Tirada vs WordPress.com
WordPress.com pricing as published on 20 October 2026WordPress.com has a free plan with unlimited subscribers and sends, so for a free newsletter it costs less than Tirada. If you charge, it keeps between 10% and 2% of what readers pay you depending on the plan, or 0% on Commerce, which costs $70 (≈ €64) a month, and your emails always come from donotreply@wordpress.com. Tirada leaves your revenue alone, sends from your domain and lets your AI prepare sends that a person always confirms.
With Tirada you keep between €369 (Pro) and €609 (Lite) more a year.
At a glance
| Tirada | WordPress.com | |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 subscribers, weekly send, 500 paying €5 | Better option: €13.66 – €33.66 | $70 (≈ €64) |
| How it charges | A plan of €5, €15 or €25 a month and €2 per 10,000 emails you send | Better option: A flat fee for the site, from $0 to $70 a month, with nothing per subscriber or per email |
| Cut of your paid subscriptions | Better option: 0%. The money goes to your own Stripe account | 10% on Free, 8% on Personal, 4% on Premium, 2% on Business and 0% only on Commerce, plus Stripe's fee |
| Official MCP server | Yes, on every plan, the €5 one included. How to connect it | Yes, since October 2025, on paid plans (on Free, only for the first 30 days). Over 60 tools, and since March 2026 it can write and publish |
| If you connect an AI, who confirms the send? | Better option: You. The agent can leave a send ready, but a person confirms every send in the dashboard | You, inside your AI's chat: it asks for approval before every change, with no separate step on WordPress.com. With the default send on, publishing a post emails it to your subscribers |
| API and webhooks | Better option: Public REST API and signed webhooks on every plan | REST API for posts and pages, which can also read your subscribers. Its webhooks only fire on published posts and pages and on comments |
| Free plan | No. A seven-day trial, with a card and up to 1,000 emails | Better option: Yes, with unlimited subscribers and sends, and you can charge at 10%. It only lets you import 100 subscribers and shows ads |
| Your own domain | Better option: For sending and publishing, on every plan, for €2 a month | For the website, from Personal ($9 a month). Newsletter emails always come from donotreply@wordpress.com |
| Where your data lives | Better option: In the European Union: servers in Finland, sending from Sweden | United States and the European Union, with no way to keep it in one region |
| Taking your data with you | Subscribers, writing and data whenever you want, no lock-in | Subscribers and content, yes |
Why Tirada
- You keep more of what you earn. With 10,000 subscribers and 500 readers paying €5 a month, WordPress.com's cheapest plan is Commerce, at $70 (≈ €64) a month; on Tirada you pay €13.66 on Lite or €33.66 on Pro.
- 0% commission from the €5 plan. On WordPress.com 0% starts on Commerce; below it you pay 10%, 8%, 4% or 2%, and if your paid plan lapses you go back to 10%.
- Your emails come from your domain. WordPress.com's newsletter emails always come from donotreply@wordpress.com, and you can only change the sender name.
- Your AI prepares and a person confirms. On Tirada no agent can confirm a send: that happens in the dashboard, and your readers' emails reach the agent masked. WordPress.com's MCP can publish posts after an approval in the chat, and on WordPress.com publishing a post emails it to your subscribers if the default send is on.
- Your data and your readers' data stay in the European Union. WordPress.com stores it in the United States and the EU, and you can't limit it to one region.
Pricing, in numbers
WordPress.com charges a flat fee for the site, with no limit on subscribers or sends, and keeps a share of what your readers pay you that falls as the plan rises: 10% on Free, 8% on Personal ($9 a month), 4% on Premium ($18), 2% on Business ($40) and 0% on Commerce ($70). Stripe's fee comes on top, as it does on Tirada. For each size, the table takes the plan that costs you least:
| Subscribers | WordPress.com, free newsletter | WordPress.com, with 5% paying | Tirada Lite | Tirada Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | €0 (free plan) | €25 commission | €5.87 | €25.87 |
| 10,000 | €0 (free plan) | $70 (≈ €64) | €13.66 | €33.66 |
| 50,000 | €0 (free plan) | $70 (≈ €64) | €48.30 | €68.30 |
| 100,000 | €0 (free plan) | $70 (≈ €64) | €91.60 | €111.60 |
Monthly price with one send a week (4.33 emails per subscriber). "With 5% paying": one in twenty subscribers pays you €5 a month, and what the platform keeps from those payments is added. WordPress.com: prices as published on 20 October 2026; dollars at €0.92. Tirada: plan plus €2 per 10,000 emails, excluding VAT, and 0% commission. The payment processor's fee (Stripe) applies on both and isn't included. Your own domain on Tirada, €2 more a month, isn't included.
For a free newsletter, WordPress.com is cheaper at any list size. The catch is that the Free plan only lets you import 100 subscribers, doesn't allow your own domain and shows WordPress.com ads: to bring an existing list you need at least Personal. If you charge, Free's 10% adds up fast: with 1,000 subscribers and 50 paying €5 it's already €25 commission, against €5.87 on Tirada Lite. With big lists the maths changes, because WordPress.com doesn't charge per email: with 100,000 subscribers, Commerce, at $70 (≈ €64), is cheaper than Tirada Lite, at €91.60.
Your AI and your agents
WordPress.com has had an official MCP server since October 2025, on every paid plan (on Free, only for the site's first 30 days). It connects with OAuth 2.1, has over 60 tools and since March 2026 it can write: create, edit and publish posts and pages, moderate comments, upload media, change newsletter settings and, if you switch it on, add subscribers. You can grant or remove read and write access tool by tool, it asks for approval inside your AI's chat before every change, and new posts are created as drafts.
No tool is called "send newsletter". But according to its docs, a post the MCP publishes goes live immediately, and on WordPress.com, if you've turned on emailing new posts to subscribers, publishing a post sends it to your whole list. The MCP docs don't say whether that changes when an agent publishes. The approval happens in the chat, with no separate step on WordPress.com. Its REST API reads and writes posts and reads your subscribers, and its webhooks only fire on published posts and pages and on comments.
On Tirada the MCP comes with every plan, Lite included. Your assistant gets nine diagnostic tools (why an email didn't arrive, what your domain is missing, why a send was paused, what happened in an import) plus the API operations you approve, such as preparing a draft or getting a send ready. What it can't do is confirm it: a person always does that in Tirada's dashboard, outside the chat. Your readers' emails reach it masked. How to connect it.
When WordPress.com is the better choice
If your newsletter is free, WordPress.com costs you nothing at any list size, because it doesn't charge per email: with 100,000 subscribers and one send a week, Tirada Lite is €91.60 a month. If what you want is a full website, WordPress.com does far more than Tirada's publication site: themes, over 60,000 plugins from Personal, a shop on Commerce and an AI assistant in the editor that also generates images. To send from your own address or build automations, WordPress.com points you to a plugin such as MailPoet; Tirada has no automations beyond the welcome email.
If you earn a lot and your list is big, Commerce takes 0% for a flat $70 (≈ €64), and with 100,000 subscribers it's cheaper than any Tirada plan.
How to move from WordPress.com
- On WordPress.com, export your subscribers and, if you want a copy, your content: Tirada imports subscribers, not the post archive.
- On Tirada, import the CSV. You get a report of who got in and why each of the rest didn't.
- Connect your domain to send and publish from it (€2 a month) and your Stripe account to get paid.
- If you have paid subscribers, Tirada doesn't take over existing Stripe subscriptions, even in the same Stripe account: your paying readers subscribe again on your Tirada page. Tell them first, and cancel their WordPress.com subscriptions once they've moved, so nobody pays twice. If you keep the website on WordPress.com, turn off emailing new posts so your readers don't get every issue twice.
Questions
How much does WordPress.com keep from a paid newsletter?
It depends on the plan: 10% on Free, 8% on Personal, 4% on Premium, 2% on Business and 0% on Commerce, which costs $70 (≈ €64) a month. Stripe's fee comes on top. On Tirada you pay 0% on every plan from €5 a month.
Can I send my WordPress.com newsletter from my own domain?
Not with its built-in newsletter: its emails always come from donotreply@wordpress.com and you can only change the sender name. To send from your own address you need a plugin such as MailPoet (from Personal, at its own price). On Tirada you send and publish from your domain for €2 a month.
Can WordPress.com's MCP send my newsletter?
It can publish posts after an approval in the chat, and on WordPress.com, with the default send on, publishing a post emails it to your subscribers. Its MCP docs don't say whether that also happens when an agent publishes. On Tirada no agent can confirm a send: a person confirms it in the dashboard.
Which is cheaper, WordPress.com or Tirada?
For a free newsletter, WordPress.com, which doesn't charge per email. If you charge, with 10,000 subscribers and 500 readers paying €5 you pay $70 (≈ €64) a month on Commerce and €13.66 on Tirada Lite.
Sources, checked on 20 October 2026: Pricing, Paid newsletters, Newsletter settings, WordPress.com MCP, AI agents managing content, Your site and the GDPR.
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