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Bondry vs WordPress with LMS and membership plugins
WordPress is free and extensible, and most features come from plugins. Bondry offers the same areas as one product with one admin panel and one update path.
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What WordPress does well
WordPress is a free, widely used publishing platform with a vast ecosystem of themes, plugins, hosts and agencies. Almost any feature exists as a plugin, often from several vendors.
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Who should choose WordPress
Choose WordPress if content and publishing come first, you want the widest choice of plugins and service providers, or you already run a WordPress site that you want to extend.
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Who should choose Bondry
Choose Bondry if you want community, memberships and courses from one vendor, with one admin panel and one update path, instead of coordinating several plugins that renew separately.
Prices checked on 10 October 2026 on the vendors' public pricing pages; they can change; hosting, domains and taxes are not included unless stated.
Feature comparison
Based on each vendor's public documentation. Included means part of the base product, Add-on means an official add-on or module, Third-party plugin means a separate vendor's product.
| Feature | Bondry | WordPress with plugins |
|---|---|---|
| Forum | Included | Third-party plugin BuddyBoss Platform |
| Blog and articles | Included | Included |
| Private messaging | Included | Included |
| Members directory and profiles | Included | Included |
| Moderation tools | Included | Included |
| Memberships and paywall | Add-on Members Plus | Third-party plugin MemberPress |
| Courses and LMS | Add-on LMS | Third-party plugin LearnDash |
| Visual page builder | Add-on Designer | Third-party plugin Elementor Pro |
| Payments built in | Included Stripe, PayPal, Mercado Pago and Asaas gateways ship free with the core | Third-party plugin MemberPress |
| Gamification | Included | Third-party plugin |
| Media gallery | Not available | Third-party plugin |
| Downloads and resources | Not available Attachments on posts only | Third-party plugin |
| Events and calendar | Not available | Third-party plugin |
| Clubs and member groups | Not available Member groups exist for permissions, not clubs | Third-party plugin BuddyBoss groups |
| REST API | Included | Included |
| AI agent access (MCP server, scoped tokens) | Add-on AI Connector | Third-party plugin |
| Themes and languages | Included | Included |
| Self-hosted | Included | Included |
| License model | One-time purchase with 12 months of updates and support included. Yearly extensions are optional and never renew by themselves. | The core is free. Each plugin is a yearly subscription, per site, with its own renewal price. |
Prices used in this page
Prices checked on 10 October 2026 on the vendors' public pricing pages; they can change; hosting, domains and taxes are not included unless stated.
| Item | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bondry core | $140.00 one-time | 12 months of support included. Security fixes continue for 12 months after the update window ends. |
| Each paid module | $75.00 one-time | Designer, LMS, Members Plus and AI Connector. 12 months of support included. |
| Bondry Complete | $349.00 one-time | The core and the four paid modules in one checkout. |
| Branding removal | $250.00 one-time | Optional, one-time. |
| Core update extension | $60.00 per year | Optional, no automatic renewal. The software keeps running without it, and releases published inside the paid window stay downloadable. |
| Module update extension | $35.00 per year | Optional, no automatic renewal. The software keeps running without it, and releases published inside the paid window stay downloadable. |
| Elementor Pro Essential | $59.00 per year | Essential plan, 1 site. |
| MemberPress Launch | $199.50 first year, then $399.00 per year | Launch plan, 1 site. Plus a 4.9% transaction fee on payments. |
| LearnDash Essentials | $259.00 per year | |
| BuddyBoss Platform Start | $99.00 first year, then $199.00 per year | |
| BuddyBoss Platform Launch | $199.00 first year, then $399.00 per year |
Three-year cost
The stack matches the Bondry modules on WordPress: community with BuddyBoss Platform, memberships with MemberPress, courses with LearnDash and a page builder with Elementor Pro. Two BuddyBoss tiers are shown.
| Option | Components | Year 1 | Each of years 2 and 3 | Three-year total | Arithmetic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scenario A: WordPress with BuddyBoss Start, LearnDash, MemberPress and Elementor Pro | |||||
| WordPress stack with BuddyBoss Start |
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$616.50 | $916.00 | $2,448.50 | $616.50 + 2 x $916.00 = $2,448.50 |
| Scenario B: WordPress with BuddyBoss Launch, LearnDash, MemberPress and Elementor Pro | |||||
| WordPress stack with BuddyBoss Launch |
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$716.50 | $1,116.00 | $2,948.50 | $716.50 + 2 x $1,116.00 = $2,948.50 |
| Bondry for comparison | |||||
| Bondry Complete with all updates every year |
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$349.00 | $200.00 | $749.00 | $349.00 + 2 x $200.00 = $749.00 |
The software keeps running without an extension, and security fixes continue for 12 months after the window, but the comparison counts every year of updates on both sides.
Plugin subscriptions are priced per site, and keeping updates and support means renewing each one. MemberPress also charges a transaction fee on payments, shown in the price table and not included in these totals. Hosting is not included for any option.
What Bondry does not do
A comparison is only useful if it says where the other options are stronger. Today Bondry does not offer the following.
- Cloud hosting. Bondry is self-hosted, so you provide the server, the backups and the domain.
- A marketplace of thousands of add-ons. The catalogue is the core and four official modules.
- A WooCommerce-style store. Payments and memberships are built in, but there is no full product catalogue with shipping and inventory.
- A long track record. Bondry is a newer product with a smaller community, fewer tutorials and fewer third-party developers.
- A media gallery. Members can attach images to posts, but there is no album or gallery module.
- A downloads and resources manager. Files are attachments on posts only.
- Events and a calendar.
- Clubs. Member groups exist for permissions, not as clubs with their own space.
Sources
Figures come from these public pages, checked on 10 October 2026.
See the Bondry prices
Every Bondry price on this site comes from the same catalogue. The pricing page explains what each license includes.