WordPress.com adds a 3-year prepay billing tier; Jetpack finally discloses real bundle prices
WordPress.com's billing selector grew from 3 periods to 4 with a new 'Pay every 3 years' option (Personal drops to $2.75/mo), and forcing USD pricing on cloud.jetpack.com revealed real prices for Security, Growth, and Complete bundles that previously rendered as placeholders.
Billing periods: Monthly, Annual, 2-year. Jetpack bundle/product prices (Security, Growth, Complete, and 8 individual products) were undisclosed -- the pricing page's cards lazy-rendered to a US$0.01 placeholder for every product except CRM Entrepreneur ($17/mo).
Billing periods: Monthly, Annual, 2-year, and a new 3-year term (Personal $2.75/mo first-term, corroborated by an independent Wayback Machine snapshot). Jetpack bundle/product prices are now fully readable: Security $9.95/mo ($19.95 full), Growth $9.95/mo ($19.95 full), Complete $24.95/mo ($49.95 full), and most individual products at $4.95/mo first year ($9.95 full). Core WordPress.com monthly/annual list prices are unchanged ($9/$18/$40/$70 monthly; $4/$8/$25/$45 annual).
Automattic’s WordPress.com pricing page (wordpress.com/pricing/) added a fourth billing-period option — “Pay every 3 years” — alongside the existing monthly, annual, and 2-year terms. On the 3-year term, Personal’s first-term rate drops to $2.75/mo, a figure independently corroborated by a Wayback Machine snapshot referencing the same “$2.75/month (billed every 3 years)” plan in FAQ copy. The 2-year term prices Personal at $3.25/mo. Both are new prepay tiers beyond what the page previously offered.
Separately, cloud.jetpack.com’s product-pricing page has historically lazy-rendered most bundle and individual-product cards to a non-functional “US$0.01” placeholder price at capture time, leaving Security, Growth, Complete, and 8 individual products (VaultPress Backup, Scan, Social, Akismet, Boost, VideoPress, Search, Stats) undocumented in prior research passes — only CRM Entrepreneur ($17/mo) rendered reliably. Forcing the page’s currency to USD via a ?currency=USD query parameter reliably unlocks the real prices: Security and Growth bundles at $9.95/mo ($19.95 full price, 50% off first year), Complete at $24.95/mo ($49.95 full), and most individual products (AI, VaultPress Backup, Scan, Social, Akismet, VideoPress) at $4.95/mo first year ($9.95 full); Boost is priced like the bundles at $9.95/mo. Search and Stats (Paid) are flat at $8.33/mo with no first-year discount shown. WordPress.com’s own monthly and annual list prices ($9/$18/$40/$70 monthly; $4/$8/$25/$45 annual for Personal/Premium/Business/Commerce) and Jetpack AI Assistant pricing ($9.95/mo full, $4.95/mo first year) are unchanged from the prior capture.
WordPress.com's billing-period selector grew from 3 options (Monthly/Annual/2-year) to 4, adding 'Pay every 3 years' (Personal drops to $2.75/mo first-term, corroborated by an independent Wayback snapshot). Core monthly/annual list prices are unchanged ($9/$18/$40/$70 monthly; $4/$8/$25/$45 annual). Forcing ?currency=USD on cloud.jetpack.com also unlocked real prices for bundles/products that previously lazy-rendered to a placeholder: Security $9.95/mo (50% off first year, $19.95 full), Growth $9.95/mo ($19.95 full), Complete $24.95/mo ($49.95 full), and most individual products at $4.95/mo first year ($9.95 full).