WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

This page compares WordPress.com, the hosted service. The WordPress software from WordPress.org is free, but you buy hosting elsewhere and look after it yourself.

Is Nightly cheaper than WordPress.com?

No. WordPress.com Personal is $4 a month billed yearly for the first year, then $5, and there's a free plan with ads. Nightly's Launch is $25 a month (or $255 a year). Nightly costs more because the website is made for you, and seeing yours is free for 14 days.

Can I keep my domain if I move from WordPress?

Your domain comes with you. If you bought it through WordPress.com, it's still yours: on Launch or Grow, change a few settings in WordPress.com and your Nightly website shows on it. Your project page says which settings, checks them and emails you when it's live. Your old pages aren't copied across: Nightly makes a new website from your answers about your business.

Nightly vs WordPress: which is right for your business?

The short answer

Which one fits you

Choose WordPress if

You'd rather build it

You want plugins for almost anything, unlimited pages, a WooCommerce store, or to start on a free plan with ads.

Choose Nightly if

You'd rather have it made

You'd rather not choose themes and plugins, and want it made in your own words, with search basics, blog drafts and Business Brain included.

Side by side

Nightly and WordPress.com

Nightly and WordPress.com compared, checked 4 November 2026
Feature	Nightly	WordPress.com
Made for you from your answers	Yes. You answer questions about your business. Nightly builds the website from your answers.	Partly A guided website builder you chat with. Personal has usage limits.
Builds from your Google listing	Yes. Find your business on Google as you sign up, and tick the reviews and photos for your website. Reviews go in word for word.	No. Not on its own pages.
Nothing made up	Yes. Any sentence with a review, number or promise you didn't give is dropped. Prices show only as you wrote them.	No. Its own pages say to check what its AI writes.
Suggested replies to inquiries	Yes. Turn them on and each inquiry can get a suggested reply, written only from your answers, for 10 credits. You check it and send it yourself.	No. Not on its own pages.
A plan for your business's own files	Yes. A folder plan and kit. Your own AI assistant can connect, record where each file sits and find a file by name. It sees file names only.	No. Not on its pricing page.
Change it yourself	Yes. Change any section yourself, free. Or ask in plain words, for 10 credits.	Yes. The WordPress editor, with unlimited pages and posts.
Blog	Yes. Posts at /blog. Drafts written from your own services, for 20 credits each. You read them, then publish.	Yes. Unlimited posts. Its AI assistant can help write them, from Business.
Your own web address	Yes. On Launch and Grow, with a domain you already own, even one bought through WordPress.com. Nightly doesn't sell domains.	Yes. Every paid plan. A domain is free for a year.
Try it before you pay	Partly Free to see: the whole website on a private link for 14 days, with no card. It goes live on Launch.	Yes. A free plan that shows WordPress.com ads to your visitors.
Pages	Up to 10 pages. Describe a new one and it's written for you, for 10 credits.	Unlimited pages and posts.
Online store	No. Not yet.	Yes. A WooCommerce store, on Commerce.
Take payments	Being built Customers paying online.	Yes. Payment buttons, from Premium.
Plugins and apps	No. No.	Yes. 60,000+ plugins on every paid plan.
Price	Launch: $25 a month, or $255 a year. Grow: $49, or $492 a year. No set-up fee.	Personal: $4 a month for the first year, billed yearly, then $5. Or $9 billed monthly. Before tax.

✓ yes, ✗ no. Read from each company's own pages (sources below). In the shaded rows, ✗ means it isn't on that company's own pages. Their US prices are before sales tax.

Questions answered

Choosing between Nightly and WordPress

WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
This page compares WordPress.com, the hosted service. The WordPress software from WordPress.org is free, but you buy hosting elsewhere and look after it yourself.
Is Nightly cheaper than WordPress.com?
No. WordPress.com Personal is $4 a month billed yearly for the first year, then $5, and there's a free plan with ads. Nightly's Launch is $25 a month (or $255 a year). Nightly costs more because the website is made for you, and seeing yours is free for 14 days.
Can I keep my domain if I move from WordPress?
Your domain comes with you. If you bought it through WordPress.com, it's still yours: on Launch or Grow, change a few settings in WordPress.com and your Nightly website shows on it. Your project page says which settings, checks them and emails you when it's live. Your old pages aren't copied across: Nightly makes a new website from your answers about your business.

Sources

Where these facts come from

Each company's own pages, read on 4 November 2026 unless a date says otherwise. Prices and plans change, so check their pages before you choose. WordPress.com is a trademark of its owner, and Nightly isn't connected with it.

WordPress.com

Plans and priceswordpress.com/pricing
Pointing a WordPress.com domain elsewherewordpress.com/support/domains/setting-custom-a-records
Automattic's AI guidelinesautomattic.com/ai-guidelines
AI website builder: textwordpress.com/support/ai-website-builder/text