| Time | Total | Real monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $35.88 | $2.99/mo |
| 2 years | $71.76 | $2.99/mo |
| 4 years | $143.52 | $2.99/mo |
Based on the 48-month plan, paid upfront deal price, then $10.99/mo. Taxes not included.
| Time | Total | Real monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $47.88 | $3.99/mo |
| 2 years | $95.76 | $3.99/mo |
| 4 years | $191.52 | $3.99/mo |
Based on the 48-month plan, paid upfront deal price, then $16.99/mo. Taxes not included.
| Time | Total | Real monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $107.88 | $8.99/mo |
| 2 years | $215.76 | $8.99/mo |
| 4 years | $575.52 | $11.99/mo |
Based on the 24-month plan, paid upfront deal price, then $14.99/mo. Taxes not included.
Intro vs renewal, side by side
The three boxes above are the plans most visitors buy: Premium and Business Web Hosting, and VPS KVM 2. Each box shows two numbers, the full intro-term total on one side, the renewal rate on the other. That pair is the entire story of Hostinger pricing: a low entry price, then the regular rate.
Notice the pattern repeats at every tier. Shared, cloud, and VPS plans all discount the first term and renew at the regular rate. The multiple differs by plan, but the direction never does, renewal is always higher. If a deal page anywhere shows you only the first number, it is showing you half the deal.
The 4-year math
Take the Premium box above and read it as a timeline. The first number is everything you pay for 48 months at the intro rate, one payment, four years of hosting. The second number is the monthly rate from year five onward. Multiply that renewal rate by twelve and you have your year-five bill; compare it against the intro total and you see the real shape of the deal.
Do the same exercise on the Business box: a higher intro total, a higher renewal rate, the same structure. Then the VPS box: shorter intro term, same story. In all three, the cheapest way to push the renewal rate into the future is the longest intro term, which is why the 48-month plans anchor every recommendation on this site.
One more line of math worth doing: add the renewal year to the intro total. That two-number sum is your realistic five-year cost. Most buyers never compute it. You just did.
Why renewals cost more
The intro price is a customer-acquisition cost. Hostinger discounts the first term to win the signup, then charges the regular rate that actually funds the servers, support, and development. Every major host does some version of this, Hostinger is neither the worst nor the exception.
What matters is not that renewals exist, but that you see them coming. Hostinger publishes its renewal rates on its pricing pages, which is why we can verify and republish them here. A host that hides renewal pricing until the invoice arrives deserves more suspicion than one that prints it.
Three ways to keep paying less
1. Buy the longest term now
Every month you buy at the intro rate is a month you don’t pay the renewal rate. The 48-month term delays the higher rate by four full years, the single biggest saving available, bigger than any sale.
2. Buy during Black Friday
Hostinger’s biggest sale of the year lands November 27, 2026. Sale prices are still first-term prices, but a lower first term plus the longest billing period is the cheapest possible entry. Our Black Friday guide tracks it daily once the sale starts.
3. Diary the renewal date and shop around
When year four ends, you have options: renew, migrate, or buy a fresh term during a sale. None of them are available if the renewal surprises you. Set the reminder now, it takes thirty seconds and it is the highest-value thirty seconds in this guide.
FAQ
At the end of the term you paid for, 48 months after checkout on a 48-month plan. The renewal bills automatically at the regular rate; there is no second checkout step.
No. Intro pricing is first-term only and does not apply to renewals or extensions. The longest lever you have is buying the longest term at checkout.
No, it applies to first purchases only, verified in our cart test on October 8, 2026. Renewals bill at the regular rate regardless of how you first bought.
Yes. Hostinger lists a 30-day money-back guarantee on its pricing pages for the first term, and you can cancel before any renewal. Back up your site first, cancellations are easier to regret than renewals.
They can, hosts adjust regular rates over time. We re-check every renewal rate at least every 7 days and date-stamp each check, so the boxes above stay current.
The principle is the same, first term discounted, renewal at the regular rate, though the multiple differs by plan. Compare the three boxes above: shared, and VPS side by side.
Renewal prices by product line
Shared hosting shows the steepest jump: the intro discount is deep and the renewal lands near the regular rate, so the gap between the two numbers in the boxes above is widest here. That is also where the longest lever lives, the 48-month term, which is why shared plans reward buying long more than any other line. If you only remember one thing from this page, remember the shared-hosting multiple: it is the reason the 48-month recommendation appears on every guide we write.
Cloud and VPS plans renew closer to their intro rates in relative terms, but the dollar amounts are bigger because the plans themselves cost more. A VPS renewal surprise hurts more in absolute dollars even when the multiple looks kinder, budget the actual yearly figure, not the ratio. Business email is the odd one out: the per-mailbox renewal is a small number, but it multiplies by every mailbox you run, and it’s easy to forget the free first year ever ended. Audit your mailboxes before month twelve and delete the ones nobody uses. Domains are the simplest: the first-year promo ends and the domain renews at its standard yearly rate, on its own 12-month cycle, separate from your hosting term.
The pattern to remember: the cheaper the intro, the larger the jump tends to be. Judge every plan by its renewal column and you’ll never be surprised.
What to do 30 days before your renewal
Put a calendar reminder for 30 days before your term ends, then work this list when it fires.
- Check the renewal total. Open your Hostinger account and confirm the renewal amount and date. Compare it against the renewal column on this page, if they differ, the account is the truth and we want to know (see contact).
- Audit paid extras. Email mailboxes, domains, and any add-ons each renew on their own cycle. Cancel or consolidate what you don’t use before the charge lands.
- Decide: renew, downgrade, or move. Renewing keeps everything as-is. Downgrading to a smaller plan cuts the renewal bill if your needs shrank. Moving hosts is the most work, only worth it if the savings clearly beat the migration effort.
- Check the sale calendar. If Black Friday (November 27, 2026) falls before your renewal date, a new purchase during the sale, on the longest term, can be cheaper than renewing. Time it deliberately instead of discovering it afterward.
Thirty minutes of admin once every few years beats an unexpected charge every time. The renewal isn’t the enemy, the surprise is.
Don’t forget the free domain
Yearly-and-longer hosting plans include a free domain for the first year, and then it renews at the standard yearly rate on its own 12-month cycle, separate from your hosting term. Because it bills separately, it’s the renewal most people forget: the hosting charge reminds you once, and the domain charge arrives on its own schedule. When you set your renewal reminder, add the domain’s expiry date too, it’s in your Hostinger account next to the hosting term. Letting a domain lapse by accident is the most avoidable mistake on this page; recovering an expired domain is always harder than renewing it on time.