# Kinsta

> Managed WordPress hosting priced by sites, visits or bandwidth

Kinsta is a managed WordPress host whose plans are priced by the number of sites and by monthly visits, bandwidth or a mix of resources. Every plan includes a Cloudflare firewall and CDN, daily backups, staging, free migrations, malware removal, an application monitoring tool and a REST API, managed from the MyKinsta dashboard.

- **Category:** Web Hosting
- **Made by:** Kinsta Inc. (since 2013)
- **Website:** https://kinsta.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Kinsta is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $30 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($35 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** First month free on Launch, Single and WP 2 plans for new customers, then a 30-day money-back guarantee.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Launch | $30 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($35 billed monthly) | Resource-based plan with 75,000 visits, 15 GB bandwidth and 15 GB storage a month. First month free. |
| Single 35k | $30 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($35 billed monthly) | Billed by 35,000 visits a month, with 10 GB storage; Single 20GB is the same price billed by bandwidth instead. First month free. |
| Launch Plus | $50 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | 125,000 visits, 25 GB bandwidth and 25 GB storage a month for one busier site. |
| Build | $58 per month for 2 sites, billed annually ($69 billed monthly) | 200,000 visits, 40 GB bandwidth and 30 GB storage a month shared by two sites. |
| WP 2 | $59 per month for 2 sites, billed annually ($70 billed monthly) | Two sites billed by 70,000 visits or 40 GB bandwidth a month, with 20 GB storage. First month free. |
| Expand | $83 per month for 5 sites, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | 350,000 visits, 65 GB bandwidth and 40 GB storage a month across five sites. Larger plans run to Lead at $250 a month for 20 sites. |

Read from https://kinsta.com/pricing/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Kinsta before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Paying yearly costs ten times the monthly price, for example $350 a year for Launch instead of $35 a month. Source: https://kinsta.com/pricing/
- **Up to $10,000 in hosting credits for agencies** (Other savings): Eligible agencies on Agency plans can get up to $10,000 in hosting credits, plus free hosting for the agency's own site. Source: https://kinsta.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Firewall, CDN and malware removal:** Sites sit behind a Kinsta firewall and Cloudflare with enterprise DDoS protection, are served from a CDN with edge caching, and get malware cleaned up at no charge.
- **Daily backups and staging:** Sites are backed up every 24 hours, kept for 14 days on entry plans, and have one-click staging. Hourly backups and premium staging are paid add-ons.
- **Kinsta API:** A REST API creates sites, reads site details, clears cache and restarts PHP, so routine work can be scripted.
- **Built-in APM tool:** Kinsta's own application monitoring tool traces slow plugins, queries and requests on a site.
- **Unlimited migrations and users:** Kinsta's team migrates any number of WordPress sites for free, and you can add unlimited users with their own access levels, with SAML single sign-on.
- **24/7 support in 8 languages:** Support is by chat around the clock, from people rather than a bot.

## Good for

- Business sites that have outgrown shared hosting
- Agencies and teams that need staging, user roles and an API
- WooCommerce shops that want a host managing WordPress for them

## Worth knowing

- Plans cap monthly visits, bandwidth and storage; going over keeps the site online but adds overage fees, with alerts at 80% and 100%.
- Each extra site is $30 a month and each extra 20 GB of disk is $20 a month.
- A visit is each unique IP address in a 24-hour period, and visits to all sites on a plan count toward one monthly limit.
- Redis caching, hourly backups, external backups and premium staging are paid add-ons.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Kinsta is managed WordPress for businesses that have outgrown shared hosting: Cloudflare in front, malware cleaned up free, staging, free migrations and its own tool for finding slow plugins. It costs managed-host money, $700 over two years for one site. Plans cap visits, and going over brings overage fees.

- **Value for money: C.** Graded against the other managed WordPress hosts, not cheap shared hosting. Launch is $350 a year after a free first month, so two years cost $700, about $29.17 a month, toward the dear end of that group. Each extra site is $30 a month.
- **Free plan and trial: D.** The first month is free on Launch, Single and WP 2 for new customers, but you sign up to a paid plan to get it, so it works like a trial that needs payment details. After that there's a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- **Features: B.** Daily backups, one-click staging, a Cloudflare firewall and CDN, free malware removal, unlimited free migrations, SSO and its own APM tool for slow plugins. Hourly backups and Redis are paid add-ons, but the managed WordPress job is all there.
- **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. Kinsta's team moves your sites over for free, which helps, but there are plans, limits and add-ons to get your head around.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web dashboard with no app on record, plus a REST API for creating sites and clearing cache, and backups to Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Kinsta's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among web hosts

- Kinsta's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 19).
- Its paid plans start at $30 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 15 of the 16 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Kinsta you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade. It costs $360 a year.

- You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears.
- You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, WooCommerce and Cloudflare among them, and has an API.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

WordPress, WooCommerce, Cloudflare, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage

**Tags:** Public API, Malware protection, Managed WordPress

## Alternatives

- [WP Engine](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wp-engine): Managed WordPress hosting sized by sites and monthly visits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kinsta-vs-wp-engine)
- [Cloudways](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloudways): Managed cloud hosting on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloudways-vs-kinsta)
- [SiteGround](https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteground): Shared and WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with its own Site Tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kinsta-vs-siteground)
- [Flywheel](https://toolgpa.com/tools/flywheel): Managed WordPress hosting for designers, freelancers and agencies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/flywheel-vs-kinsta)
- [Rocket.net](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rocket-net): Managed WordPress hosting served through Cloudflare Enterprise. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kinsta-vs-rocket-net)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://kinsta.com/pricing/
- https://kinsta.com/about-us/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/kinsta
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).