Which Paid Memberships Pro Plan is Right for You?

With over thousands of active installs and over 12 years in development, Paid Memberships Pro is the world’s most complete membership platform. We give you all the tools you need to start, manage, and grow your membership site.

PMPro allows you to restrict your content and manage member subscriptions with recurring payments—including a seamless member experience, flexible membership level pricing, and many other robust features, Add Ons, and integrations.

If you’re not sure which PMPro plan is right for you, we’re going to break it down to help you make the best decision for your membership site needs.

We currently offer three plans: Free, Standard, and Plus. We’ve designed each plan to suit different use cases, from membership site beginners and individual business owners to web developers and agencies.

On this page, we highlight the most important features you’ll get from each PMPro plan. You can see the full details on our pricing page to learn more.

Paid Memberships Pro – Free

Paid Memberships Pro is the fastest way to charge for access to your content or offer free member signups on WordPress.

Everything You Need to Get Started

The core plugin includes everything you need to accept member registrations and subscriptions and to restrict pages, posts, and sections of your content in WordPress.

If you’re just trying it out or can’t afford a paid membership plan, you can use PMPro for free. An open source plugin without limitations, PMPro includes more than all the other membership plugins – free or paid – with everything you need to charge for access to your WordPress site content.

Unlike some hosted membership platforms, using Paid Memberships Pro does not require any fees, except for those assessed by your payment gateway.

In addition, you do not need to know how to code in order to use PMPro to create a complete membership site on WordPress.

What’s Included

• Use everything for free under the General Public License (GPL)
• Ask questions about the core plugin. Learn the ways you can get answers and support form our team here.
• Add a Standard or Plus license to your free site at any time. Nothing will change with your site settings, content, user and member information, or subscriptions.

Our complete plugin is available for download here.

Paid Memberships Pro – Standard

If you’re just getting started or creating a “build-it-yourself” membership site, our new Standard plan is an excellent choice for you. You should also purchase a Standard plan if you need additional customization beyond our free features.

Best for a Single Site

If you run one site and you need additional support and/or custom code to adjust PMPro to your site’s needs, this plan is for you.

What’s Included

• Offer PayPal as a secondary payment method (in addition to your primary gateway) with the Add PayPal Express Option at Checkout Add On. With over 300 million active accounts, PayPal enables you to serve buyers around the globe through a trusted and secure payment option.
• Change the capabilities of users by membership level with the Roles for Membership Levels Add On
• Require members to confirm their membership by email after signup with the Email Confirmation Add On
• Add Shipping Address fields to the membership checkout page and more with the Shipping Address on Membership Checkout Add On
• Lock custom post types with the Custom Post Type (CPT) Membership Access Add On
• Access all of our 21 Standard Add Ons
• Use a variety of code recipes 
• Get premium support

For reference, one site refers to sites that have been active in the past year (staging and development sites don’t count).

You don’t actually need a valid license key to use any of our plugins, so your site won’t stop running if your key expires or you go over the site limit. However, plugin updates for certain plugins we host on our own servers will not update without a valid license key.

We may reach out to you if you go over the allowed number of sites for your plan and ask you to upgrade or adjust the number of sites using your license key.

Looking to use PMPro on more than one site? Want access to all of our Plus Add Ons? Upgrade to a Plus account.

Paid Memberships Pro – Plus

If you’re a developer or you need more advanced features and customization options for up to 2 sites, our Plus plan is the way to go.

What’s Included

• Sell a group of licenses or corporate accounts managed by a single payer with the Group Accounts Add On
• Create robust member directories with customizable profiles using our Member Directory and Profile Pages Add On
• Offer a “sneak peek” of protected content and improve on-site SEO by limiting the number of post views for members and non-members using the Limit Post Views Add On
• Personalize the member experience with a unique and private page that you create for your members with the User Pages Add On
• Allow customers to set their own price when checking out for “pay what you can” membership levels with the Variable Pricing Add On
• Drip feed content to your members over the course of their membership with our Series: Drip-Feed Content Add On
• Access all of our Add Ons, including 21 Standard Add Ons. This plan includes everything we offer today and any new additions in the future.
• Access our code recipes
• Get premium support

Purchasing Additional License Keys

Plus members that need more than 2 license keys have a couple to consider:

1. For Individuals: Submit the form on this page to inquire about purchasing additional license key uses. Each additional license key can be purchased for $200/year.
2. For Developers and Agencies: Consider joining our Affiliate Program. Through our affiliate program, you can have your clients purchase their own Paid Memberships Pro account. This would allow their site to get automatic Add On updates and the site owner to get direct access to our technical support team. You’ll also earn a commission of up to $200 for their referral.