With over thousands of active installs and over 15 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. As a result, you get a seamless member experience, flexible 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: Max, Standard and Free. On this page we highlight the most important features you’ll get from each PMPro plan.
Max
If you want a membership site that works and you don’t want to spend your time managing hosting, or hiring a developer every time something breaks, Max is your plan. We handle as much as possible so you can focus on running your business.
What’s Included in Every Max Plan
- Managed hosting: Redis caching, Cloudflare CDN, DDoS protection, SSL, daily backups, and WebP image optimization. All configured, all maintained by our team.
- PMPro license + all Add Ons
- Priority expert support (unlimited): Help for anything you ask: platform setup, design, business questions, and more.
- Free site migration: Move an existing PMPro site to your Max server, plus migration support from other membership platforms.
- Transactional email: Reliably deliver important, site-generated messages.
- Do It For Me (DIFM) Service: Submit development requests and we will implement it for you.
- AI Skills Library: Access to a library of PMPro-tuned skills you can run in the browser or your preferred tool.
- No lock-in: Full data access and site portability
Max Pricing
The most common Max plan is $99/month (or $999/year). Plans are priced by orders per month — not by your revenue, not by your user count.
Orders let us know how hard your site is actually working: transactions processed, emails sent, and hosting load generated. When your site does more, it costs us more to run it well. Your plan price reflects that.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max | $99/month | $999/year | Sites with 0–1,000 orders/month |
| Max 2x | $299/month | $2,999/year | Sites with 1,000–5,000 orders/month |
| Max 4x | $499/month | $4,999/year | Sites with over 5,000 orders/month |
Standard
If you want to build your membership site on your own and have a host you are happy with, our Standard plan is likely the plan for you.
What’s Included
- PMPro plugin + all Add Ons: The full platform, licensed for one site.
- Premium support: Access to our support team when you need it.
- All plugin updates: Stay current, automatically.
- Access to code recipes: Hundreds of customization snippets for common use cases.
For reference, one site refers to sites active in the past year. Staging and development sites don’t count.
Also, 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 any premium Add Ons will not update without a valid license key.
Pricing
For everything you need to run PMPro on your own infrastructure, Standard is $49/month or $499/year. Additional license key usages can be purchased for $20/license/month or $200/license/year.
Free
Paid Memberships Pro is open source and always will be. The core plugin is free to download, free to use, and has no hidden fees or transaction charges beyond what your payment gateway charges.
If you’re a self-sufficient developer, want to explore PMPro before committing, or simply don’t need premium support, the free plan is a fully capable place to start.
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 from our team here.
- Add a Standard or Max 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.
Max vs Standard
The short version: Standard is the plugin. Max is the plugin plus a team of experts ready to handle the technical side of your membership site.
| Max | Standard | |
| Managed Hosting | ||
| Migration | ||
| DIFM Service | ||
| Support | Priority | Premium |
| AI Skill Library | ||
| PMPro plugin + all Add Ons | ||
| Data Portability |
Still Not Sure?
Answer these three questions:
- Do you want us to handle your hosting, migration, and infrastructure? Get PMPro Max.
- Do you already have WordPress hosting and just need the plugin and some support? Start with PMPro Standard.
- Want to explore PMPro before committing, or prefer to manage everything yourself? Get started for Free
Still have questions? Contact our team — we’ll help you find the right fit.
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