Hostinger vs Bluehost (2026): Checkout Prices, Renewals and Limits
Checked October 25, 2026 (Hostinger November 6, 2026), USD: Hostinger Premium starts cheaper ($1.99/mo on 48 months, a time-limited sale price, vs. Bluehost Starter's $3.99/mo) and ships more storage (20 GB SSD vs. 10 GB NVMe), but Bluehost allows more sites on its entry plan (10 vs. 3) and renews a dollar per month lower ($9.99 vs. $10.99). Our Hostinger links are affiliate links; our Bluehost links go straight to bluehost.com and earn us nothing.
Hostinger Premium: cheaper to start, twice the storage
$1.99/mo on 48 months (a time-limited sale price checked November 6, 2026), renewing at $10.99/mo, with 3 websites and 20 GB SSD. Pick Bluehost instead if you need more than 3 sites on an entry plan.
Key takeaways
- Cheaper to start: Hostinger Premium, $1.99/mo vs. Bluehost Starter's $3.99/mo.
- Cheaper to renew: Bluehost Starter, $9.99/mo vs. Hostinger Premium's $10.99/mo, a small edge, but real.
- More sites on the entry plan: Bluehost Starter allows 10 websites; Hostinger Premium caps at 3.
- More storage on the entry plan: Hostinger Premium's 20 GB beats Bluehost Starter's 10 GB.
- Where we earn: Hostinger only. We're upfront that Bluehost links here go to Bluehost's own site, unpaid.
- Our evidence: screenshots of both checkouts and of our own Hostinger renewal, taken October 25, 2026, below.
Hostinger vs Bluehost: plans compared
Every figure below comes directly from bluehost.com and hostinger.com. Bluehost's were read on October 25, 2026; Hostinger's were re-read in its logged-out cart on November 6, 2026. Our own logged-in Hostinger cart screenshots below are from October 25, 2026, when Premium was $2.49/mo. Both vendors price in USD and both require prepaying a term to get the headline rate: 36 months at Bluehost, 48 at Hostinger.
| What matters | Bluehost Starter | Hostinger Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Intro price | Bluehost $3.99/mo | Hostinger Cheaper $1.99/mo |
| Renewal price | $9.99/mo | $10.99/mo |
| Websites allowed | 10 | 3 (Unlimited plan removes the cap at $2.79/mo intro) |
| Storage | 10 GB NVMe SSD | 20 GB SSD |
| Backups | Weekly, per bluehost.com | Weekly |
| Free domain (year 1) | Yes | Yes |
| Money-back guarantee | 30 days, per bluehost.com | 30 days, per hostinger.com |
| — | View on Bluehost | Try Hostinger |
Prices checked directly on bluehost.com (October 25, 2026) and hostinger.com (November 6, 2026), USD. We do not currently have a payable Bluehost affiliate link. The Bluehost button above goes straight to Bluehost's own site with no commission to us. Full disclosure.
What both checkouts showed us on October 25, 2026
We took both hosts to the price step of their checkout and stopped there. At Hostinger we were logged in to the account we pay for our own hosting with; at Bluehost we picked Starter and skipped the domain step to reach the cart.
The two carts state renewal differently. Hostinger gives a monthly rate: $10.99/mo after 48 months. Bluehost gives a total: $359.64 for the next 36 months, which is $9.99/mo. Bluehost's cart also offers terms its plan page doesn't list: one year at $4.24/mo ($50.90) and month to month at $15.99/mo. If you won't commit to three years, compare that one-year price with Hostinger's.
Our own Hostinger renewal
The renewal is the bill you live with, and our own account shows how big the step is. We paid $179.88 on October 6, 2026 for a year of a KVM 4 VPS; hPanel lists the next year at $371.88 before tax. That is a VPS, a step up from the shared Premium plan compared here, and Premium follows the same pattern: $1.99/mo now, $10.99/mo after the term.
Speed and uptime: what we measured on Hostinger
These are our own numbers from Hostinger. We haven't hosted a site on Bluehost, so we have none for it. On September 28, 2026, PageSpeed Insights (mobile, 3 runs) and a curl test from Pakistan (5 runs) gave a WordPress site of ours on Hostinger shared hosting (timeandhalfcalc.com, no CDN) a score of 79, its largest content in 3.9 s and first byte in 0.72 s. This site, on a Hostinger VPS behind Cloudflare, scored 77 with first byte in 0.28 s.
Over the 30 days to October 21 the VPS was down once, for 38 minutes on October 17, 2026, when the host machine restarted it. That cost 91 failed requests; the other 29 days had 43 between them, so the month came to 99.91% uptime. Full data is on our hosting performance numbers page.
Support
Bluehost's Starter plan includes 24/7 chat support, and its plan page says phone support is not included; Business adds it. Hostinger lists "Priority 24/7 expert support" on Premium and above. We have not timed either support team, so we don't rank them on reply speed.
Moving a site from Bluehost to Hostinger
- Buy the Hostinger plan and keep the Bluehost plan running until the move is finished.
- Move the site. Hostinger lists free automatic website migration on its plans; request it in hPanel. For WordPress, a migration plugin also works.
- Lower the TTL on the domain's DNS records a day before you switch.
- Point the domain at Hostinger, through its nameservers or an A record. If Bluehost registered the domain for you, it can stay there.
- Check the site on its new server, then cancel the Bluehost hosting.
Moving the other way, Bluehost lists a free site migration tool on its plans.
Pros and cons, plan by plan
Hostinger
Lower intro price and double the storage of Bluehost's matching tier, on hostinger.com's published Premium plan.
Hostinger's Premium plan undercuts Bluehost's Starter plan on the number that gets the click (the intro price) and backs it with twice the storage. The trade-off is the 3-website cap; if you know you'll run more sites than that, Hostinger's own Unlimited plan ($2.79/mo intro) still comes in under Bluehost Business ($6.99/mo, 50 websites) for more sites, per each vendor's published pricing (Bluehost checked October 25, 2026, Hostinger November 6, 2026).
Pros
- Lower intro price than Bluehost Starter ($1.99 vs. $3.99)
- 20 GB SSD storage, double Bluehost Starter's 10 GB
- Free domain and SSL included on paid plans
- hPanel dashboard, built around one-click WordPress installs
Cons
- Caps out at 3 websites on Premium (Bluehost Starter allows 10)
- Renewal ($10.99/mo) is a dollar higher than Bluehost's ($9.99/mo)
Who it's for: Buyers who want the lowest entry price and more storage, and who don't need more than 3 sites on the entry plan.
Try HostingerBluehost
Ten websites on the entry plan and a renewal price a dollar below Hostinger's. The trade is less storage up front.
Bluehost's case is the site cap: 10 websites on Starter is a real advantage over Hostinger Premium's 3, and the $9.99/mo renewal is a dollar cheaper than Hostinger's $10.99/mo. We're not able to route this recommendation through an affiliate link that pays us, so we're telling you plainly: if the site cap is your deciding factor, Bluehost is the better published fit at this tier, even though our CTA on this page points to Hostinger.
Pros
- 10 websites allowed on the entry Starter plan, vs. Hostinger Premium's 3
- Renewal price ($9.99/mo) is a dollar below Hostinger Premium's
- Free domain, free CDN, and 24/7 chat support included
- Recommended by WordPress.org, per bluehost.com
Cons
- Higher intro price than Hostinger ($3.99 vs. $1.99)
- Half the storage of Hostinger Premium (10 GB vs. 20 GB)
- Phone support only from the Business plan ($6.99/mo intro, renews at $13.99/mo)
Who it's for: Buyers who specifically need more than 3 websites on an entry-tier plan and are comfortable buying directly from Bluehost.
View on BluehostWhich links earn us money
WebHostingGuide.net earns a commission when you sign up for Hostinger through our links. We do not have a payable Bluehost affiliate arrangement, so the Bluehost buttons on this page go straight to bluehost.com's own hosting page and earn us nothing either way. If the comparison above tells you Bluehost is the better fit for your site count, buy directly from bluehost.com.
Bluehost vs Hostinger FAQ
Is Bluehost or Hostinger cheaper?
Hostinger Premium is cheaper to start ($1.99/mo, checked November 6, 2026, vs. Bluehost Starter's $3.99/mo, checked October 25, 2026). Bluehost is slightly cheaper to renew ($9.99/mo vs. $10.99/mo). Bluehost's cart showed its figure when we screenshotted it on October 25, 2026; Hostinger's cart showed $1.99/mo on November 6, 2026 ($2.49/mo in our October 25, 2026 screenshot, before the sale price dropped).
How many websites can I host on Bluehost vs Hostinger?
Bluehost Starter allows 10 websites; Hostinger Premium caps at 3 (Hostinger's own Unlimited plan, $2.79/mo intro as of November 6, 2026, removes that cap). Site limits per each vendor's site, checked October 25, 2026.
Which has more storage, Bluehost or Hostinger?
Hostinger Premium ships 20 GB SSD versus Bluehost Starter's 10 GB NVMe, so Hostinger gives more raw capacity at the entry tier.
Can I actually buy through Bluehost as an affiliate referral here?
No. We don't have a payable Bluehost affiliate arrangement, so the Bluehost buttons on this page go straight to bluehost.com and earn us nothing. Our Hostinger buttons are affiliate links, and Hostinger pays us a commission if you buy through them.
Bottom line
On the published numbers (Bluehost checked October 25, 2026, Hostinger November 6, 2026), Hostinger wins on intro price and storage; Bluehost wins on site count and renewal price by a dollar. If you don't need more than 3 sites, Hostinger Premium is the cheaper entry point with more room to store files. If 10 websites on one entry-level plan matters to you, Bluehost's published Starter plan is the better fit, so buy that one directly from Bluehost.
What to read next
- Hostinger pricing in full: intro, renewal, and real 3-year cost for every plan.
- Hostinger vs SiteGround: the same checkout screenshots against a different competitor.
- Hostinger vs HostGator.
- Bluehost alternatives: if Bluehost itself isn't the fit.
- Best WordPress hosting: the full ranked field.
Sources
Prices, plan limits and terms on this page come from the vendors' own pages below. Links to Hostinger and Cloudways pricing pages are affiliate links (marked sponsored) that open the same vendor page; the rest carry no affiliate tag. Prices change, so check the seller's current page before you buy.