WooCommerce Pricing
- Ecommerce pricing
- $25/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
WooCommerce pricing starts at $25 a month, which is $300 over twelve months. There is a free plan. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 9 August 2026, and one charge that the headline price does not include is set out below.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
WooCommerce ranking and coverage
- Terms rank
- Unranked
- Referenced here
- 1 page
WooCommerce is not ranked because there are too few same-currency products in its category to position its entry price honestly. How the rank is calculated.
WooCommerce pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Core plugin free; hosting typically $25 to $350/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $25 a month, or $300 a year |
| How that is reached | Hosting at $25 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Priced plans published | 4 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every WooCommerce plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| WooCommerce core | $0 | per one-time | Free, open source, no revenue share and no feature gating |
| Hosting | $25 | per month | Stated as $25 to $350/month for most stores, scaling with traffic |
| Extensions Add-on | $29 | per year | Stated as $29 to $299 per year per extension |
| Payments Add-on | Per transaction | per usage | Processing fees charged by your chosen gateway, not by WooCommerce |
What WooCommerce costs beyond the advertised price
Each of these is a figure you can check on the vendor's own page. The arithmetic is shown so you can redo it rather than take our word for it.
- Charged on top of a plan$29.04 a year
Extensions is charged on top of a plan rather than instead of one: $29.04 a year, which is $29.04 a year on top of whichever tier you hold.
Working$29.04 a year as published, which is $2.42 a month spread over twelve.
Computed from the plan table on WooCommerce pricing , read 9 August 2026
What WooCommerce actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting | per month | $25 | $300 |
| Extensions add-on | per year | $2.42 | $29 |
WooCommerce pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against WooCommerce |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wix | $17 a month | Yes | −$8 a month (−32%) |
| Squarespace | $19 a month | No | −$6 a month (−24%) |
| WooCommerce | $25 a month | Yes | This product |
| Shopify | $29 a month | No | +$4 a month (+16%) |
Which WooCommerce plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You already run WordPress and want to sell | WooCommerce core | Free, open source, no revenue share and no features held behind tiers. |
| You need hosting for a real store | Budget $25 to $350 a month | WooCommerce's own stated range, scaling with traffic and performance needs. This is your actual monthly bill. |
| You need subscriptions, bookings or advanced shipping | Budget extensions separately | $29 to $299 per year each. Four or five of these plus hosting can reach $200 a month, at which point Shopify is a fair comparison. |
| Revenue share is a material cost at your volume | WooCommerce core | No percentage of sales goes to Woo, which is the strongest argument and grows stronger with turnover. |
| You want someone else responsible at 3am | Consider Shopify instead | Security patching, uptime and PCI become your problem here. |
| Nobody will maintain the site | Do not choose WooCommerce | An abandoned checkout is a breach, not just an embarrassment. |
Verdict by who you are
Content-led business selling productsYes
WordPress plus Woo fits a content site far better than bolting a blog onto a commerce platform.
High-turnover merchantYes
No revenue share means percentage costs do not scale with your success.
Merchant needing custom checkoutYes
You own the checkout entirely, which Shopify gates to Plus.
Business with no technical capabilityNo
Hosting, patching, backups and plugin conflicts are yours. Shopify exists precisely to remove this.
Buyer assuming free means cheapCompare first
Price your real extension list and hosting first. Sometimes Woo is far cheaper; sometimes it is not cheaper at all.
Should you buy WooCommerce?
Buy WooCommerce if…
- Stores already running on WordPress
- Merchants who want to avoid revenue share
- Anyone needing full control of checkout and data
Do not buy WooCommerce if…
- Merchants who want hosting and security handled for them
- Teams without WordPress maintenance capability
- High-volume stores needing guaranteed performance out of the box
What leaving WooCommerce would cost
low lock-in
WooCommerce scores on self-hostable, public API, open source, documented export. Portability 10/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
Free core, and they mean it
WooCommerce states plainly that there is no revenue share and that features are not locked away behind higher tiers. The core plugin handles products, variations, cart, checkout, coupons, tax and shipping at no cost.
That is a real difference from Shopify, which charges a monthly fee and takes additional transaction fees unless you use its own payments. For a store turning over meaningful revenue, percentage-based costs are the largest line item, and removing them is the strongest argument for Woo.
Where the money actually goes
WooCommerce’s own page gives the ranges:
- Hosting: $25 to $350 a month for most stores, scaling with traffic and performance needs
- Extensions: $29 to $299 per year, each
- Payments: whatever your gateway charges, paid to the gateway
The extension line is the one that surprises people. Subscriptions, bookings, advanced shipping, better search and many other capabilities that hosted platforms include are separate annual purchases here. Four or five of them plus decent hosting can reach $200 a month, at which point the comparison with Shopify is about control rather than cost.
Price your actual extension list before concluding Woo is cheaper. Sometimes it is by a wide margin; sometimes it is not cheaper at all.
What you take on
Security patching, WordPress and plugin updates, backups, uptime, page speed and PCI considerations become your responsibility, or your host’s if you pay for managed hosting. A neglected WooCommerce store is a liability in a way a neglected Shopify store is not, because there is no vendor patching it for you.
This is the same trade described on the WordPress profile, with money attached: an abandoned blog is embarrassing, an abandoned checkout is a breach.
When to choose it
Choose WooCommerce if you already run WordPress, if revenue share is a material cost at your volume, if you need to customise checkout or own your customer data outright, or if a required capability only exists as a WordPress plugin.
Choose Shopify if you would rather pay a predictable fee and have someone else be responsible at 3am. Both are defensible. Pretending the free core makes Woo free is not.
WooCommerce questions, answered
- Is WooCommerce worth it?
- WooCommerce is the right answer when control matters more than convenience.
- How much does WooCommerce cost?
- Core plugin free; hosting typically $25 to $350/month. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Hosting, published at $25 a month, which works out at $25 a month or $300 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does WooCommerce have a free plan or free trial?
- WooCommerce has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- What is the best WooCommerce alternative?
- It depends on the job. Shopify: Hosting, security and support handled, at a monthly fee plus fees. Squarespace Commerce: Much simpler for a small catalogue you never intend to extend. Medusa: Open-source headless commerce for developer-led builds.
- Can I self-host WooCommerce?
- Yes. WooCommerce can be run on your own infrastructure, so the data stays under your control.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about WooCommerce. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from WooCommerce's own pricing page on 9 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
4 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where WooCommerce appears on this site
One other page here references WooCommerce, and it is listed below.
- Another profile Shopify names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
What has changed
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August 2026
- Confirmed no revenue share and recorded the stated hosting and extension ranges
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- WooCommerce pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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