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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "ultahost",
 "name": "UltaHost",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "ultahost.com",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Hosting & websites",
 "summary": "Budget-friendly web hosting across shared, VPS, WordPress and dedicated plans, with NVMe SSD storage, free SSL and migration, DDoS protection and 24/7 multilingual support, from 30+ global data centers.",
 "best_for": "budget-conscious owners, developers and small businesses that want cheap, fast NVMe hosting (shared or VPS) with free migration and DDoS protection, and will prepay a multi-year term",
 "skip_if": "you run a business-critical, high-traffic site that needs premium managed hosting with guaranteed enterprise support, or you don't want to lock into a multi-year term to get the good rate",
 "honest_knock": "It's the classic budget-host trade-off, with one thing in its favour. The sticker price is a term commitment: the page opens on the 2-year prices, and the 30/40/50% badges are measured from a crossed-out list price rather than from what monthly billing actually costs, so the real saving for prepaying two years is about 22% on Starter. What works in its favour is the renewal: each card states it renews at the same rate for the same term, so the usual cheap-first-term-then-dear-second trap is at least written down. Read that line on the plan you actually pick. Support is generally fast but can be hit-or-miss depending on which agent picks up your ticket, and it's a smaller, less-established brand than the big managed hosts. It's a value play, not a premium-SLA one.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$3.44",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month (list $6.89) on the 2-year term, 1 domain, ~10,000 visits/mo",
  "from_price_usd_month": 3.44,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Starter",
    "price": "$3.44/mo (list $6.89)",
    "includes": "1 domain, ~10,000 visits/mo, 30 GB NVMe"
   },
   {
    "name": "Basic",
    "price": "$5.18 (list $9.19)",
    "includes": "4 domains, ~15,000 visits/mo, 60 GB"
   },
   {
    "name": "Business",
    "price": "$10.35 (list $17.02)",
    "includes": "unlimited domains, ~25,000 visits/mo, 80 GB"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "$13.23 (list $21.62)",
    "includes": "~49,000 visits/mo, 110 GB"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-01 on ultahost.com/shared-hosting, all four term tabs rendered) The term ladder is Monthly, Yearly -30%, 2 Years -40% and 3 Years -50%, and the page opens on the two-year term. At that term the shared plans are Starter $3.44/mo (list $6.89) for 1 domain, ~10,000 visits a month and 30 GB NVMe; Basic $5.18 (list $9.19) for 4 domains, ~15,000 visits and 60 GB; Business $10.35 (list $17.02) for unlimited domains, ~25,000 visits and 80 GB; and Pro $13.23 (list $21.62) for ~49,000 visits and 110 GB. Monthly billing is $4.39, $6.39, $12.29 and $16.29 (badged 'Save 25%'); one year $4.03, $6.33, $12.08 and $14.94; three years $2.88, $4.37, $8.63 and $10.93. Every card states it renews at its own rate for the same term ('Renews at $3.44/mo for 2 years. Cancel anytime.'). The banner now reads 'Starting at $3.44/mo', matching the card; on 9 September it read $4.13. 30-day money-back guarantee, free SSL, free backups, cPanel.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-01",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Hostinger or SiteGround",
  "why": "the comparable budget-to-mid hosts: Hostinger is the better-known value pick, SiteGround leans premium-managed; judge on the renewal rate and the support you'll actually need, not the intro price"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/ultahost.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/ultahost-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/ultahost/",
  "vendor_site": "https://ultahost.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://ultahost.partnerlinks.io/abbakj2xux9m",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "ultahost:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ultahost:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ultahost:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ultahost:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 },
 "offers": [
  {
   "offer_id": "ultahost-reader-offer",
   "version": "1359d45f8c",
   "offer_type": "price_discount",
   "benefit": "10% off with a reader code",
   "verification_status": "vendor_confirmed",
   "expires_at": null,
   "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/offers.json#ultahost-reader-offer"
  }
 ]
}