[p3ob7o]

Everywhere else where you have to pay for hosting, you mean?

On WordPress.com, you can pay for hosting plans, some of which give access to plugins and themes, but you also have free hosting without.

Elsewhere, you pay for hosting; there's generally no free option. Then you get plugins and themes included with that.

In the end, to use WordPress with plugins and themes, you pay some amount to the company that hosts it for you.

Disclaimer: I work for Automattic, but the opinions here are my own.

[nchmy]

Please see my response to Matt's sibling comment. If this is truly your own opinion, and you can't see that it is just laughably wrong, then you're definitely working in the right place!