Hostinger Price History: What Every Plan Has Cost

Why this page exists

Hosting prices change constantly, and most of the pages ranking for “Hostinger pricing” show numbers that are months or years out of date. This is a snapshot of every published plan price we could verify, taken on 17 September 2026, with the three numbers that matter for each plan: what you pay during the promotional term, the regular list price Hostinger shows beside it, and what the plan costs after the term ends.

We cannot publish a verified year-by-year price archive, because Hostinger does not keep one and we will not invent numbers to fill a table. What we can do reliably is show you the current structure and explain the direction of travel.

The current price table

Web and cloud hosting — 48-month term, paid upfront

The regular 48-month totals, for reference, are $575.52 for Premium, $911.52 for Unlimited and $1,343.52 for Cloud Startup. That is the size of the discount Hostinger is applying on the longest term.

VPS hosting — 24-month term, paid upfront

The VPS line behaves differently from web hosting. The promo-to-renewal jump is much smaller — KVM 2 renews at +67%, against +326% on Unlimited. If price stability across the term boundary matters to you, the VPS line is the calmer option.

Cloud Professional and Cloud Enterprise are sold on the same 48-month structure as Cloud Startup, but Hostinger does not publish renewal rates for those tiers on the pricing page. Ask support for the renewal rate in writing before you buy one — it is the number that determines your year-five cost.

Read every hosting price as two prices, not one. The promo price is what you pay now; the renewal price is what the plan is worth to the host. If the renewal number does not work for your budget, the deal is not a deal — it is a four-year rental with a balloon payment at the end.

What the numbers tell you

Three things stand out in the table.

The longer the term, the deeper the discount. Hostinger’s web hosting is sold on a 48-month term and its VPS on 24 months. Both are paid upfront. The advertised monthly rate is simply the total divided by the number of months — which is the single most common misunderstanding among new buyers. $2.99/mo does not mean $2.99 leaves your account each month. It means $143.52 leaves your account once.

Renewal is where the margin lives. The promotional rate is a customer acquisition cost. The renewal rate is closer to the sustainable price of the service. On Unlimited the gap is +326%. That gap is not a trick; it is how the industry works. But it does mean the total cost of ownership over five years is much closer to the renewal price than to the promo price.

Cloud Startup is the mildest jump in web hosting. At +225%, it renews less aggressively than Premium (+268%) or Unlimited (+326%). Buyers who want a predictable long-run cost often find Cloud Startup easier to justify than Unlimited, even though it costs twice as much per month today.

What drives hosting price changes

Hosting prices are not set in a vacuum. Five inputs move them.

Energy costs

Data centers are power-intensive. Cooling and electricity are a large share of operating cost, and when energy prices rise, hosting prices follow with a lag. This is the single largest structural pressure on hosting costs across Europe, where Hostinger’s primary data centers sit.

Hardware

Storage and CPU cycles get cheaper per unit over time, but the units customers demand get larger. NVMe replaced SSD across Hostinger’s upper tiers. RAM allocations rose. A plan that was generous three years ago is unremarkable now, and the hardware to sustain it costs real money.

Currency

Hostinger is headquartered in Kaunas, Lithuania, and reports in euros while pricing in US dollars for the American market. When the dollar weakens against the euro, a dollar price has to rise to hold the same revenue. Currency movement is one reason prices can shift without any change to the product.

Data center expansion

Hostinger operates across North America, South America, Europe, South Africa, Asia and Australia. Opening a new region is a capital expense, and those costs recover across the customer base over time.

Competitive pressure

The counterweight. Because the hosting market is crowded and comparison shopping is easy, list prices tend to rise slowly while promotional depth flexes more aggressively. That is why the entry price stays attractive even as the renewal price climbs.

The direction of travel

The honest summary: list prices have generally drifted upward across the hosting industry, while introductory promotional depth has varied year to year. Hostinger has followed that pattern. The promotional rate is the competitive weapon; the renewal rate is the business.

We are deliberately not publishing a year-by-year price chart. Hostinger does not maintain a public archive of historical rates, and any article that shows you a precise 2019 price is either working from an old screenshot or reconstructing it. Treat any historical figure you see elsewhere, including approximate ones, as directional rather than exact.

What you can rely on is the structure: three numbers per plan, an upfront term payment, and a renewal rate that is significantly higher than the promo rate.

What this means when you choose a term

The term decision is really a bet on how long you will stay.

Choose the 48-month term if you are confident about the project and the price stability matters more to you than flexibility. You lock the lowest available monthly rate for four years. On Premium that is $143.52 for four years, which is roughly the cost of three months at the Cloud Startup renewal rate.

Choose a shorter term if the project is speculative, if you might migrate, or if you simply do not want to commit four years of budget to a plan you have not tested. You pay more per month, and you keep the option to move.

Plan for the renewal from day one. Whatever term you choose, write the renewal price into your notes. For Premium that is $10.99/mo, for Unlimited $16.99/mo, for Cloud Startup $25.99/mo. When the term approaches, you have three choices: renegotiate, upgrade to a plan whose renewal rate buys you more resources, or migrate.

A useful discipline: divide the total term cost by the renewal rate. That tells you how many months of “real” price you are getting upfront. Premium’s $143.52 is about 13 months at its $10.99 renewal rate. You are effectively buying 48 months for the price of 13 — which is the actual case for the long term, and a more honest framing than the discount badge.

Where to check the current numbers

Prices change. The pricing page is the authoritative comparison, and the individual plan pages — Premium, Unlimited and Cloud Startup — carry the full specification table for each tier, including PHP worker counts, inode limits and database allowances.

If you are weighing the long term against the short one, the hosting cost calculator will total a term including the renewal period, which is a fairer comparison than monthly headline rates. And if you are buying during a sale, our Black Friday expectations explain how the promotional structure shifts.