GeoDirectory alternatives: five options for a paid directory

GeoDirectory alternatives at a glance

The five GeoDirectory alternatives worth pricing for a paid directory are Directorist, Business Directory Plugin and Directories Pro on WordPress, and Brilliant Directories and Directify as hosted builders. GeoDirectory itself has a free core plugin. Its Pricing Manager add-on, which charges listing owners, is $49 a year for one site, and a one-year membership covering every product is $139 for one website or $229 for unlimited websites, as read on October 23, 2026.

Brilliant Directories Essentials is $40 a month, billed monthly, on its account pricing page.

Other WordPress directory plugins

Directorist puts every extension in every membership. Its pricing page lists $129 a year for one site at list price and $379 as a lifetime license, and it runs promotions at lower figures. GeoDirectory vs Directorist sets the two plugins side by side.

Business Directory Plugin has a free version with no listing limit. Basic is $99 for the first year and renews at $149 a year.

Directories Pro is sold on CodeCanyon with six months of support. Its item page words the $39 Regular License for one end product that end users are not charged for, and the $195 Extended License for a product they can be charged for.

Hosted options that remove WordPress upkeep

Brilliant Directories hosts the site, and its account pricing page lists managed hosting with SSL and a custom domain. That page gives Essentials a member capacity of 5,000. Discount codes, free member trials and members-only content start on Builder.

The vendor says it takes $0 platform fees, and your payment processor's fees still apply. A 7-day free trial with no credit card starts from its trial page, and there is no free plan. Of these five, it is the only one with a trial that needs no card. The yearly figure in the table may change. The terms limit the seven-day money-back guarantee to new, full-price subscription plans, so a discounted yearly plan may fall outside it.

Payments and paid listings on each

• GeoDirectory: the Pricing Manager add-on plus a cart. GetPaid takes PayPal, bank transfer and a few other gateways, and WooCommerce needs the paid WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin for recurring payments.
• Directorist: paid listings and pricing plans are premium extensions.
• Business Directory Plugin: Stripe works in the free version with an extra fee on top of Stripe's own fees, and the pricing table lists Stripe from the Pro license.
• Directories Pro: WooCommerce payment gateways.
• Brilliant Directories: built-in gateways, with money deposited straight into your own gateway account.
• Directify: Pro, at $39 a month billed monthly, is the first plan to list accepting payments, with payouts to your own Stripe, Lemon Squeezy or Creem account.

When GeoDirectory is still the pick

GeoDirectory is still the pick for a location directory on a WordPress site you run yourself. Its home page says it uses custom database tables, not WordPress post meta, and paid listings start at $49 a year on one site. When a membership ends, the plugins keep working without support or updates, per its membership page.

Take a small agency building a chamber-of-commerce directory for a client, and ask who keeps the code and the data. On WordPress the plugin runs on a site you host, and Business Directory Plugin says you own your listings, your member directory and your data.

On Brilliant Directories every license includes database and cPanel access, and the owner keeps ownership of uploaded content. The code stays on the vendor's servers under the terms, and the home directory and each database can be downloaded from cPanel, though the vendor says the full account backup option cannot be downloaded.

Pick Directorist for one license with every extension, Directories Pro for a CodeCanyon license, and Brilliant Directories to stop running WordPress. Read best directory website builder for WordPress for the WordPress route, and Directorist alternatives for the Directorist side.