# WordPress.com

> Hosted WordPress with themes, plugins and a free plan

WordPress.com is Automattic's hosted version of WordPress, so a site gets themes, the block editor and the plugin library without a separate hosting bill. Every paid plan can install plugins and connect a free domain for the first year on yearly or longer billing. Business adds developer access and real-time backups, and Commerce adds WooCommerce store tools.

- **Category:** Website & Landing Page Builders
- **Made by:** Automattic Inc.
- **Website:** https://wordpress.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

WordPress.com has a free plan. Paid plans start at $4 per site / month, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** a wordpress.com subdomain, 1 GB of storage, unlimited pages and posts and 7 days of basic stats. Visitors see WordPress.com ads, and plugins need a paid plan.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | A wordpress.com subdomain, 1 GB of storage and basic stats, with WordPress.com ads shown to visitors. |
| Personal | $4 per site / month, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly) | 6 GB of storage, no ads, all premium themes, plugin installs and the AI site builder. $2.75 a month if paid every 3 years. |
| Premium | $8 per site / month, billed yearly ($18 billed monthly) | 13 GB of storage, premium stats with UTM tracking, PayPal and Stripe payment buttons and video uploads. $5.50 a month if paid every 3 years. |
| Business | $25 per site / month, billed yearly ($40 billed monthly) | 50 GB, priority support, SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI and GitHub deployments, real-time backups, VideoPress and email marketing to 500 subscribers. |
| Commerce | $45 per site / month, billed yearly ($70 billed monthly) | Everything in Business plus WooCommerce store extensions, abandoned-cart emails and selling in 60+ countries with no transaction fee. |
| Enterprise | Custom | WordPress VIP hosting for large organizations, priced through sales. |

Read from https://wordpress.com/pricing/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with WordPress.com before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Pay yearly to save 35% to 55% over monthly** (Annual discount): Personal is $4 a month billed yearly against $9 monthly; Premium $8 against $18; Business $25 against $40; Commerce $45 against $70. Source: https://wordpress.com/pricing/
- **Pay every 2 or 3 years for a lower monthly rate** (Other savings): Paying every 3 years brings Personal to $2.75 a month ($99), Premium to $5.50 ($198), Business to $17.50 ($630) and Commerce to $31.50 ($1,134). Source: https://wordpress.com/pricing/
- **Free domain for the first year** (Other savings): Yearly and multi-year paid plans include a custom domain such as .com, .net or .org free for the first year. Monthly plans do not. Source: https://wordpress.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Themes and the block editor:** Sites are built from free and premium themes in the WordPress block editor, with unlimited pages, posts and users on every plan.
- **Plugins on every paid plan:** Personal and above can install any of more than 60,000 plugins from the marketplace or upload one directly. The free plan cannot.
- **AI site builder and assistant:** A guided builder creates a site through a chat, within usage limits. Business and Commerce add the WordPress AI Assistant for content, design and site management.
- **Managed hosting and security:** Every plan includes a global CDN, SSL, a firewall, malware removal and managed updates. Real-time backups and one-click restores start on Business.
- **Developer access:** Business and Commerce add SFTP and SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands and GitHub deployments. WordPress Studio, a free desktop app, runs WordPress sites locally.
- **WooCommerce store:** Commerce bundles WooCommerce extensions for unlimited products, upsells, bulk discounts and inventory, and accepts 135+ currencies.

## Good for

- Bloggers and writers who want WordPress without running a server
- Sites that need a specific WordPress plugin or theme
- Developers who want SSH, WP-CLI and Git on managed hosting

## Worth knowing

- The free plan shows WordPress.com ads to visitors and cannot use a custom domain or plugins.
- Monthly billing costs more than double the yearly rate on Personal and Premium and does not include the free first-year domain.
- Backups, developer tools and priority support start on Business at $25 a month billed yearly.
- The desktop app, WordPress Studio, is for building sites locally; site management on the go uses the Jetpack mobile app.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. WordPress.com gives you real WordPress, themes and more than 60,000 plugins included, without a hosting bill to manage. Personal is $4 a month on yearly billing, which is about as cheap as a proper site gets. Backups and developer tools wait for Business at $25, and the free plan shows ads to your visitors.

- **Value for money: A.** Personal is $4 a month for one site on yearly billing ($9 monthly), with your own domain, no ads and plugin installs. That's under 60% of this category's cheapest quarter ($5.40). Payment buttons need Premium, which is still only $8.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free for good with unlimited pages and posts, but it's on a wordpress.com address with 1 GB of storage, WordPress.com ads shown to your visitors and no plugins. Fine for a hobby blog, not a business.
- **Features: A.** Every paid plan can install any of more than 60,000 plugins, which no other builder here matches. Add themes, the block editor, WooCommerce on Commerce, and SSH, WP-CLI and GitHub deployments on Business, and it covers the whole job and then some.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.62 from about 22,300 App Store ratings. The AI builder gets a site going through a chat, but with plugins and themes in the mix there's more to choose and set than in a closed builder.
- **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, iPhone and Android, plus WordPress Studio on Mac, Windows and Linux for building sites locally. Plugins connect it to almost anything, alongside WooCommerce, Jetpack, PayPal, Stripe and GitHub.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from WordPress.com's own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among website and landing page builders

- WordPress.com's GPA of 3.4 is higher than 30 of the 30 other website and landing page builders we grade.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 30 of 30) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 5).
- Its paid plans start at $4 a month, against a middle price of $14 for the category: 2 of the 29 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/website-builders

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace WordPress.com you would be making a builder that other people can use without writing code. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.4 is higher than 30 of the 30 other website and landing page builders we grade. It costs $48 a year.

- You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code.
- You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, WooCommerce, Jetpack and PayPal among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features A, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 22,281 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id335703880

## Works with

WooCommerce, Jetpack, PayPal, Stripe, MailPoet, Titan, GitHub

**Tags:** Templates, No-code, AI features, Email campaigns

## Alternatives

- [Squarespace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/squarespace): Template-based website builder with an online store and invoicing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/squarespace-vs-wordpress-com)
- [Wix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wix): Drag-and-drop website builder with an AI agent and business apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/wix-vs-wordpress-com)
- [Webflow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webflow): Visual website builder with a CMS, hosting and code-level control. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/webflow-vs-wordpress-com)
- [GoDaddy Website Builder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/godaddy-website-builder): Template website builder with marketing tools and a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/godaddy-website-builder-vs-wordpress-com)
- [Hostinger AI Builder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger-ai-builder): AI website and web app builder bundled with Hostinger hosting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hostinger-ai-builder-vs-wordpress-com)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://wordpress.com/pricing/
- https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.5/plans?currency=USD
- https://apps.wordpress.com/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/wordpress-com
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