Yclas vs HivePress
HivePress is a free WordPress listing plugin with paid extensions for the parts that make money. Yclas is a complete classifieds platform with AI built in, hosted, updated and supported for you.
- 7 AI tools, built inIncluded in HivePress: none. Each one is paid, partial or missing.
- $233 in plugins to match7 paid plugins and services for HivePress, and 10 features you can't buy at all.
- Live in about two minutesHosting, SSL, updates, backups and support are in one monthly price.
- Switch without starting overThe importer brings your listings, users and photos across.
HivePress is a free WordPress plugin for listing sites, with 10,000+ active installs and version 1.8.1 from 21 October 2026. Messages, reviews, favourites, maps and claims are free extensions; memberships, the marketplace, bookings, requests and search alerts cost $39 each, or $99 a year with every extension and theme. You run WordPress and WooCommerce for payments. Yclas is a hosted classifieds platform with one monthly price.
Last checked: 24 October 2026. Facts about HivePress come from its own website; the sources are listed at the end of this page.
AI that does the work for you.
Yclas puts AI into every part of a marketplace: building it, filling it, searching it and keeping it safe. Monthly AI use is included in every plan. Under each one, what HivePress offers.
Describe a change, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview. 109 ready-made looks and drag-and-drop sections.
Say what your marketplace is for and the AI writes your categories, subcategories, tagline and About page in your language. Live in about two minutes.
Sellers add a photo; the AI writes the title, description and price, and picks the category and fields.
Visitors search the way they talk, such as "red bike under 300 near Valencia", and get the right filters.
Every new listing is checked against your rules for scams, prohibited items, spam and wrong categories. Risky ones wait in your queue with the reason, and buyers are warned when a message asks for gift cards or off-site payment.
On multilingual sites each listing is translated into every site language, with its own page for search engines. 44 languages.
The AI drafts a seller's reply from the listing and the conversation; the seller edits and sends it.
What changes for you.
What you get with Yclas that HivePress doesn't include.
Every Yclas plan includes all of these. For HivePress we list what its own website offers, with the price where it is a paid add-on.
| Feature | Yclas | HivePress |
|---|---|---|
| Selling and money | ||
| Paid listings and memberships | Featured listings, bump to top, paid categories, memberships and coupons, paid into your own Stripe, PayPal or other account | Paid add-on Memberships extension, $39: paid plans and featured listings, through WooCommerce [3] |
| Offers in the chat | Buyers make an offer; sellers accept, decline or counter; an accepted offer can be paid online | Partly Requests extension ($39): buyers post a request and receive offers; no offers on listings [4] |
| Auctions | Proxy bidding, reserve price, buy-now and anti-sniping | Not offered Not among the extensions [2] |
| Bookings and rentals | Availability calendar, per day, night or hour, and request to book | Paid add-on Bookings extension, $39 [2] |
| Ready for your niche | ||
| Business directory | Opening hours with "Open now", claim your business, quote requests you can charge for, and events | Paid add-on Opening Hours extension, $29; Claim Listings free [2] |
| Buyers and trust | ||
| Messages between buyers and sellers | Built in | Free add-on Free Messages extension [2] |
| Reviews and badges | Two-sided reviews and badges sellers earn, such as Fast responder and Top rated | Free add-on Free Reviews extension; Badges, $29 [2] |
| Seller verification | ID and business document checks, and trader details for business sellers | Not offered No ID or business document checks listed [2] |
| Saved searches with alerts | Instant or daily alerts for new matches, by email and push | Paid add-on Search Alerts extension, $39 [2] |
| Browser push notifications | For new messages and alerts, with no outside service | Not offered Not listed [2] |
| Easy and safe sign-in | Google, Facebook, Apple, X, Microsoft and LinkedIn, a code by SMS, one-click email links and two-step login | Paid add-on Social Login extension, $29; no two-step login listed [2] |
| Growth and SEO | ||
| SEO toolkit | Title patterns, redirects and a 404 log, structured data by listing type, sitemaps for every listing and IndexNow | Paid add-on SEO extension, $29, usually with an SEO plugin [2] |
| Maps and map search | OpenStreetMap with no API key, or Google Maps; search the area on the map or near a place | Free add-on Free Geolocation extension [2] |
| Automatic social posting | New listings posted to a Facebook Page, Instagram, X and Telegram | Not offered Not listed [2] |
| Webhooks, API keys and MCP | Signed webhooks, scoped API keys, and an MCP server so AI assistants can work with your site | Partly A REST API endpoint for each front-end action; no webhooks or MCP listed [1] |
| Running the site | ||
| Hosting, SSL, updates and backups | Included in every plan, with support | Not offered Not included: you run WordPress hosting, updates and backups [1] |
| Moving your site in | An importer for Osclass, Flynax, LaraClassifier and WordPress exports and CSV files, with a dry run and undo | Paid add-on Import extension, $29: CSV import and export; no importer for other classifieds software [5] |
A working site in year one.
Software, support and the things you need to keep a site online. Hosting for self-hosted software depends on the host you choose, so it is left out of their totals.
HivePress
| HivePress plugin and the ListingHive theme [1] | Free |
|---|---|
| All extensions and themes, with support and updates for a year [2] | $99 a year |
| Or extensions one by one: lifetime licence for one site, 6 months of support [3] | $29 or $39 each |
| WordPress hosting, domain and SSL | Paid separately |
| Year one | $99 + hosting |
Paid themes such as RentalHive, ExpertHive and TaskHive cost $89 once, JobHive $69; the $99 bundle includes them. Payments go through WooCommerce, and recurring memberships through WooCommerce Subscriptions, a separate product.
Yclas
| Starter up to 5,000 listings · $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month | $678 |
|---|---|
| Professional up to 100,000 listings · $99 a month | $1,188 |
| Marketplace up to 300,000 listings · $149 a month | $1,788 |
| Included in the price | Hosting, SSL, updates, backups, support |
Year-one totals for each plan, from the pricing page. 15 days free first, with no credit card, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan. Prices in US dollars; EU customers pay VAT unless they add a VAT number.
HivePress and Yclas, point by point.
| Topic | HivePress | Yclas |
|---|---|---|
| What you install | WordPress, WooCommerce for payments, HivePress and a theme, on hosting you choose | Nothing: your site is created when you sign up |
| Software price | Free plugin; extensions $29 or $39 each, or $99 a year for all of them | $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month (Starter). Every plan includes hosting. |
| Server | WordPress hosting you rent and run | Included, with SSL on your own domain |
| Updates | You update WordPress, WooCommerce, the theme and each extension | Done for you |
| Support | 6 months with each paid extension or theme; community forum with the free ListingHive theme | Tickets in English or Spanish on every plan; priority support from our developers on Professional and Marketplace |
| Taking payments | Through WooCommerce and its gateways, with the Memberships ($39) or Marketplace ($39) extension | Built in: Stripe, PayPal and regional gateways, for featured listings, bump to top, paid categories and memberships |
| Selling online | Marketplace extension: commissions and payouts, for non-physical products only, with no shipping | Buy now, a cart across sellers and shipping rates on the Marketplace plan |
| AI help | An AI assistant answers setup and code questions; no AI in the plugin itself | Seven AI tools: page builder, site setup, listings from a photo, search, scam checks, listing translation and suggested replies |
| Phones | A responsive theme; no app listed | Mobile-first theme you can add to the home screen; browser push notifications; a branded iPhone app on the Marketplace plan |
| Latest release | 1.8.1, 21 October 2026; 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org | Updated continuously, with nothing for you to install |
Also on every Yclas plan
- 44 languages, right-to-left included, multilingual sites and any currency
- Your own domain with one DNS record, and SSL set up automatically
- 17 payment gateways, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Mercado Pago and Razorpay
- A money wizard that sets up paid posting, featured listings and plans in a few clicks
- Cookie consent that holds back analytics and ad code until visitors accept
- Reporting of illegal listings with a review queue, as the EU Digital Services Act asks
- Captcha with no setup, listing drafts that save themselves, and favourites
- Custom CSS and code, conditional custom fields and a catalogue of add-ons
- Ready-made connections for Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Slack and HubSpot
- A share kit with WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram and X buttons and a social image for every listing
The AI features and the page builder work with the Nova theme, the default for new sites. Compare plans →
Make it yours without hiring a developer.
With HivePress, a design beyond the theme's options usually means paying a developer or designer. Yclas includes a page builder you use yourself: describe what you want, or change it by hand.
The Yclas page builder
- Describe the change in plain words, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview before you publish.
- Start from 109 ready-made looks for cars, property, jobs, services, equipment and more, then change colours, fonts, buttons and spacing.
- Build pages from a library of sections: hero with search, categories, latest listings, how it works, locations, map, text, image and text, features, testimonials, FAQ, stats, call to action and logos, plus custom code sections for anything else.
- Drag sections into place, edit text right on the page, and check it on desktop, tablet and phone, next to your live site.
- Write and rewrite text with AI, and use free photos from Pexels and Unsplash or your own.
- Add pages, save blocks to reuse, undo any step, restore an earlier version, schedule publishing up to 90 days ahead, and share a preview link for 7 days.
Included in every plan. Want us to do it for you? Our team also does custom design and development.
The usual route with HivePress
| A paid HivePress theme, such as RentalHive or TaskHive [7] | $89 |
|---|---|
| Theme installation by HivePress [8] | $10 |
| A WordPress developer on Codeable [10] | $80 to $120 an hour |
Hourly work adds up with every change: a new section, a seasonal banner or a fix after an update is another job to brief, wait for and pay for.
Moving from HivePress
Yclas reads a WordPress database export with HivePress listings directly.
- Export your WordPress database as a .sql or .sql.gz file, the kind phpMyAdmin or your hosting panel makes.
- Start a free trial, choose "I already have a site" in the sign-up wizard, and upload the export in Move your site to Yclas.
- Match the fields, check the dry run (a preview with any errors, nothing is saved yet), then import.
Choose WordPress: HivePress in the importer. Your listings come across with their categories, prices and photos, and so do user accounts. Passwords are not copied: imported users set a new one. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
When HivePress may be the better choice
- Your listing site is part of a WordPress site you want to keep in one place.
- The free plugin with its free messages, reviews and maps does all you need.
- You want to buy extensions once, one at a time, rather than pay monthly.
- You look after WordPress yourself and want the lowest software cost.
If none of these fit, and you would rather spend your time on your marketplace than on a server, try Yclas.
Questions people ask
Other comparisons:
Is HivePress free?
The plugin is free, and so are its Messages, Reviews, Favorites, Geolocation and Claim Listings extensions. Memberships, the marketplace, bookings, requests and search alerts cost $39 each, and the bundle with every extension and theme is $99 a year.
Is HivePress cheaper than Yclas?
On the price tag, yes: $99 a year buys every extension. Hosting, WooCommerce and keeping WordPress updated are yours. Yclas Starter costs $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month, with hosting, updates, support and AI included.
Can I move my HivePress site to Yclas?
Yes. Export your WordPress database and upload it in Move your site to Yclas, choosing HivePress. Listings, categories, prices, photos and users come across after a dry run you can check, and you can undo the latest import within 7 days.
Can I sell physical products with HivePress?
HivePress says its Marketplace extension is for non-physical products only, with no shipping. Yclas has a cart across sellers with shipping rates per seller on the Marketplace plan.
Do I need WordPress for Yclas?
No. Yclas is hosted: no WordPress, theme or plugins to install, with hosting, updates and backups included.
Sources
Checked on 24 October 2026. Prices change: the vendor's own page is always the latest word. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
- HivePress on WordPress.org: 1.8.1, 10,000+ active installs, WooCommerce payments, REST API
- HivePress extensions: free and paid, prices, the $99 bundle
- HivePress Memberships: lifetime single-site licence, 6 months of support
- HivePress Requests
- HivePress Import
- HivePress Marketplace: non-physical products only
- HivePress themes and their prices
- HivePress: ListingHive theme, licences, support and installation service
- HivePress home page: AI assistant for setup and development
- Codeable pricing: WordPress developers at $80 to $120 an hour
- Yclas pricing
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