vs
Arena
Meta Box Lifetime Bundle vs ACPT
Custom fields and post types: bundle or lean tool?
2 : 1 by the numbers
- One-time price
- $299
- $99Aheadahead in this row
- Sites covered
- 3 sitesAheadahead in this row
- 1 site
- Pays for itself after
- 37 months (vs $99/year)Aheadahead in this row
- 41 months (vs $29/year)
- Current discount
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- Listed featuresA longer list is not automatically better — the lists are cut differently.
- 6
- 6
- License
- One-time payment for 3 sites (Lifetime Bundle) with lifetime updates and support; a lifetime tier for unlimited sites costs more.
- One-time payment for 1 site with lifetime updates and support; lifetime tiers for 5 and unlimited sites cost more.
- Price checked
- Sep 14, 2026
- Sep 14, 2026
Our take
Last reviewed Sep 16, 2026
Meta Box sells a bundle: every Pro extension today and in the future, for three sites. ACPT is a single product for one site at a third of the price, with more than sixty field types in every tier. Both have a free version on wordpress.org, so you can try the foundation before paying. The deciding question is whether you need the extension zoo — or just fields.
Take Meta Box Lifetime Bundle if …
eLightUp
Take the Meta Box bundle if you build several sites and want settings pages, relationships and the rest of the Pro extensions included.
Take ACPT if …
Mauro Cassani
Take ACPT if one site is enough and you want the lowest price for a full set of field types.
This is our opinion, not a test result
