Hostinger Pricing Explained: Which Plan Should You Pick? If Any

“Wow, that’s a lot of plans!” was my first thought – and second and third – when I first tried to make sense of Hostinger’s pricing. The plans all seemed so similar, not just in price but in how they were presented, almost as if each one was a completely different product.

I quickly realized I wasn’t alone in feeling confused. Hostinger’s strategy is clever but can be misleading if you don’t know what to look for. Spoiler alert: they have just a few core hosting plans, but they dress them up differently across their site to cater to various needs and preferences.

That’s what inspired this post. I’m here to break down Hostinger’s offerings, explain how they really work, and help you figure out what to consider when choosing a plan. My goal is to cut through the noise and show you that Hostinger’s plans are simpler and more versatile than they might initially appear.

Side note; if what you’re really looking for is a Hostinger review, then we have that too. In this piece, Martin gets knees deep in how good Hostinger actually is and he confronts three other users that have been with Hostinger for a while.

The true lineup of Hostinger products

When you’re navigating through Hostinger’s products and plans, it might seem like there are a lot of options that are very similar. The prices are close, and the plans seem to overlap, but they’re divided into different sections on their website.

What’s really happening is that Hostinger offers only a limited number of core hosting products. However, they use various pages on their site to highlight specific features or use cases of these products, depending on what a user might be looking for at that moment.

Recently, they’ve redesigned their pricing page and it’s a little easier to make sense of the relationships between their core plans compared to before. You can shuffle between them on one page and see, for example, how their “web hosting” and “WordPress hosting” are essentially the same. The only difference is that WordPress hosting adds on the mid-tier Cloud Professional plan to the lineup:

If you shuffle further down to WooCommerce hosting, you’ll see the entry-level Premium plan removed and the mid-tier Cloud Professional plan added.

When you pause and think about it, it means that their WordPress hosting plans are nothing more than a fusion of their web hosting plans and WooCommerce plans. Furthermore, all three of them feature at least one plan from the Cloud hosting series.

All of this mixing and matching is what leaves most people wondering how many hosting plans does Hostinger actually have? Let’s discuss that next.

👉 All those individual pages on Hostinger.com – like “Web Hosting,” “Managed WordPress Hosting,” “AI Website Builder,” “Cloud Hosting,” “cPanel Hosting,” “Managed WooCommerce,” and others – are really just different presentations of these eleven core hosting plans.

And then each of those plans has specific features and enhancements that Hostinger highlights.

Some of the most prominent include:

• Managed WordPress Hosting
• Managed WooCommerce Hosting
• AI-powered Website Builder
• n8n Hosting
• Game Hosting (for Minecraft and other games)

However, these are not separate server technologies or standalone hosting types. Instead, they’re variations or bundles of the same core plans listed above, customized or pre-configured for specific needs.

Now, let’s take a closer look at these options and pair them with the features and benefits they offer.

Hostinger’s shared and cloud hosting

Premium

This is Hostinger’s primary entry-level plan, allowing you to host up to 25 websites with 25 GB of SSD storage, and unlimited bandwidth. It’s designed to handle an estimated 25,000 visitors per month. A free domain name is also included in the first year, which is a nice perk.

This plan is available across several of Hostinger’s offerings – you can find it under the labels “Web Hosting”, “Managed WordPress”, and even in their “Website Builder” package.

Enabled features:

• Free SSL certificates.
• Weekly backups.
• Free pre-built templates.
• Automatic website migration.
• 1-click Google integration (search console + analytics)
• Security features (DDoS, WAF, Malware scanner)
• Enhanced Managed WordPress hosting features, including WP-CLI and multisite installation.
• SSH access.
• 300 databases.
• 100 subdomains.

Price:

• First term / promo: $2.69/month for a 48-month term.
• Renewal: $7.99/month.

👉 Get it from Hostinger’s primary web hosting listings.

Business

The Business plan is Hostinger’s most promoted and popular hosting option. It doubles both the storage (to 50 GB) and the number of websites (to 50) you can host compared to the Premium plan. The storage also gets upgraded from SSD to the newer and faster NVMe. Bandwidth remains unlimited, and a free domain name is still included for the first year.

This plan is prominently featured on most of Hostinger’s pages, as it offers the best balance of features and price. It’s versatile enough to serve as hosting for standard websites, AI-built websites, and WordPress sites, while also being powerful enough for new ecommerce ventures, serving as the entry-level option in Hostinger’s WooCommerce plans.

Enabled features:

• Everything included in the Premium plan, plus:
• Supports up to ~100,000 visits monthly.
• More frequent backups – daily and on-demand.
• Integrated with Hostinger’s CDN.
• WordPress staging.
• Object cache for WordPress.
• Free Amazon affiliate WordPress plugin.
• 100 subdomains.
• 300 databases.

Price:

• First term / promo: $3.59/month for a 48-month term.
• Renewal: $8.99/month.

👉 Get it from Hostinger’s primary web hosting listings.

Cloud Startup

The Cloud Startup plan is the first of Hostinger’s three cloud hosting setups. However, based on how Hostinger describes their server technology, data centers, and the way they categorize their hosting plans, it seems that these cloud setups are essentially a higher tier of shared hosting. This isn’t necessarily a drawback, and Hostinger isn’t alone in using this approach.

Moreover, the Cloud Startup plan is often positioned as a higher tier “normal” hosting option throughout Hostinger’s website. You’ll find it featured on the standard “web hosting” page, under WordPress hosting, and WooCommerce hosting.

The server specifications are presented similarly to those in Hostinger’s shared hosting plans. The Cloud Startup plan allows you to host up to 100 websites with 100 GB of NVMe storage. It includes the same set of managed WordPress hosting features as the Business plan, but adds a dedicated IP address and priority customer support.

👉 The primary advantage of the Cloud Startup plan is its enhanced performance, thanks in part to the increased number of PHP workers (100 to 60 on the Business plan). Having more PHP workers allows your site to handle more simultaneous visitors without performance degradation, especially during traffic spikes or when running resource-intensive applications. Otherwise, most of the features are quite similar to those in the Business plan.

Enabled features:

• Everything in the Business plan, plus:
• Supports up to ~200,000 visits monthly.
• Dedicated IP address and priority support.
• 300 subdomains.
• 800 databases.

Price:

• First term / promo: $7.99/month for a 48-month term.
• Regular / renewal: $19.99/month.

👉 Get it from Hostinger’s primary web hosting listings or the cloud hosting listings.

Cloud Professional and Cloud Enterprise

I’m grouping these two plans together because, in reality, all the cloud plans – including the Cloud Startup plan discussed above – offer the same features regarding managed WordPress capabilities, website builders, email accounts, security, and more. The only distinctions lie in the server parameters.

The equation here is straightforward: the more power you need, the more you’ll have to pay.

Below are the specifics of the Cloud Professional and Cloud Enterprise plans compared to the entry-level Cloud Startup plan:

Price:

👉 Get any of these plans from Hostinger’s cloud hosting listings.

Agency Startup and Agency Professional

Similar to the Cloud plans, the Agency plans can also be grouped together because they are scaled based on the same premise – resource demand.

Aside from the above, the features are identical with the exception of one, which is that only the Professional plan supports node.js frameworks. That’s it. Otherwise both plans include:

• Daily backups.
• Unlimited free SSL certificates.
• Free CDN.
• Dedicated IP address.
• Access sharing per site.
• 1-click WordPress installation.
• Enhanced DDoS protection.

Price:

Hostinger’s VPS Hosting

VPS hosting is where things start to differ significantly from shared and cloud setups.

Instead of sharing server space with other customers – as in “shared hosting” – you get your own dedicated subsection of the server to use exclusively. However, this doesn’t mean you have an entire machine to yourself – that would be dedicated hosting. Instead, you receive a “virtual” portion of the server.

Hostinger uses KVM virtualization (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) to achieve this. In simple terms, KVM allows your virtual machine to function as a fully independent server. This is because a virtual machine set up in this model virtualizes the entire server, including the kernel, network card, disk space, and even graphics. You can read more about it here.

Regarding Hostinger’s VPS plans, they all offer the same range of features (more on those in a minute), with the main differences being the parameters of the virtual machine. Here’s how those parameters compare:

There’s no specific pro tip here; you simply need to choose the server that you believe can handle the workload you plan to place on it. The good news is that the infrastructure is scalable.

Feature-wise:

• All servers operate on a 300 Mb/s network.
• There are automated weekly backups, plus the option to create snapshots manually.
• You can choose from a variety of popular Linux-based operating systems, control panels, and apps.
• You have access to an AI assistant to simplify your VPS management.

👉 Get it from Hostinger’s VPS hosting listings.

Minecraft and other game hosting

I’m listing Hostinger’s Minecraft and game hosting setups here as a subset of VPS hosting because that’s essentially what they are – at least at Hostinger.

All of their game server setups run on VPS architecture, with the only difference from the user’s perspective being access to easy-to-use control panels with instant setups for over 100 popular games. You’ll find simple installations for Minecraft, ARK, CS, Palworld, and more.

The pricing is almost the same as the VPS setups, but to give you a complete picture, here’s a table with all the important details:

All the other hosting plans are just gimmicks

Hostinger has numerous pages promoting different aspects of their hosting services. They offer a website builder + hosting package, an AI eCommerce builder, various types of CMS hosting, specific site builders for photographers, portfolio websites, and more. There’s a plethora of these options.

However, the key thing to remember is that most of these packages essentially promote Hostinger’s main shared hosting plans with a few (like this one) repackaging their VPS plans. You get the same range of features as you would with their web hosting or VPS packages, just branded differently to appeal to users looking for AI builders or other specific tools.

Hostinger’s other products

As a large company, Hostinger also offers a range of complementary products that pair well with their hosting packages. These offerings are generally straightforward and less complex than their hosting services.

Domains

Hostinger offers a solid lineup of TLDs, ranging from classic options like .com, .org, and .net, to more niche ones like .cloud, .online, .shop, .io, and, of course, .ai.

The pricing is competitive and aligns with what you’d expect from other major registrars.

Here are a couple of examples:

Additionally, Hostinger provides a free domain name for the first year with any hosting plan from Premium and up.

👉 For a detailed comparison of the top domain registrars and their pricing, check out this guide.

Hostinger Horizons

Horizons is Hostinger’s latest product. Although they’ve previously added lots of AI-powered features across their hosting and domain plans, Horizons marks their first full-blown attempt to launch an AI product.

If you’ve come across the trendy term “vibe coding” lately, then you will immediately understand the purpose of Horizons. It’s a no-code web app builder that lets you engineer your own custom software solutions via prompting:

At the moment, Hostinger is letting interested folks try it for free for seven days.

The trial is really limited though – you can only work on one project with five prompts per day. It also has restrictions on what it can build. For example, I asked it to create a WordPress plugin and it told me that it couldn’t do that, adding that it’s “specifically designed for creating standalone web applications using React and related modern web technologies.”

If you choose to upgrade, your number of prompts will range anywhere from 100 per month to 1,000 – depending on the plan:

Business Email

Hostinger includes free email services with their shared hosting plans for the first year. You can set up two email inboxes per domain, each with up to 1 GB of storage.

However, if you need more, Hostinger offers “Business Email” plans that provide up to 50 GB of storage per inbox, additional email aliases, forwarding rules, and generally more advanced features.

• Business Starter: $0.59/month (for a 48-month term; then $1.59), 10 GB of storage and 50 email aliases.
• Business Premium: $2.99/month (for a 48-month term; then $3.99), 50 GB of storage and 50 email aliases.

Note that these prices are per inbox.

At a glance

At first, Hostinger’s hosting plans might seem overwhelming and confusing, with what appears to be a multitude of options. However, once you dig deeper, you’ll quickly realize that there are really just a few core plans, with the rest being variations mainly for marketing purposes.

Here’s a comprehensive comparison table of all the individual hosting plans and what they offer:

Final recommendations

Thank you for taking the time to read through this guide. I hope you found it helpful in navigating Hostinger’s hosting options and choosing the plan that best suits your needs. If you have any further questions or need additional guidance, feel free to reach out. Best of luck with your website!