Hostinger vs Render

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

Feature	Hostinger	Render
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious site owners WordPress sites Small business web hosting First-time VPS users	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.95%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	10	4
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Knowledge base, AI assistant (Kodee)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2
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	Persistent disk storage billed separately at $0.25/GB/month Bandwidth overage billed per-GB beyond workspace plan allowance (best-available figure ~$0.15/GB, exact current rate not printed on fetched docs page) Additional custom domains beyond plan allowance billed at $0.25/month each Postgres storage overage billed at roughly $0.30/GB/month beyond included storage Instances billed by the second while running, so scale-to-zero / suspended services still show partial-month charges for the time they were up
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18