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WordPress.com renewal price: what you pay after the intro term

Observed on WordPress.com's pricing page. The price has not moved since 2026-08-24. Checked again on 2026-10-16: the renewal sentence is still on the page.

WordPress.com publishes 2 plans I track. The cheapest, Personal, is $2.75/mo on a 36-month term and renews at $2.75/mo, the same price. The renewal price is printed on the pricing page. Over 3 years the cheapest purchasable path costs $99.00. Index score 0.0 (clean record), no dated incidents in my window; tracking since 2026-08-24.

Enshittification Index: 0.0 (clean record)

What Personal costs per month over 5 years. This plan does not rise: the price after the first term is the price before it.
$2.7536 months
$2.75then every month
month 1month 36month 60
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PlanIntro /moTermRenewal /moJump1 yr3 yr5 yrHistory
Personal cheapest $2.7536 mo $2.75 +0% $48.00$99.00$165.00tracking since 2026-08-24
Premium popular $5.5036 mo $5.50 +0% $96.00$198.00$330.00tracking since 2026-08-24
Visit WordPress.comaffiliate link; see the note abovenegotiate this renewal insteadwhen does mine renew?the week before it renews

Where the renewal price is stated

Personal

“No separate renewal price is published - plans renew at the list rate for the billing period. Support: 'WordPress.com refunds annual plans within 14 days of purchase or renewal, and monthly plans within 7 days.'”

Source: https://wordpress.com/pricing/ · observed 2026-08-24 · confidence medium · Not intro pricing - multi-year rates are standing prices ($9 monthly / $4 annual / $3.25 2-yr / $2.75 3-yr per month). 'Free domain for one year'. Money-back: 14 days annual+/renewals, 7 days monthly, 96 hours domains. Confidence medium only because of the MX$ currency-relabeling risk noted in fetch_notes. Included as a too-big-to-omit brand.

Premium

“Most popular Premium ... $ 18 $ 8 $ 6.50 $ 5.50 per month, billed every 12 months / 24 months / 36 months”

Source: https://wordpress.com/pricing/ · observed 2026-08-24 · confidence medium · 'Most popular' badge on Premium. Business ('Best value'): $40 / $25 / $20 / $17.50.

Price history

Personal

ObservedIntro /moRenewal /moMethod
2026-08-24$2.75$2.75seed

Premium

ObservedIntro /moRenewal /moMethod
2026-08-24$5.50$5.50seed

Cheaper over the same 36 months

4 of the 25 hosts I can price come in under WordPress.com's $99.00 over 36 months. The three cheapest:

  1. ChemiCloud Starter $53.64 saving $45.36
  2. AccuWeb Hosting Budget (Best Cheap Web Hosting) $71.64 saving $27.36
  3. HostArmada Start Dock $71.64 saving $27.36

The rule is arithmetic and nothing else: a host appears here only if it publishes a renewal price and a full 36-month total can be computed from prices actually observed, and the order is that total, cheapest first. Hosts whose intro term is not published cannot be priced and are left out rather than guessed at. None of these pay me anything. Switching costs an afternoon; the week before a renewal is when to do it.

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