Hostinger vs Kinsta

Hostinger is strongest for budget-conscious site owners. Kinsta is strongest for managed WordPress. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hostinger	Kinsta
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$35/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious site owners WordPress sites Small business web hosting First-time VPS users	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.9%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	10	37
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Knowledge base, AI assistant (Kodee)	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Displayed price is an introductory promo rate tied to prepaying a 12/24/48-month term; renewal price is 2-4x higher (e.g. VPS KVM 1 renews at $11.99/mo vs $6.49/mo intro) Monthly (1-month) billing is available but at a significantly higher per-month rate than any multi-month term Free domain is only free for the first year; renews at standard domain pricing Dedicated IP, extra backups, and some AI/Vibe coding credits are limited allotments, not unlimited Weekly (not daily) backups on base VPS plans; daily backups reserved for Cloud plans	Overage per extra 1,000 visits above plan allowance billed per Kinsta overage schedule (not itemized on public pricing page) Premium Staging Environment add-on reported at $20/month per extra environment beyond the included free staging environment (figure from secondary source, not independently verified on a primary Kinsta page) CDN bandwidth overage reported at approximately $0.05/GB past plan allowance (figure from secondary source, not independently verified) Sevalla Application Hosting: egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (ingress free); build time billed at $0.0003333/second ($0.02/minute) Sevalla Database Hosting: disk space add-ons sold in 10 GB increments at $10/month per 10 GB; external egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (internal app-to-db connections free)
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18