What you pay
Hostinger: $2.99/mo as $143.52 for 48 months up front; renews at $10.99/mo — Us: Free to start, building plans from $10/mo; work billed at cost +20–30%
Looking for a Hostinger alternative
$2.99 a month, for four years, paid today.
Hostinger’s website builder page prints two prices side by side: $2.99 a month, and the $143.52 you pay now for 48 months of it, then $10.99 a month when it renews. That is the honest shape of every builder deal — cheap to enter, dearer to stay, and the site lives on their platform the whole time.
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The short version
Hostinger, in three questions.
The bigger plans
Hostinger: Business $3.99/mo, renewing at $16.99; Cloud Startup $7.99/mo, renewing at $25.99 — Us: One price sheet, in dollars, on the pricing page
When the payments stop
Hostinger: The site goes with them — Us: The repository is yours; host it anywhere
| Question | Hostinger | Amelia’s Agent |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | $2.99/mo as $143.52 for 48 months up front; renews at $10.99/mo | Free to start, building plans from $10/mo; work billed at cost +20–30% |
| The bigger plans | Business $3.99/mo, renewing at $16.99; Cloud Startup $7.99/mo, renewing at $25.99 | One price sheet, in dollars, on the pricing page |
| When the payments stop | The site goes with them | The repository is yours; host it anywhere |
| Who builds it | Their AI builder, then you in their editor | You describe it and watch it get built |
| Your code, as a git repo | Not published | From the first turn |
Hostinger plan names, promotional monthly prices, 48-month totals and renewal prices from hostinger.com/website-builder as published on 17 September 2026, where the page states “Get 48 months for $143.52 (regular price $575.52). Renews at $10.99/mo.” for the Premium plan. “Not published” means their page does not answer the question.
Where they are better
Nothing here is cheaper for the first four years, and Hostinger throws in the domain.
A free domain for a year, mailboxes, and a builder that gets a small business online for the price of a coffee a month is a genuinely good deal if you know you will stay four years and never need the code. The argument is only with what happens in year five, and with the part of the deal that says the site is theirs.
The part that matters in year three
A subscription is rent on your own website.
A builder charges every month for as long as the site exists, and the site stops existing when you stop paying. Here you get a normal git repository from the first turn — host it anywhere, hand it to any developer, or keep it with us. Nothing about it is specific to us, which is the whole point and also the reason we have to keep earning it.
And if you want to know who is making these claims: a software company that has shipped for other businesses since 2005.
If you are still weighing it up
See the price before you spend it.
Type what you want on the home page — it estimates the cost before you sign in, and there is no card to start.
Questions
Asked, answered
How much is Hostinger's website builder really?
As published on hostinger.com/website-builder on 17 September 2026: the Premium plan is $2.99 a month, paid as $143.52 for 48 months up front, and renews at $10.99 a month. Business is $3.99 renewing at $16.99, and Cloud Startup $7.99 renewing at $25.99.
Is there a Hostinger AI website builder alternative that gives me the code?
Yes. Describe what you want in plain English and it is built and published for you, with the real code in a git repository you own from the first turn. There is no platform underneath it to renew.
Can I move a site I built on Hostinger?
Paste its address and it is read from its public pages and rebuilt here — your words verbatim, your images downloaded as files, your forms working. Your Hostinger site stays live until you cancel it.