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Elementor does not have one price. It has four paid plans, a fifth product called Elementor One that is priced differently, and a free version that already does more than most people expect. I read Elementor’s own pricing page and its free-versus-Pro comparison on 13 November 2026, from the Netherlands, so the prices below are in euros as Elementor showed them. Treat them as a snapshot and confirm at checkout, because the two Elementor pages I read do not fully agree with each other, and I point out where.
The four plans, as Elementor lists them
Elementor bills these annually. Each plan covers a set number of sites, and the plans differ mostly in which features are switched on.
| Plan | Price per year | Sites | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | €60 | 1 | Theme Builder, dynamic content, form builder |
| Advanced Solo | €84 | 1 | Popup builder, custom code and CSS, eCommerce features, collaborative notes |
| Advanced | €108 | 3 | Same features as Advanced Solo, three sites |
| One | €180 in year one, renews at €228 | 1 | Everything in the Pro plans plus a monthly credit pool for AI, image optimization, accessibility tools, email delivery and cookie consent |
Two details are easy to miss. First, Elementor One is not Elementor Pro with a new name. Elementor’s own FAQ describes it as Pro plus a set of connected services that run on credits, and the credits reset each month and do not roll over. Second, the One price on the page was a first-year discount: €180 now, with a stated renewal at the regular rate of €228 a year. If you compare One with the Pro plans, compare the renewal price, since that is what you will keep paying. Elementor also says One does not include hosting.
What the comparison table says, counted
Elementor publishes a side-by-side table of the free version (it calls it Elementor Core) against the Pro tiers. I counted its rows rather than trusting the headline about “60+ extra widgets”. The table lists 126 features and widgets:
- 46 of the 126 are in the free version. That covers the drag-and-drop editor, the basic widgets (heading, image, button, tabs, accordion, counter and others), revision history, maintenance mode, undo and redo, and the template library.
- Essential adds 48 more, for 94 in total. Most of these are widgets and site-building parts: the header and footer builder, the form widget, posts and archive widgets, the portfolio and author box widgets, share buttons, custom fonts and dynamic single-post design.
- Advanced adds the last 32, for all 126. Of those 32, 24 are WooCommerce or product-page items: the product widgets, cart, checkout and account templates, and similar. Only 8 are not about selling things.
Those 8 are the ones that matter if you are not running a shop: custom CSS, the popup builder, form integrations, the ACF and Toolset integration, cloud templates, the price table, the price list and the PayPal button. Elementor’s comparison also puts custom code, form submissions, global CSS and the role manager at Advanced and above.
The practical reading is that Essential is the plan for someone who wants a custom header, footer and post template plus a contact form. The jump to Advanced makes sense if you want popups, to see form submissions inside WordPress, to write custom CSS and code in the builder, or to build a store.
Where Elementor’s own pages disagree
The comparison page says Essential has 50 widgets and Advanced has 82. The pricing page says 57 and 85. The comparison page marks cloud templates as unavailable on Essential, while the pricing page lists “Store 10 Cloud Templates” as included. I cannot tell from outside which page is newer, and it would be a guess to say. The safe move is to decide based on the specific feature you need, and to check that feature on the plan you are about to buy before paying.
What the block editor already does
A lot of the reason people reach for a page builder is that they assume WordPress cannot edit headers, footers and post layouts visually. On a block theme it can. WordPress’s own learning site describes the Site Editor, where headers and footers are template parts you edit once and change everywhere, and where the Query Loop block lists posts in a layout you control. Block patterns give you ready-made sections. None of that costs anything beyond the theme.
What WordPress core does not give you is the marketing layer: there is no form-submissions inbox and no popup builder in core, so those need a plugin whichever editor you use. That is exactly where Elementor’s Advanced plan earns its price, and also where a cheaper form plugin can do the same job on a block theme. If the reason for buying is a popup or a form, price the single plugin against the plan.
If you are not sure which builder or theme a site you admire uses, you can read it from the page itself, as described in how to tell which theme and plugins a WordPress site uses.
A simple way to choose
- Stay on the free version if you are building a blog, a portfolio or a simple brochure site and you are happy with the theme’s header and footer. You already have 46 of the 126 rows.
- Essential at €60 a year if the free version is close but you want a custom header, footer, archive or post template, or a form widget, on one site.
- Advanced Solo at €84 a year if you need popups, custom CSS or code inside the builder, form integrations or a WooCommerce shop, still on one site. The three-site Advanced plan is €108.
- Elementor One only if you would otherwise pay separately for image optimization, accessibility scanning, transactional email and cookie consent, since that bundle is the reason it costs more. Work it out at the renewal price of €228.
- The block editor on its own if your needs stop at layouts and templates and you would rather not depend on a plugin for how your pages are built.
Buying it
Elementor’s pricing page states a 30-day money-back guarantee that applies to annual plans only. If you decide to buy, you can go to Elementor’s site and compare the plans it shows against the table above. Since it is a yearly subscription, put the renewal date in your calendar, and look at the renewal price before it charges.
Checked against Elementor’s own pricing page and its Elementor Pro versus Free comparison on 13 November 2026. Prices were shown in euros for the Netherlands and can differ by country, so confirm the figure at checkout.
Etienne Basson works with website systems, SEO-driven site architecture, and technical implementation. He writes practical guides on building, structuring, and optimizing websites for long-term growth.