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- Yes
- Price
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- Category
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Wordfence PremiumReview and ratings
Wordfence Premium adds real-time firewall rule and malware signature updates, a premium IP blocklist and country blocking to the free WordPress security plugin.
8.0/10
Very good: Wordfence Premium scores 8 out of 10
Based on 2 sources, weighted by how many reviews each has. How we score
- WordPress.org (opens in a new tab)4.75,038 reviews
- RedditMixed4 threads
5M+ active installs on WordPress.org
Wordfence Premium pros and cons
What's good
- Free version covers core protection
- Premium adds real-time firewall rule updates
- Paid Care and Response plans are available
What to watch
- Premium is priced per site per year
- Care and Response cost several times the Premium price
- Premium rose from $119 to $149 a year in December 2024
What Reddit says about Wordfence Premium
Reddit users often call Wordfence popular and widely recommended, but several say it misses infected files and database records. One site owner reported infections that went unreported by alert emails and began looking for an alternative.
Praised for
- widely recommended
Complaints
- misses some infected files and database records, even in premium
- alert emails did not send during an infection
- Wordfence - why?r/Wordpress (opens in a new tab)
- Wordfence fail; looking for alternativer/Wordpress (opens in a new tab)
- Paying a wordpress security service is mostly paying someone to run wordfencer/WordPressToolkit (opens in a new tab)
- What is the best WordPress Security Plugin in 2026? This is for a small business's website. Don't want to pay too much but still want something that is value for money and good at protecting websites against malware and other potential threats and malicious actors!r/Wordpress (opens in a new tab)
Who should buy Wordfence Premium
- Self-managed WordPress sites that need paid firewall updates
- Site owners who want hands-on help through Care or Response
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