Hostinger Website Builder Pricing (2026): Intro, Renewal, Total

Hostinger website builder pricing has one number everybody quotes and three that actually matter. The quoted one is $2.99 a month. The three that matter are the term it rides on, the amount you hand over on the day, and the label underneath the seal: 48 months, $143.52 prepaid, renewing at $10.99. Nothing here is hidden — it is simply that the sticker and the invoice describe different events. This page is the receipt for all three tiers, with the arithmetic shown and every figure taken from the boxes we have already opened on this shelf. Where a current number is not on our slip, we say so and send you to the checkout page rather than guessing.

The price list, read twice

Three tiers matter, and each carries two prices: the one on the sticker and the one that applies once the term runs out. Premium is $2.99 a month on the 48-month term, $143.52 prepaid, renewing at $10.99. It covers up to three websites, a free domain for year one, two mailboxes per site free for a year, and a library of more than 400 templates — with no ecommerce. Unlimited is $3.99 a month intro, $191.52 for 48 months, renewing at $16.99, and adds unlimited sites and mailboxes plus ecommerce. Cloud Startup is $7.99 intro, $383.52 for 48 months, renewing at $25.99, and buys server headroom most simple sites will never touch.

Two audit notes. Some 2026 write-ups still cite an older Premium and Business naming with $1.99 and $2.99 intros; the live lineup is Premium, Unlimited, and Cloud Startup, and Business is simply the previous label on the ecommerce tier. And the renewal gap is genuine — roughly 3.7x on Premium, 4.3x on Unlimited — but the timing softens it, because a 48-month intro pushes the step to year five. On this shelf, term length matters more than sticker price. The full unboxing sits in our Hostinger review.

The three-year total, and what it beats

Run our standard three-year window on Premium and the answer is $143.52 flat, because the prepay covers 48 months and no renewal event happens inside the window. The fourth year is effectively thrown in. Add $15 to $20 a year for the domain from year two, a surcharge every provider on the shelf charges.

Against the rest of the aisle that total is hard to argue with. Bluehost's 36-month Starter lock lands at $143.64 — a photo finish, twelve cents apart. IONOS Starter runs $408 across the same window, and the ex-Web.com builder now sold by Network Solutions reaches $443.64. Against the standalone platforms it stops being a contest: Wix Core costs $29 a month billed annually, which is $1,044 over three years, or roughly seven times Hostinger's four-year figure. We priced that matchup in full, and the gap survives every honest adjustment we could make to it. If your requirements list includes apps, memberships, or serious bookings, that premium is what a Wix Core plan is charging for, and it is a defensible purchase — just not a cheap one.

How to actually buy it without overpaying

Four procedures, in order. First, price the term before you price the month, because only the 48-month prepay produces the $143.52 figure — shorter Hostinger terms carry noticeably higher monthly rates, and the famous number depends entirely on committing to the full lock. If four years of prepay is not in your budget, re-run the arithmetic on the term you can actually afford rather than the one in the advert.

Second, buy the tier your payload needs rather than the tier that looks safe. If you are not selling anything, Premium is the plan and Unlimited is insurance you do not need. If you are selling, Unlimited's $3.99 intro is the cheapest working store on this shelf by a wide margin. Third, budget on the renewal label from day one: $10.99 on Premium, $16.99 on Unlimited. Write the figure into the spreadsheet in month one, not month forty-nine.

Fourth, calendar the renewal date the day you check out, then set a second reminder a month before it. Renewal prices in this industry are softer than they look, and a customer holding an exit has more room to ask than one whose card has already cleared. With those four things done, you can start on Hostinger's Premium plan knowing what the whole four years costs. If any figure on your checkout screen differs from the ones above, trust the checkout screen — these numbers were verified in August 2026 and the shelf does not hold still.

Before you prepay four years

The exit is not included

Sites built in the Hostinger Website Builder cannot be exported or migrated to another host — that comes from Hostinger's own migration documentation, which lists proprietary-builder sites as non-migratable. If you leave, you rebuild from scratch. There is no zip file, no theme download, no escape hatch. Weigh it as a permanent decision, because a 48-month prepay commits you commercially for the same period anyway.

If portability is a requirement

There is exactly one bundle on the shelf whose sites can pack up and leave, and it costs twelve cents more across three years. Bluehost Starter runs $3.99 a month on a 36-month term, renewing at $9.99, and its WonderSuite layer sits on top of real WordPress — so standard export and migration tooling moves the site to any host. The trade is WordPress maintenance as a standing chore and email as a paid add-on after its trial. If the answer to will this site ever need to move is even a maybe, the Bluehost Starter bundle is the cheapest insurance in the category.

If the price is not the point

Hostinger's editor is the best-reviewed of the bundled builders, and it still runs shallower than the standalone platforms on customization, with no app market and no pixel-level control. For a five-page business site or a small catalog that ceiling will not bother you. For a brand whose site is the product, it will, and the honest comparison is the wider one between bundled and standalone builders.