We currently offer three plans: Free, Standard, and Plus. We put together a full guide to help you select the right plan for your business.

We designed these plans through our experience supporting thousands of membership sites on this platform for over 10 years. As such, Add Ons cannot be purchased individually. As a fully open source WordPress plugin, you can use our code for free if you cannot afford a membership or if you’re just testing.

Remember that if your needs change in the future, you can upgrade at any time and it will not affect your site settings, content, user and member information, or subscriptions.

If you’ve already read the guide and still can’t decide which plan is right for you, you can always try out Paid Memberships Pro for free.

A private podcast is a podcast that is only available to certain individuals—in this case, your paying members. Instead of being listed on public directories like Apple Podcasts or Spotify, private podcast episodes are delivered through a secure, members-only RSS feed. Your subscribers can still listen in their favorite podcast app, but only after they’ve been granted access through their membership.

Absolutely. Many podcasters use a free public podcast to attract new listeners, then offer a premium members-only podcast with bonus episodes, extended interviews, or ad-free content. PMPro supports free memberships, plus every variation of paid membership from one-time, fixed-term, recurring, trials, lifetime, and more.

Castos is a podcast hosting platform that specializes in private podcasting. When a member joins your site at a specific membership level, PMPro automatically adds them to the corresponding private podcast feed in Castos. When a member cancels or their subscription expires, they are automatically removed. There’s no manual work involved—it all happens seamlessly behind the scenes.

The Member RSS Feed Add On creates unique, member-specific RSS feed URLs that respect your content restrictions. Each member gets a personalized feed URL with a secure memberkey—or can use basic header authentication via Application Passwords for even more secure access. This is ideal if you want to deliver private podcast episodes directly from WordPress without a third-party podcast host. Members can paste their unique RSS feed URL into any podcast app that supports authenticated feeds.

Not at all. Many podcasters keep their show completely free and public—streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere else—and use their membership site for other premium content. Your podcast can be powerful lead generation, and your membership site is where you monetize those leads through community access, courses, private video, behind-the-scenes content, thought leadership resources, and more.

Platforms like Patreon take 5–15% of your revenue. Paid Memberships Pro is a 100% free and open source software. We do not take any portion of your podcast membership revenue at the platform level.

Your payment gateway does impose fees for credit card processing. Please check with your gateway to determine their fees.

We have a special relationship with Stripe whereby membership sites that do not have a valid premium license pay 2% in gateway fees on top of the default gateway fees imposed by Stripe. You can remove this fee by upgrading to a Standard or higher membership plan (starting at $347/yr.) or using the recipe in this post to remove the connected platform fee.

There are over 60,000 sites that use Paid Memberships Pro — and from our customer research most of them are DIY. They’re building their own site (not working with a developer) just like you.

Here’s what our user @asienchris says about PMPro:

We provide very deep support and are able to troubleshoot most issues via the support forums.

Some custom code is straight forward, and we can assist with writing the code and instructing you on exactly where to put it. If you have found a tutorial on our site about a customization, we can usually help you to set that customization up or tweak it in small ways.

In the case you need more hands on help, we can recommend a developer we trust.

We will write the requirements and outline the possible solutions for you to share with them. This alone saves your developer tons of time, which saves you hundreds of dollars.