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WordPress pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for WordPress. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the blogging tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The WordPress catalogue entry carries a starting price of Free and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the WordPress review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full WordPress feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Content management
- Theme system
- Plugin architecture
- User management
- SEO optimization
- Media management
- Comment system
- Multilingual support
Integrations
- WooCommerce
- Yoast SEO
- Elementor
- Gutenberg
- Jetpack
- Google Analytics
- Social media
- Payment gateways
Security
- User authentication
- Regular updates
- Security plugins
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Self-hosted deployment
- Managed deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Self-hosted support
Localization
- 70+ languages language support
People bring WordPress in for content management and blog publishing, website building with themes and plugins, e-commerce with woocommerce, community sites and forums. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to WordPress are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Blogging
Too few blogging tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Hashnode | Free | freemium | - | vs WordPress |
| Micro.blog | On request | subscription | - | vs WordPress |
| Weebly | Free | freemium | - | vs WordPress |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the WordPress badges page.
Before you pay for WordPress
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
WordPress runs on web (self-hosted), wordpress.com (saas), and is published by WordPress Foundation of Global Open Source Project. The full record is on the WordPress review, and the rest of the category is under best blogging tools.
WordPress pricing questions
- How much does WordPress cost?
- WordPress starts at Free. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does WordPress have a free plan?
- Yes, WordPress is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- Which blogging tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 3 blogging tools listed alongside WordPress have a free tier: Hashnode, Weebly.
- What am I actually paying for with WordPress?
- The record lists 25 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for content management and blog publishing, website building with themes and plugins, e-commerce with woocommerce.
- Does WordPress charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these WordPress prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare WordPress against before paying?
- The closest blogging tools in this directory are Hashnode, Micro.blog, Weebly. Each has a side-by-side comparison with WordPress covering price, platforms and features.