WordPress.com
Managed WordPress hosting platform combining site hosting, security infrastructure, and publishing tools.
- Also known as
- wordpress-com
Available worldwide
What is WordPress.com?
WordPress.com provides fully managed WordPress hosting with automatic security, backups, and content management capabilities. It handles infrastructure updates and maintenance automatically while allowing users to retain full ownership of their content and data.
WordPress.com pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free plan available. Paid plans from £3.25–£70/month with 12-, 24-, or 36-month billing terms.
Free
Free- Unlimited pages, posts, users, visitors
- Free domain for one year
- Guided website builder
- Premium themes
- Over 60,000 plugins
- Free support
- Spam protection with Akismet
- WordPress.com ads displayed to visitors
Personal
- storage
- 6 GB
- 6 GB storage
- Unlimited pages, posts, users, visitors
- Free custom domain for one year
- No visitor ads
- Guided website builder
- Premium themes
- Over 60,000 plugins
- Free support
Premium
- storage
- 13 GB
- 13 GB storage
- Unlimited pages, posts, users, visitors
- Free custom domain for one year
- No visitor ads
- Guided website builder
- All premium themes
- Over 60,000 plugins
- Free support
- Premium stats and analytics
- Payment buttons with PayPal and Stripe
- Video hosting
Business
- storage
- 50 GB
- 50 GB storage
- Unlimited pages, posts, users, visitors
- Free custom domain for one year
- No visitor ads
- Guided website builder
- All premium themes
- 24/7 priority expert support
- Over 60,000 plugins
- Premium stats and analytics
- Payment buttons with PayPal and Stripe
- VideoPress with 250GB dedicated storage
- Built-in AI site assistant
- Free business email account for one year
- Email marketing to 500 subscribers
- $200 advertising credits
- Real-time backups and one-click restores
- SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands, GitHub deployments
Commerce
- All Business plan features
- WooCommerce ecommerce integration
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (16)
Independently observed- WooCommerce
- PayPal
- Stripe
- Akismet
- Jetpack
- Google Analytics
- Google AdSense
- Yoast
- Rank Math
- Titan
- MailPoet
- GitHub
- Tumblr
- VideoPress
WordPress.com alternatives
Other wordpress hosting we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- CloudwaysManaged cloud hosting with flexible provider choice and one-click scalingmedium · 73%
- KinstaManaged WordPress hosting designed for performance and reliabilitymedium · 72%
- Rocket.netManaged WordPress hosting with AI-native integrations and enterprise securitymedium · 52%
- PressableEnterprise-grade cloud infrastructure for WordPress sites with AI-powered management and expert supportmedium · 52%
- PantheonA unified platform for building, running, and governing WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js websites.low · 15%
- WordPress VIPlow · 7%
Compare WordPress.com
Side by side against other wordpress hosting, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for WordPress.com, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 35 | 0.04 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 16 | mediumsource · 2026-08-17 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-17 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 99.999 | mediumsource · 2026-08-17 · 60% |