How we compare

Kinsta alternative: managed WordPress without the enterprise bill

Kinsta runs managed WordPress on Google Cloud and prices it accordingly: $350 a year — about $29 a month — for one site and 10 GB. The managed part — automatic updates, staging, object cache, hardening — is what you are actually buying, and it costs $8.33 here with 40 GB of NVMe.

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The same managed features40 GB against their 10Free migration, done by us

Entry plan, per month

Kinsta, entry plan, billed annually$29.17

inSave WP Start, yearly billing$8.33

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

Premium managed features at a fraction of the price

The same class of managed WordPress — updates, staging, caching, hardening — priced for a business, not an enterprise.

Kinsta, entry plan, billed annually

$29.17 /mo

1 WordPress install
10 GB storage
20 GB bandwidth a month

inSave WP Start, yearly billing

$8.33 /mo

1 WordPress Site
40 GB NVMe Storage
2 GB RAM
1.5 vCPU Container Cap

Kinsta pricing as published at kinsta.com/pricing, October 2026. inSave figures come from our own price list.

What it costs over one, three and five years

Neither of us plays games at renewal, so the difference is simply the price, and it adds up: one site costs $1,750 at Kinsta over five years and $499.50 here. If speed is why you chose Kinsta, the cache layer usually decides it, not the cloud underneath — see Why is my WordPress site slow on shared hosting? Check these five things first.

Plan	After 1 year	After 3 years	After 5 years
Kinsta, entry plan, billed annually	$350	$1,050	$1,750
inSave WP Start, yearly billing	$99.90	$299.70	$499.50
Kinsta WP 10, ten sites, billed annually	$2,250	$6,750	$11,250
inSave WP Pro, ten sites, yearly billing	$399.90	$1,199.70	$1,999.50

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

The entry plans, side by side

	Kinsta, entry plan, billed annually	inSave WP Start, yearly billing
WordPress sites	1	1
Storage	10 GB	40 GB NVMe
Daily backups	Daily, kept 14 days	✓
Staging websites	✓	1
Redis object cache	Add-on, $100 a month per site	✓
CDN	125 GB a month	Cloudflare

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 Kinsta

Human support around the clock in eight languages, as their pricing page says, and account management on the bigger plans. It is good support, and it is part of what the price pays for.

Here

Your ticket goes to the engineers who run the servers — the same people on WP Start as on WP Pro, with no first line in between. What you do not get is a named account manager: we are a smaller company, and would rather say so here than after you move.

Who should switch, and who should not

Switch to us if

Your bill is the problem rather than the platform: you are paying enterprise rates for a business site, and the features you use are updates, staging, caching and hardening — all of which are here. Ten client sites cost $33.33 a month with us and $188 with them.

Stay where you are if

You need Google Cloud specifically, their edge network or an account manager with your name on it. We are a smaller company: you get engineers on a ticket, not a named success manager, and we publish no benchmark that says our hardware beats theirs.

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

Is the hardware worse than Google Cloud?

It is different, and we are not going to pretend to have measured otherwise. We run LiteSpeed with LSCache and Redis on NVMe in EU-Central, US-East and US-West. For a business site the cache layer usually decides the page speed, not the cloud underneath it.

Can you move a site off Kinsta?

Moving a site off Kinsta to inSave is free on every plan. Kinsta gives you a full backup from MyKinsta; we restore it here, you check it on a temporary address, and only then does the domain point at us.

Do I lose staging?

One-click staging is on every WordPress plan at inSave, including the entry one — a copy of the site to test a plugin or a redesign on, then push live.

Other comparisons

Hostinger

The cheapest headline on the market, on a four-year commitment, renewing at roughly four times the price.

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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