# Bluehost > WordPress-focused shared hosting sold on multi-year terms Bluehost sells shared hosting built around WordPress, with plans that step up in sites, storage and traffic, and a WooCommerce plan for online shops. Plans include a first-year domain, SSL, weekly backups and AI site creation, and VPS, dedicated and cloud servers are sold beside them. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Bluehost - **Website:** https://www.bluehost.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Bluehost's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **WordPress tools:** Every plan manages WordPress installs, plugins and updates from the Bluehost dashboard, and the higher plans add a staging site for testing changes. - **Domain, SSL and backups:** Plans include a domain free for the first year, a free SSL certificate and weekly backups. - **Malware scanning:** Plans scan sites for malware, and the Business and eCommerce Essentials plans also remove it. - **AI site creation:** An AI tool drafts a starting site on every plan, which you then edit in WordPress. - **WooCommerce plan:** eCommerce Essentials comes with WooCommerce set up for selling online; the other plans offer WooCommerce tools. ## Good for - First-time site owners starting a WordPress blog or brochure site - Small shops that want WooCommerce ready on a hosting plan ## Worth knowing - Bluehost's pages answered our reader with a bot check, so its prices could not be read and are not listed here. - Promotional prices cover the first term only, and plans renew automatically at the regular rate shown in the control panel. - Email is a one-month Professional Email trial that then renews as a paid add-on. - If you cancel, a fee for the free domain is taken from the refund, and refunds end after 30 days. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Bluehost is shared hosting built around WordPress, with AI that drafts a starter site and a plan that comes with WooCommerce set up for selling. We couldn't read a single price, because its pages answered our reader with a bot check. Email is only a one-month trial, and if you cancel, the free domain's fee comes out of your refund. - **Value for money: C.** No price on record: Bluehost's pages answered our reader with a bot check, so no two-year figure can be worked out. With nothing to compare, it sits at C, the grade for no stated price. Promotional prices cover the first term only. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. There's a 30-day refund, but if you cancel, a fee for the free domain is taken out of it. - **Features: C.** WordPress management, a first-year domain, SSL, AI site drafts and a WooCommerce plan. The gaps the listing names: backups are weekly, malware removal waits for Business and eCommerce Essentials, and email is a one-month trial. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. The dashboard handles WordPress installs, plugins and updates, but you still set up a domain, a site and email yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web dashboard only, and the listing names just WordPress and WooCommerce. No API or wider list of integrations is on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Bluehost's own pages on 17 October 2026. Its pricing page answered our reader with a bot check when we checked it again that day. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Bluehost's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 0 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 1 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Bluehost you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 18 of the 21 other web hosts grade higher. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, WooCommerce **Tags:** AI features, Malware protection, Managed WordPress ## Alternatives - [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bluehost-vs-hostinger) - [HostGator](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostgator): Shared and WordPress hosting with malware scanning and a free domain. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bluehost-vs-hostgator) - [SiteGround](https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteground): Shared and WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with its own Site Tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bluehost-vs-siteground) - [DreamHost](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dreamhost): Independent shared and WordPress host with monthly or multi-year terms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bluehost-vs-dreamhost) - [Namecheap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/namecheap): Domain registrar's cPanel shared hosting, billed monthly or yearly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bluehost-vs-namecheap) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://www.bluehost.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/bluehost Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).