Which WordPress.com plan should you pick?

Here's the comparison as of November 2026. WordPress.com prices are in US$.

For longer WordPress.com subscriptions, Personal is $3.25 on 2 years and $2.75 on 3 years. Premium is $6.50 on 2 years and $5.50 on 3 years.

Business is $20 on 2 years and $17.50 on 3 years. Commerce is $36 on 2 years and $31.50 on 3 years.

The domain offer follows the billing term, too: yearly and multi-year WordPress.com plans include a free domain for the first year, while monthly plans don't. Keep that separate from the monthly rate when you're choosing a subscription.

How to choose a paid plan

Start with what you need to put on the site. Do you need plugins, more room for files, or a custom domain? Those are more useful questions than whether the plan name sounds right for you.

Personal and every plan above it can install plugins from a library of over 60,000. You don't need to move up to Business just to get plugin access. That's worth checking before you choose a higher-priced plan on that basis.

Storage is a clearer dividing line. Personal has 6 GB, Premium has 13 GB, and Business and Commerce each have 50 GB, so compare those limits with what you expect to keep on your site rather than picking by name.

Don't skip that check.

If 6 GB covers your needs and plugin access is what you're after, Personal has both. If you need more than 6 GB, Premium gives you 13 GB. Moving from Premium to Business takes the storage allowance to 50 GB.

But Business and Commerce have the same storage allowance. Don't choose Commerce for extra storage over Business; there isn't any difference in that limit. For a store, compare the plan against your specific store requirements before paying for it.

The same domain offer applies across yearly and multi-year paid plans. Moving up a tier doesn't extend that included domain beyond the first year.

WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

These aren't interchangeable choices. You're comparing WordPress.com subscriptions here; WordPress.org offers free software that you host yourself. The current WordPress.org release is 7.1 (7.1.4).

With self-hosted WordPress, you need hosting and a domain, and you're responsible for updates, backups and security. The software being free doesn't remove those jobs or the need to arrange hosting.

Want to take that on? Consider self-hosted WordPress alongside the WordPress.com plans. If you're choosing a WordPress.com subscription, though, don't treat the free WordPress.org download as another subscription tier.

WordPress has a large footprint: W3Techs reports that, in November 2026, it runs 39.3% of all websites and 58.1% of sites that use a known CMS.

There's free learning material, too. Learn WordPress at learn.wordpress.org has courses and workshops if you'd like to get more familiar with it before you commit.

What you can do for free

WordPress.com Free gives you 1 GB of storage and a wordpress.com address. It displays WordPress.com ads, and you can't install plugins or use a custom domain.

That's the boundary to check. If your site needs a plugin or your own domain, Free won't cover it, even if 1 GB is enough room for your content.

Heya, the builder publishing this guide, is another option for a small site. Heya Free costs $0, with no credit card and no time limit.

You can make 3 sites, with up to 5 pages per site, and use all 68 templates; each site gets a free yourname.heya.bio address with HTTPS and a small Made with Heya badge.

For a short site, compare that page limit with what you want to publish (count the pages before choosing). A WordPress.com storage allowance and a Heya page allowance are different limits, not matching measures.

Heya Pro Lite is $3 a month. It keeps the allowance at 3 sites but raises the limit to 20 pages per site, removes the badge, and stops marking links nofollow.

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