Bricks Builder Pricing (2026): Every Plan, the Refund Clock and the Real Yearly Bill

Four Bricks plans, and the one column that differs

We rechecked the vendor's pricing page on October 6, 2026, and the figures match what we recorded for our Bricks review. There is no free version, no feature gate and no Pro tier hiding the WooCommerce builder. Codeer Limited, the Cyprus company behind Bricks, charges for sites and time, nothing else.

Three details change what you actually pay. Taxes are added at checkout based on where you live, so a buyer in the EU sees a larger total than the sticker. Local and staging sites do not count against the limit, which means a Starter license really covers one live site plus all the test copies you care to run. And on a multisite network, every subsite needs its own activation and counts toward the limit, so a ten-site network is an Agency or Lifetime purchase, not a Starter one.

Sixty days to change your mind, thirty to undo a renewal

The refund policy is generous on the first purchase and narrower afterwards. The Terms of Service give a full refund within 60 days of your initial license purchase, for any reason. That window does not cover renewals or plan upgrades. Renewals get a separate 30-day grace refund instead. Subscriptions renew on their own and bill in full at the end of each term, so the renewal grace period is the one most owners actually use, usually after spotting a charge for a site they retired months ago.

• Upgrades are prorated by the day. Moving from Starter to Business mid-term charges only the difference for the days left, according to the pricing page.
• Lifetime is a separate purchase. To switch from a yearly plan, you buy the lifetime license, then cancel the subscription. The vendor says a refund on the yearly plan is possible if you are still inside its 60-day window.
• The lifetime promise has an edge. The Terms say lifetime licenses receive updates and support as long as Bricks is in active development. That is honest wording, and it is worth reading twice before paying $599 for a forever.
• Renewal prices are not fixed in writing. The Terms we read do not address what a renewal will cost in future years. Budget at today's price and check the invoice.

Cancel and keep editing: what the clause buys and what it costs

Most premium WordPress tools stop working, or start nagging, when the license lapses. Bricks does something kinder. Once you have made at least one successful, non-refunded yearly payment, you may keep using Bricks after you cancel, and the Terms say plainly that you can continue to edit your sites. What ends is eligibility for updates and technical support.

That clause is a real saving for a finished brochure site that rarely changes. It is also a slow fuse. WordPress core, PHP and WooCommerce keep moving under a frozen copy of the builder, and Bricks ships often: version 2.4 arrived on September 16, 2026, with 2.4.2 twelve days later. A site that skips those releases also skips their security fixes. The vendor's own Terms warn that running outdated software carries an inherent security risk. If you cancel, put a date on the calendar to either renew, move, or rebuild.

One business site on Bricks: the year-one and year-three bill

Bricks replaces more plugins than most themes. Its Form element sends email, saves submissions and, since version 2.0, posts to webhooks, so many sites skip a forms plugin entirely. Its Font Manager can serve Google Fonts locally, and it ships no jQuery. What it does not advertise is page caching, backups or security scanning, and developers who build query loops on custom data usually add a custom fields plugin. Here is a single-site bill using prices we checked on the makers' own pages on October 6, 2026.

Three years of that stack comes to $563.85 in licenses, assuming each vendor renews at today's list price, which none of them promises. The bigger cost is the one no vendor invoices: the hour each month someone spends applying updates, then checking the header, the forms and the checkout. Bricks keeps that hour shorter than a theme with a separate builder, but it does not make it disappear. How Bricks loads its CSS, fonts and scripts, and what is left for a cache to do, is covered in our Bricks speed guide.

When $599 once beats paying every September

The lifetime plan is easy to like and easy to overbuy. Divide $599 by each yearly price and you get the number of years before the one-time payment wins. That depends entirely on which yearly plan you would otherwise hold.

So a business owner with one site should almost never buy lifetime: by the time it pays off, the site will likely have been redesigned or moved. A freelancer with three or four client sites is close to even after four years. An agency is the clear case, since Agency renewals pass $599 during the third year, and lifetime also removes the risk of a lapsed card switching off updates on forty client sites at once. Comparing Bricks against other builders on these terms? The Divi pricing breakdown runs the same math on a $249 lifetime license.

Six habits that keep a Bricks bill from creeping

• Start on Starter and test inside the 60 days. Every plan has every feature, so the cheapest plan is a complete trial. Build a real page, a header and a query loop before the window closes.
• Do not pay for staging. Test and local copies are free on every plan. Buying Business to cover one live site and two staging sites wastes $70 a year.
• Count multisite subsites before you buy. Each one uses a slot, which can push a small network straight to Agency.
• Decide on lifetime early. The refund route for the yearly plan only exists inside its first 60 days, so make the call before then.
• Hold the license in the owner's name. If a freelancer's account holds the key and the freelancer disappears, renewals and downloads disappear too.
• Add plugins for a reason. Bricks covers forms, popups and menus. A second builder add-on pack bought for one effect is a renewal you will forget to cancel.

If an update has already broken something, see Bricks builder not loading or Bricks CSS not updating before you pay anyone. Both faults have causes you can check yourself in a few minutes. If you would rather hand the routine off, our hosting and maintenance plans test each update before it goes live.

Where the same money goes if you skip the builder

A Bricks site is cheap to license and moderately expensive to keep: hosting that runs PHP, a handful of yearly renewals and someone who tests each release. A custom Next.js site has no theme license and no builder renewal at all. Pages are prerendered and served from a CDN, packages are pinned and tested in a build before they reach the live site, and nobody installs anything on the production server from an admin panel. The cost moves to the front: the build is custom work, and a developer handles structural changes.

On the editing side, every site we build comes with Athena CMS: plain fields, a real preview and every version kept. Its agents take over chores a plugin stack only nags about. Argus watches for broken links, failing forms, slow pages and expiring certificates, Aegis checks daily for intrusions, and Iris keeps search titles and descriptions in shape. The full ledger is in WordPress vs Next.js cost, and the price of moving is broken down in WordPress to Next.js migration cost. We quote a fixed price after a free audit, and financing for WordPress projects exists if the build would rather be a monthly line.

Bricks is still the right buy for a developer or agency that wants a fast visual builder and owns its update routine. For everyone else, Bricks vs Next.js lays out where each one wins, and the head-to-heads with Elementor, Divi and Kadence cover the WordPress alternatives. All of our theme reviews live on the WordPress themes hub.