-force attack protection, and managed WordPress updates." Unlike self-hosted WordPress.org, there's no separate hosting bill to plan for on any WordPress.com tier — the plan price above is the whole cost of running the site, aside from any domain, plugin, or app purchase you add.

Does a paid plan come with a free domain?

Only on longer terms. WordPress.com's FAQ is specific: "Yes. All annual and multi-year paid plans include a free custom domain for the first year. That covers popular extensions like .com, .net, and .org, among many others. Monthly plans do not include a free domain. If you already own a domain, you can connect it to your WordPress.com site or transfer it to us for easier management. The free plan uses a WordPress.com subdomain (yoursite.wordpress.com) and does not include a custom domain." So the free-domain perk is tied to committing to at least a year up front, not to which paid tier you pick — Personal and Commerce both get it on annual billing, and neither gets it on monthly.

Which plan fits which situation?

• Free fits a test site or a personal page where a WordPress.com subdomain and visible ads are acceptable, and you don't need a custom domain or plugins.
• Personal is the entry point for a real custom domain and any of the 60,000+ plugins, without needing file-level access.
• Premium fits a site that needs to accept payments directly (PayPal or Stripe buttons) and wants full analytics, without a store.
• Business fits anyone who wants direct file and code access — SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, GitHub deployments — an AI assistant, or real-time backups, but doesn't need a packaged store.
• Commerce fits an actual WooCommerce store that wants the bundled ecommerce extensions rather than assembling them plugin by plugin.

For how this pricing structure compares to running WordPress yourself instead of through Automattic's hosted plans, see our WordPress.com vs WordPress.org guide, which covers the self-hosted side's cost model (free software, your own host) in full. If you're deciding whether you even need a dedicated page-builder plugin on top of whichever WordPress route you pick, WordPress page builders vs the block editor covers what the built-in editor already does before you add one.

Where does Figment fit in?

Nowhere on this comparison directly. Figment publishes a website from a Figma design through its Figma plugin — it's not a blogging platform, a plugin marketplace, or a store, so it doesn't compete with any WordPress.com tier here. If a WordPress.com plan is genuinely what you need — for the plugin ecosystem, WooCommerce, or Automattic's managed hosting — this pricing breakdown is the one to act on, not a reason to look elsewhere.

Bottom line: WordPress.com's default yearly view currently lists Personal, Premium, Business, and Commerce at $9, $18, $40, and $70 a month, discounted for now to $4, $8, $25, and $45, and each renews at its own separate rate after that. Plugins arrive at Personal, direct file access and an AI assistant at Business, and packaged WooCommerce extensions at Commerce. Longer prepaid terms (2-year, 3-year) and monthly billing show different numbers on the same page — pick your term first, then read the number tied to it, and check wordpress.com/pricing directly before you commit, since both the discount and your account's currency can change what you see.