Hostinger vs Kinsta
Hostinger and Kinsta compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Hostinger scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
HostingerWins overall
Very cheap on a 48-month term, with an easy custom panel; the entry plan cuts backups and email
Managed WordPress hosting from $30 a month with flat renewals, 30 data centers, edge caching and 14-day backups
Hostinger wins 1 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (8.0 vs 7.9).
How do the scores compare?
Hostinger leads on 1 sub-scores, Kinsta on 2. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, Hostinger is cheaper ($10.99/mo vs $30.00/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Hostinger | Kinsta | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | First year only, on 12-month and longer terms | No |
| Free SSL | Yes | Wildcard certificates through Cloudflare on every plan |
| Backups | Weekly on Premium; daily on Unlimited and Cloud Startup | Daily automatic backups kept 14 days on the entry plans (20 or 30 days higher up), plus manual, downloadable and hourly add-on backups |
| Email hosting | 2 mailboxes per website on Premium, unlimited on the other plans; free for the first year | Not stated |
| CDN | Included on Unlimited and Cloud Startup; listed as available on Premium | Not stated |
| Control panel | hPanel, Hostinger's own panel, with an AI assistant | Not stated |
| AI tools | AI website builder credits: 5 on Premium, 15 on the other plans, one-time | Not stated |
| Ecommerce | Available on every plan | Not stated |
| Fair usage limits | 3 GB per database, 300 databases, 300 FTP accounts, 400 cron jobs | Not stated |
| Uptime guarantee | 99.9% per month; 5% credit of that month's fee, claimed within 30 days | 99.9% per month in the SLA updated 25 September 2025, with credits as a percentage of the monthly value once downtime passes 43 minutes; up to 99.99% on custom plans |
| Choice of data center | 12 regions across North America, Europe, Asia and South America | Not stated |
| Phone support | No | No |
| Windows hosting | No | No |
| Free migration | Not stated | Unlimited migrations by Kinsta's team |
| Free CDN | Not stated | Cloudflare CDN with edge caching, 260+ points of presence per the pricing page; 125 GB of CDN bandwidth a month on the entry plans |
| Caching | Not stated | Server-level caching and edge caching through Cloudflare |
| Staging | Not stated | Free one-click staging environments on every plan |
| Not stated | No | |
| Resource limits | Not stated | Each site runs in its own container; plans are sized by server bandwidth or visits, storage and CDN bandwidth, with PHP worker counts in the compare table |
| Data center choice | Not stated | 30 locations chosen per site at creation |
| Security | Not stated | Fully managed WAF with DDoS protection, bot protection, free malware removal, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 |
| Developer tools | Not stated | SSH, WP-CLI, Git, DevKinsta local environment, Kinsta API, built-in APM |