WordPress.com
Managed WordPress hosting from Automattic, from free to commerce plans..
WordPress.com is the hosted service run by Automattic, separate from the free WordPress software at WordPress.org. It has a free plan and four paid plans: Personal, Premium, Business and Commerce. Plugins and custom code need the Business plan or higher.
One floor per score. Lit windows out of five.
What comes with the flat
- Runs the servers, updates and security for you
- Business and Commerce plans allow plugins and include real-time backups
- Free domain for the first year on annual plans
- 24/7 priority expert support on Business and Commerce
- Trustpilot score 3.8 from 4,180 reviews, with support and ease of use praised
The small print
- Personal and Premium plans have no plugin support
- Storage is 6 GB, 13 GB and 50 GB on paid plans
- Monthly billing costs more than twice the yearly rate on Personal
- Some users report downtime and find the interface confusing at first
Floor plans
Personal
Premium
Business
Commerce
Read on 2026-10-26 on WordPress.com's own pricing page, USD excl. tax. Work out the rent year by year
What the neighbours say
4,180 reviews, read 2026-10-14
Our verdict
WordPress.com suits bloggers and small businesses who want WordPress without handling servers, updates or security. It is a weak choice for people who want to install any plugin cheaply, since plugins start at the Business plan, 25 dollars a month on annual billing. The main drawback is that the cheaper plans are restricted and storage is small.
The details
- Kinds of hosting
- wordpress
- Control panel
- custom WordPress.com dashboard
- Backups
- Real-time backups on Business and Commerce only
- Support
- Free support on Personal and Premium, 24/7 priority expert support on Business and Commerce
- Moving in
- Import tools available, hosting transfer details not checked
- Free domain
- yes first year, annual plans only
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Data centers
- Not published
Sources
- WordPress.com pricing: Plan prices, billing terms, storage, plugins, backups, support, domain
- Trustpilot, WordPress.com: Score, count, themes
- WordPress.com support, hosting configuration: PHP version and cache settings; no data center list
- WordPress.com refund policy, archived copy: 14-day plan refund (7 days monthly) and 96-hour domain refund, via archived page
- WordPress.com public products API: Price per plan and term (monthly, 1, 2, 3 years); no introductory offer on these plans
- WordPress.com refunds support page: Refund periods: 14 days for annual and multi-year plans, 7 days monthly, 96 hours for domains (read 2026-10-19)
Scores are our reading of the sources above, on a 1 to 5 scale. We did not run our own server tests for this listing.
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