Premium platform, premium price.
Kinsta is a premium managed WordPress platform, built for high-traffic and business-critical sites. The honest question is whether your site needs that, at roughly four times our price.
If you run a high-traffic store, a membership site or an agency portfolio, Kinsta's global edge network, 24/7 multilingual support and developer tools earn their price. For a typical personal site, New Blog Hosting gives you managed WordPress, real support, a CDN and email for roughly a quarter of the cost.
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| New Blog Hosting Basic (personal sites) | Kinsta Single 20GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8/month or $75/year | Standard $35/month or $350/year; eligible new plans currently advertise a first month free |
| Renewal price | Current published rate; subject to change under our terms | Standard rate after introductory offer; check current terms |
| Storage | 25 GB | 10 GB |
| Bandwidth | 25 GB/month | 20 GB/month, plus 125 GB CDN |
| Unlimited accounts included | Not part of Kinsta's plans | |
| CDN | Free Cloudflare CDN setup | Built in, 260+ locations with edge caching |
| Hacked-site help | Automatic malware removal, plus restore from a clean backup, included | Malware removal, included |
| Backups | Daily, stored off-server | Daily, 14 days retained |
| Support | 24/7 by ticket and email with real people, plus a 24/7 AI chat assistant | 24/7 chat in 8 languages |
| Money-back guarantee | 60 days on your first payment, no questions asked (domain fees excluded) | 30 days |
Basic is for personal, non-commercial sites. For a business, compare our Premium plan at $15/month or $150/year.
Illustrative cost at listed rates
Assumes unchanged standard annual rates; excludes introductory free periods, taxes, domains and future price changes. Confirm the current offer before ordering.
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| New Blog Hosting Basic (personal sites) | Kinsta Single 20GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Paid yearly, 3 years | $225 | about $1,050 |
| Email for your domain | Included | Extra (Google Workspace or similar) |
Where New Blog Hosting wins
- About a quarter of the price
- More storage on the entry plan
- Unlimited email included
- cPanel and a longer 60-day guarantee
- Staging included on every plan
Where Kinsta is stronger
- Global CDN with edge caching on every plan
- Live chat with human agents in 8 languages
- APM monitoring and a developer API
- Up to 99.99% uptime SLA and enterprise options
- Scales to very high-traffic sites
- Plans, prices, resources, CDN, backups, malware removal, support, uptime SLA, staging, APM and 30-day money-back guarantee: Kinsta pricing, checked September 27, 2026. Standard-rate comparisons exclude the advertised first-month-free offer.
- New Blog Hosting prices from our live order system; guarantee from our Terms of Service.
- Checked September 2026. Prices change; confirm on kinsta.com before buying.
