Cheapest web hosting

The cheapest web hosting for one website, kept 3 years with renewals, is ChemiCloud Starter at $70.20 ($1.95 a month), paid once, up front, for 3 years. The lowest advertised price is IONOS's $1 a month (Plus), paid $12 up front for 12 months, then $14 a month, 14× as much. Over 5 years the cheapest is Hostinger Premium at $275.40.

Prices as of October 6, 2026, from each host's own pricing pages and checkout, in US dollars before tax. Which host is cheapest depends on what you count:

One website on shared, WordPress and cloud plans (managed WordPress is below). Before tax and without a domain unless the plan includes one.

Each host's cheapest plan for one website

The cheapest plan and term on each host for keeping one website 3 years, renewals included, with its advertised price, the first year and 5 years beside it. A cheap first year often comes from a different plan or term than the cheapest 3 or 5 years.

Advertised: the host's lowest intro price a month on these plans and what that term renews at a month. First year, 3 and 5 years: the cheapest plan and term for each period, all payments due while you keep the site. Hostwinds publishes no renewal price, so only its first year is priced. Change the sites, storage, visits or years.

What the cheapest plans include

The cheapest plan is usually a host's smallest. 7 of the 11 plans in the table above allow one website, and some are sized for a set number of visits a month. These are the limits of each host's cheapest 3-year plan, as the host states them.

Visits are monthly; "no limit stated" means the host sizes the plan by websites and storage instead. What the free domain costs once its year ends · Cheapest hosting for several websites

The advertised price and what it renews at

The lowest advertised prices are intro prices for the first term, and most need that term paid up front. IONOS Plus is advertised at $1 a month, which takes $12 up front for 12 months and then renews at $14 a month. ChemiCloud Starter is advertised at $1.95 a month, which takes $70.20 up front for 3 years and then renews at $11.95 a month. DreamHost Web Hosting Launch is advertised at $1.99 a month, which takes $95.52 up front for 4 years and then renews at $7.99 a month. What every plan costs in its second year · Every renewal price

Cheapest without a long commitment

Paying month by month costs more over a year but can be stopped any month. The cheapest year paid that way is InterServer Standard Web Hosting: $2.50 for the first month, then $7 a month from month 2, $79.50 for the year, against $12 for the cheapest first year paid up front. Month-to-month hosting on every host · 1-year vs 3-year plans

Managed WordPress and hosts not priced

Flywheel, Kinsta, Liquid Web, Pressable, Rocket.net and WP Engine sell only managed WordPress hosting. The cheapest of them for one website over 3 years is Liquid Web (Essentials, 1 site, 50k visits) at $291.60, 4.2× the cheapest hosting above. Managed WordPress cost by monthly visits. Bluehost, Cloudways, GoDaddy, HostGator, InMotion Hosting and Namecheap aren't priced here. We list only prices recorded with evidence from each host's own pages. Namecheap's knowledge base does publish what its shared plans renew at: Stellar at $55.88 for a year.

Work out the total for your own sites and years · How much hosting costs per month and year · Cheapest WordPress hosting · All comparisons

Prices checked against each host's own pages on October 6, 2026, in US dollars before tax.