Wordfence Price Increases Coming December 5th, 2024

We haven’t raised our prices in a relatively high inflation environment in 2 years, and in the case of Wordfence Care and Response, for 2.5 years. So that time has come, and we want to let our free and paid user community know ahead of time. We’re giving you almost a month forewarning before we raise prices on December 5th so that you can use the opportunity to make any new license purchases now that you might be holding off until next year.

If you need more Premium licenses now, you can still purchase licenses at the current lower pricing. Customers with legacy pricing for Wordfence Premium below the $119 base price will see their renewal prices increase by 25.21 percent starting December 5th. [Updated to add clarification]

We’re including our current pricing for Premium, Care and Response below, and what those prices will be changing to:

• Wordfence Premium (real-time firewall rules and malware sigs with support) is currently $119 per year and will be increasing to $149 per year.
• Wordfence Care (hands on support during business hours) is currently $490 per year and will be increasing to $590 per year.
• Wordfence Response (24/7 incident response with 1 hour response time) is $950 per year and will be increasing to $1250 per year.
• Wordfence CLI Premium base price is $119 per year and will be increasing to $149 per year.

At Wordfence our Mission is to Secure the Web. You can’t argue with outcomes and we think the outcomes that we have produced over the past 2 years have demonstrated clearly that we have made significant progress in fulfilling that mission. We’re incredibly proud of our team, the high standard that every team member holds themselves to, and the pace of innovation that our organization has demonstrated.

Buying a Wordfence license is more than just the purchase of a paid version of Wordfence. You are helping to fund a team on a mission to secure the WordPress community and the Web. But don’t take our word for it. Here are some of our accomplishments in the past two years. Many of these produce no revenue for us, give away valuable data or software, and have a huge impact on securing the WordPress community and the hundreds of millions of users who visit WordPress websites every day.

• We have become ISO 27001 Certified as an organization.
• We have released 23 new releases of Wordfence with major new features and many incremental improvements including performance, security, best practices and new features that fundamentally improve your security posture.
• We recently released Wordfence version 8.0 which includes a tamper-proof security audit log allowing you to track security events across your site. The events we track are based on a decade of experience in WordPress forensics and analyzing billions of attacks targeting WordPress websites.
• We have made numerous improvements to our infrastructure to improve resilience, performance, and security.
• Since December 2022 our team has released 1399 new malware signatures, each detecting new malware variants and emerging threats that our research team and security analysts discover in their research and forensic activity. These signatures become available to free customers 30 days after release.
• We launched the most comprehensive vulnerability database for WordPress and introduced the Wordfence Intelligence Free API and user interface which anyone can use commercially. This is the only 100% free vulnerability database available for WordPress and it is also the industry leader across all WordPress vulnerability databases, including free and paid.
• In January 2023 we launched the weekly vulnerability roundup report which we have consistently provided to the security community and security conscious users since then.
• In August of 2023 we launched Wordfence CLI – a powerful, free open source command line tool to scan for the latest vulnerabilities and detect malware.
• Early next week we will be announcing the newest release for Wordfence CLI which went out today – Wordfence CLI version 5.0 which includes free database scanning.
• In August 2023 we launched webhooks for the Wordfence Intelligence vulnerability database, to alert users via an API about the latest vulnerabilities in real-time. This can also be used commercially for free.
• In November 2023 we launched the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program to aggressively fund research into WordPress security for the benefit of the community. We’ve paid out almost $400,000 in bounties in the past year.
• Thanks to this program we have over 3,000 vulnerabilities remediated just in the past year.
• We have also increased our funding into security research and today we pay up to $31,200 for every validated in-scope vulnerability reported to us.

We would like to thank you for being a paid Wordfence customer. If you are a free user, we look forward to winning your business and I would strongly encourage you to consider upgrading for real-time threat intelligence, to benefit from the tamper-proof audit log, and to support us on our mission to secure the Web.

Kind regards,

The Wordfence Founders: Mark Maunder (CTO) and Kerry Boyte (CEO)