Hostinger vs SiteGround (2026): Checkout Prices, Renewals and Plans
Checked in USD (Hostinger November 6, 2026, SiteGround's checkout October 25, 2026): Hostinger Premium is $1.99/mo on 48 months (a time-limited sale price) and renews at $10.99/mo, with 3 websites. SiteGround StartUp listed $2.99/mo, but its checkout charged us $3.99/mo for 12 months, and it renews at $17.99/mo for 1 website. SiteGround's Early Black Friday price on its US page, Nov 6, 2026: StartUp at $1.99/mo for 12 months, renewing at $17.99/mo. Hostinger was cheaper at both checkouts and is cheaper at renewal. Our Hostinger links are affiliate links; our SiteGround links go straight to siteground.com and earn us nothing.
Hostinger Premium: lower renewal, 3 websites
$1.99/mo on 48 months (a time-limited sale price checked November 6, 2026), renewing at $10.99/mo, against SiteGround StartUp's $17.99/mo renewal for 1 website.
Key takeaways
- Cheaper renewal: Hostinger Premium's $10.99/mo against SiteGround StartUp's $17.99/mo.
- More sites on the entry plan: Hostinger allows 3; SiteGround StartUp allows 1.
- Read SiteGround's checkout price: StartUp showed $2.99/mo on the plan page and $3.99/mo in the cart.
- SiteGround's strengths: daily backups on every plan, and GrowBig adds unlimited sites, staging and what SiteGround calls 30% faster PHP.
- Where we earn: Hostinger only. We have no affiliate arrangement with SiteGround.
Hostinger vs SiteGround: entry plans compared
Hostinger's figures were re-read in its logged-out cart on November 6, 2026; our own logged-in cart screenshots are from October 25, 2026, when Premium was $2.49/mo. SiteGround's come from its plan page and checkout on October 25, 2026. From our location siteground.com sends visitors to its international storefront, which prices in USD; its US page, as captured by the Wayback Machine on October 19, 2026, lists the same plan prices.
| What matters | Hostinger Premium | SiteGround StartUp |
|---|---|---|
| Intro price | Hostinger Cheaper $1.99/mo (48 months) | SiteGround $2.99/mo on the plan page, $3.99/mo in its checkout (12 months) |
| Renewal price | $10.99/mo | $17.99/mo |
| Websites allowed | 3 | 1 |
| Storage | 20 GB SSD | 10 GB |
| Backups | Weekly | Daily |
| Free domain (year 1) | Yes | Yes |
| Money-back guarantee | 30 days | 30 days |
| – | Try Hostinger | View on SiteGround |
USD, before tax. Hostinger checked on hostinger.com on November 6, 2026; SiteGround on its plan page and checkout on October 25, 2026. We have no affiliate arrangement with SiteGround, which we disclose here and on every page that covers it. Full disclosure.
What both checkouts showed us on October 25, 2026
We took both plans to the price step and stopped. At Hostinger we were logged in to the account we pay for our own hosting with. At SiteGround we chose StartUp, entered an existing-domain placeholder to get past the domain step, and read the purchase summary.
The SiteGround plan card said $2.99/mo prepaid for 12 months. The checkout we reached charged $3.99/mo for the same 12 months, and $7.49/mo ($179.76) for 24 months. We can't tell from the outside why the two differ, so read the figure on SiteGround's last screen before you pay. Both hosts state that the discount covers the first term only: SiteGround's small print says regular prices apply to all renewals, and Hostinger's cart says Premium renews at $10.99/mo after 48 months.
Our own Hostinger renewal
We pay Hostinger for our own servers, so we can show a real renewal. On October 6, 2026 we paid $179.88 for a year of a KVM 4 VPS; hPanel already lists the next year at $371.88 before tax, 2.1 times as much. That server is a VPS rather than the shared Premium plan above, but the rule is the same at both hosts: plan around the renewal.
Speed and uptime: what we measured on Hostinger
Our numbers are from Hostinger only; we haven't hosted a site on SiteGround, so we have none for it. On September 28, 2026 we measured our own sites with PageSpeed Insights (mobile, 3 runs) and curl from Pakistan (5 runs). A WordPress site on Hostinger shared hosting (timeandhalfcalc.com, LiteSpeed, no CDN) scored 79, painted its largest content in 3.9 s and sent its first byte in 0.72 s. This site, on a Hostinger VPS behind Cloudflare, scored 77 with a first byte in 0.28 s.
In the 30 days to October 21 the VPS had one outage, a 38-minute restart on October 17, 2026 that the host machine began, which failed 91 requests. The other 29 days failed 43 between them, so the month came to 99.91% uptime. The raw data is on our hosting performance numbers page.
Support
SiteGround advertises 24/7 expert support "by real people, not bots". Hostinger lists "Priority 24/7 expert support" on Premium and above. We haven't timed either team for this page, so we don't score them on reply speed.
Moving a site from SiteGround to Hostinger
- Buy the Hostinger plan and keep SiteGround running until the move is done.
- Move the site. Hostinger lists free automatic website migration on its plans; request it in hPanel, or use a WordPress migration plugin.
- A day ahead, lower the TTL on the domain's DNS records.
- Point the domain at Hostinger through its nameservers or an A record. The domain can stay registered where it is.
- Check the site on its new server, then cancel SiteGround.
Moving the other way, SiteGround lists free site migrations on its plans.
Pros and cons, plan by plan
Hostinger
A lower renewal price and three times the website allowance of SiteGround's entry plan.
Hostinger's Premium plan beats SiteGround's StartUp plan on the two numbers that matter after the first invoice: the renewal price and the website cap. StartUp restricts you to a single site, a real limit if you're building more than one project, while Premium has room for three from day one.
Pros
- Renews at $10.99/mo, against SiteGround StartUp's $17.99/mo
- 3 websites on the entry plan vs. SiteGround's 1
- 20 GB SSD storage vs. SiteGround StartUp's 10 GB
- AI tools and a CDN included on every paid plan, per hostinger.com
Cons
- Weekly backups on Premium; SiteGround's are daily on every plan
- The lowest price needs a 48-month prepay
Who it's for: Buyers who want the lower renewal price and room to add a second or third site without upgrading.
Try HostingerSiteGround
A managed shared host with daily backups on every plan, priced and capped tighter than Hostinger at the entry tier.
SiteGround is a competent host, and we're not pretending otherwise. Its entry plan costs more to renew than Hostinger's and caps you at one website where Hostinger allows three. If SiteGround is still what you want, buy it directly. We can't route that purchase through an affiliate link that pays us, so we say so plainly.
Pros
- Daily backups included on StartUp, per siteground.com
- 24/7 support by people, per siteground.com
- GrowBig and GoGeek add unlimited sites, staging and faster PHP
Cons
- StartUp allows only 1 website: the tightest cap in this comparison
- Renews at $17.99/mo, well above Hostinger's $10.99/mo
- Its checkout charged $3.99/mo for 12 months, above the $2.99 on the plan card
Who it's for: Buyers who want SiteGround's daily backups and only need one website, and who are comfortable buying directly from siteground.com.
View on SiteGroundWhy SiteGround isn't an affiliate link on this site
We have no affiliate arrangement with SiteGround (see our disclosure page), so we never send affiliate traffic to it. We cover SiteGround's specs and pricing factually, because if you're comparing hosts you deserve to see it, but the buy button goes straight to siteground.com with no commission either way. If your site has outgrown shared hosting, Cloudways and SiteGround compared on renewal cost and scaling is the more useful matchup.
Hostinger vs SiteGround FAQ
Is Hostinger or SiteGround cheaper?
Hostinger at renewal, and it was cheaper at both checkouts on October 25, 2026. Hostinger Premium is $1.99/mo on a 48-month term (a sale price checked November 6, 2026) and renews at $10.99/mo. SiteGround's StartUp plan page listed $2.99/mo for a 12-month prepay and $17.99/mo at renewal on October 25, 2026; when we took StartUp to SiteGround's checkout that day, the 12-month price came to $3.99/mo ($47.88). SiteGround's Early Black Friday price on its US page, Nov 6, 2026: StartUp at $1.99/mo for 12 months, renewing at $17.99/mo. StartUp also hosts 1 website, against Premium's 3.
Do you earn anything if I buy SiteGround?
No. We have no affiliate arrangement with SiteGround, so our SiteGround links are plain links to siteground.com. We still cover SiteGround's specs and prices because readers expect them in this comparison.
Does SiteGround have unlimited websites like Hostinger?
Not on the entry plan. Per siteground.com, StartUp hosts 1 website; GrowBig ($4.99/mo, renewing at $29.99/mo) and GoGeek allow unlimited websites. Hostinger's entry Premium plan already allows 3 websites, and its Unlimited plan removes the cap at a lower renewal price than GrowBig's.
How do I move a site from SiteGround to Hostinger?
Buy the Hostinger plan, ask for Hostinger's free website migration in hPanel or use a WordPress migration plugin, lower your DNS TTL a day ahead, point the domain at Hostinger, check the site, then cancel SiteGround. The domain can stay where it is registered.
Bottom line
On the prices both checkouts showed on October 25, 2026, Hostinger's entry plan is cheaper to start, cheaper to renew and allows more websites than SiteGround's. If SiteGround's daily backups are what draw you, that's a fair reason to buy it directly from siteground.com; we just can't route that purchase through a link that earns us anything. For most buyers comparing on price and site limits, Hostinger Premium is the better deal. If you have ruled out both, the other hosts we compare against Hostinger are the next place to look.
What to read next
- Hostinger pricing in full.
- Hostinger vs Bluehost, with the same checkout screenshots.
- Hostinger vs HostGator.
- SiteGround alternatives: monetized options that fill the same niche.
- Best WordPress hosting.
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.