How we compare

Hostinger alternative: no four-year lock, no renewal jump

Hostinger's $2.99 is a 48-month commitment, and month 49 costs $10.99 — their own renewal line says so. Ours is $4.16 a month on a one-year term and stays $4.16, which over five years is $249.50 against their $275.40.

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One-year term, not fourThe renewal price is the priceAn isolated container per site

Entry plan, per month

Hostinger Premium, 48-month term$2.99

inSave Shared Start, yearly billing$4.16

Their published price against ours, both on the terms each of us asks for. Checked in a browser on the date under the table.

Cheaper for four years, then not

Their figure is a promotion with a 48-month term attached to it. Ours is the price.

Hostinger Premium, 48-month term

$2.99 /mo

3 websites
Renews at $10.99/mo
48 months paid up front

inSave Shared Start, yearly billing

$4.16 /mo

1 Website
30 GB NVMe Storage
1 GB RAM
1 vCPU Container Cap

Hostinger pricing as published at hostinger.com/web-hosting, October 2026. inSave figures come from our own price list.

What it costs over one, three and five years

A price per month says little when the term is four years. Counted the way the invoices arrive, Hostinger takes $143.52 on day one for 48 months and $275.40 by the end of year five; we take $249.50 over the same five years, a year at a time. More on reading a price before you buy: Your hosting renewal doubled. Here is how to read a price before you buy.

Plan	After 1 year	After 3 years	After 5 years
Hostinger Premium, 48-month term	$143.52	$143.52	$275.40
inSave Shared Start, yearly billing	$49.90	$149.70	$249.50

Everything billed by the end of each year, in US dollars. Hostinger pricing as published at hostinger.com/web-hosting, October 2026. inSave figures come from our own price list.

The entry plans, side by side

	Hostinger Premium, 48-month term	inSave Shared Start, yearly billing
Websites	3	1
Storage	20 GB	30 GB NVMe
Daily backups	Weekly	✓
Email accounts	2 per website, free for the first year	10
PostgreSQL databases	Not on their pricing page	1
Free SSL	✓	✓

Their column is what their pricing page lists; where it lists nothing, we say so rather than guess. Ours is the same table as on our plan pages.

Who answers when something breaks

At Hostinger

24/7 support on every plan — Premium lists it as priority support — for a customer base their page puts at over five million.

Here

Support is not a tier you upgrade to: tickets go to the engineers who run the servers, on Shared Start as on every other plan.

Who should switch, and who should not

Switch to us if

You have been here before: the cheap years end, the invoice triples, and moving is the only lever left. Or you want to know the price of year six today. Our cycles discount up to 30% and the figure never moves afterwards.

Stay where you are if

You run several small sites and want them on one cheap plan — Premium carries three websites to our one, and their Business plan as many as you like. You are also fine with paying four years up front to get the headline price.

Moving is on us

Free on every plan, done by an engineer rather than handed to you as a tool, and with the old host left running until you have checked the new copy.

Tell us what to move

Send the login to the current host, or a backup file. One site or forty — the migration is free on every plan.

We copy it and you check it

The site comes up on our platform on a temporary address. Nothing points here yet, so you can click through it before anything changes.

We switch the DNS

When you say go, the name points at us. Done outside your busy hours if you ask, and with the old host still running until it is finished.

How free migration works

Questions about switching

You are more expensive. Why?

For the first four years, yes, by about $56 in total. After that their price triples and ours does not, so the lines cross in month 56. You are also buying a container per site and engineers who run a thousand servers, rather than the cheapest headline on the market.

What does an isolated container change?

Your site does not share a filesystem or a process table with a neighbour. A compromised site next door cannot read your files, and a neighbour's traffic spike cannot take your CPU.

Will you match their promotional price?

inSave does not match Hostinger's promotional price. A price that exists only to expire is the thing we are selling against; matching it would make the rest of this page a lie.

Other comparisons

Kinsta

Premium managed WordPress on Google Cloud, priced for enterprises. The same managed features cost a fraction here.

Namecheap reseller

Cheap reseller accounts on cPanel. We give a different platform and five times the NVMe, not a cheaper copy.

Hostinger cPanel Reseller

Renewals stopped on 1 October 2026 and the plans shut down a year later. Where a reseller and its clients can go instead.

Cloudways

A $14 managed server, with malware protection and safe updates sold per site on top. Ours includes them for one WordPress site.

SiteGround

$2.99 a month for the first year, $17.99 a month after it. Ours is the same price at every renewal.

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