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One builder, rung up line by line · figures re-read 20 Sep 2026

Receipt 000120 Sep 2026 · USD

Item 001 · Hostinger Website Builder

The price is $2.99. The price is also $10.99.

Premium, 48 months$2.99/mo
Paid on day one$143.52
Months covered1–48
$2.99months 1–48

Month 49the renewal cliff

$10.99month 49 on
Premium, month 49 on$10.99/mo

3.68× the intro rate · every month after

One coin ≈ $1 a month
Keep this till month 49

PennySite covers one product: the Hostinger website builder. Every figure on this site is printed with the figure it becomes at renewal, because an introductory rate on its own is not a price — it is an offer with an expiry date.

Price ladder · 48-month term

USD · 20 Sep 2026

Premium$2.99/mo

Renews at $10.99/mo — 3.68× the intro rate$143.52 charged upfront for the full term. Up to 3 sites · 2 mailboxes · 5 AI credits.

Unlimited$3.99/mo

Renews at $16.99/mo — 4.26× the intro rate$191.52 charged upfront for the full term. Unlimited sites · store features · 15 AI credits.

Cloud Startup$7.99/mo

Renews at $25.99/mo — 3.25× the intro rate$383.52 charged upfront for the full term. Everything in Unlimited · 20 agent credits.

Intro rates require the 48-month term and are billed as one payment. Month-to-month is $11.99–$27.99. Renewal prices are the ones that repeat.

One product, one desk

Most site-builder coverage is a league table. This is not one. PennySite examines a single product in detail — the Hostinger Website Builder review is the centre of the site, and everything else on the roll supports it. The reason for the narrow focus is simple: the interesting questions about this builder are arithmetic ones, and arithmetic needs room. What does a plan cost across a full term? What happens in month forty-nine? What does an AI credit actually buy, and what happens when the credits run out? Those answers do not fit in a row of a comparison grid.

The house rule

No introductory price appears on this site without its renewal price attached. Not in a heading, not in a table cell, not in a passing aside. The discount on the Premium plan is 75 percent, which is genuinely large, and it applies to exactly one term. After that the account moves to the standard rate and stays there for as long as you keep the site. A review that quotes the first number and shrugs at the second is describing a sale, not a product.

The renewal cliff, plan by plan48-month term · USD / month

Intro rate, first termRenewal rate, every month after

Premium$2.99 → $10.99 a month

$2.99$10.99

Unlimited$3.99 → $16.99 a month

$3.99$16.99

Cloud Startup$7.99 → $25.99 a month

$7.99$25.99

Same scale on all three. The line jumps where the prepaid term ends — month 49 — and, at today's renewal rates, stays there.

The second rule is that a monthly figure means nothing without the term that unlocks it. The cheapest rate on every plan requires a forty-eight-month commitment paid in one charge. That is a legitimate way to buy hosting and many people should take it. It is not, however, three dollars a month in the sense most readers hear it. It is one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-two cents today, and a different, larger number four years from now.

What is on the roll

The full review scores the product and explains the score. The plans and renewal page lays out every plan against every term length so you can see which combinations are worth taking and which are traps. The fit guide is the page to read if you already know the numbers and want a straight answer about whether this is the right tool for what you are building. The line items below go deeper on individual charges: credits, the store, the SEO panel, and the export path out.

Where the numbers come from

Prices are read off Hostinger's own public pages in US dollars and dated on every page that quotes them. Where the vendor's claim and an independent count disagree — the template library is the clearest example — both numbers are printed and attributed, rather than the friendlier one being chosen. Where a figure could not be confirmed on the day of checking, the copy says so in plain words instead of rounding it into confidence. Promotional rates move often, and regional pricing differs, so treat every figure here as a dated snapshot rather than a quote.

PennySite earns a commission if you buy through a link here. That pays for the desk and changes nothing above it. There is no arrangement under which a score moves, and the least flattering figure on this site — the renewal multiple — is the one printed largest.

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Asked at the counter

How much does Hostinger Website Builder actually cost?
Premium is $2.99 a month on a 48-month term, charged upfront as $143.52. It renews at $10.99 a month. Unlimited is $3.99 and renews at $16.99; Cloud Startup is $7.99 and renews at $25.99. Those renewal figures are the real long-run price of the product.
Why is the renewal price so much higher than the intro price?
The introductory rate is a first-term discount of 71 to 79 percent, and it only applies to the term you prepay. When that term ends the account moves to the standard rate. Premium renews at 3.68 times what you first paid, which is the single most important number on the product.
Is the free domain really free?
For the first year, on annual and longer terms. After that the domain renews at Hostinger's standard registration price for that extension, which is billed separately from the builder plan. The same first-year-only rule applies to the included mailboxes.
Can you move a Hostinger-built site somewhere else?
Partly. Hostinger documents an export of pages, text, images and files into WordPress, but styles and layout, the online store, forms, integrations, collected submissions and SEO settings do not come with it. Plan on rebuilding the design wherever you land.
Is there a free trial?
Hostinger now advertises free testing of both building modes with no card required, plus five AI credits, alongside a 30-day money-back guarantee. Reviews published earlier in 2026 state there was no free trial, so this appears to be a recent change.