Hostinger versus WordPress.com

Price

• Hostinger From $2.99/mo
  • Premium: $2.99 monthly
  • Unlimited: $3.99 monthly
  • Cloud Startup: $7.99 monthly
• WordPress.com From $2.75/mo
  • Personal: $9.00 monthly
  • Personal: $48.00 annual ($4/mo equivalent)
  • Personal: $2.75 monthly
  • Business: $40.00 monthly
  • Business: $300.00 annual ($25/mo equivalent)
  • Business: $17.50 monthly

Both list prices on the same basis. Compare what each plan includes; the lower amount alone does not make the better choice.

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Storage

Hostinger Premium: 20 GB disk, 1 CPU core, 2 GB RAM and 400,000 inodesUnlimited: 50 GB disk, 2 CPU cores, 3 GB RAM and 600,000 inodesCloud Startup: 100 GB NVMe storage

WordPress.com Personal: 6 GB storageBusiness: 50 GB included; storage add-ons are listed from +50 GB to +350 GB

Traffic or visits

Hostinger Premium: Bandwidth listed as Unlimited

WordPress.com Unrestricted bandwidth and unlimited visitors, without extra fees or slowdowns

Commitment

Hostinger 48 months (the term shown on all three plan cards)

WordPress.com Annual and multi-year plans include a free domain for the first year; monthly plans do not.

Backups

Hostinger Premium: Free weekly backupsUnlimited: Daily backupsCloud Startup: Daily and on-demand backups

WordPress.com Business and higher list real-time backups.

Restores

Hostinger Unlimited: "Easy data restore" is listed with the daily backups

WordPress.com Business and higher list one-click restores.

Migration

Hostinger Free with any plan: submit a request in hPanel and Hostinger transfers the site within 24 hours. Each site needs its own request; up to five requests can be active at a time and bulk migrations are not permitted.

WordPress.com Built-in import tool for Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Medium, Blogger and self-hosted WordPress sites; the Website Design Services team can help.

Staging

Hostinger One-click staging tool

WordPress.com Business: Staging site on Business and higher

Support

Hostinger Priority 24/7 expert support

WordPress.com Business: Priority 24/7 support, plus SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git and GitHub deployments

Limits to check

• Hostinger Every plan is paid upfront (the monthly price is the plan total divided by its months), and "Unlimited" features are subject to the Fair Usage Policy.
• WordPress.com Real-time backups and one-click restores are only on Business, Commerce and Enterprise.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Hostinger: websites, introductory rate and renewal rate; WordPress.com: overage charges.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask Hostinger about overage charges; our sources do not establish it yet.
• Ask WordPress.com about websites, introductory rate and renewal rate; our sources do not establish them yet.

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