Hostinger Review (2026)
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
The headline price only holds if you prepay years up front — renewals run several times the intro rate, the number-one complaint. Budget for the renewal, and be realistic that budget shared hosting isn't managed-grade performance. Throughout this review we weigh it against Bluehost.
budget-conscious owners and side projects that want cheap, decent hosting and will prepay a multi-year term.
you run a business-critical, high-traffic site — the renewal jump and shared-tier limits make managed hosting the better long-run value.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 9 Oct 2026
Shared and WordPress hosting runs three tiers on a 48-month term. Premium is $2.99/mo ($143.52 up front, regular price $575.52; 3 websites, 20 GB SSD, weekly backups) renewing at $10.99. Unlimited is $3.99 ($191.52, regular $911.52; unlimited websites, 50 GB NVMe, daily backups) renewing at $16.99.
Frequently asked questions
Is Hostinger VPS priced differently from Hostinger's normal hosting?
Yes, and it is a separate ladder with a different term. Shared and WordPress hosting runs from $2.99 a month for Premium on a 48-month commitment. VPS starts at $6.49 a month for KVM 1 on a 24-month commitment, giving 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe and 4 TB bandwidth, and climbs through KVM 2 at $8.99, KVM 4 at $12.99 and KVM 8 at $25.99. Both are paid upfront for the full term. Read on their own pages on 18 August 2026.
Kinsta vs Hostinger — what actually separates them?
Price model before performance. Hostinger sells a long prepaid term at a discount and then renews at several times that rate, so the honest comparison is the four-year total against the renewal, not $2.99 against anyone. Kinsta is managed hosting priced as managed hosting, with no multi-year prepayment to unlock the headline. If your site is a side project or a brochure and you will genuinely keep it four years, Hostinger wins on cost. If it is business-critical and under real load, you are comparing a shared budget tier against a managed platform, and the renewal gap narrows the saving anyway.
What will Hostinger cost me once the intro term ends?
Between about three and 4.3 times the headline, and the figures are on their own page (read 9 October 2026). Premium goes from $2.99 to $10.99 a month, Unlimited from $3.99 to $16.99, Cloud Startup from $7.99 to $25.99, and on VPS, KVM 1 goes from $6.49 to $11.99. The renewals move far less than the promotional prices do — $10.99, $16.99 and $25.99 have held in every capture we hold since July 2026, even as tier names changed — so treat them as the real price and the intro rate as the discount. Put the renewal date in your calendar on the day you sign up.
If I cancel within 30 days, do I get everything back?
Not always everything. Hostinger's refund policy (last revised 2 October 2026, read 9 October 2026) refunds products cancelled within 30 days of the transaction, but the free domain that comes with a 12-, 24- or 48-month plan is non-refundable, and Hostinger reserves the right to refund only the difference between what you paid and that domain's price. A VPS plan is refundable only if more than 180 days have passed since your last VPS refund, and domain renewals, privacy protection and VPS licences are on the non-refundable list.
Is email still included after the first year?
Not confirmed. The plan page (read 9 October 2026) lists 2 mailboxes per website on Premium and unlimited mailboxes per website on Unlimited and Cloud Startup, each marked "free for 1 year", but does not say what they cost from year two. Ask before you rely on them for a business address.
Is this a hands-on review of Hostinger?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Buyer reviews on independent uptime and speed tests, Trustpilot, Capterra (reviews from July 2021 to July 2026, most of the substance from November 2024 onward) and Sitejabber, read August 2026, Sitejabber October 2026.
- Re-verified 2026-10-09, read on their own web-hosting and VPS pages.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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