WordPress.com
Who runs WordPress.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest website builder and hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Wix.com
Measured from WordPress.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit WordPress.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs WordPress.com
WordPress.com wordpress.com
Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.
Wikidata: Website builder
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What WordPress.com tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
16 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 6 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to WordPress.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to WordPress.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Wix.com - The platform trusted by millions of businesses
Build the business you have in mind on a platform trusted by millions. Hosting, business tools, domains and marketing built in. Try it for free.
Very close - 02
Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.
Very close - 03
Free Website Builder: Build a Free Website or Online Store | Weebly
Weebly’s free website builder makes it easy to create a website, blog, or online store. Find customizable templates, domains, and easy-to-use tools for any type of business website.
Very close - 04
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
Very close - 05
How To Make a Website – Free Website Builder | Strikingly
Strikingly is the best free website builder for anyone to create a gorgeous, mobile-friendly website easily. Quick, simple and stylish. Make your own free website today.
Very close - 06
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 07
Webnode Website Builder | Build Your Free Website with AI
Create your website instantly with Webnode’s AI Website Builder. Generate text, images, and layout in seconds, or use website templates. Start for free.
Very close - 08
Free Website Builder 100% Off | Create a Free Website - SITE123
Create a free website with SITE123. No design or coding skills required. SITE123 is by far the easiest free website builder. Create your website now!
Very close - 09
Webflow: The agentic web platform for modern businesses
Design, build, optimize, and rank in AI search — all in Webflow. Enterprise-grade security, CMS, hosting, and AEO built in. Trusted by over 300k teams.
Very close - 10
American Web hosting company
Very close - 11
Create a blog or website for free and make money online - Altervista
Do you want to create a website for free? Find out how to do it on Altervista: open a blog or a website quickly and easily and start making money online. Altervista is free of charge forever
Very close - 12
Bring Your Business Online | Websites & More – Jimdo
Try Jimdo, the all-in-one small business solution. Websites, online stores, bookings, logos, SEO, analytics, domains, and hosting.
Very close - 13 Web.com web.com
American web registration and development company
Very close - 14
Framer: Free website builder and AI design agent
The free website builder with a design agent that takes you from idea to launch. Changes stay editable, with hosting, CMS, analytics, SEO, and AEO built in.
Very close - 15 Very close
- 16
Website builder: Create a Website Now | Elementor
Elementor's free website builder makes it easy for web creators. Build a website or online store- no coding required. Start creating now!
Very close - 17
Create a Website for Free. Tilda Website Builder
Create a website, online store, landing page with Tilda intuitive website builder. Build your site from hundreds of pre-designed templates and publish it today. No code required.
Very close - 18
Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost
DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Very close - 19
Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything
A free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
Very close - 20
Cargo
Site builder for designers and artists
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles WordPress.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones WordPress.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what WordPress.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 54 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to WordPress.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress.com
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: fbq( 'init'
- Microsoft Advertising UET page source: bat.bing.com/bat.js
- Reddit Pixel page source: redditstatic.com/ads/pixel
- Marketing automation
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress.com)
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Q9OTgmFGvbuu-bnRYsyoA-MXgythlBvu6gZJry9XxMA
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-AKnzAsfVXHG2wucO1Bcx2JC7
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on wordpress.com 13/20
- Atlassian · not on wordpress.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wordpress.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wordpress.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wordpress.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on wordpress.com 8/20
- OpenAI 7/20
- Apple Business · not on wordpress.com 6/20
- Google Fonts 6/20
- HubSpot 5/20
- Stripe · not on wordpress.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on wordpress.com 5/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wordpress.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on wordpress.com 4/20