Hostwinds vs Hostinger: what you pay after the intro price
To keep one website, Hostinger is cheaper over 1 year, renewals included. Hostwinds has no total for keeping a site 2 to 5 years, because it doesn't publish what its plans renew at, so those periods aren't compared.
One website, kept 1 to 5 years
| Kept for | Hostwinds | Hostinger | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $83.88 Basic Web Hosting, 12 months | $47.88 Premium, 12 months | $36 |
| 2 years | – | $83.76 Premium, 2 years | – |
| 3 years | – | $143.52 Premium, 4 years, paid through year 4 | – |
| 4 years | – | $143.52 Premium, 4 years | – |
| 5 years | – | $275.40 Premium, 4 years | – |
Each host's cheapest plan and term for the period: the first term up front, then renewals at its published renewal price. The highlight marks the cheaper. Before tax, without a domain.
What the numbers say
- Hostwinds advertises $6.99 a month (Basic Web Hosting, 12-month term) and publishes no renewal price for it; Hostinger advertises $2.99 a month (Premium, 4-year term), which renews at $10.99, 3.7× as much.
- Only Hostinger has a monthly price we could record: $143.88 for a year on Premium. Hostwinds' other terms sit on pages we couldn't read.
- Paying a year at a time instead of the cheapest term adds $168.12 on Hostinger over 3 years.
- With unlimited websites, keeping them 3 years costs $191.52 on Hostinger (Unlimited); Hostwinds has unlimited-website plans (Ultimate Web Hosting and Ultimate Business) but publishes no renewal price to total them.
- Free domain: Hostwinds doesn't mention one; Hostinger includes one with every plan, for 1 year on terms of a year or more. A .com then renews at $19.99 a year at Hostinger.
More websites, kept 3 years
| Websites | Hostwinds | Hostinger |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | no published renewal price for the years kept | $143.52 Premium, 4 years, paid through year 4 |
| 3 | no published renewal price for the years kept | $143.52 Premium, 4 years, paid through year 4 |
| 10 | no published renewal price for the years kept | $191.52 Unlimited, 4 years, paid through year 4 |
| 25 | no published renewal price for the years kept | $191.52 Unlimited, 4 years, paid through year 4 |
Every plan and renewal: Hostwinds renewal price · Hostinger renewal price · try your own numbers.
Prices checked against each host's own pages on , in US dollars before tax.