Kamatera vs Kinsta

Kamatera is strongest for custom VM sizing. Kinsta is strongest for managed WordPress. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Kamatera	Kinsta
Starting price	$0.05/mo	$35/mo
Best for	Custom VM sizing Global data center selection Windows Server hosting Dev/test environments	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress
Stated uptime SLA	99.95%	99.9%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	20	37
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Phone, Docs, Pro/Premium Managed Services (paid)	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overage billed at $0.01/GB past the pooled monthly allowance (5 TB US/Canada/Europe, 1 TB Asia-Pacific) Windows Server / SQL Server / Exchange / RDS licensing adds an undisclosed per-server surcharge only shown at calculator checkout Type T (Burstable) CPU incurs a $0.041/hour/CPU overage charge once average CPU usage exceeds 10% Powered-off (but not terminated) servers may continue to accrue charges Pro Managed Services add $50/server/month; Premium Managed Services add $150/server/month	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