Kinsta versus WordPress.com

Price

• Kinsta From $35/mo
  • Single 20GB: $35.00 monthly
  • Single 20GB: $350.00 annual
  • Launch: $35.00 monthly
  • Launch: $350.00 annual
  • Single 35k: $35.00 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.

Documented for both

Storage

Kinsta Disk space add-on: USD 20 a month per 20 GB, shared between all sites in the account.Single 20GB: 10 GB storageLaunch: 15 GB storage

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

Traffic or visits

Kinsta A visit is each unique IP address within 24 hours, totalled across your sites for the month.Single 20GB: 20 GB server bandwidth and 125 GB CDN bandwidth a monthLaunch: 15 GB server bandwidth, an estimated 75,000 visits and 125 GB CDN bandwidth a monthSingle 35k: 35,000 visits a month

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

Commitment

Kinsta 30-day money-back guarantee after any free period; plans can be changed at any time with prorated billing.

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

Backups

Kinsta Automatic backups every 24 hours; Every 6 hours: USD 20 per site a month; Every hour: USD 100 per site a month; External backups to AWS or Google Cloud Storage, weekly or monthly: USD 2 per site a month plus USD 1 per GB of bandwidthSingle 20GB: 14 days backup retentionLaunch: 14 days backup retention

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

Restores

Kinsta Automatic, manual and system-generated backups restore from MyKinsta to the environment you choose, and each restore first saves the current state. External add-on backups cannot be restored there directly.

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

Migration

Kinsta Unlimited free migrations handled by Kinsta’s team

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

Kinsta Staging environments are part of the managed platform.

WordPress.com Business: Staging site on Business and higher

Support

Kinsta 24/7 human support in 8 languages

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

Overage charges

Kinsta Disk space: USD 2 per GB a month, prorated dailySingle 20GB: Server bandwidth: USD 0.50 per GB above the planSingle 35k: Visits: USD 0.50 per 1,000 visits

WordPress.com No traffic overage: the cost does not rise with traffic.

Limits to check

• Kinsta Sites stay online above the visit, storage or CDN limits, and overage fees are charged on the actual overage.
• WordPress.com Real-time backups and one-click restores are only on Business, Commerce and Enterprise.

Not verified yet

No reviewed evidence for either product on renewal rate.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Kinsta: websites and introductory rate.

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

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